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About the Author: Rose Gottemoeller serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation.
On May 11 I had the opportunity to join Ambassador Anatoly Antonov of the Russian Federation at a U.S.-Russian-sponsored side event at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York. Ambassador Antonov and I worked closely together negotiating the New START Treaty, which was signed April 8 in Prague by President Obama and President Medvedev. The discussion offered an opportunity to share some of our thoughts on the Treaty with other delegations to the NPT RevCon, and some of the many non-governmental groups that are participating in the conference. Afterward I also had the opportunity to speak with members of the press as well.
The New START Treaty, which President Obama will soon transmit to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification, limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads in the U.S. and Russian arsenals to the lowest level since the 1950s. The Treaty also includes a strong and effective verification regime, which further stabilizes the relationship between our two countries as well as reducing the risks of miscommunication or miscalculation.
This verifiable reduction by the world's two largest nuclear powers reflects a shared commitment to the basic bargain of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) -- all nations have the right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, but they also have the responsibility to prevent nuclear proliferation, and those that do possess these weapons must work toward disarmament. The signing of the New START Treaty highlights the United States and Russian commitment to strengthening the international nonproliferation regime, of which the NPT is the cornerstone, to meet the new challenges and risks of the 21st century. By demonstrating the seriousness with which we treat our commitments under all three pillars of the NPT (nonproliferation, disarmament, peaceful use of nuclear energy), we hope to encourage other Parties to meet their own obligations.
The threat posed by nuclear weapons is global, making the disarmament steps that New START represents of interest to all nations. That is why Ambassador Antonov and I agreed to participate in Tuesday's event presenting our positions and discussing our commitments under the new treaty with the rest of the nearly 190 NPT Parties gathered at the U.N. this month, and highlighting the importance we place on transparency in this process. The New START Treaty is part of a larger agenda, in which the United States hopes to address strategic and non-strategic, deployed and non-deployed nuclear weapons in the bilateral context; eventually, we will move these efforts multilaterally in our pursuit to achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. Just as nuclear proliferation threatens the whole world, the progress embodied by the New START Treaty is also relevant to all of us. I was heartened by the strong engagement evidenced by our audience, and by the quality and depth of the many questions posed by NGO and delegation representatives. They made clear that interest in New START extends far beyond the two nations that negotiated it, and makes me hopeful for the overall prospects for a productive and constructive NPT Review Conference this month.
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Steven S. in Missouri writes:
Dear Assistant Secretary of State Gottemoeller,
Congratulations on the completion of the START agreement and for your successful joint briefing with Ambassador Antonov at the NPT. I was in the audience that day, and you were kind enough to allow me to ask a question relating to the environmental consequences of nuclear war.
If you recall, I asked if you or the Ambassador were familiar with the recent studies that predict the detonation of less than 1% of the operational U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals would cause catastrophic changes in the global climate and massive destruction of the protective ozone layer. Since you indicated you had not seen this research, I would like to provide you with a couple links: see the January, 2010 Scientific American article, "Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering†at climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockToonSciAmJan2010.pdf and the recent ICNND publication, "Catastrophic Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict†at icnnd.org/research/Starr_Nuclear_Winter_Oct_09.pdf
The peer-reviewed studies referenced in these articles used the same NASA computer models employed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and they predict (with a high degree of certainty) that the environmental consequences of the detonation of the U.S. and Russian arsenals in conflict could cause most humans and large animal populations to die from famine.
I urge you to review this work and to discuss it with the Russians. It is a mistake to maintain thousands of strategic nuclear weapons on high-alert when we know that their use will eliminate our nations, as well as all other nations and peoples.
Best regards,
Steven S.


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Tough budget choices ahead for school board
MARSHALL – Members of the Marshall School Board continued discussing preliminary 2013-2014 budget issues on Tuesday. This time, they were joined by Marshall teachers concerned that proposed budget cuts could hurt struggling students.
