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For more than five years, City Council member and former Mayor Dwaine Caraway has been the city's loudest voice against the unchecked menace of dudes who don't belt their pants at the waist. In mid-June, to our inexpressible joy, Caraway announced that he's relaunching his anti-sagging crusade. It's about deference for ladies, he told a packed house at a press conference in City Hall. It's about self-respect. And now, suddenly, it's about health. "Underwear is meant to protect your inner self from your exterior clothing," he boomed confidently. He cited one of the great dangers of saggers who ride DART. "The germs immediately exposed from the body are waiting on the next passenger." Sadly, a planned "Saggin' Summit" was canceled in late June. Caraway said he'd received such an overwhelming positive response, more time was needed to accommodate everyone who wished to participate.
Do we need to add to what we said in previous Best of Dallas write-ups, or the People Issue love we showed for the guys behind The Texas Theatre's revival? A refresher: the so-bad-they're-good genre flicks at Tuesday Night Trash; the bar; the arthouse films you won't see anywhere else; the bar; the revival of past classics; the bar; the Oak Cliff Film Festival; the bar. For us, seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark on 35mm was enough to seal a repeat victory.
The Mavs may have had a disappointing 2011-2012 season, but Delonte West's toughness and dogged defensive play were a highlight, and we're glad to hear he'll be returning for basketball reasons alone. But his unique personality has made his off-the-court presence especially refreshing. His Twitter account is always entertaining, whether he's tweeting pictures of his own vomit or urging Deron Williams to come help bring another championship title to Dallas. He teaches young ballers in charity basketball clinics, despite coming to the team so broke that he had to sleep in the locker room and had to work for a furniture-moving company during the lockout — very humbling, considering he's made millions over his career. Yet he kept his head up despite the troubling circumstances and has proved to be a great example of how to live with bipolar disorder even under the media spotlight.
Jason Kidd, the 39-year-old point guard who helped lead the Mavericks to their championship in 2011, shocked Dallas July 5 when he signed a three-year contract with the New York Knicks for $9.5 million — just half a million more than what the Mavs reportedly offered. Ten days later, at about 2 a.m. on July 15, he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a utility pole and was subsequently arrested on drunken-driving charges after he refused a blood-alcohol test. Even more delicious, the wreck knocked out cable in the neighborhood — cable that was supplied by a company of which Knicks owner James Dolan is president and CEO. We're glad he wasn't seriously injured, of course, but will have to admit to enjoying a bit of schadenfreude over the incident.
In the days leading up to the NFL opener, it was said, somewhere on the AM dial, that the Cowboys would struggle to contain the Giants' offense because the Cowboys had "no pass rush." It was an understandable assessment, given their inability to so much as breathe on Eli Manning last season. But then the season opener came, and we all remembered: DeMarcus Ware. He bull-rushed his way to 19.5 sacks last season, helping the Cowboys amass the seventh-most sacks in the league — as many as the vaunted San Francisco 49ers — and he racked up two in this season's opener. He is the best in the league at one of its most important positions, especially in the era of 40 pass attempts a game. If the quarterback is back there throwing — and he so often is nowadays — Ware will be back there with him, right where the Cowboys need him.
After just three seasons with the Dallas Stars, Jamie Benn has already flown up the ranks to become the face of the franchise. Not since Mike Modano rode his feathered mullet into town have we seen a player with such skill lace up for the celestial skaters. Benn has seen his point totals increase with each season, and with another year of experience and salty vets Ray Whitney and Jaromir Jagr coming aboard this year, "Benner" could be poised for a true breakout. His combination of finesse and brute strength are not often found on the rink, making him a lethal force and the embodiment of the team's pesky attitude. Speaking of pesky, Benn had an appendectomy last season, so now there is nothing holding the British Columbian back from ultimate hockey glory.
Don't let Adrian Beltre's recent onslaught confuse the issue: Josh Hamilton is the Rangers' star. And don't let Hamilton's expiring contract cloud your judgment: You want him, you need him, you have to have him. Maybe not for what the market will demand — he'll be asking for roughly all the money ever, with a player option for the change in your couch. But still. He and Beltre produced roughly the same last year, right around .300 with 100 RBIs and an OPS nearing .900. Trust us, neophytes, those are gargantuan numbers, and Hamilton's have only grown in 2012. Together with that style, that swagger, that story, you can't help but admit: This dude's got it all. How 'bout we wait till November to get all depressed about it?
Josh Hamilton was terrible during June and July, hitting a pathetic .190 during an eight-week stretch. In media interviews, he made ominous allusions to private struggles, leading to worries that he was relapsing on his crack-smoking habit. Turns out, he was just trying to quit chewing tobacco. Before and since, however, Hamilton has had a typically outstanding season, at the top of the American league in RBIs and home runs. He also happened to turn in one of the signature performances of his career. On May 8 in Baltimore, he hit four home runs in a game, only the 16th time in history that's happened. It was Hamilton's return to form in the fall that's provided comfort to fans, but it was that one magic night in May that propelled his bat to the place Hamilton will be one day: Cooperstown.
It's easy to confuse this gym for a prison yard: The stripped-down interior and bare-bones furnishings don't imply a cushy afternoon, sipping lemonade post-sauna. But that minimalist approach to fitness is the Ross Avenue location's source of strength. There are no distractions here. Instead, there's a revolving workout program that changes daily, so you can't rest on your lumpy, unchiseled laurels. The center's intense approach to exercise winds up working out your entire body, not just the areas that you're most comfortable flexing in public. Soon, your frame slims down while your muscle mass builds, and you can't help but notice a feline touch of agility in your previously uncoordinated gait. The demanding nature of each class combined with the supportive mentality of your fellow sufferers is a 180 from traditional gyms, where folks wander aimlessly, lifting things without intention. But maybe most important is this: When you leave a rigorous session that you initially couldn't believe you would finish, you realize your limitations are strictly mental. If you can do this, you can do anything.
This town's greatest sideshow of late-night humanity is situated at the swirling nexus in Serious Pizza and the area between the shop and its two next-door neighbors: July Alley (bar) and Elm Street Tattoo (inkery). Deep Ellum's rock 'n' roll finery is all on display, as hungry, sweaty, drunk, music-buzzed people wait patiently in line to put ludicrously large slices of pie in their faces. The tattoos, the piercings, the ill-advised leather trousers, the incredible awkwardness of standing 6 inches from a be-mohawked couple fighting furiously over toppings! It's a glorious scene, and it's available every weekend and a fair number of weeknights too. Watch too for the ever-present row of dudes looking on enviously as the pizza guys twirl and toss dough high above them. "Does that get chicks?" one sodden young patron asked us earnestly not long ago. We told him the obvious answer and turned back to the show.
"Fuck with me and you will have a huge asshole," Sweeney memorably promised his opposing council, a guy named Chad Arnette from Kelley, Hart & Hallman. It was an email conversation about scheduling conflicts that somehow went completely, wonderfully off the rails, landing on legal blog Above the Law as well as our own Unfair Park. The two sides couldn't agree on a date for a deposition, you see, leading Sweeney to eventually let Arnette know that he felt the other lawyer to be a "pansy," an "ignorant slut" and a "gutless attorney." There was also something in there about Sweeney shoving his boot so far up Arnette's ass "he'll be talkin' out of it." Arnette's firm promptly filed a complaint with the court, and Sweeney seems to have been sacked from Cozen O'Connor soon after. Worth it, we say.
Scott Griggs was elected last summer, ousting the wildly unpopular, frequently absent Dave Neumann. Honestly, they probably could have run a reasonably charming sock monkey against him and still shown Neumann the door. But Griggs has quickly joined fellow council members Angela Hunt and Sandy Greyson in what we can only term the Axis of Making Sense. He's fought against gas drilling within city limits, almost single-handedly pushed for better regulation and higher standards in the city's boarding homes and questioned the fuzzy math that's led other city officials (including Mayor Mike Rawlings) to advocate for a toll road in a floodplain. He has a bizarre tendency to show up at council meetings giving off the distinct impression that he's done the reading and knows something about the issues he's supposed to decide. Despite this dangerous eccentricity, we're still grateful to have Griggs sitting at the horseshoe.

