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Have a case of the Mondays? Watch this pep talk from "Kid President" and you'll be cured:
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Have a case of the Mondays? Watch this pep talk from "Kid President" and you'll be cured:
Next time you're having a bad day remember, "you can cry about it or you can DANCE about it."
Staff Writer
The embattled, Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning author Liu Xiaobo wrote that "Life is priceless even to an ant."
An ant colony can only survive for a few months after the death of its queen. On average, queens live 10 to 15 years. Some, up to 30 years, one of the longest insect lifespans, hidden deep within the colony, protected, unable to use her wings because she's a little bigger than she used to be.
Plus she's very busy.
The majority of ants are female. Wingless, sterile worker ants. They build nests, they forage, they hunt.
Theirs is a far briefer life than the queen's, ranging from a few weeks up to a year. But they see more of the outside world than any other ant.
The bigger they are, the farther they travel. And they release pheromones along the way so that they have a trail home.
Drones — winged male ants whose primary function in life is to mate with the queen — die after mating and rarely make it out of the colony.
Then, there are the soldier ants. They protect the colony and attack.
To quote philosopher Bertrand Russell, "Ants and savages put strangers to death."
They go on raids.
The attacking colony rarely loses, so most colonies flee as soon as an invasion begins. But they sometimes remain and fight.
Ants on both sides of the battle die in droves.
Henry David Thoreau describes an ant battle in Walden: "On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely."
If the attackers succeed in overtaking a colony, they pillage the eggs. Some are eaten, fed to larvae. But others become victims of slave raiding. Meaning that the victors return home with their enemy's unborn, feed them, nurse them. Then, when the eggs hatch, the victors force them into slavery.
Often, the slaves even develop an allegiance to the colony which ransacked their home and enslaved them. They'll even help raid other colonies and either die pointlessly or help with the seizure of the next generation of slaves.
Sometimes, however, the slave ants rebel.
In the words of Persian poet Saadi, "Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion."
Flying ants, both male and female, leave the colony to form another colony. Once they find a suitable place, the males's wings fall off and they mate to their death. Then one or more of the females becomes queen.
It felt odd, any time I sat with a roomful of media, a few hundred journalists from all over the world, as they simultaneously, silently, decided "Yep, that's newsworthy. We should hammer that."
It wasn't like everyone turned to each other and said, "Let's agree on the narrative."
It was an energy.
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Like in Houston, at the third Democratic Debate, after Biden misused the word "record player," you could hear chatter spread through the room, people muttering the words "records" and "record player."
In Houston, the media watched the debate from a gymnasium around the corner from the auditorium. So I could contrast the crowd's reactions with the media's reactions.
Nearly every time, there was a disparity between the two. The media were more relaxed — during the debate at least. The audience enjoyed any mentions of identity issues. There were a lot. But the media barely reacted at all.
This was a good thing, probably.
It's impressive to see how politicians force their stump speeches into a new form, depending on the context. How they say it like an epiphany.
That night brought the opposite for the ever-fledgling Kamala Harris. I could not believe it. Was this the same woman who'd made Iowa hers, just a little over a month ago?
All night, she was so loyal to the tactic she'd premeditated that she didn't realize it wasn't working, like she kept putting on a puppet show on some busy sidewalk.
At one point, she declared, proudly, "We're not talking about Donald Trump enough."
The most talked-about man in the world, perhaps in our country's history.
In five weeks, she became an entirely different candidate. Her latest version resembled a Xanax-fueled stepmom. It was like she was transforming into Joe Biden.
She kept laughing at her own jokes. And the entire media room cringed every time.
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Amy Klobuchar's pre-formed jokes and half-zany dad jokes fell short every time, too. Most of the media saw Klobuchar's long rants as a chance to chat with a neighbor or jet off to the nearest bathroom, which was likely a locker-room full of plastic flight containers and padded camera cases and journalists who curse like sailors.
During the debate, the press was stoic. So if a candidate got a reaction from them, it carried a certain authenticity.
They laughed at things that the audience ignored or disliked or didn't notice. In part because the audience didn't do a whole lot of laughing. But the media laughed like professionals laugh. In-jokey and staid yet ready for anything unexpected.
They loved it when Booker said the thing about "Let me translate that to Spanish … 'No'." And Yang's opening handclaps. As well as Pete Buttigieg's reaction to Yang's raffle.
The biggest laugh of the night in the media center, surprisingly, was when Yang said, "I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors."
Early scientists believed that ants adhere to a complicated hierarchy, which biologist E O Wilson compared to the Hindu caste system. The idea was, ants and humans have a lot in common, and ants belong to a society divided by class and determined by labor.
In the Wealth of Nations, father of capitalism Adam Smith wrote: "It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people."
Ants have been organized into colonized societies since the Cretaceous Period, 140 million years ago, when dinosaurs still dominated the Earth. All of that changed 74 million years later. Which was about 66 million years ago. When a comet slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, resulting in the KT mass extinction.
80 percent of all plants and animals died. The ash and dust and debris polluted the air, blocked the sunlight, transforming the Earth into a dark, frozen wasteland full of asthma.
Insects, carrion-eaters, and omnivores all survived. Any purely carnivorous animals starved to death, while mammals and birds fed on insects and worms until the earth repopulated itself with more animals that could be eaten.
The K-T Mass Extinction ushered in a new era of life. Species that had lived in constant retreat from predators were suddenly able to form more elaborate purposes.
After these lifeforms thrived for tens of millions of years, certain mammals started to become vaguely humanlike.
Early humans popped up about 300,000 years ago.
Meaning, ants have existed for 140 million years, which is 139.7 million years longer than humans.
For reference, if you counted to 300,000, it would take you roughly three-in-a-half days. To get to 140 million would take about four-and-a-half years.
Humans only began developing language about 100,000 years ago.
Yet we're the ones with libraries and governments and ABBA and iPhones. What did ants have? Other people's sugar?
Before the debate, I wandered out of the gymnasium and onto bustling sidewalks with makeshift security fencing on each side. And hopped over the massive yellow tubes that belonged in E.T. and pumped cold air into the building. Past dozens of police and security, through an elaborate weave of temporary checkpoints and wires bigger than a fire hose.
On the street, I passed a group of six-or-so teenagers flipping DELANEY signs around like those cardboard "WE BUY GOLD" banners which actual people bob around while dressed as Elvis or Lady Liberty or a Banana.
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The sun cast a delightful orange over Houston, glitter in the humid air.
Those kids were having a blast with those signs. Laughing so hard they had to stop occasionally and slap their legs.
On the other side of the fence, some of the most powerful people in the world were readying for battle, and these kids could not have cared less.
The protestors had gathered just outside the gates of the campus entrance.
Far as I could tell, it was me and no other journalists present. The rest of the media were in the gymnasium, preparing for the debate or networking or already on-air. Once they got into the media center they stayed put. For many reasons, I assume.
The air collapsed under a wave of heat unique to Houston.
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Gnarled blockades served as borders on both sides of the street. Locked into steel fencing, flanked by rows of police cars with their lights on but their sirens off.
Worse than the humidity, and more intense, was the energy bouncing out of the protestors on Cleburne Street. The opposite of suction energy, shoving out with tension and panic and elation.
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Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up" blared from a Bluetooth speaker. I envisioned a slow zoom from above, beginning with the top of my head and rising, up and up and up. Drawing in the greater scene. Up past Trump's message-board plane. A panorama of city, then county, then state, capturing the topography and nuance of each snapshot of nature.
The higher the camera rose, the more I resembled an ant. One more wingless worker or obedient soldier rushing from place to place on a mission.
And when you got far enough above, you saw the colony that each of us belongs to.
Then it shrank like a passing bobsled, and Earth itself resembled an ant.