Marshall Superintendent Klint Willert said the district is faced with a projected deficit of $675,000. At Tuesday's meeting, he presented a list of possible budget adjustments that could mean more than $400,000 in savings for the district.
"It's just a proposal. Nothing is being acted on tonight," Willert said. A work session was planned to discuss the budget, and final action would be taken at the board's June meeting.
The possible savings Willert presented included reaching an agreement to waive a mandate to set aside two percent of the district's general fund for staff development. Others included staffing changes, like not replacing a social work position and a Title I position affected by a federal sequester.
The Title I program is focused on helping low-achieving and disadvantaged students. Willert said eliminating the Fast ForWord reading program, and reorganizing the district's reading coach and Response to Intervention programs were also possibilities.
Reorganizing the RtI program would mean Title staff will be responsible for reading interventions at the elementary level, Willert said.
"I'm a little concerned about cutting Title I," said school board member Matt Coleman. "It looks like you're giving them more to do," with fewer staff, he said.
"I would say that would be accurate," Willert said. He said the board will need to discuss and decide what it would be comfortable doing.
Board member Karen VanKeulen asked if the board could hear other options in the upcoming work session. Willert said it was "a tough question to answer." He said the suggestions he presented were some of the easier options to implement, without cutting into core education services.
"I think we've got to look at a lot of different options," said board member Curt Kovash.
"If we lose that safety net for young children, it will affect us down the road," said board chairman Jeff Chapman.
During the meeting's public forum, district teachers urged board members not to cut the Title I position. The proposed cut would reduce the attention Title teachers are able to give individual students, and make it harder to help the kids who are struggling most with reading, they said.
A request for an extended leave of absence from third-grade teacher Kristy Thomsen was also addressed during public forum. Thomsen said she had requested a five-year leave of absence from teaching to care for her son. District administration recommended that Thomsen's request be denied.
Minnesota statutes say school boards may grant a teacher an extended leave of absence without salary if they have been employed by the district for at least five years, and have at least 10 years of teaching service.
During the public forum, Thomsen said she understood that it wasn't recommended to grant her leave request because she didn't meet the statutory requirements. However, she asked board members to reconsider, and said in the past another district teacher had been granted extended leave without meeting requirements.
Willert acknowledged that the teacher Thomsen spoke of had been granted a leave of absence. However, he said, "I wouldn't consider it a precedent." He also said he was not aware of the state requirements at that time.
Extended leave requests are determined on a case-by-case basis, Willert said. Factors considered in granting or denying a request can include how difficult it is to fill a given teaching position, he said.
The board passed personnel actions as recommended by school administration, including the denial of Thomsen's leave request.


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Here's what is labelled an "outdoor campaign" by Duval Guillaume Brussels, I emailed and asked them where this ran because when I first saw the ads I misinterpreted them a little. I even went to Ooops.be to try and get wiser but there's nothing much on that site to be honest (except a great long list of ad agency clients under references, so I guess this means we need to pass ooops' spamfilter if we want to contact ad geeks in Belgium!) I blame my misunderstanding on my severe geek streak though, see inside.
Arite, first I didn't read the tagline right - I read "A better way to answer spam" and for a moment there I was convinced that Ooops offered some software or a spamfilter that actually talks back to spammers with witty retorts. How cool would that be!? (forget for a moment that most spammers can't be reached at the originating address). Fun-ney! Anyway, so that's clearly not what they're doing, they're just offering a spamfilter like every other ISP on the planet, albeit with ads (and supporting website) lacking all information on what kind of spamfilter it might be. What, greylisting? Using RBL's? Using SPF? Automatic reporting to RBL's and Spamcop this helping stem the flow of spam? What!? Geeks want to know, put the dang info somewhere - I mean you are running ads with the tagline "a better answer to spam". We assume "better" than the other ISP's who all also offer spamfilters at server level. Spam filters at server level can be great or disaster depending on how they are configured - you don't want a filter that bounces a mail that reads "the pen is mightier than the sword" because there's a "penis" in there. Nor do you want to reject mails from domains that might be interpreted as "bad words", and these mistakes are a lot more common than you think. That said, here's the ads.