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I wanted to ask anyone here that designs templates. When saving the template png's is there a way to save all the different parts of the template (ie, elements, paper strips etc) that are all PNG's in one single swoop????
Saving templates
In Photoshop if you go to File->Scripts->Export Layers to File it will do what you are asking. However, Photoshop's default is to save as 72 DPI, so you either have to go back and convert them or you can change the script.
Okay thanks. I found a script for free that works and keeps them in 300dpi
Kiana, can you share the url for the script please? Just now I realised that photoshop one saves at 72...
Thank you for the information ladies, I really needed this
Thanks Marisa and Kiana - Need to check and, redo some of my templates pngs
You both are welcome
Yes this is great info!! I've been designing for more than 6 years and never utiized this feature of photoshop. Thank you!!
thanks for the info
I fail to understand this link to download the file you need to do next?
hi i need to know if there is a tut out there to take an element already made and make it into a template to reuse over again in both psp 10 and ps 14? thank u.joyce
Have you taken a look at Convert a Layout to a Template, video:
hi ty i watched the video it should help me i hope,i have a few questions about styles if some one can help me pls im kinda new to ps i use adobe photoshop cc 14 64 bit i also use paintshop pro 10 but i love styles lol ok i have loads of styles do u have to load all styles u want to use i dont want to bog down ps cause take loads of time to load program etc i know cause in psp u can point to a folder and use the assets with out loading in psp and bogging it down so much i have 100's of styles.shapes and brushes as well as pat files if not 1000's can some one help me pls? if so thank u so much.
Joyce take a look at this discussion:
hi thank u so much. will do that


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I saw this coming, I was hopeful it wouldn't but I knew it would just be a matter of time. How could Ubuntu compete with the likes of Google, Dropbox, Box, etc? There were a ton of other's in the cloud sync space offering more for less. Granted Ubuntu One had tight integration with Ubuntu desktop tops, but so did Dropbox.
Ubuntu's attempt at a music store faltered from the get-go as well. I was fully willing to pay a little extra to support them and use their streaming service. However, the service was near impossible to use and finding music was even harder. I purchased a couple songs to try it out and was thoroughly unimpressed. File sync was slow, and streaming music was accomplished via browser plugin that didn't support playlists or organizing your music. If you wanted to organize your music you had to sync your collection to your local machine and organize it through Rhythmbox. You could tell it where to sync your music to so it all go dropped into a hidden folder in your home directory.
Give that I basically live my life out of Google these days I've been dying for a way to get GDrive on my desktop. Why, when Google seems so pro-linux would they hold off on a Linux client? it really makes no sense to me. So given that there is no official client I am all but certain I am going to drop the $15 to buy the insync plus client. I have 15 GB of storage and most of my stuff is there anyway. My entire music collection is there already and I can stream it via the Nuvola player. I can use Google's music downloader/uploader to keep my music synchronized. If I run out of room for some ungodly reason I can just purchase a ton more for about $24 a year.
Ok, so I tied insync and I am sold. Tried the 15 day demo and bought a license for insync plus an hour later. This is really good software. Get yours


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Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian and philospher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born on November 21, 1768, in Breslau, Lower Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland). Despite his being the son of a Reformed clergyman, Schleiermacher studied under the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuters), gaining from them an appreciation for the Latin and Greek classics and a strong sense of religious life. He found the teaching of the Herrnhuters too restrictive, however, because the faculty refused to lecture on current intellectual trends. In 1787 he entered the University of Halle, where he studied the philosophies of Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
After his ordination in 1794 he accepted a position as a Reformed preacher in Berlin. There he mingled with German romantic philosophers, became a friend of Friedrich von Schlegel, and began a translation of the works of Plato. Apart from a period when he was professor of theology at Halle (1804-07), most of his life from his ordination in 1794 until his death was spent as a preacher and teacher in Berlin. From 1810 he was professor of theology at the newly founded university there.
Schleiermacher's first major work, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (1799; Eng. trans., 1893), defended religion against its Enlightenment critics. Religion, he argued, was not a philosophy, nor abstract metaphysical thought, nor natural science, nor adherence to dogmatic formulae, but the "sense and taste for the infinite" consisting primarily in feeling; belief and action are secondary. Knowledge of the soul and knowledge of God are inseparable?a concept that had been presented more than 1000 years earlier by St. Augustine. His thought thus has a subjective focus, but it should not on that account be deemed sheer "subjectivism." Schleiermacher's careful analysis of religious feelings always has in view, at least by implication, the infinite and eternal reality to which these feelings are responses. The Speeches are sometimes held to be pantheist in tone, but he did not identify the world with the "infinite and eternal." Rather, he held that it is always in and through one's experience of the whole interconnecting realm of the finite that there comes a sense of dependence upon the infinite ground of all things.
Works by Friedrich Schleiermacher
Young Friedrich Schleiermacher was a Reformed Calvinist Chaplain in Berlin when he wrote his first major work, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. Comprised of five speeches on religion, Schleiermacher's book was largely influenced by several rationalist philosophers that Schleiermacher had studied. Schleiermacher argued that religion was rooted in human feelings, describing the core of religion as "a sense and taste for the Infinite in the finite." He understood religion as the human effort to communicate our experienced consciousness of the Divine within the human social sphere. As a result of his analysis, Schleiermacher was sensitive to the limitations of religion in the finite realm. The emergence of this book in 1799 marked the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology, and it offered a method of understanding religion that was refreshing for Schleiermacher's time.
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By now you probably know the story. This past Saturday, a little less than 100 invited guests turned up at Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Palo Alto home, thinking they were attending a graduation party for Chan, who had graduated from medical school earlier in the week. Instead, they found themselves guests at what is now the most famous wedding since Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries. But instead of a star-studded celebrity fest estimated to cost several hundred thousand dollars, the attendees found themselves at -- if you ignore the music of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong -- a resolutely low key affair.
The ceremony and reception were held in the Zuckerberg and Chan's backyard at a venue rental charge of zero, unless you count the mortgage. Food was from two decidedly budget friendly local restaurants Fuki Sushi and Palo Alto Sol. (Go check the menus online if you like. I did. I can definitely afford a meal at these places, and so probably can you.) Dessert? Burdick chocolate mice, which the couple had nibbled on their first date. These cost, if you are wondering, $3.25 a piece, less if you order them in catering-sized packages. As for the dress, it was a creation of little-known designer Claire Pettibone with a price tag of $4,700. Not chump change for sure, but way, way less than what one would expect the bride of a billionaire to to spend.
To say this celebration bucked a trend is to indulge in extreme understatement. Wedding costs are an ever-skyrocketing affair, with the average nuptials taking place in the United States exceeding $27,000 in 2011, with costs running significantly higher in wealthier regions of the country. A happy couple seeking to tie the knot in Northern California, like Zuckerberg and Chan, can expect to spend a not insignificant $32,261, which sounds like an out-and-out bargain compared to New York City, where brides and grooms (or their parents) will likely blow $66,000 on what, in the end, is simply a more meaningful-than-average party.
Fueling this marital day arms race has been a relentless promoting of wedding as fantasy, with everything from services offering to make the bride buff for the big day, to the relentless pushing for destination weddings, which involves asking guests to shell out thousands of dollars to jet off to and pay for a vacation in to some exotic locale so they can attend the ceremony. Prominent examples of over-the top marital celebrations have continued straight through the economic hard times of the past several years, with such unforgettable spectacles as former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding to hedge funder Marc Mezvinsky, an event widely rumored to have set the happy bride's parents --- that is, Bill and Hillary Clinton -- back by several million dollars, including $250,000 in jewelry for the bride to wear.
