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Could this be the year the death penalty is repealed in Washington state?
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are optimistic 2018 may bring the end of Washington's death penalty, following changes in senate leadership and years of stalled attempts in the state Legislature.
Under current state law, individuals found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder can be put to death by hanging or lethal injection. The latest bill would replace that sentence with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Should it pass, Washington would join a list of other states that have eliminated capital punishment in recent decades.
The new chair on the committee overseeing the bill, state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, expects the current push to abolish the death penalty to make it through the senate and possibly to the governor's desk — the farthest any related bill would have made it in five years.
"The stars may be aligning now for support of doing away with the death penalty," Pedersen said.
Washington's death penalty has been seldom used in recent years. In 2014, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee placed a moratorium on capital punishment, suspending the practice for as long as he's in office. The state's last execution occurred in 2010 when Cal Coburn Brown, convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of 21 year-old Holly Washa, was put to death by lethal injection.
Despite its lack of use, the death penalty remains on the books in Washington. Attempts to match the governor's position in the legislature have stalled in the past five decades, despite widespread support among lawmakers for abolishing it.
Some place blame with prior leadership of the senate's Law and Justice Committee. Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, who has been replaced by Pedersen as chairman of that committee, would not grant past death-penalty bills a hearing.
"I don't anticipate I'll be supporting the bill," Padden said this week. "Some crimes are so heinous and so brutal that I think the death penalty is appropriate"
Padden pointed out that capital punishment also has been used as a negotiating tool against some of the state's most egregious offenders, including serial killer Gary Ridgway. Ridgway — also known as the Green River killer — agreed to tell prosecutors the whereabouts of victims in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table in his case.
The state's prosecutors are split on whether to abolish the death penalty.
"The death penalty is a question with profound moral implications, certainly worthy of wide discussion," Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Lindquist said. "That discussion should not be limited to legislative debate in Olympia, but instead should be the subject of civic dialogue around the entire state."
Tom McBride, the executive director of the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, defended the death penalty while leaving the door open for future reform.
"The constitutionality and evenhanded imposition of the death penalty in Washington State are issues that we will defend; but the costs, timely imposition and ultimate appropriateness of death for aggravated murder is certainly open to debate," McBride told The News Tribune via email.
Critics of the death penalty have long scrutinized the practice as a high-stakes arm of an imperfect justice system that can — and has — executed innocent people. More than 150 people nationwide have been exonerated from death row since 1973, according to data from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP).
One of those cases occurred in Washington. Benjamin Harris was sentenced to death in 1986 for the murder of Jimmie Lee Turner, a Tacoma auto mechanic, only to have the charges dropped on appeal 11 years later. Inadequate defense counsel may have led to Harris' initial conviction, a point NCADP program director Toni Perry believes is emblematic of wealth disparities in capital sentencing.
"Minorities, persons with diminished capacities who can't defend themselves, who can't get a good attorney — it's arbitrary. There are no rich people on death row," Perry said.
The death penalty also comes with fiscal baggage. Largely due to legal fees in the appeal process, the death penalty costs an average $1 million more per case than life imprisonment in Washington, according to a 2015 Seattle University study of state convictions.
For these reasons, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson called upon the Legislature to do away with the practice last year. Five states — New Jersey, New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland — have since 2007 passed legislation to eliminate their death penalty.
"There is no role for capital punishment in a fair, equitable and humane justice system," Ferguson, who requested this year's bill, said in 2017 press release.
Whether new leadership and a Democratic majority will be enough to achieve the goal one year later remains to be seen.
Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, where the state's eight death row inmates are being held, remained uncertain whether the current bill, which she introduced, will avoid the roadblocks that sunk similar bills in the past.
Walsh's reasons for supporting the bill, unlike its hazy future, are clear. She's spoken with the families of victims who don't feel vindicated by the execution. Eliminating the death penalty also will end the lengthy appeals filed from those on death row — and the media coverage of them — that reopen familial wounds.
"The death penalty isn't really accomplishing a wonderful relief to these families," Walsh said.


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In a large punch bowl, mix the orange juice, pear nectar, lemon juice, grenadine, rum, and orange liqueur. Serve with ice, and garnish with the lemon slices.
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MEETING AGENDA February 15, 2011
Attending: Paul Reinhardt, Jeanne Mutzinger, Greg Bettencourt, Bill Jenkins, Kelli Schonher, Kathy Redden, Doug Carscaden, Christie Cutter, John Cutter, Frank Zika, Joe O'Donnell, Ian Anderson, Tucker ----------, Gary Havas, Tim Sawchuck, Dillon _____, Christina Jacobson, Greg Robertson, Marcus Pippin, Jim Aaron, Mary Bettencourt.