Oh yeah, no reply yet on my email so I guess "outdoor campaign" will have to do. I guess by the shape of the ads, Abri posters/bus stops, that sort of thing.
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· Copywriter/Art Director: Robin Stam
· Designer: Cécile Van Caillie
· Media Planner: Davy Caluwaerts
· Account Manager: Matthias Dubois
· Client Contact: Eric Bockstael
· Advertising Agency : Duval Guillaume Brussels
· Published/Released (Month, Year): January 2008
These made me giggle.
I've seen websites where people actually engage in conversation with Nigerian spammers, giving increasingly ridiculous information (I recall one about a dwarf ranch owned by a Lord Vader, or something to that extent).
"Dwarf Vader"??? - Where is this? Skywalker Ranch?
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
I forget the details, but there were a ton of overt pop-culture references that the spammer didn't get due to lack of knowledge of Western culture. Quite amusing (it almost inspired me to start talking to spammers myself, but I decided I din't want to become the subject of a federal investigation or have my kidneys stolen).
I thought Dwarf Vader was the crazy guy who dances in the costume on YouTube. Of course you wouldn't know that since YouTube is blocked for you! :-)
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Good Wins for USA Teams
by Widya Susanto
The 2012 Thomas and Uber Cups Qualifying (TUCQ) Pan Am Preliminary was held from February 17 to 19, 2012, in the Los Angeles Badminton Club (LABC), an Olympic qualified badminton venue, that was just built specifically to host world class tournaments such as this one.
Eight Pan Am countries participated in the Thomas Cup TUCQ including Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Suriname, and USA.
In the pool play competitions, USA team played and earned its spots in the second stage of the competition - finishing second place in the pool, losing only to Guatemala team.
The USA team beat the Canada team in the Semi Finals without much difficulties, winning 3-0, advancing to the Final, and must face the Guatemala team once again.
USA team knew that the Final wasn't going to be easy since they lost all three Men Single matches to Guatemala just the day before. In the first Men Single match, despite best effort from Sattawat Pongnairat, he must submit to Kevin Cordon in two games 22-20, 21-14. The second Men Single, Howard Shu faced Rodolfo Ramires and amazingly played flawlessly and won in two games 21-14, 21-14. This win turned out to be a winning key for USA team. In the next line up, the second Mens Double, Howard Bach and Sattawat Pongnairat beat Anibal Marroquin and Jonathan Solis easily 21-12, 21-5.
Nicholas Jinadasa played in third Men Single against Heymard Humbler whom he lost to just the day before. Nicholas appeared to be much more composed and able to overcome his opponent in three matches 21-6, 19-21, 21-19.
With the third win, there was no need to play the fourth event where Tony Gunawan would be paired with Phillip Chew. USA team won its right to the Thomas Cup Finals in Wuhan China in May 2012.
The Uber Cup TUCQ was participated by five countries: Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico, and USA. The USA Uber Cup team played the other four countries in a Round Robin format in the three days competition. After winning three ties, USA faced seeded number one Canada team on the final day.
Rena Wang played in first Women Single and lost to Michelle Li in two very close games 19-21, 20-22. Second Women Single was played by Iris Wang who defeated Joycelyn Ko 22-20, 21-14. Jamie Subandhi played in third single against Christin Tsai in three exciting games and lost 21-17, 19-21, and 9-21.
USA Uber Cup team is down 2-1 at this point and found itself in a must win situation. Eva Lee and Paula Obanana played the first Women double against their nemesis Michell Li and Alex Bruce. This is one of most thrilling matches in the tournament, as the match went to third game, USA pair won by a close margin 21-17, 19-21, 23-21.