The scale of it is daunting.
For thousands of years the sky has filled humans with romance and humility and wonder. A restive impulse that strikes when we gaze up at the moon, the stars, the galaxy, the quiet.
But at ground level, I was a man in the throes of a great human drama. And my job was to document it as neutrally as possible.
The 120-odd protestors on the south side of the street spilled onto the sidewalk and into a lawn, and they chanted as the Trump plane groaned overhead.
They were crowded together, and they were all fighting for different causes. Lots of contradictions under the same banner.
Next to a group of Beto supporters with pro-choice t-shirts, several women chanted
A pro-life.
Chaos itself occupied the south side of the street. The protestors weren't sure how to handle it. So they chanted and sang and probed for the problem. Like so many tiny creatures hauling an orange slice.
Across the street, facing that horde of supporters, two men gripped pro-life signs.
They were the counter-protestors. Their barricade was far wider than needed. The grass around them looked sad, like the trail a dog makes along the fence when it wants to escape.
Behind the two counter-protestors, a mini-bus covered with photos of aborted babies, tangled fetuses, severed and indistinguishable chunks.
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Photo by Kevin Ryan
I squinted and gasped and felt downright unwell.
Two days earlier, my wife and I found out that she was pregnant with our first child.
At the very moment I stared at images of tiny human shapes contorted and grey, our baby was the size of a pea.
A few weeks later, we'd see its heartbeat pulsing like a strobe.
I'm not making a statement on abortion. That's not my job as a journalist.
It's more my admiration for the impeccable depth of life. The timing. How messages and symbols confront us all the time, with unmatchable creativity.
Because there I was, literally in the middle of two opposing factions. Again. In the divide. Tangled into so many dichotomies. Life and death. Freedom and oppression. Order and chaos. Activity and stagnation. Creation and loss. Art and nature.
And I had once again remained in the middle.
This brought me tremendous satisfaction. It signified personal and journalistic success.
It was also a bit ridiculous.
As a reporter, I never wanted to pick a side. I already had a side. My side was America, and Ireland. My side was humanity.
My side was life.
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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak.Not to act is to act."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The cost of discipleship can be daunting and few people are willing to sacrifice and stand in the face of evil to do what they know God is asking of them. The "Bonhoeffer Angel Award" is awarded to someone with the vision and courage to act when others only talk, to dig in and listen to the whisperings of the spirit when others turn a deaf ear. It is only fitting the inaugural award go to the visionary founder of Mercury One, Glenn Beck.
The award was presented by the Board President of Mercury One, David Barton and CEO of the Nazarene Fund, Tim Ballard. There was a touching video tribute as well including the likes of Penn Jillette, Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Joe Liberman, Congressman Loui Gohmert and Rabbi Daniel Lappin.
Glenn will be hosting the annual Operation Underground Railroad gala Saturday, November 2nd with keynote speaker Tim Ballard. If you are able to join us, tickets are still available and donations of all sizes are welcome.
Summer is ending and fall is in the air. Before you know it, Christmas will be here, a time when much of the world unites to celebrate the love of family, the generosity of the human spirit, and the birth of the Christ-child in Bethlehem.
For one night only at the Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, on December 7th, join internationally-acclaimed radio host and storyteller Glenn Beck as he walks you through tales of Christmas in the way that only he can. There will be laughs, and there might be a few tears. But at the end of the night, you'll leave with a warm feeling in your heart and a smile on your face.
Reconnect to the true spirit of Christmas with Glenn Beck, in a storytelling tour de force that you won't soon forget.
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Staff Writer
Donald Trump leaned into the rostrum like a bartender. He loved to rile his patrons.
"They. Wanna. Take. Your Guns. Away," he said, in his trademark staccato.
They stomped and hollered, 18,000 strong in the American Airlines Center, home of the Dallas Mavericks, on a Thursday in October, and another 5,000 people waited outside, desperate to join.
"At stake. In this fight. Is the survival. Of American democracy itself," he said, then went off-script. "Don't kid yourself, that's what they want, they are destroying this country, but we will never let it happen, not even close."
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Here it was a few weeks from Halloween, with more autumn in the air each day. And 23,000 people roamed Dallas in costumes. All dressed up like American flags. They were happy. You could feel it all around.
It was ice-cold in that arena, but I had my bulky tan Carhartt jacket. It had been an hour since I chuffed down a travel-sized Crown Royal and some Sativa gummies, and I felt an unerring contentment.
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So my eyes shot wide when Trump jerked his hand toward the media pool for the third or fourth time that night and dealt a few jabs, and the audience hissed.
Photo by Sean Ryan
Every time it happened, I struggled to keep from laughing. Not in a condescending way. Neutral amusement. The drama of this wild setting full of energized people, the stadium lights, the narrative in motion. Hero versus Bad Guy.
Next minute they were cheering again. Because Trump told them about his plan to bring jobs back to America. It was just a matter of overcoming so many evil forces. But, he assured them, he was the only man who could guide us.
He listed off the enemies. The media, obviously. China, Obama, Democrats, Socialism, politicians, ISIS. I gasped, "Oh shit, I forgot about ISIS!"
There were five of us at the rally representing BlazeMedia. Writer Samantha Sullivan, cameraman James Baier, producer John Ruggio, and photographer Sean Ryan, my father.
James plays on the drumline at Mavericks games, so he gave us a proper tour of the arena, all the long passages and gaping walkways and cramped stairwells.
Photo by Sean Ryan
Then we prowled around outside, looking for protests.
It was a different world out there on the street. A nun in diabetes socks strolled past MAGA vendors by the W Hotel. Valet spots crowded with Secret Service vehicles.
Photo by Sean Ryan
An all-women Pro-Trump county/rock band chanted on the massive stage, where, an hour later, Fox News live-casted. We were the only media outside, besides the odd cameraman tip-toeing through the curving rows of Trump supporters in line.
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Samantha conducted man-on-the-street interviews. Nearly every time we walked away from someone we'd just interviewed, the people around them said a version of, "Now you're famous."
There were a dozen merchants selling Trump merchandise outside the arena, at least a dozen. One of them told me that they travel to all of Trump's rallies. From his cart, a flag billowed with the words "2020: Make Liberals Cry Again."
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As we followed the curves of the snaking line, I overheard a drunk man in his dark tan blazer exclaim, "All right, I'm gonna get us on television again."
We flashed past thousands of faces, thousands of people, driven to be there, standing in line. And happy no less. Blatant under the red-winged sky with planes that float silently, graceful and astounding.
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A young woman strolled down the street with a sign that read, "I might be gay, but I'm not stupid."
She told us her story. Her message was compassionate. Her face was relaxed.
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A little further down, plumes of smoke rose from a group of protestors with signs that said "We Vape We Vote.""Are you guys protesting Trump," I asked one of them.
"No," he said, "we all have different opinions about Trump. Not really worried about that. Right now we just want to protest the new vaping laws."
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At 7:44 p.m., "Proud to be an American" came on and Trump emerged from the guts of the arena, strolling through the tunnel like Michael Jordan. Game 6.
Some people teared up, placed a hand over their eyes or their heart. Others nodded for too long, as if they couldn't believe what they were seeing. Was that really him up there?
Even a few of the police had that resplendent look.
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Trump walked the stage. He clapped and waved. He waited till the end of the Lee Greenwood song to speak. The audience cheered as he braced the podium and said, "Thank you." And they kept cheering. He waited. 20 seconds or so. But the applause kept going, so he turned around and clapped some more and waved and smiled that certain way he smiles.
"I am thrilled to be here," he said, "deep in the heart of Texas." And people cheered even louder than before, because Texans love Texas. "Where we just opened a beautiful new Louis Vuitton plant."