These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience. And while it can be, on one level, hard to fault someone who does have the money from spending it on a party if they so choose, these high profile events have an impact on all of us. As economics professor Robert Frank has amply documented, normalizing grandiose spending on anything sets off what he calls a "expenditure cascade," causing almost everyone to open their wallet a little bit more to maintain the perceived quality of their event.
Personal finance junkies like, uh, me have spent the better part of the past decade begging and pleading with would-be newlyweds to consider more low-key events, with little to show in the way of results, possibly because no one wants to be seen as a cheapskate on their big day. Here's hoping that with their backyard celebration, Zuckerberg and Chan set off a new style of wedding to emulate: the in-home wedding.


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Employee at Gringotts Wizarding Bank
- Griphook: "The right to carry a wand has long been contested between wizards and goblins."
- Ron Weasley: "Well, goblins can do magic without wands."
- Griphook: "That is immaterial! Wizards refuse to share the secrets of wandlore with other magical beings, they deny us the possibility of extending our powers!"
- — Griphook's opinion on how wizards and witches have treated goblins unfairly.[src]
Griphook (d. 1 May, 1998)[1] was a goblin who worked at Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley. He would later go on the run during the Second Wizarding War from Lord Voldemort's new regime, and assist Harry Potter in his search for Helga Hufflepuff's Cup.
Work for GringottsEdit
Griphook worked for Gringotts Wizarding Bank. In 1991, he took Harry Potter and Rubeus Hagrid to vaults 687 and 713.[2]
In 1997, Griphook went on the run after the fall of the Ministry of Magic to Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters, because the Ministry of Magic made wizards in the sole control of the goblins and he refused to acknowledge any wizard as his master. However, he had a last laugh when he was assigned to put Godric Gryffindor's Sword in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault. He noticed that the sword was a fake, but decided not to reveal that information to Bellatrix.[3]
On the runEdit
Griphook soon met up with Dirk Cresswell and Gornuk, and finally Ted Tonks and Dean Thomas, and they spent only several months on the run. The group was then eventually caught by a gang of Snatchers led by the dangerously fierce werewolf, Fenrir Greyback. Ted, Dirk and Gornuk were killed, but Griphook and Dean were only taken prisoner.
Shortly after, Greyback's team was alerted to the true location of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley after they broke the Taboo on Lord Voldemort's name. Griphook, together with the others captured, was taken to Malfoy Manor and then imprisoned in the cellar. However, the trio were in possession of the real sword of Gryffindor. Bellatrix, believing that the sword was taken from her vault, tortured Hermione with the Cruciatus Curse to find out how the trio came into possession of it. She came up with a lie that it was a fake, and Harry then persuaded Griphook to go along with her story.
The house-elf Dobby rescued all the prisoners from the Manor, and they took refuge at Shell Cottage. Griphook's legs were injured during the escape, thus Fleur Delacour administered Skele-Gro to heal him. He watched from the bedroom window as Harry buried Dobby's body, surprised by the great respect Harry paid Dobby and by Hermione Granger's later revelation that she wanted house-elves to be freed, as few wizards treat house-elves and other non-human beings with respect.
Breaking into Gringotts and deathEdit
- Griphook: "As the Dark Lord becomes ever more powerful, your race is set still more firmly above mine! Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?"
- Hermione Granger: "We do! We protest! And I'm hunted quite as much as any goblin or elf, Griphook! I'm a Mudblood!... Did you know that it was Harry who set Dobby free? Did you know that we've wanted elves to be freed for years? You can't want You-Know-Who defeated more than we do, Griphook!"
- — Conversation in Shell Cottage[src]
However, Griphook's mistrust of wizards in general, and his feelings that goblin-made artefacts should be returned to Goblins once the original purchaser had died, led him to suspect that Harry would not keep his word and relinquish the sword. During the break-in, he managed to get hold of the sword, then fled into the caves calling for help to deal with thieves. Despite his betrayal, Harry, Ron, and Hermione escaped with Helga Hufflepuff's Cup (now a Horcrux), flying out on a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon used to guard high security vaults.Later, Griphook, still clutching Godric Gryffindor's Sword, along with the guards and Goblins that had tried to prevent the break-in, was summoned to Malfoy Manor to inform Lord Voldemort that Helga Hufflepuff's Cup had been stolen from the Lestrange Vault. Enraged at the loss of one of his Horcruxes, Voldemort immediately shot several Killing Curses, murdering all those present for bringing him the bad news and for hearing about one of his Horcruxes. Griphook's corpse lay in the drawing room floor, and Godric Gryffindor's Sword slowly vanished into the Sorting Hat.[1]
Personality and traitsEdit
- "The longer they spent time together, the more Harry realised that he did not much like the goblin. Griphook was unexpectedly bloodthirsty, laughed at the idea of pain in lesser creatures, and seemed to relish the possibility that they might have to hurt other wizards to reach the Lestranges' vault."
- —Griphook personality, as described by Harry[src]
Being a goblin, Griphook severely distrusted wizardkind and hated wizarding arrogance, stemming from the fact that goblins had been treated brutally by wizards in the past. Griphook had a somewhat barbaric and savage personality: enjoying the idea of pain in lesser creatures and being eager to harm wizards.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Griphook is played by Verne Troyer, famous for playing Dr. Evil's "Mini-Me" in the Austin Powers films. However, Griphook was voiced by Warwick Davis, who plays Professor Flitwick, as well as the first Gringotts goblin. For unknown reasons, Verne Troyer was replaced by Warwick Davis to portray the role of Griphook in part two of the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.[4]
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Griphook is an unlockable and playable character. Out of 167 characters, he is the only goblin in the game. Therefore, he is the only one who can open up Goblin Chests, revealing special items like Studs or Character Tokens. He is also required to play the bonus levels in the lower vaults of Gringotts. He is unlocked in the first level," The Magic Begins", by using Reducto on the chest near the first vault in the Gringott's Basement. The player can then turn into Griphook whenever they want, using Polyjuice Potion or in Free Play mode. He is wearing a blue suit though his lego figure has a red suit.
- Also in LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4, Griphook accidentally opens Vault 712 instead of Vault 713, revealing a goblin dance party.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Griphook takes Hufflepuff's cup and uses it as a bargaining chip for the Sword of Gryffindor when Harry and his friends are trapped by the Gemino Cursed goblets in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault. Later he is killed by Voldemort after the Dark Lord learns of the break-in at Gringotts. He is last seen dead at Malfoy Manor with the Sword of Gryffindor; as the camera lingers on his body, the Sword vanishes from under his hand.
- In the novel it is not explicitly stated that the goblin whom Voldemort kills after finding out about the break-in is Griphook. It just says "a goblin..." If it was another goblin indeed, Griphook could still be alive.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
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Completely Inappropriate First Birthday Cakes
I'm pretty sure most one-year-olds will never remember their first birthday cakes, which is why I'm here to provide an invaluable service: reminding little E.J. that her (yes, her) parents got her this:
Any guesses on what EJ will be getting for her 12th birthday?
Correct me if I'm wrong, parents, but I think age one is a little young for boys to be discovering their bananas, IF you know what I mean.
And if you don't, just look at this:
Don't worry, George, all monkeys get curious eventually.
Things I'm Pretty Sure One-Year-Olds Like:
- Cheerful colors
- Cute animals
- Putting things in their mouths
- Pooping
Thing I'm Pretty Sure One-Year-Olds Do NOT Like:
- Guys with guns
- Who are shooting cute animals
This next one isn't a first birthday cake; it's a christening cake. So little John was, what? A couple of days old maybe? Right. SOMEONE GET THAT KID A GUINNESS.
Honestly I don't know what all is happening here, or what in that mess is considered edible. And I think I spied a tiny plastic poodle in a Santa hat in front of that tree stump with a face before my brain broke.
John: [seeing cake] "What is THAT? Hahaha! He must be Irish, huh?"
Me: "What?! That is a terrible stereotype! How dare you!"