In the deciding match, the second doubles was played by Jamie Subandhi and Rena Wang against Joycelyn Ko and Grace Gao. The USA pair appeared to be too strong and won in an easy two games of 21-6, 21-8.
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Neil McCabe, a reporter for The Pilot newspaper in the Archdiocese of Boston, is experiencing the war in Iraq from the inside. But he's not just embedded as a journalist; he's a soldier. You can read about what he's found in Iraq, including the challenge of receiving the sacraments, here.
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We've just shipped off a shortlist to the mighty Freemasons so they can choose a winner of the remix competition for their album track Pacific we ran back in December 2007 (FM195). As you can see, listening to hundereds of versions of the same track can be a bit of a mind-fryer – but nothing a few coffees and Red Bull couldn't iron out.
Thanks to everyone one that entered. The selection was of such a high standard you didn't make our jobs any easier. Official winner announcement in FM203, August.


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Jesus helps all his disciples today to distinguish between selfless and selfish discipleship.Today, Jesus reminds us that he is to be handed over to men who will kill him, but then he will rise. He told us that we, too, if we are truly his followers, will deny ourselves, pick up our Cross each day, and follow him with love on the path to Calvary. And today he wants to strengthen us to have a similar holy ambition.
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Keywords: year of faith, ordinary time, fr. roger j. landry
FALL RIVER, MA (Catholic Online). In this Year of Faith, we have to examine where our real ambitions are with respect to our faith and whether our ambitions are also the Lord's ambitions for us. The readings the Church gives us today at daily Mass help us to do so.
The Gospel scene is, frankly, shocking. Imagine if a friend or family member of yours gave you the news that he was about to die. What would your first reaction be? All of us would hope that we would listen, express our compassion and compassion and see what we might do to help. We hope that we would never in that circumstance immediately say, "Can I get have your house?," or begin greedily asking about the details of the will.
Yet, that's what Jesus' friends did in today's Gospel.
Jesus today is telling the apostles for the second time about his upcoming suffering. He was about to be betrayed into the hands of those who would mock, scourge, crucify and kill him.Â
We would have expected, when Jesus was talking about this to his twelve closest companions, they would have been concerned about him. But they weren't. They immediately began to discuss not how they would help him, but how they would help themselves, arguing which one of them was the greatest.
It was a familiar pattern. Besides today's scene, there are a few other occasions when Jesus foretold his sufferings, and in every one, the apostles behaved in a truly startling way.
When Jesus described his sufferings for the first time, Peter, the newly named rock, took him aside to "rebuke" him, assuring him that no such thing would ever be allowed to happen to him. That tongue-lashing earned Peter in response the worst rebuke in Biblical history, being called by Jesus Satan, for trying to lead rather than to follow Jesus. Peter himself was thinking not as God thinks, Jesus told him, but as human beings do.
Later, when Jesus would announce a third time that the chief priests and the scribes would condemn him to death, deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, spat upon scourged and crucified, James and John, two of the three closest of the disciples, came up to him and asked him to give them a blank check and do whatever they asked of him. What they wanted was to sit one on his right and the other on his left as he entered his kingdom - oblivious to the fact that those spots were already pre-ordained by the Father for a good and bad thief.
And immediately after that, when the other apostles recognized what the sons of Zebedee had done, they got indignant at James and John, not because of the way they were trying to use Jesus, but because they were gutsy enough to ask for what the others didn't have the chutzpah but openly desired.
Perhaps the worst example of this type of unholy behavior occurred during the Last Supper. After Jesus indicated to them, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me," the apostles got into a dispute over which of them was the greatest. Rather than thinking about who would be the despicable betrayer, they were thinking about who would be the greatest, not recognizing at the time that all of them would end up betraying him.
These were all examples of what St. James describes as "selfish ambition." They were seeking their own interests, not those of the Lord. They were using him, not truly loving him.
What happened with them is a perennial warning to the Church, to the disciples of the Lord.