Life in America was now constantly surreal. Donald Trump, who actually became President, was talking at a packed rally. In a basketball arena. About the opening of a factory. For a luxurious French fashion brand. In Keene, Texas, population 6,400.
Trump peeked at one of his teleprompters. Grinning halfway. Then he jabbed his finger into the air, aimed it at the media section, and said "They're worse now than they ever have been," his shoulders raised and hands gesticulating. "They're crooked as hell. They're worse now than they've ever been. They're crooked."
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His supporters booed. Jeered.
They pointed their fingers. They hocked.
A "CNN sucks" chant whispered down from a corner section on the 3rd level, but it never caught on. The audience's hissing tactic worked better anyway. No words. Words were the problem.
There was a musicality to Trump's sentences. He started with clipped phrases spoken in couplets. Then he let the words slide into an almost freeflow.
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He would start on-script, "The radical Democrats want to destroy America as we know it. They wanna indoctrinate our children." Then, halfway through the next sentence, he would pivot into an aside, spoken in vernacular.
"And teach them that America is a sinful nation, you see that happening all the time. And I know it from personal experience. What they want to teach your kids, not good. They come home, 'Mommy, daddy, this is what I learned,' and you're going 'Oh, no, don't tell me. Let's get 'em into another school, fast.'"
Bleacher Report ranked American Airlines Center the 7th loudest arena in the NBA.
The crowd's reaction to Trump's comments about guns and the 2nd Amendment created one of the loudest sounds of the night, louder than Tina Turner's "The Best," which played about 8 times. Must have been 100 decibels. Some people were stuffing their ears with whatever fit.
Photo by Sean Ryan
Nearly every one of Trump's punchlines got an audience reaction.
I mean these folks were revved up.
I spoke to a lot of people that night. Not a single solitary one of them was anything less than kind.
Look, I might as well say it now. The crowd was more diverse than I'd expected. Race, ethnicity, age, sex. Probably less diverse than the demographics of the country. But that's to be expected. Every one of the events so far brought a completely different crowd.
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What mattered most was how the candidates swayed any given crowd at any given place. What was different about a Bernie Sanders townhall at a Hilton and a Kamala Harris sermon at a Baptist Church?
Nobody was ever rude at any events. But nowhere was there as much excitement as at the Trump rally. It felt like a sporting event or a music festival.
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More than anything, it felt like WrestleMania. Professional wrestling. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
So many times I looked around at the engulfed arena and thought, "This is WWE."
Especially when Trump told stories. The way he added both vitriol and triumph to his sentences. Turned them into journeys, much like the interwoven plot lines of a WWE drama, each scene and victory or failure leading to WrestleMania.
The more outrageous or scandalous the story, the better. The less believable, the more dramatic it became. Because all any of it had to be was compelling.
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To be compelling was more important than to be literal or judicious. Supercharged with human drama. Betrayal. Contempt. Dalliances. Mockery. Danger. Love. Confoundment. Anxiety. Celebration. Occasionally even death.
All of it was WWE to the hilt. But it was also the polluted clouds in an otherwise sacred dream. Water and adolescence, all the magnets spinning and spinning. Each huff from the street. The reckoning of life, how maybe it could have happened differently but this is how it went.
He seemed to use a kind of operant conditioning on his audience, as if to make it easier for them to communicate in shorthand.
Fewer words, fewer, few.
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For instance, here's his first mention of the media, at the start of the rally.
"Although the fake news back there, they don't wanna talk about it." That drew the boo's all right.
He leaned back, as if handing them the mic for a moment.
Photo by Sean Ryan
"They don't wanna talk about it." He stared at the media area for a few seconds, then squinted cartoonishly and lifted his palm over his forehead like he was blocking out the sun. Then he leaned into the podium, and the pitch of his voice rose. "Look at all those cameras, can you believe it? Look at all those red lights."
Then he pointed at the press pool. The cameras were set up directly across the arena floor, so when you watch it on video it's like Trump is bursting out of your monitor.
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"Don't worry, I won't say anything bad about your network."
Then he — immediately — said something bad about the networks.
"Cuz' a lot of times I get ready to do a number on these phony networks and, you know, I see those red lights go off, off, off, off, off. They don't want their viewers to see, but that's okay. I'm not gonna say it tonight. I'm gonna say, 'You're legitimate media'."
Aside, "I don't actually mean that."
He grimaced.
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"But you look at that," he said, pointing, then lifted his palm to his forehead again, like he still couldn't find the puny thing he was looking for. "That's like the Academy Awards used to be, it failed. You know why it failed? Because they came after us. That's why it failed. It failed because it had stupid people saying horrible things about us."
Then he pointed to his temple wiggling his finger, "Stup-id." Shook his head. "Stupid people. They are stupid people. And their ratings have dropped like a rock. And I love seeing it, I'm telling you. Love it."
He reared his head back.
"But no matter how. Hard. They. Try. They will fail. Because the people of Texas, and the people of America, will never. Surrender. Our freedom. To those people. Right there."
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Later in the speech, he said much less, mostly variations of "and in the back you'll see the fake news." Repetition, a little briefer each time. Down to an occasional off-handed, "Those phonies in the back." Then, eventually, all he had to do was point, grimacing.
Two K9 police took stance in front of the grey barricade separating us from them, which amounted to separating us from ourselves.
Security at the rally was unlike anything I'd seen. An entire military apparatus that floated here from Washington D.C., subsuming downtown.
Two wax-shined helicopters hovered over the arena, unmoving, like geckos ready to snap on a fly. I'd never seen a helicopter float perfectly still like that. It was terrifying.
Photo by Sean Ryan
Secret Service everywhere. Different ranks. Outside were the Navy Seal types in body armor, hoisting MP5s with silencers. The Secret Service inside, nearest Trump, had the same jagged stare and well-trained unease. But they glided around in immaculate, boring suits, each with a gold square pin on the lapel. They either stealthed around in a blur or stood perfectly still like the Queen's Guard.
I'd been to the American Airlines Center twice before. A few years ago, for Kanye West's Saint Pablo tour, when he performed solo on the levitating stage. And last summer, to review a Shania Twain concert under the influence of LSD.
Oddly, the Trump rally was a mixture of both.
In nearby Grand Prairie, at the Theatre at Grand Prairie, Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke held a competing rally. There were about as many people at O'Rourke's rally as people outside the Trump rally.
Obviously, Trump loved that. But, for good measure, he hurled a few Beto-jabs into his speech, referring to him as "a very dumb Democrat candidate for president."
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Then he compared him to one of those wacky inflated dancing noodles you only ever see at used car dealerships.
Then he did an imitation of above-mentioned contraption. It was bizarre to see a President imitating a dancing noodle. But he didn't care what a President should or shouldn't do. He was the anti-Politician President. And his followers loved that about him.
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"The flailer," he said. "Remember he was flailing all over the place? I said, 'Why is this guy hot? John Cornyn's gonna win so easily. Just like Ted Cruz won. He's gonna win. No matter what happened." Then he scoured, like a falcon in a painting. "In a few short weeks, [Beto] got rid of guns then got rid of religion. Those are not two good things in Texas to get rid of."
Stomping his balled-up hand, Trump said that his office, the Oval Office, was our office, too. The crowd roared. Some of these people had driven hours for the rally. There were farmers and truck drivers and teachers and nurses. A lot of people there had never had an office of their own, and here was the President saying his was theirs.
Trump is the hero of his stories. It's part of his success, and, I suspect, a useful defense mechanism. At first glance, his journey and his character are riffs on the classical literary model, a thirsty figure who gnashes through dangerous territory, down into the unknown, through death and onto rebirth.