John: "There's a pot of gold and a shamrock."
Me: [looking] "Oh. Right. Ok, maybe they're Irish.")
"But you look good for your age, Levi. Really. And hey, one is the new six months! I read it in Vogue!"
Something here just doesn't add up.
And finally...
Please let his last name be Johnson. Please let his last name be Johnson. PleaselethislastnamebeJohnson.
Thanks to Anita T., Amy N., Jill B., Amber, D'arcy, Vinny A., & Melissa M. for the memorable first impressions.


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Should you ever find yourself out in California and wanting to have an adventure, follow the dusty, dirt road off of State Highway 395 and set your sights for the historic gold mining ghost town of Bodie.
Thanks to a gold discovery by William "Waterman" S. Bodey in 1859, Bodie, California quickly became the ultimate destination for gold-hungry hopefuls and their families. It's even estimated that after the first gold mill rose, there were 10,000 people living in Bodie!
Naturally, when you have that many people living in a boom town and searching for gold, there's bound to be envy and jealousy in the dry, desert air. With that in mind, more than 65 saloons were built and quickly filled with thirsty, distraught gold miners looking to gamble and drink their bad gold-mining day away. This also made it easy to find robbers, gunfighters, and prostitutes quick to take your money.
It has even been documented in local newspaper archives that greed and gold led to such rampant violence in Bodie that locals actually began asking each other in the mornings, "Have a man for breakfast?" This translated to "Did anyone get killed last night?"
When the gold mines ran dry and the towns people moved on, Bodie was left in a state of "arrested decay." In an effort to preserve the town in 1962, the California State Parks System stepped in and declared Bodie a State Historic Park and National Historic Site.
Bodie is a testament to historic preservation and how much we can learn from other abandoned places like it. What makes ghost towns so interesting is that are appreciated for what they were and what they've become: a living testament to the past.
Ghost towns like Bodie are hidden all over the country. All you have to do is choose a road and drive. (Don't forget your camera!)
Gorgeous photos below are by Gareth James
from http://www.bodie.com/#ixzz3gTFb4IKm
– Bodie.com
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution


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It was a little chilly last night, dropping the mercury low enough to put a layer of ice on the creek in the back canyon. I shivered my way down there this morning to see if I could spot anything photogenic, and came back with a couple of images.
I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I may start doing a B&W series. Let's see if I can maintain it, but for now, see the first one above. It's a close-up of a frozen ripple of water; completely abstract and organic. I created the B&W using Silver Efex Pro II and one of my default presets, which I've posted here before but here it is again. Next one, I'll do something different.
The second shot is just cool… it appears to be a tiny flower trapped in ice, or "frozen in time". I love the way the water has frozen around it; it's almost as if the temperature plummeted instantly and froze this splash! I simply adore it.


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Tales of Valor includes new units, additional maps and further multiplayer modes, such as 'Stonewall', where the player commands a small number of troops against waves of increasingly difficult enemies, and a feature called "direct-fire", where the player 'Points and shoots'.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
some random screenies from a 4 v 4 with a mate and rest AI, during this the AI decided to go on a tank building spree and arty the f**k out of the bridge, I built a massive arty force and basically scorhed their spawn then joined in with the tank building :P


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We love words, and we love to find the right ones to convey your message. Whether it's copy for departmental brochures, research magazines, parent newsletters or news releases, we are ready to write.
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Geography (385N)
PGCE with QTS full time
- Accredited body
- University of Brighton
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PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It's also recognised internationally.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
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- September 2019
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Исполнительное руководство и директора
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Ravi Saligram - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and director of the board
Ravi Saligram, CEO and director of the board of Ritchie Bros., is a visionary leader with a proven track record of growing businesses, building brands, developing customer-centric teams, embracing digital, focusing on cash flow, and driving shareholder value. Throughout his career, he has inspired employees to challenge the status quo, created cultures driven toward innovation and built industry-leading diversity and inclusion programs.
Saligram was appointed CEO of Ritchie Bros. in July 2014 and since then has been transforming the company by evolving the world's largest onsite heavy equipment auctioneer into a relationship-based, technology-enabled and data-driven multi-channel asset management and disposition platform. In 2017, Saligram led the acquisition of online leader, IronPlanet, making Ritchie Bros. one of the top 50 B2B ecommerce players in the world with over $3 billion in online gross transaction value.
He and his team have doubled cumulative cash flow in the last four years and grown the market capitalization of the company to US $4.1 billion (CAD $5.3 billion), an increase of $1.5 billion over the last four years.
Prior to joining Ritchie Bros., Saligram was CEO of OfficeMax Inc., where he strategically repositioned the company from a commodity office products retailer to an omni-channel workplace services and solutions company. During his tenure, he led the historic merger of equals between Fortune 500 companies OfficeMax and Office Depot in 2013, unlocking over half a billion dollars in synergies.
Saligram also has more than 20 years of senior management experience at ARAMARK, InterContinental Hotels Group and SC Johnson. During his time as President, ARAMARK International and Chief Globalization Officer, he turned the international business into a growth engine, doubling international revenue and quadrupling managed cash flow, in part, by driving sector diversification, onboarding a new generation of country presidents and significantly increasing female leadership. And while working with Intercontinental Hotels, Saligram built Holiday Inn into the number one international hotel brand in China and pioneered some of the company's first ecommerce initiatives.
Saligram has lived in six countries and worked in many more across five continents over his 38-year career. He started his career at Leo Burnett in Chicago, earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an electrical engineering degree from Bangalore University, India. He has served on the board of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. for over ten years and sits on its Governance and Finance Committees.
Under his leadership, Ritchie Bros. was recognized as one of British Columbia's Top Employers in 2018; OfficeMax was recognized by Ethisphere as one of the world's most ethical companies, two years in a row; and S.C. Johnson Korea was named one of the three best foreign managed companies in Korea by KBS TV.
Sharon Driscoll – Chief Financial Officer
Sharon Driscoll joined Ritchie Bros. in July 2015 as Chief Financial Officer, following 17 years of senior executive experience at companies such as Rexall Pharmacies Canada (Katz Group Canada), Sears Canada Inc. and Loblaw Companies Limited. Most recently, Sharon was Executive Vice President and CFO at Katz Group Canada Ltd., where she was responsible for all financial operations, including capital allocation, financing strategies, treasury operations, regulatory compliance, risk management and financial talent development. Prior to Katz Group, Ms. Driscoll was Senior Vice President and CFO of Sears Canada Inc., one of Canada's largest retailers.
Ms. Driscoll is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Queen's University.
Todd Wohler - Chief Human Resources Officer
Mr. Wohler joined Ritchie Bros. in January 2015, and brings over 20 years of experience across multiple geographies and industries. After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, Todd began his career at Schlumberger, a global oil and gas technology company, where he worked in many different branches of the company in the US, Paris, and London during his 20 year tenure. Todd has also served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Quintiles Transnational, as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at ARAMARK for ARAMARK's international business, and as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at United Water. Over the course of his career Todd has been instrumental in building global teams and organizations that have excellent track records of success. He has developed and implemented transformational HR strategies and recruited hundreds of executives and leaders for organizations across the globe in multiple industries.
Marianne Marck – Chief Information Technology Officer
Marianne Marck joined Ritchie Bros. as Chief Information Officer in April of 2016. Prior to joining Ritchie Bros, Ms. Marck was Senior Vice President, Retail and Digital Technology at Starbucks Coffee Company. Ms. Marck has over 15 years of executive experience relating to technology and digital platforms working with companies such as Blue Nile Inc., the Walt Disney Internet Group, and CNET Networks.
Education/Professional Designations: BA, Mathematics from Mills College in Oakland, CA.
Karl Werner – President, International
Karl Werner joined Ritchie Bros. in 1996 as Territory Manager for the Olympic Peninsula and Alaska. In 1999 he was appointed to Regional Manager for the Northwest US and in 2004 transferred to the company's corporate head office as Senior Manager, Strategic Projects. In 2005 he was appointed to Divisional Manager, Auction Operations. In 2008 he was appointed to VP of Auction Operations and most recently held the position of Chief Auction Operations Officer.