We might believe that we would never treat a friend like that, but the reality is that no matter how often we hear about Jesus' sufferings, crucifixion and death, no matter how frequently we stare at the Crucifix, rather than seek to console the Lord out of love, we, like the apostles, often just divert our attention to what we really love, our own plans, careers, worldly hopes and hungers.
It's perhaps even easier for us to do so than it was for the apostles to get spiritually distracted in this way with our own crude ambitions. We know the end of the story, and so we can relativize Jesus' sufferings on account of his Resurrection - at least outside of Lent.
On this second day of the return to Ordinary Time, however, the Church wisely doesn't allow us to do so.
Jesus tells us about his ambition and wants us to recalibrate our ambitions based on his. He would say elsewhere, referring to his baptism in blood, "I have a baptism with which to be baptized and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!" He wanted us to share in his ambition for souls to the point of sacrificing ourselves together with him for their salvation.
At a practical level, we can look at Jesus' six of Jesus' ambitions for us and ask if we are seeking them and living by them.
First, in this Year of Faith, we need to remember that Jesus wants us to be great in faith.
He praised the Syro-Phoenician woman and the Roman Centurion for their great faith and longed that all in Israel would emulate it. All the more, he would want us, his followers, to have great faith. And we should aspire to it with passion, begging him as he first disciples, "Lord, increase my faith!"
Second, Jesus wants to have an ambition to live by his truths and to pass them on to others.
Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, "Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." He wants us all to be great in that way.
Third, he wants us to have an ambition to be truly humble. That's not a contradiction in terms. "If anyone wishes to be first," he says, "he shall be the last of all."
That passion for humility leads to the fourth point: Jesus wants us to have an ambition to imitate him in total self-sacrificial service.
After one of the apostles' attempts at human ambition, Jesus said to them: "You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."Â
He reinforced this point at the Last Supper, when he washed their feet. After doing this, he told them and us: "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."
Jesus pointed out a child in today's Gospel not because a child was considered "innocent" but because a little child was insignificant. A child has many needs that parents and adults need to take of, and most often will not even say thanks in return, not to mention return the favor. Young kids almost never are able to engage in a mutually-beneficial quid-pro-quo. To serve them is almost by definition selfless.
Fifth, he wants us to seek to be great in love.
Moved by the Holy Spirit, St. Paul said to the Corinthians that they shouldn't be ambitious for the ability to speak in or interpret tongues, for the power to work miracles, for various positions in the Church, but that they should "strive eagerly" - be ambitious! - for the "greatest spiritual gifts" - faith, hope and love, of which love was the greatest.
St. Paul said in that famous passage it didn't suffice to have the faith to move mountains. It wasn't enough to give the body over as a martyr. One needed to do this with love. And someone who loves has a lot to work on. Out of love, he needs to learn how to be patient, kind, not jealous or boastful, insistent at his own way, arrogant or rude, irritable or resentful, rejoicing at the wrong of others. He needs to believe, hope and endure all things and rejoice in the truth. This is something to which Jesus definitely wants us all to inspire.
Lastly, Jesus wants us to be ambitious to be saints. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," Jesus said, echoing the prophets' call for us to be holy as the Lord, our God, is holy, so that we might fully become the image and likeness of the God who created us.Â
The question for us is not whether we have ambitions - we all have ambitions - but what our ambitions are. Are they for self-aggrandizement, for our getting ahead at the expense of others, or are they for the Lord?
The history of the Church is populated by both types of ambition. To the extent that the first is accentuated, great damage has been done. To the extent that the second happens, Christ's kingdom comes.
It's enlightening to look at the ambitions of many of the saints. St. Ignatius of Loyola had an ambition to do everything for God's glory. St. Francis Xavier had the ambition to bring whole nations to the Lord. St. Teresa of Avila had the ambition to reform the Carmelites so that it might sing forever of God's glory. Blessed Mother Teresa had the ambition to satiate Jesus' infinite thirst for souls.