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But Trump is not classic in the slightest. He's nothing like Odysseus or Dante or Gilgamesh or Don Quixote. Instead, he is a postmodern antihero, like Clint Eastwood in "A Fistful of Dollars" or Tony Soprano or Beyoncé or Homer Simpson. In the summer of 2015, I asked a former professor to define postmodernism.
"Donald Trump," he replied. "He contains all of it. Chaos. Hyperreality. Lots of chaos. A constant sense of 'This is so surreal.' The rejection of tradition and assumptions. Rejection of divisions between high and low culture. Rejection of rules and styles and genres. Use of pastiche. Satire. Irony. Playfulness. Paranoia. Fragmentation. A total lack of boundaries."
Any time the place got quiet, some random person, usually near the rafters, hollered out phrases, and it just sound like the South Park rednecks saying "They took our jobs!"
To be fair, hecklers on the left don't sound much better.
A week earlier, at Trump's Minneapolis rally, protestors and activists formed a moshpit outside the Target Center, not too far from the Mississippi River.
Tensions in Minneapolis had been high, and as Trump was about to board Air Force One Mayor Jacob Frey insisted that Trump pay the $530,000 security fee in advance. A last minute effort to keep him out of Minneapolis.
In response, Trump tweeted that the "lightweight mayor is hurting the great police and other wonderful supporters. 72,000 ticket requests already. Dump Frey and [Minnesota Rep. Ilhan] Omar! Make America Great Again!"
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Conservative networks reported that, after the rally, members of AntiFa attacked at least one Trump supporter. Moral panic or not, it didn't augur well for the next year.
The following day, Trump appeared in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The South. No army of AntiFa down here, not like in Portland or New York or Seattle.
AntiFa has a decent presence in Dallas, and a reporter friend of mine interviewed a group of them outside the Trump rally. But there were hardly any there. A dozen or so. Which is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of Trump supporters, coiled all through downtown Dallas with its neon green outline.
I worked as a soccer referee for years. So I've broken up countless fights, dealt with manic egos, endured adults prone to outbursts, taken every kind of verbal abuse, faced absolute mutiny. In these chaotic situations, when people around you are losing their minds, the two greatest solutions are kindness and humor.
Halfway through a sentence Trump stopped reading from the prompters, stopped talking, pivoted, beamed at the crowd, then lifted his hand.
The entire arena fell silent.
It was the captivating hush of the final moments of an important game, as the ball floats through the air toward the goal or net or end zone, and fate is no longer within our grasp.
Imagine being able to freeze an entire arena into abrupt silence with one tilt of your hand.
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Trump was quarterback and they were the defensive line. He sang the melody and they hummed the backbeat. He was the skipper and they were deckhands. Although he seemed concerned that his supporters never felt belittled by this arrangement.
"[Democrats] come after me, but what they're really doing is coming after the Republican party. And what they're really really doing is they're fighting you, and we never lose."
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Every time he dropped a line like that, the crowd erupted with the kind of visceral intensity usually reserved for good news and sports.
The man who Evil Knievelled into arenas and said he'd never be conquered.
The closing of his speech was like the ball-drop in Times Square. But instead of kazoos and fireworks it was the words "Make America Great Again."
"Four more years," people shouted, "four more years."
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Then the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" blasted to life.
For some reason, one verse stood out more than the others.
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse"
In all that hissing and mania, all the flag-waving intensity — as the arena peeled and shook with the song and so many stomping feet — Trump looked in one direction, waved. Then another, and turned, waved. Until he had looked in every direction and waved.
Before he ducked out, he pointed toward the crowd one last time. A blaring sea of reds, blues, whites. A living representation of the American flag. All three colors boiling around under the Jumbotron and disco balls.
Little by little, people streamed into the aisles. They filed up the concrete steps, and out into a familiar chaos.
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Innovative new resource allows students to purchase eTextbooks by the chapter.
London, UK: New UK based eTextbook Aggregator, Reference Tree, today announced the launch of its new content platform to all UK higher education.
Innovative in approach, Reference Tree is an exciting new resource that delivers electronic textbooks by the chapter. Designed to address the changing dynamics of study and learning in today's digital climate, the service allows students to purchase just the portions of the textbook they require to efficiently complete their coursework. Not only are the most up-to-date sources of information available for learning and study, but the by-chapter approach enables students to spread the investment in course materials throughout the academic year. In addition, the service further enhances the learning experience with key features such as the ability to highlight and annotate text and, coming soon, the ability to collaborate with trusted peers through sharing of notes and comments.
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Welcome to the Division of Science
Welcome to Thomas University! We are excited that you have chosen our university, and we look forward to working with you on attaining your career goals with regard to the sciences. The division pages will provide basic information needed to assist you in planning for your program of study. You will find an overview of our division, available degree options, and program of study curriculum.
Division faculty are available to discuss career advice, internship opportunities, and degree comparisons. All medical programs and internship courses require a competitive process with regard to the internship and admission criteria. Thomas University employs highly credentialed faculty that have extensive work experience, education, and training histories in their fields of expertise. Our faculty work exceptionally hard to offer our students the most up-to-date and relevant coursework, maintaining viable internship contacts, and to provide quality instruction in the biologic sciences.


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British artist, Jennie Moncur, is best known for her hand-woven contemporary tapestry wall-hangings. Her 'jigsaw' compositions demonstrate a characteristic love of material and colour, whilst her highly-skilled use of traditional 'Gobelin' weaving techniques show an implicit link between process and expression.
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text: Before Megan Vaughn shot her first porn scene in 2010, she worked in a farmers' market, selling produce at a fruit stand. She never could tell if the long lines of hungry dudes were really there to squeeze the avocados, or if they were just drooling over her ripe, juicy ass. Once she got some momentum as a fresh-faced and wickedly hot teen starlet, there's been no limit to the work and job offers she's had. When she isn't needed on set, you can find Megan bombing around the hills of Los Angeles on her skateboard, making daredevil runs with no fear. Her hidden talents include an artistic side: this multi-talented babe loves to sketch, paint, and design things. Besides her wicked-hot looks, Megan's slutty sex drive makes her a highly sought-after mattress actress. You can't leave the nympho in a room with a big, fat cock like Keiran Lee's without her wanting to get her hands and mouth on every inch of that shaft.


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This week, we're going to do in-depth scouting reports on the two conference title games. First up: Pats/Ravens.
The Teams: The Baltimore Ravens vs. the New England Patriots
Records: 13-4 (Ravens), 14-3 (Pats)
The Line: Patriots by 7.5. The Ravens were favored by the exact same line last week. Peter King finds this WEIRD and INTERESTING.
The Coaches: Bill Belichick vs. John Harbaugh. That looked like a lovely lasagna dinner you had at home with your family last night, Coach Harbaugh. What's that? How do I know what you were eating at home last night? Via Coach Belichick's camera feed, of course! You left a dirty pot in the sink, by the way.
The Offenses: Look at Bill Belichick showing off by putting TE Aaron Hernandez at running back against the Broncos last week. That was the football coach equivalent of popping a wheelie. Who knows what else the King of the Hobos has in store for this game. Wes Welker at guard? Tom Brady at linebacker? Patrick Chung taking a direct snap on a fake punt? Oh wait, that one didn't go over so well last time.
Anyway, Tom Brady did a number on the Broncos last week, but the Pats haven't beaten a defense like the Ravens (No. 3 overall) this season. The only time they went up against a comparable defense (PIT), they got crushed. Food for thought.
As for the Ravens, they're gonna need to play a whole lot better on offense if they expect to win this game. Ed Dickson dropped virtually every pass thrown his way last week, which is standard operating procedure for Ed Dickson. Torrey Smith wasn't involved at all. And the Ravens couldn't even convert a fourth-and-inches down at the goal line. They'll need a great game from Ray Rice, and Joe Flacco will have to register a pulse. Given this team's road record (4-4), it's a dicey proposition.