Mr. Werner came to Ritchie Bros. after 10 years of operating a heavy-haul transport company. He has a strong background in real estate development and operations management. Karl sits on advisory boards for various strategic partners.
Jeff Jeter - President, Upstream & Emerging Businesses
Jeff leads Ritchie Bros.' upstream and emerging businesses, as well as the company's Strategic Accounts Group, focused on targeted industry verticals. Prior to joining Ritchie Bros., Jeff was President, IronPlant leading IronPlanet's US and international sales and new business planning activities, including identifying strategic initiatives and driving new market launch initiatives.
Mr. Jeter has also served as Senior Principal at PRTM Management Consultants, where he helped lead PRTM's customer experience consulting for Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to PRTM, Jeff was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Manugistics Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MANU), where he executed global marketing strategies and managed the company's new business development and sales operations initiatives. Jeff has 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and international business, including two international assignments for Iomega, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and leader in innovative storage and network security solutions for small businesses, home offices and consumers.
Jeff holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University and an M.B.A. from Mercer University.
Kari Taylor - Chief Sales Officer, USA
Kari Taylor joined Ritchie Bros. in 2019 as the Chief Sales Officer for its US region. Brought onboard for her strong strategic and customer orientation, Kari thrives on contributing collaboratively within and for highly-competitive organizations with a high bias for action and results.
Prior to joining Ritchie Bros., Kari Taylor served as Chief Revenue Officer at Benco Dental (HQ, Pittston, PA) and was responsible for executing on Benco's growth strategies and delivering a best-in-class customer experience through a national branch network of sales and service associates.
Ms. Taylor has also held leadership positions at W.W. Grainger, Inc., Office Depot, Inc., and Sun Microsystems, Inc. She has also participated in two start-ups: TLM and Extrapolate.
Kari Taylor is an alumna of California State University, Hayward, and earned her MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA, with an emphasis in International Marketing and Sales Leadership. She continued her executive leadership education at Universidad de Navarra, IESE Business School - Barcelona, Spain as well as at Florida Atlantic University.
Brian Glenn – SVP, Head of Sales Canada
Brian Glenn is the SVP and Head of Sales, Canada with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers and is responsible for the Ritchie Bros. industrial sales team across Canada. He has more than 30 years of experience in the equipment industry—previously working with Union Tractor and Valley Blades before coming to Ritchie Bros. in 1997. Brian started with Ritchie Bros. 15+ years ago as a Territory Manager and has risen up the ranks through every sales management position available, now serving as the head of the sales for Canada.
In Brian's 15+ years with Ritchie Bros. he has worked as a Territory Manager, Area Manager, Regional Manager, Divisional Manager, Vice President, Senior Vice President and now SVP & Head of Sales Canada.
Doug Feick - SVP, New Business and Corporate Development
Doug leads mergers, acquisitions and strategic development for Ritchie Bros. and also leads the company's government services team, GovPlanet.com. Prior to the merger with Ritchie Bros, Doug served as SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for IronPlanet. Prior to joining IronPlanet, Doug served as Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel at ChoiceStream, Inc. where he managed all legal matters and was responsible for business and corporate development activities, including strategic partner negotiations and deal structuring. Prior to ChoiceStream, Doug was Vice President, Corporate Development and Associate General Counsel, International at Yahoo!, Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) where he first started and ran Yahoo!'s international legal group and then co-ran Yahoo!'s domestic and international corporate development activities. Doug has over 25 years of legal and business experience.
Doug graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from Miami University and a J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law. Doug is a member of the State Bar of California.
Kieran Holm – SVP, Operations Excellence & Efficiencies
Kieran Holm has over a decade of experience with Ritchie Bros., beginning his career at the company in 2004 in the marketing department before taking on progressively more senior positions. The roles included general management as Area Manager in Texas; Regional Manager in Chicago; sales management as Vice President, Sales - North Central U.S. and strategic management as Managing Director Asia Pacific. In 2017 he relocated back from Tokyo to take on to his current role overseeing the operations side of Ritchie Bros. Kieran has developed and executed strong growth strategies, managed high-performing teams and spearheaded Ritchie Bros.' expansion into new markets and segments including auctioning real-estate assets and classic cars.
Mr. Holm holds an MBA, specializing in finance, from McGill University, earned at the University's Tokyo, Japan, campus; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria (Canada). He speaks English, Japanese and French.
Darren Watt - Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Darren Watt joined the Company in 2004 as in-house legal counsel. In 2012, Mr. Watt was promoted to Vice President Legal Affairs, and in 2013 was appointed General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. On August 29, 2016, Mr. Watt was promoted to Senior Vice President & General Counsel. Prior to joining the Company Mr. Watt practiced with McCarthy Tétrault LLP (1998 − 2004) as an Associate lawyer in the area of Corporate Finance & Securities. Mr. Watt is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and holds a Law Degree from the University of British Columbia, as well as an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree (International Relations) from the University of Toronto.
Matt Ackley – SVP, Digital Marketing and Product Management
An engineer by trade, Matt Ackley has led product development and marketing organizations for a number of major brands, such as eBay and Google—known disrupters of traditional industries. In his seven-plus years at eBay, Ackley focused on revenue and demand generation, including strategic partnerships, seller tools, developer platforms, and internet marketing and advertising, where he was the Vice President of that group for five years.
Ackley's tenure at eBay and his expertise in understanding online marketplaces was focused on driving value for both sellers and buyers. After eBay, Ackley was Managing Director, Media and Platform Market Development, at Google. At Google he focused on product marketing and strategic development activities for Google's search and online advertising products such as DoubleClick Search, Google Analytics and YouTube.
Now at Ritchie Bros., Ackley is responsible for core digital activities across the company's brands.
Ackley has an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
Becky Alseth - SVP, Brands & Innovation
Becky Alseth joined Ritchie Bros. in January 2016. Before Ritchie Bros., Ms. Alseth led the U.S. marketing team at Avis Budget Group. In that role, she oversaw all marketing efforts including brand strategy and insights, advertising and media, partnerships, CRM and ecommerce. Ms. Alseth started her career working in progressive brand management roles at Fortune 500 companies including The Clorox Company, Nestle and Diageo. Ms. Alseth also had the opportunity to grow start-up businesses, move.com, Therasense and HZO, plus lead marketing and development for a non-profit, FIRST, which works to interest kids in careers in math and science. A native of Montana, Ms. Alseth earned her Bachelor of Science in Society & Technology from Montana Tech and an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business in Seattle.


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Photo Challenge: Wise and Organized
Organic by W. Brian Muntz
To arrange, systematize, catalog, or have deliberate structure. Staying organized can be a pain in the you know what. This this time around we're not interested in your clutter, in fact just the opposite.
Your goal for this this photo challenge is to submit a photo that shows some organization. .
Closed January 2nd
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16 December 2006
I have this image of Karl Marx living in a squat somewhere, laptop on knees, googling info and pouring out reams of writing on the state of capitalism. It's anybody's guess what comrade Karl would have done with tools such as we now possess, but I am sure he would have been leader of the pack if his use of the British Library is anything to go by. Das Kapital for example, has references to over 450 books, indeed someone has compiled a book just of the reference sources he used in just one book!
Yet in an age of exploding communications where we now possess the tools to effectively challenge the dominant culture's control of information, it is more than a little ironic that we find ourselves bereft of the traditional tools of political action that in days past would have enabled us to more effectively exploit these new conditions.
130 and more, years ago, the Reds of the day truly thought that capitalism's days were numbered. Then in the months and years that followed the Bolshevik revolution, capitalism's days looked truly up once more. And yet again, following the Crash of '29 many were convinced that the demise of the great god Mammon was just around the corner.