Those who are striving to serve the Lord are striving for the Lord's glory, not their own. They trust the Lord to figure out where they're most needed, whether it's in a very prominent position in the eyes of the world or an insignificant one. Their ambition is to do the Lord's will, knowing that, if the Lord wants, he can take that humble service and multiply it to serve the world.Â
Today, Jesus reminds us that he is to be handed over to men who will kill him, but then he will rise. He told us that we, too, if we are truly his followers, will deny ourselves, pick up our Cross each day, and follow him with love on the path to Calvary. And today he wants to strengthen us to have a similar holy ambition.
As we go from prayer to the other things on our agenda today, let's ask God's help to think about these things rather than foment our desire for the greatest spiritual gifts and deeds. Let's ask for the holy ambition to follow Jesus up close along this path and to aspire to help to bring everyone else we know and we'll serve today in our work to join us on that road to heaven.
Father Roger Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River, MA and national chaplain of Catholic Voices USA. His homilies and articles are found on catholicpreaching.com
By Fr. James Farfaglia
The consideration of Jesus' baptism, gives us an opportunity to remember our own baptism. If you do not know the date of your own baptism, it is a good idea to go through your personal files and find out when it occurred. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic ... continue reading
By Fr Samuel Medley, SOLT
I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. HYTHE, KENT, UK (Catholic Online) - I didn't steal any cookies mommy! says a little boy whose mother asked him if he was hungry, wiping the ... continue reading
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The Spirit makes one man a teacher of divine truth, inspires another to prophesy, gives another the power of casting out devils, enables another to interpret holy Scripture. The Spirit strengthens one man's self-control, shows another how to help the poor, teaches ... continue reading
By Deacon Keith Fournier
It is not accidental that the Bible, from beginning to the end, uses marriage as a metaphor and a symbol to reveal the plan of God for the whole human race. Marriage was God's plan from the beginning as we see in the first book of Genesis. Throughout the Old ... continue reading
By Deacon Keith Fournier
"A sower went out to sow. And, as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for ... continue reading
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How we interpret the Bible is of immense importance! It directly affects what we believe about Christ, the Church, and our faith, but it is also related to many of the grave problems in our society and the world. Yet, despite the gravity of this situation, we have good ... continue reading
By Deacon Keith Fournier
We celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. It is one of many opportunities the Catholic Church year offers to each one of us to consider the creature called time, receive it as a gift, and begin to really live our lives differently. This is one of ... continue reading
By Deacon Keith Fournier
On the Solemnity of the Feast of Christ the King, the Sunday which marks both the end of the Church Year and the end of the Year of Faith, inaugurated by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis greeted thousands of the faithful and presided over Holy Mass and the ... continue reading
By Father Randy Sly
Becoming a House of Prayer is the best discipline we can take on. St. Ephraem of Syria states that Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy ... continue reading
By Deacon Keith Fournier
If this day you only knew what makes for peace- but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the ground and your ... continue reading


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I cleaned out my tea-station, and I still have around 30 open!!!
Just woke up with some sencha fuka-midori from Den's.
Salsero wrote:jogrebe wrote:As of now my teacup is filled with orange stuffed puerh, brewed with a few fragments of the dried orange peel.
Is that the one from Puerhshop. com? I just ordered some from there. Wherever it is from, what's it like? Is it good?


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Back And Forth
LAKEWOOD – Discussions will continue between Busti and Lakewood officials on an agreement for police services.
On Feb. 25, the Lakewood Village Board tabled the proposal to approve a five-year police services financial contract agreement with the town of Busti. On Feb. 19, the Busti Town Board agreed to a financial proposal from Lakewood Mayor David Wordelmann on a long-term contract for police services. Jesse Robbins, Busti supervisor, said the board unanimously agreed to the proposal that will increase how much town residents – those who live outside of the village – pay toward the police department. Officials from both municipalities have been discussing a new five-year police services contract since last year. A new contract, once approved, would start in 2014.