I. Approval of minutes of previous meeting: Moved Jeanne, 2nd Bill. Approved
II Agenda requests: ask new folks why they came to meeting/their interest.
** Committee Reports: How best to use them? Send reports by Monday. Only discuss new information
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III Committee Reports
1. Trail Work
SML – Kathy R.,
Super Bowl Sunday – Tim & others; let people know how far they will be walking, restructure registration line to ensure everyone goes through the raffle and that sponsors are adequately recognized.
2. Sponsorship & Fundraising – Bill: map & brochure supply and distribution – shops don't call so Bill has to check more often
3. Publicity – Frank: poster for spring/summer in progress
4. FASTA – Tim, Ian, Doug: Update – waiting for Hilrides 90% plan
5. Newsletter: Acknowledged Rachel's resignation from the newsletter & website. Need to find someone to take over the newsletter. Job description developed: term limited; manage writers; edit material; layout material; generate topics (either by suggestion or invitation); (willing to become) knowledgeable about CCCMB; be self-starter and take responsibility for driving production. Also a "staff" of writers could accumulate a cache of articles to draw from.
6. Membership & Volunteers – Paul: 2011 membership drive & joint membership with Coalition. See report.
7. Agency & Organization Reports
State Parks – Greg, Tim & Ron are planning a walk-through of trails south of Islay Creek with Juvie Ortiz, Kathy Longacre and other Trail Committee members in anticipation of determining future users.
County – At next County Trails meeting, Greg will bring up the question of passes to volunteers. Paul will show how many hours 3CMB works.
City – New Froom Trails: steep and brushy hillsides, overgrown steep roads. Doug will be inviting members to join in trail-scouting sessions. Hunter-Leggett trail has hit snag.
Yishai/SM Ranch: working hard, needs to get course in for race date and then improve it.
8. Education/Training Committee - Kelli: Crew Leader Training Sat. March 26, location TBD. Per Jim A. there are Cambria riders who would like to be instructed in trail maintenance/construction. Greg & Tim agreed to arrange a session with Jim.
IMBA visits: Anna Laxague, Pacific IMBA rep, will be in town Thurs. Joe will email invitation to meet/ride with her.
Committee meeting next week: To be determined
9. Bike Patrol at MdO – Tim received a collection of info from Ranger James Grennan including a range of locations who have bike patrol. States there are 3 rangers who are very interested in developing this program.
10. Website/tech Committee – Morgan: Need to find a person to provide content for website
11. Financial Report – Jeanne: $7,855.56 Net income of $3790 this year.
1. MdO March 5 – Tim: focus on East Boundary above Islay; Santa Cruz Trail on March 12; Cerro Cabrillo/Black Hill, March 20 – Paul & Jamie: coffee and treats, Tim will send emails.
2. Moving Dirt –
3. Professional Trail Builders Assoc. in March – funding & Joe and Doug (per Tim S, Zachy Anderson of Forest Trail Alliance in Graeagle has invited 3CMB for trail machine training.) Tim plans to attend IMBA trail building training in Santa Cruz.
4. Develop Strategy for recruiting someone to do newsletter, website and other tasks.
5. Strategic Planning: Form a Planning Committee & identify responsibilities. Date, time, location, goal (e.g. 1year, 5 year or 10 year) who's invited, facilitator?, meal(s), agenda. Committee is Frank, Paul R., Christina, John C., Kelli. They will report back in March with their suggestions for committee's job description and other details
6. Tools – Purchase a shed(s) and distribution – Kelli & Joe have purchased tools. Greg & Kelli have purchased used shed to store tools in their backyard.
7. Progress on:
a. Bell distribution process Tabled
b. Descending traffic program: Christina suggested addressing via "WOW" at Cal Poly. She also suggested revisiting the concept of engaging bike shops in the culture issue. Periodically attending Wheelmen meetings.
c. Dealing with medical concerns at workdays Tabled
d. Trail Conditions Update - Tabled
e. Picture storage - Tabled
8. Wisdom of emailing Paul's total hours &/or extra hours spreadsheet - Tabled
9. Contributing to IMBA's e-newsletter – Is it worth it? If so who? Tabled
10. "Ride the Divide" as CCCMB fundraiser: Chris & John Tabled
V. Information – ECOSLO Volunteer Coordinator
VI. Other?
VII. Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:30 p.m.