Alas and alack, the power of capital to adapt and survive has given it the allure of immutability made all the more believable with the demise of the Soviet Union and the like, so much so that it has acquired the aura of a force of nature, an illusion very cleverly exploited by its army of propagandists.
But nothing lasts forever, and in the scheme of things, the 400 or so, years the system has been around, is but the blink of an eye. Small comfort for those experiencing the brunt of its brutal reign of course and for those of us who have been around awhile, the current situation looks truly horrendous, even unstoppable.
But in spite of the calamitous state of affairs, it is nothing short of astounding and a tribute to the unquenchable spirit of struggle that 'la luta continua' which should tell us something about the nature of humanity that flies in the face of the relentless propaganda to the contrary.
Of course imperial propaganda would have us believe that such optimism is an anomaly, that greed and self interest is the overriding impulse (or 'human nature'), that given the chance, all of us would stab our grandmothers in the back if it meant advancing our individual interests.
Such pseudo-science stems from a system that does stab its collective grandmothers in the back, and it does of course, want us to believe that we are all of a kind.
The process by which it does this is not a crude one, relying on a carefully constructed edifice composed of a number of linked themes that incorporate especially (pop) genetics and psychologies of various flavours, all geared toward rationalising and 'explaining' just how base 'human nature' really is.
Thus war is considered to be 'natural' to the human species just as violence, although not condoned, is also considered to be 'natural' and to reinforce this, the 'experts' point toward one of our close relatives, the chimpanzee as an example of our 'animal' roots, the implication being that we cannot escape from our 'genetic programming'.
All of these ideas have their roots in the half-baked hypotheses developed during Victorian times and given the gloss of authenticity through the clever use of current scientific theories which attempt to explain our 'nature' used conveniently to justify the status quo.
Those of us who do not accept this interpretation of human actions and motivations are deemed to be 'deviant' in some way, how, or for that matter why, is not explained except through more 'pop' psychology or reference to a slew of 'experts' only too willing push their latest book or to ensure that they continue to receive funding for their 'research'.
When confronted with such an array of 'experts', very few dare challenge them ('it's not my field') and those who do face ridicule or worse, media oblivion.
Journalism, the main vehicle through which this propaganda is disseminated and now characterised as a 'profession' in much the same way as one would a biologist, acquires the stamp of authenticity through a degree in 'journalism' where he or she is taught that there are a set of 'rules' that dictate 'good' (that is, acceptable) journalistic practice, rules which predictably conform to the dominant culture's world view eg, 'objective', 'unbiased', a view still taught at British universities, which translated means accepting an interpretation of events and their causes that justifies the rule of capital.
Thus we who write on the left for a broad public are characterised (and for the most part, unfortunately characterise ourselves) as 'alternative' as if we live in a different universe. This may seem a petty and even inconsequential observation to make but it goes to the very heart of the issue, for it reinforces the illusion that it is US who are out of step with reality.
The same process is also applied to politics, for example, 'democracy', itself a vague word open to every and all kinds of description, but within the dominant culture it is inextricably linked to an even vaguer term, 'parliamentary democracy', the alleged benchmark against which all political systems are judged. So entrenched is the idea that it is never, ever questioned (except of course by 'deviants'). All mainstream news and commentary accepts this benchmark and frames coverage within this straightjacket, to deviate is tantamount to heresy.
By pure coincidence, we have an example currently in the news of how 'democracy' works, the BAE/Saudi corruption investigation. Ongoing since 2003, it involves allegations of a slushfund for kickbacks to Saudi government officials and businessmen totalling millions of dollars in order to 'win' orders for the UK's antiquated (that is to say, over twenty-year old) fighter aircraft, the Typhoon, allegedly worth £10 billion and a piece of junk if ever there was one. So flawed is the aircraft that it can only fly if stripped of its weapons, else it's just too heavy to takeoff let alone fly anywhere. With a lump of concrete in its nose instead of weapons it's:
"[A] machine designed to be the World's most advanced air superiority aircraft … so late that there are paper aeroplanes that can outfight it".[1]
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was finally closing in on the damning evidence when the government stepped in and halted the investigation (which they deny, but the government's intervention is so obvious that it's ludicrous to deny it).[2]
What is important here is the totally undemocratic nature of the relationship between the legal arm of the state—allegedly independent—and the government, for not only is the law's independence nothing short of a farce but perhaps even more importantly, it reveals the total impotence of parliament to intervene in the process. Thus our so-called representatives are revealed as nothing more than tokens who pay only lip service to 'democracy' even the parliamentary version, supposedly a paragon of virtue.
Closer investigation reveals an insidious and incestuous relationship between big business and government where the 'national interest', that catchall phrase that masks a multitude of sins gets hauled out whenever the real nature of our 'democracy' is exposed for what it is, a fraud.[3]
Of interest is the way the MSM handles the affair as it avoids the central contradiction, the real nature of our 'democracy', for to do so would undermine the entire rationale that keeps the entire illusion afloat.
Today's (16/12/06) London Independent for example devotes two pages to the affair but aside from an MP who is quoted as saying that the investigation has been "nobbled" by the government, there is not a single reference to the totally undemocratic nature of the way the police investigation had been brought to a screeching halt by government intervention. In fact much of the 'reportage' is repetitious in nature.
"The Defence Export Services Organisation exists to sell arms for companies and to lobby for arms exports within government. It identifies potential opportunities for arms sales then works with the companies and other elements of government to push for deals. DESO is uninhibited by ongoing conflicts, human rights abuses, or pressing development needs. Nor is it motivated by international security or the 'defence' of the UK. It is focused purely on arms company sales and profits. DESO can be characterised as a marketing department for arms companies, but its importance goes far beyond that. Its position and role within government means that the arms industry's vested interests are relentlessly promoted across government." — Campaign Against Arms Trade website
There is for example, no reference to the role of DESO (see note 3 below) in the affair, itself a body that is not answerable to Parliament even though it employs 500 public servants paid for by the public and whose sole function is to promote British weapons sales abroad. The Independent ends the report with the thoroughly misleading headline "Why was the investigation halted, and what do critics say?"
Under the sub "What do the critics say" all we get is:
"Critics, led by the Liberal Democrats, have accused the Government of caving in to Saudi pressure to drop the investigation."
As far as the Independent is concerned, this is the sum total of the criticism!
What the role of DESO reveals is that 'democracy' is something confined to the intimate relationship between big business and government, a relationship that is described by the government's decision to halt the SFO investigation into the BAE/Saudi affair as one where:
"the continuation of this investigation would cause serious damage to UK/Saudi security, intelligence and diplomatic co-operation."
Tony Blair had this to say on the subject:
"My role as Prime Minister is to advise on the best national and strategic interest of our country and I have no doubt at all that the right decision was taken."
You bet Tony! Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General tells us that "considerable damage to our national security" would be caused if the investigation was allowed to continue. Thus breaking the law is of no consequence, nor is the government's incestuous relationship with the arms industry. What is revealed is that 'national interests' is just another way of saying business interests. As always, the 'war on terror' gets hauled out whenever government involvement in corruption and lying gets exposed.
1. See, 'Eurofighter Typhoon', and 'Leaked safety report claims testing reveals Eurofighter to be a crash risk', and 'Safety alert over Eurofighter', Evening Standard 24.05.0
2. 'Saudi arms deal inquiry closes in on secret papers', David Leigh, November 20, 2006, The Guardian
3. 'Call the Shots. DESO Campaign Briefing' and 'Web of state corruption dates back 40 years, Shielded by secrecy law – the system of 'special commissions' still flourishing today,' The Guardian, Friday June 13, 2003.


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TSF had the pleasure and honor of attending last week's Legends Ball, an annual event put on by the International Tennis Hall of Fame each year during the U.S. Open. While the event was attended by many tennis great (more posts to come in the near future), there were some celebs on hand that we couldn't help but pull aside for a little chat on the red carpet.