Wordelmann said he submitted a proposal as mayor to the town to review for police services. He said the Lakewood Village Board didn't approve the proposal before he submitted it to town officials. He said submitting a proposal was part of negotiations with town officials to reach a new contract agreement.
In November, officials from both municipalities agreed on a one-year contract extension for how much Busti pays Lakewood for police services. In the agreement, the town of Busti paid $360,000 in 2013, which was $20,000 more than it did in 2012. In recent years, the annual increase in how much the town pays for police services usually only increased $10,000.
Several times last year, officials from both sides met to negotiate a long-term contract agreement. No multi-year agreement was reached, so officials from both sides agreed on a contract extension for one year, which started Jan. 1.
When the town of Busti paid $360,000 to the village of Lakewood for police services for 2013, it was about 28 percent of the more than $1.3 million Lakewood-Busti Police Department budget. During negotiations on a long-term contract, it was determined the police department answered around 37 percent of its calls in the town of Busti, excluding the village. Because of this number, Lakewood officials have said they would like Busti residents to pay around 37 percent for police services. Wordelmann said in his financial proposal, by the end of the five years, Busti would be paying around $490,000 for the police department, which would be around 37 percent of the department's cost.
The mayor said future contract negotiations between the two sides will include a possible future discussion clause. He said the clause would state that at the end of three years of the contract, either side could opt to discuss a new deal or make changes to the current one. Wordelmann used the example that if mandates from New York state escalated the costs of the department, Lakewood officials could ask for more money from Busti. Wordelmann also used the example that if it was determined the amount of calls answered in Busti, excluding the village, lowered from 37 percent to 25 percent, Busti officials could ask to lower its payment.
"We will keep discussing it with Busti," Wordelmann said.
In other village business, a public hearing will be held at 6:45 p.m. Monday on a property tax cap override proposal. Wordelmann said, like last year, village officials will look to pass a resolution to override the state's 2 percent tax levy cap. The mayor said village officials don't intend to exceed the tax cap, but want to pass the resolution in case there is a mistake or miscalculation made in the budget. The village's fiscal year is June 1 to May 31.
"This is a procedural measure … to override it even if we don't intend to go over," he said.


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A guy came in last week asking about a possibly monthly event (pref a Saturday night) in Forest for 'Eclectic Mud' - a group of vinyl junkies who used to play in Nobles in Leith, but are looking to move to more congenial surroundings. They have their own decks - but would require PA - and understand about free events. They're not looking for money, they just want to play their music...
They seemed bona fide. I explained about the current 'non-amplified' status, and that anything that could happen with decks would happen in the New Year. Perhaps drop them an email, and see for a trial?
Contact is Andrew Hynd (or 'Fuz) - email email@example.com or mobile 07789851155


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Internship Information Day
Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25, 2013
Career Services hosts two Internship Information Days in our Leadership Lab (SC 218) on October 24th and 25th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Whether you are required to complete an internship as part of your degree or not, this is great information for landing an internship before you graduate.
Contact email@example.com with questions.
- Hosted by:
- Career Services
- Location:
- Student Center - Room 218
- Cost:
- Event is Free
- Audience:
- Current Students, Alumni & Friends
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JELL-O's Pity Pudding Promotion Plays Out Poorly
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
SF Weekly was on the scene to see how the second place Super Bowl promotion played out:
The plan to unload large amounts of free food, often in San Francisco's grittier neighborhoods, went about how you'd think it would. A JELL-O commercial became an impromptu dispensary on Ninth and Market, as men and women in worn hoodies and grimy jeans groped with both arms into the pudding vat, carting off mass quantities of the ersatz dessert. "You're just supposed to take one!" snarled a pudding worker to a sunken-eyed woman smoking a cigarette down to the butt and loping away with a dozen pudding cups. JELL-O's smarmy tagline leading into their Loser Pudding giveaway was "nothing masks the bitter taste of defeat like the sweet taste of JELL-O Pudding!" Many of the folks helping themselves to armfuls of pudding apparently required extra large masks following strings of defeats a bit more consequential than losing some football game.