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It's not high-concept, it's high performance! The ultimate pump-up video, featuring the twelve best surfers in the world. Push play, Pump Up, Paddle Out! From Pete Frieden's freshest clips comes Damaged Goods, a throwback to the roots of what surf ...
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|It's not high-concept, it's high performance! The ultimate pump-up video, featuring the twelve best surfers in the world. Push play, Pump Up, Paddle Out!
From Pete Frieden's freshest clips comes Damaged Goods, a throwback to the roots of what surf videos are all about. If you want to go snooze in a theater with a bunch of civilians from the Midwest and hear big wave hellmen talk about surfing like it's a new religion or longboard Lake Michigan, this is not the movie for you.
Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Bruce Irons, Mick Fanning, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson, Jamie O'Brien, Chris Ward, Cory Lopez and many more show up, blow up around the world and return home as "Damaged Goods". Surf your way into summer with a shot of adrenaline to your dome and get ready to punt an air, lay down a rail or throw your tail.
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This fantastic new resource from Scripture Union has everything you need to host the best holiday club in town!
Follow God's big story through the whole Bible.
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"I Like to Sock Myself in the Face": Reconsidering "Vulgar Modernism" (Part One)/
The following essay is a work in progress, produced for an anthology of essays on animation and its relations to live action comedy. I see it as a chance to explore cartoons, long a passion of mine, but so far, not a topic I've written about. It also gave me a chance to return to the field of comedy studies, where I began my career. For more of my work on this topic, see What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Asesthetic, Classical Hollywood Comedy, and the essay on Lupe Velez in The Wow Climax. It also extends the exploration of the relations between high and popular art which runs as a theme through the essays in The Wow Climax, but especially those dealing with Matthew Barney and with what Gilbert Seldes might have taught us about the aesthetics of video games. This essay is a bit on the academic side compared to much of what I post on this blog but my hope is that readers will bear with it for the insights it offers into postwar animation, comics, and comedy. Published in Artforum in 1982, J. Hoberman's "Vulgar Modernism" represents an important benchmark in critical discussions of "popular art." Hoberman constructs the case for the formal innovation and artistic importance of a range of popular artists who were seemingly locked out of the cannon on the basis of their low cultural status, even as their work continued to influence a broad range of modern and postmodern artists. Hoberman describes 'vulgar modernism' as "the vulgar equivalent of modernism itself. By this I mean a popular, ironic, somewhat dehumanized mode reflexively concerned with specific properties of its medium or the conditions of its making." [p.33] He goes on to suggest that this "sensibility....developed between 1940 and 1960 in such peripheral corners of the 'culture industry' as animated cartoons, comic books, early morning TV, and certain Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis comedies." [p.33] Hoberman devotes the core of his essay to individualized discussions of animator Tex Avery, director Frank Tashlin, cartoonist Will Elder, and television performer Ernie Kovacs, yet his introduction makes clear that the concept extends more broadly, speaking to a particular relationship between popular culture and high art during this post-war period.
Read today, the essay feels more timid than it did a few decades ago - an attempt to negotiate with the sensibilities of a high art readership (and thus preserve entrenched cultural hierarchies) even as it rescues certain key popular artists from the margins of critical consideration. We see this exceptionalism in the speed with which he labels such works "para-art" (by the start of the second paragraph) or the ways in which he sets up his beloved creators through analogies to already acclaimed modern artists, describing Tex Avery, for example, as "the Manet of Vulgar modernism." [p.33] In short, some artists rise above the "muck" that surrounds them, to reference another analogy in Hoberman's essay. To this day, his almost oxymoronic coupling of "vulgar" and "modernism" sparks controversy from those celebrating popular art and those defending high culture alike; we still have a long way to go before we resolve the vague discomfort which comes from applying formalist criticism to what we call popular culture more often than we speak of popular art.