The first was Ramona Singer, of "Real Housewives of New York" fame. While Ramona might be best known for her 'crazy-eye look' on the show, the reality star had no crazy going on in her eyes when we chatted with her, and she looked fit and refreshed in a Kimberly Taylor dress that featured coral-like sequins up the right side to the shoulder.
Her husband, Mario, advised Ramona to play with Jimmy Connors when TSF asked about who Ramona might pick as her doubles partner for a tennis re-match with Jill Zarin this season.
Speaking of Jill, she was also in attendance at the Ball, and spoke a few minutes with TSF after asking us "What publication are you with?" When I responded, "TennisServedFresh, an online tennis fashion blog," she smiled widely and said, "OK."
Jill (pictured above) looked great in person as well, laughing at me when I asked her if she had a plan for her re-match with Ramona.
"Of course I have a plan!" She said. "I'm Jill Zarin!"
Duh! My mistake.
Find out who Jill was wearing, see photos from the event and discover who TSF gives a low grade for her red carpet performance after the cut.
"I'm wearing Jennifer Lee," Jill said, watching me scribble down the name furiously.
"What about the U.S. Open?" I asked. "Have you been watching?"
"Oh yeah definitely," Jill responded. "I went out last Saturday."
"Who did you watch?"
"I don't remember," she said, matter-of-factly.
While Jill's red-carpet demeanor was relaxed and friendly, Miss USA Kristen Dalton joined TSF outside the press area for a little one-on-one, but it was a rather difficult process.
TSF: Who are you wearing tonight?
Dalton: Oh, good question. Um….
TSF: Who's your favorite tennis player right now?
Dalton: Um……. (long pause, staring). Oh! Oh! Melanie Oh-dine?
Ok, points there for the girl. Props for the newbie name drop.
TSF: What about your favorite men's player?
Dalton: (Silence.) … (More silence.) Who should I say?!
TSF: Try Andy Roddick, that sounds patriotic.
Dalton: Right, yes! Andy Roddick.
While Miss USA might have been lacking in the tennis knowledge (and a bit in the fashion department, too), she made up for it when she told us she loves Stella McCartney's look on the court ("The ruffles are perfect!") and is always looking to what Maria Sharapova will be wearing at the Open.
Below shots of Ramona, Kristen and yours truly with Ramona and hubby Mario. Is Ramona judging my hand writing or what?! Love her.
(red carpet photos by Jen Pottheiser; interview photo by Paula Vergara)


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ICC Has No Legal, Moral Authority
The same leaders do not have the moral right to determine the fate of the al Bashirs of the world while mass killers like Bush, Blair, Museveni, Kagame and Nkunda bask in sunshine. To hell with this rubbish ICC.
[Global News: Comment]
My commentary is in response to The Black Star News's editorial "Bashir Down; Nkunda, Museveni Next"?
The ICC was wrongly established to try leaders from developing countries.
The criteria was not set up properly, much in the same fashion as the courts that tried Adolf Hitler and his accomplices during and after World War II.
The ICC's area of jurisdiction was not properly elaborated from the beginning. To say the least, most of the problems in the developing countries are planned, hatched and executed from the Industrialized Nations, who also happened to be the former Colonial Powers in Africa and other areas of the world.
The real reason is that the Colonial Powers are today back pushing all the dirt on many African leaders. Just turn around and look at George Bush and Tony Blair; what they did to prop Ethiopian Prime Minister and election rigger Meles Zenawi and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, who has done the same. Then there are budding puppets like Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe and the latest find, Raila Odinga in Kenya. An election loser who now has the biggest mouth.
Did we not hear Odinga's famous remarks regarding Mugabe, and asking for the invasion of Kenya, when neighboring countries in Southern Africa kept quiet? Why is South Africa's Jacob Zuma being skinned in the South African High Court? Because he is in-line to give South Africa away, plus Zimbabwe, back to the West. The Southern African leaders are a bunch of very clever Africans. There are things there in their region, which they don't want to mouth out like Raila and Zuma. Fill in the blank cleverly if you want to know about geopolitics in the region.
The world saw Margaret Thatcher's Son, Mark, when he was exposed as being involved in the coup plot against the president of Equatorial Guinea. His mother, the former British Prime Minister had to travel to South Africa to beg for his release.
Was it not humiliating that behind the scene there was help from those silent but powerful voices, without doubt including people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and of course the Uganda-born Rt. Rev. Bishop Sentamu, who has become a British mouth piece, condemning Mugabe while nary a word against dictator Museveni.
It is always good and wiser to watch events unfolding with you're side of the coin ready for analyses. A lamentation maintains that: who knows where the wind one sees blowing is coming from, and where it is going. That is why our traditional praise name is "Yamo Yeee," because my clan believes in the work of God.
Bush, Blair, Museveni, Zenawi, Paul Kagame and their little nephew Laurent Nkunda should be arrested and sent to the Hague. Not al Bashir, the president of the Sudan, which is a sovereign state and member of the international community.
This ICC should be scrapped. The story of Animal Farm is very much in play in that so-called International Criminal Court where some world leaders have become more special than the rest. The same leaders do not have the moral right to determine the fate of the al Bashirs of the world while mass killers like Bush, Blair, Museveni, Kagame and Nkunda bask in sunshine.
To hell with this rubbish ICC.
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Wild boars are reservoir of HEV: High prevalence among forestry workers in eastern France
Nearly one third of forestry workers in parts of eastern France are infected with Hepatitis E virus (HEV), according to a paper in the September Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Wild boars in the same region are also heavily infected. HEV is endemic in developing nations, but heretofore, HEV infection in industrialized nations has been most closely correlated with travel to developing nations.
The prevalence of HEV was found to be 14 percent among wild boar, about half that in pigs, says principal investigator Pierre Coursaget of the University of Tours, France. An earlier study found 12 percent prevalence among boar in The Netherlands. Among humans in the current study, the prevalence of anti-HEV antibodies increases with age, and varies with occupation and geographic location within eastern France. "The frequency of HEV infections in humans did not correlate with the number of pigs, locally, but there is good correlation with the number of car accidents due to wild boars," a surrogate for contact between humans and wild boars, says Coursaget.
HEV is transmitted orally and fecally, with mortality rates of 1-3 percent in the general population, rising to 20-25 percent among pregnant women. In developing countries, outbreaks appear to arise from fecally contaminated water supplies. In Japan, and in Europe, consumption of wild boar or liver is associated with a high risk of acquiring hepatitis E virus infection, according to the report. However, the fact that HEV is absent among children in France suggests that eating ham is safe. Coursaget says the immune system in healthy people generally eradicates the infection, and that it is not sexually transmitted.
Deer also are known to be infected with HEV, says Coursaget. "People in contact with HEV-infected animals or their environment must be aware of the possibility of HEV infection," he says. He is currently studying HEV infection in forestry workers, veterinarians, and pig farmers in different regions of France, in an effort to quantify risk factors. The current study also compared several antibody tests for HEV, with one, the HEV ELISA test, from MP Biologicals, proving superior to the other two.


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Back to School
H1N1 Flu Virus
ARRA Outreach
Statement on Senator Kennedy
Kids for King
Odds and Ends
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
Back to School
In a recent letter to school principals, Secretary Duncan announced that, on Tuesday, September 8, at 12:00 noon ET, President Obama will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. (Note: The time of this speech has changed from 1:00 p.m. ET.) The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents, and educators to ensure that every child in every school gets the best education possible, so he or she can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as citizens. The 15 to 20 minute address will be broadcast live (as well as archived) on the White House web site and C-SPAN. Furthermore, the Department is offering educators a menu of classroom activitiescreated by its Teaching Ambassador Fellowsto engage students in the address and stimulate classroom discussions about the importance of education.