The Defenses: Even though the Pats gave up a robust 411 yards per game this season (only the Packers were worse), they were 15th in overall scoring defense, which is pretty impressive given Belichick's constant lineup shuffling. The Patriots will again rely on DE Mark Anderson to get pressure on the QB, now that Andre Carter is done for the season. The Patriots have the kind of defense that relies on opposing offenses to make mistakes, and Lord knows the Ravens can oblige in that department.
As for the Ravens, Ray Lewis certainly looked like Ray Lewis again last week. Dan Dierdorf nearly ate his own mustache, he was so excited. Expect Lewis and the rest of the Ravens LBs to jam tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez at the line of scrimmage. And by "jam," I mean "beat them to a bloody pulp".
Key Matchup: Flacco vs. Brady. I suspect that Joe Flacco, as presently constituted, is as good as he'll ever be. But perhaps he'll prove me wrong on Sunday. Lord knows he'll need a good game to outduel the top dog.


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The Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday postponed the vote on a proposed cyberbullying law.
The legislation, called "Audrie's Law," would expand California's definition of rape to include the sexual assault of an unconscious or developmentally disabled person. The measure is sought by the family of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga High School student who was sexually assaulted while unconscious at a house party in 2012, and later committed suicide.
Audrie's Law, or SB 838, introduced by Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose), would close a statutory loophole that fails to recognize the sexual violation of an unconscious or developmentally disabled victim as forcible rape.
The bill would also require a mandatory minimum two-year sentence for juveniles who are convicted in juvenile court of raping an unconscious or developmentally disabled person and to allow such cases to be tried in an open courtroom.
"We feel what we are asking for a two-year minimum sentence is completely reasonable and warranted," said Sheila Pott, Audrie's mother. "And the public wants this."
The Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice opposes the bill.
"This bill would be the first mandatory minimum sentence in the juvenile justice system in our state," said Lizzie Buchen, Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice. "It has been tried in adult court and is very ineffective, and it doesn't prevent crime."
Another group, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, sent a letter to Tom Ammiano, the chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. The letter claims the proposed bill is using Audrie's death to wreak havoc on the juvenile justice system.
Sheila Pott disagrees with the letter's claim and said Audrie's Law will only help victims like her daughter.
The bill stems from what happened to Audrie at a party in 2012. She drank too much and passed out. Later there were photos of her lying unconscious with words scribbled on her body, images that would be shared with others.
On her Facebook page, Audrie expressed that her life was ruined and that others knew what happened. She killed herself on Sept. 12 of that year. The three teens involved were sentenced under the juvenile justice system with penalties of 30 to 45 days.
Jodi Hernandez and Christie Smith contributed to this report.


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Working with Windows in Mac OS X Lion
Although Mac OS X Lion windows are similar to windows you've used in other versions of Mac OS, they have some new wrinkles. To start peering into windows on your Mac, first you need to know how to open and close them. When you're working in the Finder, you can choose the following commands from the File menu. Note that you'll probably find similar commands on the File menu of programs other than the Finder.
You'll use many of these commands frequently, so it will be helpful in the long run if you to memorize the keyboard shortcuts.
New Finder Window (Command+N): Opens a new Finder window. In other programs, Command+N might open a new document, project, or whatever that program helps you create.
Open (Command+O): Opens the selected item, be it an icon, a window, or a folder.
Close Window (Command+W): Closes the active window. If no windows are open or if no window is selected, the Close Window command is grayed out and can't be chosen. Or if you prefer, you can close a window by clicking the red Close button in the top-left corner.
Resizing Mac OS X Lion windows and window panes
If you want to see more (or less) of what's in a window, just hover the pointer over any edge or corner and drag. When the cursor turns into a little double-headed arrow, click and drag to resize the window.
Moving Mac OS X windows
To move a window, click anywhere in a window's title bar (or anywhere in the gray part of a display window, except on a button, menu, search field, scroll bar, or Resizer) and drag the window to wherever you want it. The window moves wherever you move the mouse, stopping when you release the mouse button.
Shuffling Mac OS X Lion windows
The commands on the Window menu provide tools you can use to manage your windows. Here is a brief look at each of the items on the Window menu:
Minimize (Command+M): Use this command to minimize the active Finder window to the Dock and unclutter your Desktop. It's the same as clicking the yellow gumdrop button.
Zoom: This command does the same thing as the green gumdrop button.
Cycle Through Windows (Command+'): Each time you choose this command or use the keyboard shortcut for it, a different window becomes active.
Bring All to Front: In Mac OS X Lion, windows from different applications interleave. For example, you can have (from front to back) a Finder window, a Microsoft Word window, an Adobe Photoshop window, another Microsoft Word window, and another Finder window. Choosing Bring All to Front while the Finder is the active application enables you to have both of the Finder windows in this example move in front of those belonging to Word and Photoshop.
If you want to bring all the windows belonging to the Finder (or any other program, for that matter) to the front at the same time, you can also click the appropriate Dock icon (the Finder, in this case).
If you hold down the Option key when you pull down the Window menu, Minimize Window changes to Minimize All, and the Zoom command changes to Zoom All.
Other items: The remaining items on the Window menu are the names of all currently open Finder windows. Click a window's name to bring it to the front.


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A fatality wreck that occurred in the early morning hours of Aug. 3 on Interstate 10 in Rose City was cleared allowing traffic to move freely by 8:20 a.m.
According to reports from the Texas Department of Public Safety, a woman was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of the freeway when she caused the collision.
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The other day I was with one of my son's second grade friends. I told him his shoe was untied, and bent down to tie it for him. He looked up at me strangely, said, "I can tie my own shoe," and bent down and did so.
I was impressed, though I know an 8-year-old doing so should probably be a given. So I vowed once again that I'd finally get around to teaching my 8-year-old how to tie his own shoe. Only I still haven't, and apparently I'm not the only slacker parent when it comes to shoelaces.
Among other skills our kids are lacking today, a survey from a British energy company recently found that 45 percent of kids ages 5-13 can't tie their shoes. While that might be alarming to some -- and certainly was to the survey authors who used this and other findings to bemoan that "youths have lost their sense of adventure and lack skills, which older generations take for granted" -- I found it reassuring.
Lisa Belkin at The New York Times does a nice job of rebutting these accusations against our kids and their lack of skills with the host and new impressive things they CAN do these days, calling it "Darwinism at work. The march of time." I couldn't agree more.
Between Uggs, Keens, and Velcro shoes, the only real shoes with laces my son has ever owned have been cleats for sports. His daily routine is the rip and zip and ease of Velcro. Even when it comes to his cleats, there are ways to cheat and avoid that whole dreaded bunny ear business with things like lace locks.
While I suppose he needs to know how to tie shoe laces eventually, it just hasn't been a priority. I'd rather lace him up with double knots myself then send him out to work on his skills at shortstop than sit on the sidelines trying to get him to perfect the perfect knot. Both would be ideal, of course, but sometimes something just has to give. In kindergarten when they worked on it, his little fingers weren't quite dexterous enough, and he quickly grew frustrated. Then they moved on and so did we ... with our life. Call me lazy, but shoe laces have never tied us up, so to speak.
Do I want him to go to college and have to ask someone to tie his shoe? No, but I know one of these days he'll get sick of letting me tie his shoes, and he'll conquer it. I don't think his life will be of any lesser quality in the meantime, and he has plenty of other more impressive skills anyway, like some killer moves he's learned in Brazilian Jujitsu ... where they don't wear shoes at all.
At what age did your child learn to tie his or her shoes? Does this study surprise you?
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How to Use the Images Photo 1 & Drawing 1
Photo 1 & Drawing 1
Questions for Photo 5
1. The window on the far left is recessed. Does this give you a clue as to where this room is located in the rancho? (You may want to refer to Drawing 2.)