Hoberman's concept of 'vulgar modernism' exists primarily as a frame for his close readings of particular texts and artists, so the passage quoted above is as close as he comes to an wholistic explanation of the concept. Modernism operates in his argument as a very broad and loose signifier of 20th century high art (and has become even more elastic as developed by subsequent generations of critics informed by his interpretations.) What links these popular artists to "modernism" for Hoberman is their interest in foregrounding the materiality of their medium and the conditions of its production and reception, their embrace of reflexivity and intertextuality. See, for example, his description of what Will Elder brought to early Mad Magazine: "His best pieces are collagelike arrangements of advertising trademarks, media icons, banal slogans, visual puns, and assorted non-sequiters....As Mad's leading formalist, Elder allows internal objects to tamper with the boundaries of a panel, breaks continuous vistas into consecutive frames, offers visually identical panels with wildly fluctuating details, and otherwise emphasizes the essential serial nature of his medium."[p.37] In short, Hoberman is interested in these popular artist's refusal to produce a coherent, consistent, or classically constructed world, openly displaying their own interventions as authors into the represented events. Hoberman, in that sense, was inspired by Screen's attempt to generate a Brechtian mode of film theory in the 1970s and by the French rediscovery of Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis, both of which rested on arguments that self-reflexivity and intertextuality shattered the codes and conventions of classical cinema.
Hoberman's project has been most vigorously taken up by cartoonist and cultural impresario Art Spiegelman, who has used these artists as a missing link between the gutter art of the Tijuana Bibles of the 1930s and the underground comics of the 1960s and art comics of subsequent decades. Spiegelman has, in the process, broadened the cannon of the vulgar modernists by, for example, reprinting works by Basil Wolverton in his influential Raw anthologies, writing a book focused on the modernist sensibilities of comic book artist Jack Cole (Plastic Man) or for that matter, designing an album cover for a reissue of Spike Jone's music, bringing this once cornball music to the attention of new hipsters.
Let's be clear about the terms of this discussion. Hoberman's vision of "vulgar modernism" is very different from the concept of "cartoon modernism" being promoted in a recent book by Amid Amidi. Amidi is interested in the design aesthetic introduced into American animation in the 1950s by cartoonists such as Ward Kimball, John Hubley, Maurice Noble, and Ernie Pintoff, among others, which was explicitly informed by trends in contemporary art. Here the focus is on simplification, stylization, abstraction, the flattening of depth perception, and the expressive and non-naturalistic use of color, among other properties. If Hoberman is linking the vulgar modernists to Brecht's concepts of distanciation, Amidi defines his cartoon modernists in relation to Picaso, Matisse, Miro, Klee and bebop. Tex Avery would be an interesting figure for closer consideration because he is the one cross-over between these two very different conceptions of the relationship between American animation and modern art, having embraced aspects of this design aesthetic in his final few years of work (see, for example, Symphony in Slang).
The term, "vulgar," receives even less attention in the original essay with a lot resting on what Hoberman might have meant when he described these works as "the vulgar equivalent of modernism itself." On one level, vulgar might imply untutored or ignorant, suggesting that we might approach such works much as the art world deals with outsider and folk artists. Yet, this argument is less than persuasive when we consider how many of these artists received formal training (and thus were exposed to 20th century art movements), experimented on the side with producing works which more fully met high art criteria, and often directly and explicitly parodied various modern artists and movements throughout their work (witness the recurring theme of "smashing the classics"). Art Spigelman has drawn a compelling representation of Jack Cole's Plastic Man in a modern art museum, looking at the paintings with a mixture of revulsion, confusion, and recognition. These guys studied side by side in art school with people who would go onto careers within the art world; they had the technical skills to do work which would have met the art world's criteria of evaluation, but they opted to pursue their careers in other spaces, creating different kinds of works for different kinds of audiences. They enjoyed their own marginality and often made fun of the pretensions and obscurtism of more exalted forms of artistic expression.
We might use the term, "vulgar," in a descriptive sense to describe the relatively low cultural status granted their work at the time it was being produced; we might deploy the term, "vulgar," to refer to certain intentionally distasteful aspects of their representation of the body and sexuality, their deployment of everyday materials including advertising as the inspiration for their own artistic production, though in that sense, they prefigure where art has gone in the postmodern period. Can we rescue "vulgar" by redefinining it in terms of transgressions committed both against the institutional practices of mainstream media and the world of high art or are the class politics of "vulgar" so deeply entrenched that it resists re-appropriation on this level?
We might also see them as "vulgar" in much the same way that Marian Hansen has spoken of "vernacular modernism" (here, drawing heavily on slapstick comedy as a primary reference point) and its relationship to classical cinema: "the term vernacular combines the dimension of the quotidian, of everyday usage, with the connotations of discourse, idiom and dialect, with circulation, promiscuity and translatability." Like Hoberman, Hansen welcomes the productive tension between popular art and high culture. I am holding onto Hoberman's term, "vulgar modernism," for much the same reasons: it generates discussion precisely of the relations between the two terms which needs to occur if we are not to simply naturalize old assumptions about the relations between high and low.