To encourage student engagement, the Department is also launching the "I Am What I Learn" video contest. On September 8, students will be asked to respond to the President's challenge by creating videos describing the steps they will take to improve their education and the role education will play in fulfilling their dreams. All students age 13 and older are asked to create and upload their videos to YouTube by October 8; entries may be in the form of video blogs, public service announcements, music videos, or documentaries. The general public will then vote on their favoritesto determine the top 20 finalists. These 20 videos will be reviewed by a panel of judges, including Secretary Duncan. The panel will select three winners, each of whom will receive a $1,000 prize.
And don't forget! The next "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (September 15, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) will feature Secretary Duncan in a special town hall meeting, subtitled "America Goes Back to School." Since May, the Secretary has been traveling throughout the country to engage a broad group of stakeholdersincluding parentsin an open and honest conversation about federal education policy in anticipation of the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act. Already, he has met with hundreds of students, parents, teachers, principals, education support staff, superintendents, professors, higher education administrators, and community leaders during his tour: "Listening and Learning: A Conversation About Education Reform." Now, for his latest tour "stop," he will engage in a live, interactive discussion via telephone, email, and video and with a studio audience.
H1N1 Flu Virus
On August 24, Secretary Duncan joined Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty, and District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to announce new recommendations on the continuity of learning in the event of student absences or school closures due to seasonal or novel H1N1 flu. "We can all work to keep ourselves healthy now by practicing prevention, close monitoring, and using common sense," Duncan said. "We know that some students may be affected by H1N1. And our top priority is making sure that they have a way to get well, stay well, and to keep learning. With these recommendations, we're providing strategies for educators to help ensure that the learning process will continue." The recommendations suggest that educators prepare take-home assignments in advance for distribution to affected students and use the Internet and telephones to post homework materials, conduct classes, share information, and keep students, parents, and teachers in close touch. The Department is working with Apple, Curriki, Google, the International Association for Online Learning, Microsoft, Pearson, Scholastic, and other private sector parties to make continuity of learning resources (such as conference call services, webinar support, and virtual classrooms) more accessible and affordable. More Information.
The Department has also issued new guidance to help prepare states, school districts, schools, and institutions of higher education in the event of an outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus during the school year. In general, this guidance discusses waivers and some other forms of relief from federal education requirements that may provide entities with the operational flexibility necessary to efficiently close schools and, otherwise, respond to the administrative challenges presented by an H1N1 outbreak (such as prolonged school closures, excessive absenteeism, and other disruptions in the regular delivery of education services). This guidance only covers federal education requirements.
Later this morning, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will release new guidance for child care facilities to plan for and respond to the upcoming flu season.
ARRA Outreach
Last week, the Secretary announced the publication in the Federal Register of draft requirements for $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement Grants to turn-around the nation's lowest-performing schools. Title I School Improvement grants are funded by $546 million in the Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations and $3 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Secretary is required to award grants to each state based on the proportional share of funds it receives under Title I. Each state must provide subgrants to school districts that apply for funds and have demonstrated the greatest commitment to serve their Title I schools currently identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The Administration's strategy includes: identifying and serving the lowest-achieving Title I schools in each state; supporting only the most rigorous interventions that hold the promise of producing rapid improvements in student achievement and school culture; providing sufficient resources over several years to implement those interventions; and measuring progress in achieving results.
This weekthe same week it released the second half of ARRA Title I, IDEA, and Vocational Rehabilitation funding 30 days ahead of schedulethe Department released new guidance on the use of ARRA Title I, Part A, IDEA, Part B, and IDEA, Part C funds to strengthen education, drive reform, and improve results for students. More Information.
Meanwhile, the Department has developed tip sheets to assist recipients in completing ARRA recipient reporting online.
Statement on Senator Kennedy
The Secretary issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy:
"Senator Kennedy was a tireless agent of change on behalf of the American people. His passing marks a great loss for both the United States Senate and the nation. He dedicated his life in public service to ensuring fairness and opportunity for all people. I drew inspiration from Senator Kennedy throughout my career and will miss his voice as a champion of education reform. My wife, Karen, and I extend our prayers and condolences to the Kennedy family, especially with Senator Kennedy's wife, Vicki, and with Kara, Teddy Jr., and Patrick."
Kids for King
On August 25, the Secretary joined the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation on the National Mall to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the March on Washington and officially launch the Kids for King Education Initiative. "We must never forget the progress that Dr. King inspired in civil rights and social justice, and we must recognize how much work is still ahead of us," he said. "With high school dropout rates unacceptably high and college completion rates far too low, education is clearly the civil rights issue of this generation. Every child and adult deserves a high-quality education. This is the only lasting way to fuel our economic recovery and end the stubborn cycles of poverty and social failure." The Kids for King Education Initiative invites youth from grades 3-12 to write an essay, create a piece of art, or produce a short video about the lasting legacy of Dr. King and his ideals of democracy, justice, hope, and love. The program also contains a lesson plan for parents and teachers to educate youth about Dr. King; three lesson plans have been developed, including plans for grades 3-5, grades 6-8, and grades 9-12. The year-long program will culminate in fall 2010, when nine students will win a trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in a live press event on the National Mall. A memorial honoring Dr. King will be built on the Mall, adjacent to the FDR Memorial and in direct line between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. The foundation has raised $106 million out of the needed $120 million to build the memorial.
Odds and Ends
The National Center for Education Statistics' Back to School Forecast notes more students are entering and returning to America's schools and colleges than ever before.
The Department has published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to implement general and non-loan provisions that were added to the Higher Education Act, as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act.
Under the ARRA, more students and parents will qualify over the next two years for a tax credit to pay for college expenses. The American Opportunity Credit modifies the existing Hope Credit for tax years 2009 and 2010, making it available to a broader range of taxpayers, including many with higher incomes and those who owe no tax. It also adds "required course materials" to the list of qualifying expenses and allows the credit to be claimed for four postsecondary education years, versus two. Many of those eligible will qualify for the maximum annual credit of $2,500 per student.
The Census in Schools program promotes data literacy and increases awareness of Census Bureau products and activities by providing educators with teaching tools, resource materials, workshops, and other professional development opportunities.
On a long-term basis, students' SAT mathematics scores have experienced an upward trend and are now four points higher than a decade ago. Conversely, students' SAT reading scores have declined somewhat and are now four points below what they were a decade ago. As in past years, the strongest SAT performers on average had three things in common: they had completed a core curriculum, had taken their school's most rigorous courses, and had familiarized themselves with the test.
Quote to Note
"I often hear that managing the multiple missions of higher education, today, is akin to being caught in an 'iron triangle.' Every college president and every governing board wants to simultaneously improve quality, increase accessand yet constrain costs. To college executives, these three sides of the iron triangle often seem like mutually conflicting choices. Elevating quality raises costs. Increasing access can dilute quality. And, reducing costs impairs both quality and access. In the standard formulation, the only way out of the iron triangle is to secure unlimited resources, either in the form of bigger endowments or state and federal support. Now, the tension between these three goals is realand I don't question for a minute that boosting resources for higher education is essential.... At the same time, I don't think that more resources alone are the answer to the challenges facing higher education.... A more promising long-term solution for breaking out of the iron triangle is to have college presidents and administrators make better and more imaginative use of efficiency, productivity improvements, and accountability."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (9/2/09), speaking at the National HBCU Conference
Upcoming Events
On September 14, the Department will hold its next web conference designed to assist grantees and subgrantees in managing ARRA grants. The topic is the new Title I and IDEA use of funds guidance. Remember, previous conferences (on fraud prevention, completing Section 1512 quarterly reports, and cash management) are archived for review.
Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2010 MetLife Foundation community College Excellence Awards, which recognize exemplary institutions from across the nation that are making a significant difference in their communities. The foundation will present three awards: (1) for Exceptional Service to Students, (2) for Service to Communities, and (3) for Service through Innovation. Winners will receive a $40,000 grant. The deadline for nominations is October 2.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will exhibit at the National Council of Negro Women's Black Family Reunion Celebration on the National Mall in Washington, DC (September 12-13) and the National College Access Network's Annual Conference in San Francisco (September 15-17). If you are attending either of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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