2. What can you learn about the last occupants of the house by studying this photo?
* The photo on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Photo 5, but be aware that the file will take as much as 30 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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DU's Baxter one tough dude; Final Four teleconference offers no beauty sleep
Senior attack Todd Baxter, who scored three goals on 1 1/2 legs in Saturday's 14-9 upset against Johns Hopkins, is again questionable after re-injuring his right leg. The gutsy kid from Eden Prairie, Minn., left in the third quarter and told DU coach Bill Tierney he was "done for the day."
Baxter was just two weeks removed from partially tearing his MCL and suffering a high-ankle sprain in his right leg.
Read the full update on Baxter, including how Tierney is fine with Baxter not practicing until pregame warmups, at www.denverpost.com/sports right now and in Tuesday's paper.
Meanwhile, I just received Tuesday's Final Four teleconference schedule, and I had to laugh. It starts at 7:30 a.m. MT, when most sportswriters like me are only awake if the kid is making too much noise putting his cereal together in the kitchen. I have no beef with 9:30 a.m., IF I LIVED IN THE EASTERN TIME ZONE! Indeed, these ET lacrosse folks aren't used to having us MT people heading to their big dance.


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"The Tide, The Thief & River's End is a superb progressive/alternative rock album"
Superb - 4.5
just kidding, but you should delete that last paragraph and post a link.
Digging: Crimeapple - Viridi Panem
Listening to "Moments from Ephemeral City" atm. Feels very fresh and vibrant after first 3 songs, really enjoying the variety in the sound.
yay start stop in to the white
Album Rating: 4.5I'm keen to give this a listen. Dark Hair Down and All Quiet On The Wall are amazing. I think this will definitely be a 4.5.
Jim Grey's voice is soooo amazing. Like a perfect mixture of Ian Kenny and Maynard.
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, so this is pretty amazing, the aussie prog scene strikes again. Helm, Karnivool and now Caligula's Horse have all released really great albums this year.
Another reviewer called it a mixture of Periphery, Pain of Salvation and Porcupine tree and that's pretty spot on. It's a bit djent but with enough melody and softer passages to make it interesting. Some seriously beautiful moments on this album. Jim's vocals are amazing as always, he should be much more well known as a vocalist.
Atlas, Into The White, Dark Hair Down and All Is Quite On The Wall are my favourites atm.
Album Rating: 3.5I've listened to this a few times now and it's very good. At the moment I'm feeling like it's a 4, but I need to let it sink in a bit more before rating. I can already say this is in the top 3 best vocal performances of the year for me though.
Album Rating: 4.5After a few more listens, this is possibly my album of the year. It's just incredible.
Yeah, Grey's vocal performances are always top notch. You should also check out his other band, Arcane. They're fantastic aswell.
Album Rating: 3.5I'm aware of them actually. They've been in my "backlog" for about a year(I'm slow, I know), but I'd quite liked what I'd heard by them at the time, so I'd liked them on Facebook. Yesterday they made a status about this so I decided to check it out ;p
Album Rating: 4.5Definitely check out their album 'Chronicles From A Waking Dream'. While i really like this, Chronicles is still the best thing Jim Grey has done. It's a masterpiece imo. It's sort of similar to this but with less djent, more prog and synths.
Album Rating: 2.0it is not progressive rock, it is metal
it's kinda both genre nazi
yea this rules
Album Rating: 4.5This should be getting a lot more hype than it has. Every review i've seen for it has been atleast 9/10. Fucking amazing album.
This is pretty good
Digging: FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Album Rating: 4.0After I listen to this for 10 times I can say I find it more and more interesting.
Cool band!
Well this would have been in my top 50 this year, a shame that i just discovered it yesterday... really really good vocal performance.
Album Rating: 4.5Such a shame that this album has gone pretty much un noticed. This deserved a lot of hype. Pretty close to a masterpiece.
Album Rating: 3.5still spin this every couple days, totally agree that it's a shame they haven't gotten more attention
Album Rating: 4.0solid shit, bit pussyole in places, but good.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Chevron's net income fell nearly 7 percent in the second quarter as oil prices and production declined.
The oil giant said Friday it earned $7.21 billion, or $3.66 per share, last quarter. That compared with $7.73 billion, or $3.85, a year earlier. Revenue fell by 9 percent in the quarter to $62.6 billion.
Those results beat Wall Street estimates of $3.23 on revenue of $71.4 billion, according to FactSet. Shares rose by 24 cents to $108.51 in premarket trading.
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. petroleum company behind Exxon Mobil, said production from its global network of oil and natural gas wells fell 2.6 percent in the second quarter. It also sold oil for lower prices in the U.S. and overseas. Natural gas fetched only half as much in the U.S. as it did a year earlier, though gas prices rose internationally.
The fall in production and prices was tempered by a surge in profits at Chevron's refining and marketing operations. Profits rose 80 percent as the company sold about $200 million in assets, including its stake in a South Korean energy business. Chevron's refineries were more profitable because the cost of oil fell and they sold gasoline and other fuels at higher prices on the West coast.
Like many of its peers, the San Ramon, Calif.-based company has increased spending on exploration this year, even though lower oil and gas prices are generating lower returns.
"Despite current weakness in the global economy, we continue to invest in our long-term growth projects to help deliver affordable energy to meet future demand," Chairman and CEO John Watson said.
A slump in oil and natural gas prices also weakened quarterly profits at Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Occidental Petroleum Corp. and ConocoPhillips. BP reports its second-quarter financial results next week.


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Iannetta gets rare start vs. Pads
Chris Iannetta has been a bystander during crunch time. Tonight he gets to mix it up against the Padres as the Rockies attempt to move close to their wild-card magic number.
With Yorvit Torrealba wielding a scorching bat, Iannetta was a cheerleader and a batting-cage fanatic. Tonight he'll start for just the fourth time in September.
Carlos Gonzalez is out of the starting lineup again as the Rockies play it safe with his tight left hamstring. And with Padres lefty Clayton Richard on the mound, the Rockies are loading their lineup with right-handed bats anyway.
However, Gonzalez was doing running drills in the outfield this afternoon and looked smooth and fast.
The Rockies enter play four games up on San Francisco and Atlanta, and 4 1/2 games ahead of Florida, in the wild-card chase.
Here are tonight's lineups:
SS Everth Cabrera
2B David Eckstein
1B Adrian Gonzalez
3B Chase Headley
RF Will Venable
LF Oscar Salazar
C Nick Hundley
CF Tony Gwynn
LHP Clayton Ricahard
LF Seth Smith
CF Dexter Fowler
1B Todd Helton
SS Troy Tulowitzki
RF Ryan Spilborghs
3B Garrett Atkins
2B Clint Barmes
C Chris Iannetta
RHP Jason Hammel


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In Traffic Terms, Michael Jackson is no Obama
Those predictions that Michael Jackson's memorial service would be the biggest Internet event ever were off by a bit. According to the numbers that are trickling in now, it wasn't even the biggest Web event of the year so far.
It was big, sure, but not Obama big--and, heck, not even Michael Jackson big. The service is being described as the Web's third largest event behind the inauguration and the first new of Jackson's death, a week and a half ago.
Facebook saw about 800,000 status updates during the event--compared to the 1.8 million that mentioned the President's name during his January inauguration. CNN had 781,000 of the service, versus 1.3 million for Obama. Akamai, meanwhile saw 3,924,370 on its Net Usage Index for News during the service versus the 4,247,971 during the first news of Jackson's death.
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The Validation des acquis de l'expérience
Do you have at least 3 years of professional experience and would you like to obtain a degree, title or qualification that reflects the contents of your work? If so, the validation des acquis de l'expérience is for you.