I want to move us away from Hoberman's use of the concept of "para-art" and the implication that these works are not quite art, worthy of aesthetic consideration but not perhaps the ultimate recognition given to "true artists." I start from the assumption that popular art needs to be evaluated on its own terms, that it needs to be understood in relation to its own aesthetic goals and circumstances, and that no apology need be made for popular artist simply because they work in institutional settings other than the art world.
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Chandigarh: All government colleges in Haryana are being made 'free Wi-Fi campuses' which would also promote cashless transactions, state's Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma said today.
He said that the Department of Higher Education has decided to set up free Reliance Jio Wi-Fi campuses in all the government colleges of the state.
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Dr. C. Ronald S. Williams II is founder and senior pastor of Mount Zion Fellowship in Highland Hills, Ohio. Dr. Williams founded Mount Zion on January 2, 1983 with 15 persons in attendance. Today, Mount Zion has approximately 1,500 members. Dr. Williams has directed the development of numerous ministries that minister to those inside and outside the church. Dr. Williams is an accomplished gospel music composer, arranger, musician, and musical director. From 1977 to the present, he has recorded with The Messengers of Peace (1977–1982) and the Voices of Koinonia (1984–present). "My Soul Sings Hallelujah" is a piano concert by Dr. Williams, accompanied by members of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Voices of Koinonia. In addition, Dr. Williams has performed in concerts with such gospel artists as Donnie McClurkin and Kirk Franklin. He has performed at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Playhouse Square, and has appeared with Barry Manilow at Blossom Music Center. Dr. Williams has authored four books as well. Dr. Williams holds two doctoral degrees: Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Divinity. He has studied in the United States (Livingstone College, Ashland Theological Institute, Trinity Theological Seminary) and abroad at the institute of Holy Land Studies in Israel. Pastor Ron (as he is affectionately known) is a devoted, loving father to his two sons, Clifton and Christian.
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Pakistan fuel price U-turn 'a mistake'
The US and the International Monetary Fund have criticised the Pakistani government's decision to reverse a recent fuel price rise.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had warned Pakistan's ambassador on Tuesday that the move would be a mistake.
The climbdown was an apparent concession to the opposition after the government lost its majority.
Pakistan has been struggling to push through tough IMF economic reforms.
Mrs Clinton said: "We have made it clear, as I did in a meeting with their ambassador, that we think it is a mistake to reverse the progress that was being made to provide a stronger economic base for Pakistan."
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani received a warm welcome as he met Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party leaders on Friday to see if his fuel price reversal could entice the party back into government.
The MQM quit the coalition on Sunday, condemning last month's 9% rise in the price of petrol and kerosene.
MQM workers showered Mr Gilani's car with rose petals as it arrived at the party's headquarters in the southern Sindh province capital of Karachi.
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In a speech to the National Assembly on Thursday, Mr Gilani said fuel prices would be restored to the levels they were on 31 December.
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Pubic Keloid Treatment
This patient presented at the end of January 2012 with a relatively large keloid in her pubic area. This keloid had relapsed after surgery and radiation therapy.
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The Axis powers were those nations opposed to the Allies in World War II, namely, Germany, Italy and Japan. These three powers were known as the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis," collectively engaged in imperialist operations of expansion across Europe and Pacific Asia. They were supported at various points during the course of the war by a number of other nations, either in an active or passive capacity.
Spain, under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, supported the Axis powers ideologically, although the country remained ostensibly neutral throughout World War II. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union invaded a number of eastern European nations and had a private treaty with Germany until 1941, going so far as to divide Poland between themselves. The treaty was violated when Hitler invaded Soviet territories.
The Iraqi government was also in support of the Axis powers, offering natural resources and German access to its Jewish populations in return for recognition of Arab states' right to independence. The British intervened in these dealings, however, and forced the Iraqi leader, Rashid Ali al-Kaylani, to resign.
India was also supportive of Axis operations, allying with the Japanese and seizing their opportunity to claim independence from Britain, while the British military was overstretched and invested elsewhere. Other nations in direct support of the Axis powers were Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.


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So is something like this http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=499 unrealistic, or do some random subset of people have that reaction?
Also: what do you think of that webcomic in general?
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My parents were watching an episode of Blue Bloods last week, while I was there. It was about this subject exactly. But it was super ham-handed about it, but that's another story…
Anyway, it's this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3245620/?ref_=ttep_ep4
I feel like I've learned more about the human brain from this comic than from most of school. I think that's good!