The VAE is an official accreditation through which the skills and knowledge acquired through prior professional experience are recognised as having the same value as those gained from formal education.
Important: the VAE does not automatically convert your professional experience into a degree. It is a detailed process which requires you to follow a procedure which compares the skills and achievements acquired through your experience with a reference degree.
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WPF – Loaded event in browser applications
This is a slightly strange one to my thinking.
If you have a loaded event in a panel on a page, it will get fired multiple times.
This goes against the behaviour of a WPF application (or Winforms for that matter).
I don't know if the same is true for an Asp.Net forms application, since I haven't done many.
It seems to be using the Loaded event as more of an Activated event.
To see this behaviour easily:
- Create a WPF browser application (xbap)
- Add a tab control
- Add a panel to 1 tab
- Add another panel to another tab
- do something in Loaded event in first tab , eg change colour of the panel
When you click on second tab and back to first tab, the loaded event will be fired again
WPF Resources
Firstly, what is a resource?
In the world of WPF, it means two things:
- an assembly resource
- an object resource
An assembly resource is a blob of data that has been embedded in your assembly. Examples are images, videos or sounds.
An object resource is slightly different. It specifies a re-usable chunk of information, but is a .Net framework object instead.
In the WPF world, that means defining things like styles.
It also means being able to re-use those chunks in different areas of your program.
WPF and Silverlight
It would seem that Silverlight 2 (WPF on the web!) is getting closer and closer.
It's very exciting of course, simply because having WPF on the web makes it more available to more people.
Microsoft have released an RC (Release Candidate) for the development world, allegedly to allow everyone to get their sites working against the final release API.
Personally, i think it's to get the development world licking their lips at the features being included.
That works for me without a doubt 🙂
WPF – adding hyperlinks to pages
When you are using pages as your building blocks for WPF development, hyperlinks are a useful way to move onto different pages.
That has been proved of course on the internet for many years 🙂
As to why you might use pages, see a previous blog.
A hyperlink in the xaml world is similar to the anchor tag in html, in the respect that it goes inside relevant other tags.
For example, to add a hyperlink to a textblock, specify the hyperlink inside the textblock:
<TextBlock>My test is going to be <Hyperlink NavigateUri="chelsea.xaml">chels</Hyperlink> and their lack of Deco
That specifies the hyperlink, and when you click on it the NavigationService will move to the chelsea.xaml page
Xbap – how to show them
With a standard WPF application, you don't really have many options as to how you display the application – it has a top level window and that's it.
With a WPF application, you have four options on how to display your top level page in a container:
- Using a NavigationWindow – which gives you functionality akin to a normal WPF Window
- U1sing a Frame directly inside the browser, also called an Xbap or browser application
- Using a Frame inside another window
- Using a Frame inside another page
These all have slightly different advantages, and I have done a description for each:
- Hosting in NavigationWindow.
- Hosting a frame directly inside the browser
- Hosting a frame inside a window
- Hosting a frame nested inside another frame
WPF – hosting pages directly in the browser
For a description of what a page is see blog post.
Why would you want to place a page within the browser?
It means you can run the WPF application over the internet or an intranet without any installation at all.
Thus far,I've mainly seen browser applications used as demos.
You create one using the visual studio new wpf browser application template.
What is useful though, is that you can write all your views (or dialogs) as pages by using the <page> xml construct.
Then you can put them into a class library (dll to us old-uns).
That enables you to have one project that is a WPF application, and one browser application both references the common class library.
Both types of application can reference the pages, and bingo you maintain your ui logic in one place.
WPF pages hosting in pages
What do I mean by that?
Simply put, you can embed a page within another page.
Why would you want to do that?
It allows re-use for a start, as well as splitting functionality down into logical chunks.
In the following example, I have done just that:
First the top level window
<Window x:Class="BlogSept.Window1″
Title="Window1″ Height="300″ Width="300″>
<Frame Source="page1.xaml" NavigationUIVisibility="Visible">
Then page1
<Page x:Class="BlogSept.Page1″
<Rectangle Margin="46,68,54,132″ Name="rectangle1″ Stroke="Black" Fill="Chocolate" OpacityMask="Beige" Opacity="0.6″ />
<TextBox Text="Random text" Margin="80, 190, 10, 10″ />
<Frame Source="page2.xaml" />
Notice how it embeds a copy of page2 inside it's visual tree.
Here is page 2:
<Page x:Class="BlogSept.Page2″
<Ellipse Margin="42,71,64,118″ Name="ellipse1″ Stroke="Black" Fill="BlueViolet" />
Xbap – hosting pages using frames
For an explanation of what an Xbap is, look at a previous blog of mine.
With Xbap pages, you have a useful resource.
You can host pages within other windows or with a special xaml construct – a frame.
To do this simply declare the frame within a window:
if page1.xaml contains a page of further xaml, it's contents will be displayed in the window 🙂
Xbap – hosting in NavigationWindow
To hosting your page in a NavigationWindow, what do you need to do?
Well, not a lot actually.
You write your page, set your app.xaml's startup uri to point to your page and run it!
It will appear in a browser if you created a browser application, or inside a NavigationWindow if it is a WPF application.
The WPF application will create a NavigationWindow instead of a Window to act as the top level container.
It also uses the page's WindowTitle property for the caption in the NavigationWindow 🙂
The NavigationWindow class derives from Window and adds the navigation buttons and the navigation service for you.
Xbap – pages instead of windows
For an explanation of what an Xbap is, look at a previous blog of mine.
I have spent the last few weeks writing a Xbap (or page navigation) application in WPF.
The first thing you have to get used to is that you need to forget Windows, everything is in terms of pages.
What is a page?
Actually it looks stunningly similar to a WPF Window.
You get to use exactly the same xaml markup constructs, dockpanels, textboxes etc etc.
The advantage of Xbaps over normal WPF application is that they run in the browser (firefox as well as internet explorer) and yet you still get all of the great WPF goodies, including animations and styles.
The only restrixtion is that they need to run under partial trust rather than full trust.
What does that mean in practice?
It means that whatever zone you pick for your xbap application confines its functionality.
For example, an internet zone xbap cannot access the local file system or the registry – which is only logical


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But that's not to say the county never had a hanging.
Douglas Alder, a past president of the Washington County Historical Society and Dixie State University, said that in about 1875, a miner working north of St. George in Silver Reef was accused of killing a fellow miner. The alleged killer was arrested and jailed in the basement of the courthouse. But he wasn't there long. Shortly after he was put in the jail, a group of the murder victim's friends descended on the courthouse, broke out the prisoner and hung him from a nearby tree.
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The protesters are ignorant, smelly hippies. That about sums up my take. If you want the longer version, here it is:
The protesters are literate, and some are even educated in some specialty, but they don't seem to understand economics at all. Some of them blame poverty and unemployment on "Wall Street"; others blame it on rich people. Either way, they engage in pure fantasy.
First, Wall Street. I assume they have no beef with the street itself. Maybe they just call rich people or corporations "Wall Street," or at least that's what my understanding of markets leads me to infer. They can't be talking about the stock market–that is, they can't be talking intelligently about the stock market. If you know what the stock market actually is (not a true entity, but a loose network for the free and open exchange of securitized goods) and who participates in the stock market (hundreds of millions–if not billions–of individual disparate entities, among whom nearly everyone is included, and none of whom can exercise anything close to what could objectively called coercion over the market), and the effects of a stock market on an economy (a great increase in productivity, availability of capital, and gainful employment), then you have a hard time understanding what the hell it is these people are talking about when they express rage toward Wall Street. They don't even seem to have a workable definition of what "Wall Street" is.