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Taiwan-based Nextab launches cheap alternatives for Samsung's Galaxy Note and Nexus
The market for cheap knock-offs of very successful phones is thriving over in Asia, with Apple and Samsung being the most often copied brands. We've just seen an iPhone 5 lookalike in China, which might prove to be more than that after a very unusual turn of events, and now two Sammy devices have gotten doppelgangers.
The Galaxy Note and Nexus clones come from Taiwan-based Nextab, who has shown off the duo at the COMEX 2012 tech bazaar. We don't know much about Nextab (in fact it's the first time we're hearing about the company), but these two gadgets don't look half bad – for their prices.
First up, it's the Nextab Grande, a "phablet" that looks a lot like the original Galaxy Note, although it isn't exactly a fully-fledged clone. The Grande (Italian for "big") might start a new trend, sporting a huge 6-inch screen. That's right, even the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 2 will look like a featherweight next to this "monster", but the interesting thing is that, as you can see from the photo above, it can be held in one hand even by representatives of the "weaker sex".
The 6-incher might leave the GNote 2 trailing in terms of display diagonal size, but as far as hardware goes there's absolutely no competition between the two phablets. Nextab's Grande only comes with a 1GHz dual-core processor and 2.5GB of on-board memory (say whaaaat?). The display is also more than disappointing, coming with a meager 800 x 600 pixels resolution.
MicroSD support and Android 4.0 ICS are two upsides of the Grande's spec sheet, while the biggest surprise is by far the dual SIM function. And of course the S$279 (US$225) off-contract price, which is well below what Samsung charges for the Note and Note 2.
Is 6-inch not your favorite form factor? Don't worry, because Nextab has thought about that too and has released the Nexus 2. The phone has nothing to do with Samsung's first-edition Galaxy Nexus or with Google, which begs the obvious question – why in God's name did Nextab choose this branding? Are they asking for a lawsuit? Or are they hoping to garner some public attention, while remain an insignificant enough global smartphone player for Google trials to be financially unfeasible?
In any case, the Taiwanese Nexus 2 is itself not a "true" clone of the Galaxy Nexus, taking some design cues here and there from Samsung, but not quite blatantly copying the original phone's look. It also sports a much larger 5-inch display, while having pretty much the same tech specs as the Nextab Grande. Oddly enough, it's priced exactly the same as its sibling (the Grande, not the GNex), going for S$279 (US$225).
Anyone here excited about these knockoffs? Would you buy any of the two if you had the chance? And would you do it for their looks and spec sheets or to brag around to your friends that you got a "GNote" or "Nexus 2″ for 200 bucks?
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The food we eat, for the most part, is driven by internal desires that have disastrous consequences, particularly for our connection to all living beings. Awareness about changing our consciousness around food consumption has yet to filter through to the North American mainstream, and the vast consumption of meat and alcohol constitutes an excessive ecological footprint, which is costly and damaging. Furthermore, it is not good for our health—physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually.
The chronic degenerative diseases common in western civilization find their origins in the toxic food we eat. Yet if we know how to eat mindfully, then we also know how to take care of ourselves, others and the environment. Mindful eating is a celebratory alternative to violence. Before eating, simply look at what is there on the table, where it has come from, how it has been prepared, and whether it will truly nourish you while at the same time protecting the environment and future generations from harm. I make a special effort to prepare and consume meals mindfully. I have an assistant—a delightful and goofy standard poodle named Moksha. I tell her that this is a mindful meal and I cannot talk to her after the bell. I set a bowl of treats on the floor for her and begin my meal. My Dharma pet always sits quietly until the bell brings the silence to an end. Then she wants to have her ears scratched and play a game of Frisbee on the lawn.
Advocacy around food consumption keeps compassion alive and creates the basis for joy and happiness. It means reducing as much as possible the violence, destruction and suffering brought to living creatures and to the planet, because if we each bring violence into our own biological system and consciousness, we inevitably bring violence to other systems—political, economic, planetary—that we engage with through our thoughts, speech, actions and senses. We prevent this arise by being fully present with the consequences of our consumption.
We consume much more than edible food. We consume with our senses, desires and cravings. This consumption feeds our consciousness, which "eats" everything we put into it. If we fill it full of toxins, violence and other negative energies, their accumulation in our consciousness will drive us.