Because rage toward "Wall Street" is utter nonsense, I must assume they have a serious–albeit irrational–problem with corporations and/or high net worth or high income people. They believe rich people and/or corporations are responsible for any extant hardship experienced by "the 99%." But the rich, the corporations, the Apples, Disneys and Microsofts have exercised no force against us; on the contrary, we have engaged in voluntary exchange with them. We have voted with our dollars to make their owners wealthier than we are. The fact that they become so well-to-do that they escape the hardships of the rest of us is unfair, but it is not unjust. They have not forced us to give them our money. Any man who gives money to Apple does so because, marginally, he values Apple's production more than his own–not because Apple has forced him to do so. If the people must slay a dragon, there is a convenient and sensible target; it is an entity that forces us to give it money and it has a monopoly on force, but it is not headquartered on Wall Street.
That dragon is of course the federal government, and I can sympathize with these protesters only insofar as interest groups (including corporations) control the government to meet their own ends at our expense. However, I see no real advantage in egregious (and probably unconstitutional) measures, such as depleting the wealth of interest groups, outlawing their association, or nationalizing corporations, which seem to be the sort of unjust solutions favored by today's demonstrators. I do not suggest a new all-powerful leader of the flock, but instead suggest each sheep be allowed his sovereignty. I know such an individualistic position has never been and probably never will be popular–people like to be led, lest they wander. My policy to keep interest groups from controlling government is by binding government down under the chains of the constitution (see Jefferson's "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank"), which would make government a thing so small and insignificant–so limited in its powers of appropriation and bestowal–that no corporation would have any interest in controlling it, because it would be unprofitable to do so.
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|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: SEGA
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: March 25, 2008
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|Players: 1
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Viking: Battle for Asgard is a simple hack-and-slash adventure that takes players through a fictional Viking world full of battle-scarred warriors, foul demons, and vengeful gods. The brutal carnage, Viking theme, and solid visuals go a long way to making the game an enjoyable experience, but the straightforward battle mechanic and repetitive story devices make the game feel monotonous after a while.
Despite the title's overly simplistic combat and narrative, the pacing is so fast that it should keep you engaged to the bitter end. If, however, you're looking for a deep and complex title to feed your love of Norse sagas you won't find it here; all you'll get is a gory demon beat-'em-up. If hacking off the limbs, heads, and midsections of wave after wave of nondescript undead warriors is your thing, Viking: Battle for Asgard may be just what the doctor ordered.
The development team at Creative Assembly obviously drew a lot of inspiration from the God of War series, as the game feels similar in a lot of ways: as you progress through Viking you will acquire power orbs, obtain new combat maneuvers, battle the goddess of the underworld, go through the occasional cutscene button sequence, and rapidly tap a button to open chests, portals, and doors. The similarities don't stop there, however. The humorous and gratuitous use of gore during combat is also present, and it is probably the saving grace for the game. Unfortunately, Viking doesn't execute upon the simple formula nearly as well as God of War did. That being said, it's still a fine attempt and provides gamers with several hours of gory goodness.
The game has players take on the role of Skarin, a Viking warrior who has been given a second chance at life by assuming the mantle of champion for the Goddess Freya. Skarin is tasked with ridding the world of Midgard from the undead minions of the goddess of the underworld, Hel. This demonic army is known as Legion and has brought pain, death, and suffering to all mortals. By freeing the various towns, fortresses, and economic centers from Legion's tyranny, Skarin becomes more powerful and renowned. The honor of fighting as Freya's champion should guarantee him passage to Valhalla unless he forsakes the true path like the goddess' former hero did.
That's really all there is to the story. It is pretty inconsequential and won't serve to motivate you through the quest, though I wouldn't describe it as bad either. It just doesn't accurately capture the amazing mythos and legends that surround the Viking culture. As a result, it may be a disappointment to history buffs that are truly engaged by it. However, for those that just want to kick some butt, the story will satisfy more than just your simple bloodlust. Unfortunately, the tasks and quests you take on throughout the adventure are so similar to each other that they quickly become tedious. They include objectives such as: free your Viking comrades on the beach, go clear out the Legion presence from the cave, free the brewery, clear out the quarry, etc. When you get right down to it, it all feels the same.
The simple combat mechanic is entirely unoriginal, but I guess you could say it is tried and true. It is a straightforward combo, button-masher that has the user mix speed and power attacks in order to defeat their foes. The developers rarely vary the kinds of opponents gamers will face, and subsequently you can get by with your three favorite attack combos. There is no substantial challenge in slicing through the Legion armies, but it is fun to see their arms get lopped off while they helplessly watch you spin around and decapitate them with a hand axe. That never really gets old.
There are a few modifications you can make to the sword that add elemental damage to attacks, but other than adding pretty spell effect animations, they don't make Skarin much more powerful until he acquires the most potent runes later in the game. In other words, Skarin is a barbarian bruiser that always deals more physical damage than the enchantments on his weaponry ever could. In fact, I found only the ice power to be helpful, as it will freeze a few pesky enemies and help you wade through the swarm of baddies.


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Mt Washington's 7th annual Run for Roch is scheduled for Sat July 30th – mark your calendars & start training!
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Run For Roch 5k Run & 1 Mile Walk: 8:45 am Saturday, July 30, 2011
The USA Track & Field certified 5 Kilometer race is flat at the beginning and end, with several gentle to moderate slopes in the center. The walking course is completely flat. The panaramic view atop Pittsburghs most famous and newly renovated hilltop road is breathtaking. Runners timing is provided by Runners High using the Championchip.RUNNERS Course will start at grandview and Shiloh Streets by the Monongahela Incline. The course will runthe length of Grandview Ave. to Republic St., turn back down Grandview Ave. to PJ McArdle Roadway (0.2 miles), back up the Roadway onto Grandview and finish at Shiloh St.WALKERS Walk scenic Mt. Washingtons Grandview Ave. from the Monogahela Incline to Saint Marys of the Mount Church and back. Your participation will also contribute to the Scholarship Fund and enter you for race day prizes.
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Are You Ready?! 7th Annual Run for Roch Saturday July 30, 2011
Mt Washington's 7th annual Run for Roch is scheduled for Sat July 30th – mark your calendars & start training!
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Mt Washington's 6th Annual Run for Roch will be July 31st 2010
Come run/walk Roch's course atop Mt. Washington & enjoy the exhilarating, panoramic view from Pittsburgh's famous Grandview Avenue
2009 Run for Roch
This years race was a great success!! Thank you to everyone who helped make it that way. & it's never to early to start getting ready for next years!
Our top 5 males in order -Ryan Sheehan, Charlie Ban, Tim Wu, Matt Cecala, Dave O'Hara
Our top 4 females in order – Sonja Friend-Uhl, Kayla Keddal, Katie Jarocki, Laura O'Hara
Our Scolarship winners – Jaran & Justin
& with Roch's dad – big Roch
Thanks everyone – check back often for updates & race news
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Agenda: March 14, 2013 Residential Development and Compatibility PEG meeting
Residential Development and Compatibility Policy Expert Group
Date: March 14, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1900 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 7th Floor - Conference Room 7A
Meeting Goals
- Update on Workshops and Next Steps
- Review Working Draft Comprehensive Plan
Welcome and Overview (4:00 p.m. / 10 minutes)
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Process Updates (4:10 p.m. / 10 minutes)
Presenter: Barry Manning, BPS
Update on process and workshops; PEG feedback/Q&A
Comprehensive Plan Working Draft Review (4:20 p.m. / 80 minutes)
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PEG Discussion/Q&A. Note: This is a more formal review following up on the February PEG meeting.
Public Comment (5:40 p.m. / 10 minutes)
All guests are welcome to address the PEG at this time.
Wrap-up, Adjourn (5:50 p.m.)
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