Yet if we choose a mindful approach to consumption, then a different energy will occupy the driving seat of our life, one that guides us to a life of voluntary simplicity, understanding, and insight into the reality of the moment we presently occupy.
Each of our sensory doorways is bombarded with toxins that feed our consciousness. The advertising on billboards and in the media floods our eyes and minds with desire, greed and lust. Our children take in violence through video games and movies of wanton destruction and cruelty. The often vulgar and demeaning lyrics sounding through sectors of modern music create homophobia and hate. Fast food's tastes and smells create such greed that obesity is now a serious medical issue. Eating disorders are promoted by the unrealistic norms for women that are artificially set by the fashion industry. Manufacturers cleverly design built-in obsolescence for the products we're encouraged to buy.
We're solicited through vigorous advertising to create a disposable society that has forgotten to reuse, recycle or even question the need to buy. If we do not guard each sensory doorway, we get sick. We must warn the six senses to consume mindfully, discipline them to avoid self-intoxication and guide them to scrutinize which energies are allowed to penetrate our consciousness.
Then there are the deepest desires and cravings that so often possess and overwhelm us. If vengeance and absolute power over others are our deepest desires, then terrorists are created; if rampant consumption is our deepest desire, then we have a degraded planet. Instead of following lust, greed, vengeance and fame, we need to foster the desire to awaken at the highest level, to experience joy and happiness in the here and now, the desire to bring loving kindness to everything we connect with and the desire to alleviate all suffering. Just as addictive consumption provides food for our consciousness, the desire to awaken and be present is also food for our consciousness.
It's easy to understand how our consciousness is reinforced by our pattern of consumption. It shapes our lives because we feed off it. It is the ground of definition for the way our body, mind and spirit manifest, and furthermore it creates the environment we occupy.
Mindfulness is our protector. We must use it to distinguish consumption patterns that nourish our organism and spiritual well-being from those that do not. By eliminating toxins from our sensory diet, we begin cultivating an alternative consumption based on wholesome nutrients—patterns of consumption that enhance mindfulness and compassion. But we cannot see deeply into the interconnection between consumption and consciousness until we first come to a stop.
To stop running is the first meditative step toward the deep looking and insight that help us to recognize the toxins that pollute our bodies and mind. We then cultivate the foods that nourish us in a positive and wholesome way. We resist by waking up and by knowing what to do and what to refrain from doing.
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text: Giving Away Billions Feels Great: Gates Microsoft founder touts philan-therapy for world's rich By Ambreen Ali, Newser User Posted Jun 3, 2009 3:58 PM CDT 8 comments Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, second left, meets Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates, right, at the Oslo conference on international poverty. (AP Photo) View 2 more images (Newser) – Bill Gates is touting the feel-good benefits of giving away money, telling a crowd in Oslo that "all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes." Leave enough for the kids, he says, but, "I'm a great believer that great wealth should go from the richest to the poorest." Gates has directed much of his Microsoft earnings to charity work, Reuters notes. "I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off," Gates said of wealthy philanthropists. He renewed his appeal to eradicate polio, and says his foundation's biggest success has been in vaccinations. "We have saved millions of lives, and there is more to be done." He's aiming for an HIV/AIDS vaccine within 15 years. (Read more Bill Gates stories.) View 2 more images


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I remember me the time that using social media for website promotion means to submit your blog or article to services like StumbleUpon, DIGG and del.icio.us. Many people posted their articles to so much sites that the promotion was often more work than the writing an article. I you wanted to have a lot of traffic from a social media site, you needed a lot of votes to reach the front page of a service. To get the most important "initial" votes sharing those social link with friends or network was more than important.
These days the idea of social media is not changed, but we have much more fancy tools to share our articles. The most important factor for a big success is the number of members in your social network. If you network is to small you can share whatever you want, no one will notice your activities.
Quality above quantity
To build a social network with members related to your blogs or maybe services and products you offer on your website, follow the following rules:
- Be selective with your friends, don't send requests to everyone and don't accept any friendship request. Connect with friends where the profile is complete and where you can see enough activity. Don't connect to people with non related interests.
- Build your network slowly. It makes no sense to invest all your time in building the network. Sharing your experience, thoughts and links is important too.
- Don't join too much social network sites. Start with the biggest sites like Twitter, Facebook and maybe MySpace. Select social sites where you find enough people interested in the same topic you do.
- Don't forget the day has only 24 hours.
You need to be an "interesting" person or other network member will not request you as a friend. Take care that your profile is active and has a lot interesting comments and links.
In this this article we don't want to explain how great Twitter or facebook is, but we want to showcase some great services which have very nice features and are great time saver.
No Blog without RSS
If your site is a blog you need subscriber! Burn your RSS feed with feedburner to get an idea how many subscriber you. Note each new feed URL is a new start, you don't loose your subscribers if you create a new one but you should inform your reader. Create a redirect to the new URL. After you get your first stats from feedburner you will notice that a lot of your readership is using the Google Reader to read your blogs. Google Reader has a lot of features to share content in your network: A user can comment articles share them with other readers and you can send links to other social sites like facebook or Twitter. In the current Reader it's not easy to make friends, but you can use this tool for your own subscriptions. If your shared articles are interesting enough you will get "Follower" very soon. Use also the Bookmarklet from Google reader to share new stories in Google Reader.
Share you blog comments within your network
There are many blogs offering the possibility to authorize with Facebook Connect. Use this option, most blogs doesn't provide direct links for the URL entered with each comment, so it's more effective better to share your comment on your facebook's wall. Other people will visit your facebook profile if they like your comments and maybe the will ask your to become a friend. Another great comment service is Disqus, a comment platform and community.
Disqus Pofile – As a Disqus profile member, each posted comment is stored on your profile page. People can reach your profile with each comment you have posted by a Disqus comment form used by the blog owner. This way people can read all your other comments and if they like your writings the will subscribe.
Disqus Comments – If you install the Disqus comment tool on your own blog, people people get connected with your blog with every comments they posted. This could be another source for traffic. A single comment on your blog from one "popular" Disqus member might have a reach to thousands of other Disqus members. All comments are stored in your own blog database as well.
Share interesting articles in your network
In the RSS part we talked already about sharing content using the Google Reader. If you like to use a tool that makes your shared content more interactive, you should try Posterous. According the developer of this "light blog service" is the service very powerful because a member is able to send very advanced blog posts by email. Sending an email is the way how you join! I like Posterous because I'm able to share my comment about existing articles and blogs via Google Reader and using their Bookmarklet. I'm able to "autopost" my comment to facebook, twitter and many more networks. There are many more features like: Use your own domain, tagging, comments, custom themes, statistics and much more. If you visit the Posterous site it looks like a blog site, but as the owner has much more functions.
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If you like to get your article mentioned on twitter you need some tool to keep it on top at twitter. Because your network members getting so much tweets on their twitter list it's almost impossible to reach them with your new article.
The solution is Tweetmeme, a link community which looks like Digg, but has more the function to repost a tweet by other twitter members. The rankings on their homepage are a welcome additional feature. If you write blogs, use their Plugin or button even for your older posts. Just imagine to get new traffic for older articles! A reTweet is not like a duplication on digg.com but more like an update.
While using all these social media services and communities it's important to keep your social media sites unique. Don't post the same article or link twice or more. If you discover somthing interesting, think about how to share it. If you have the time post/comment it on posterous otherwise share the link on twitter, facebook or Google reader. To reach new follower or friends, you should add a feed of latest tweets or shared items to your blog or website. As always, build an online personality and don't spam.


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That's right, as of April 18th, "Poodle Hat" is completely mixed and mastered and on its way to being manufactured!
I think I made a post in here not quite a month ago, where I stated that we hadn't gone back in the studio yet, and despite a mysterious date of May 20th that was posted at weirdal.com at the time and presumed to be an album release date, how it would take a tremendous amount of effort to crank out 5 or 6 songs from scratch and wrap up everything in time to have an album on the shelves in literally 2 months... remember?
Well, I was telling the truth. We hadn't gone back yet (although we were about to on March 21,) and it was a tremendous amount of work! The band cranked out all the remaining basic tracks the first day, but that was just the beginning of non-stop, 12+ hour days for Al, who had allowed literally 27 days to cut those tracks, sing all of his parts, coordinate overdubs and additional instrumentation, and mix the songs - a seven day process itself - in order to meet an April 18th deadline to master Poodle Hat and get it into Zomba's hands by April 21st for release on May 20th!
Anyway, hats off to Al for sticking his neck out by announcing a release date before we were under way, and for actually making it all happen on schedule.
Al's very proud and happy with this album, and I think it represents everyone's best work.
And just so you know, as delicious and ostensible as a May 27th release might have sounded to everyone, Zomba (Al's label's parent label) only releases its products every other Tuesday - the next available release date would have been June 3rd.
You guys are gonna love Poodle Hat!