The workers regulating the flow of JELL-O to San Francisco's downtrodden population were polite and professional. But this was a rough gig. "I'd rather have a Vince Lombardi trophy, too," admitted one.


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French Breakfast Puffs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- Coating:
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 12 muffin cups.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Set aside.
In a separate large bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening. Add the eggs and mix again. Alternate adding one-third of the flour mixture and one-third of the milk to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
Fill the muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the muffins from the pan and set aside.
To make the coating, melt the butter in a bowl or glass pan. In a separate container, combine the sugar and cinnamon.
Dip the warm muffins in the butter, coating thoroughly.
Then roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Don't be afraid to really coat 'em up. Let the kids help!
Cook Notes: Cinnamony-sweet perfection! The deliciousness of these beauties is not to be underestimated.
Helpful Hint: After cooling completely, puffs can be frozen in plastic bags and reheated later. They're in the "reheats beautifully" section of my life.
Recipe courtesy of Ree Drummond
Cooking Tips
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Dustin O'Halloran: LumierePosted by Christian Carey in CD Review
Dustin O'Halloran
Fat Cat Records CD
It seems fitting, in a way, that pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran calls Los Angeles home. His post-classical instrumental compositions are frequently evocative in a fashion that's also come to be associated with (good) film music: atmospheric, melodically direct, and capable of expressing a wide range of emotions. And even though O'Halloran has become active as a film composer in recent years, scoring An American Affair and the upcoming Like Crazy (out in October), he remains involved in creating music separate from images that's equally involving.
Lumiere, O'Halloran's debut for the Fat Cat imprint, is some of his most arresting music to date. With sterling support from Jóhann Jóhannsson, who handles engineering and mixing duties and contributes electronics to the proceedings, as well as members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) recording the string parts, O'Halloran crafts more intricate arrangements than those found on previous albums. While elaborations don't inherently enhance, here they allow O'Halloran's piano to become one texture among many, a percussive foil for richly layered strings and synths. Passages reminiscent of Francophone neoclassicism, variously recalling Satie's Gymnopedies and Parisian waltzes, as well stretches bell-tinged minimalism, are frequently present in this collection of compelling compositions. Here's hoping that O'Halloran will be able to maintain both scoring and non-programmatic creation in the rotation for a long time to come.


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Pacificon '09, the ARRL Pacific Division Convention is part of EMCOMMWEST this year with the activities taking place from May 1-3 at Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Reno, Nevada. The banquet speaker at EMCOMMWEST?PACIFICON '09 will be Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH. Riley was in charge of amateur radio enforcement at the FCC when he retired. I (VE3HG) heard him speak at Dayton last year and he's got some really good things to say about ham radio and our ability to self-enforce our use of the radio spectrum.
Lots of workshops from ARES and how to build an exercise to buildling an 18-tube ham band receiver (Didn't we used to call that a Hammarlund HQ-170?) . There's also a swap meet and lots of workshops. So while you are learning more about emergency communicaitons and ham radio, any none hams in the family can take in the casino.


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Does anyone know where this can be bought, or even better if Cloud is still around?
Regarding the latter I think the answer is no. Tried to email him last year (when I was living in Hong Kong) to no aval. I'm very interested in getting my hands on that book, but the only sellers I've found is a sketchy Amazon seller (only one rating, one star) plus a German shop that wants £89 for it.
Any ideas? (New or used, doesn't matter.)
And are there any other good books dealing with the same subject available in English? My Chinese is still way too basic...


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by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp. has confirmed delay of its highly-anticipated code-named Ivy Bridge microprocessors by up to eight to ten weeks than originally anticipated due to issues with the company's next-generation manufacturing process technology. It is unclear whether setbacks with 22nm manufacturing tech will cause delays for other products.
Sean Maloney, the head of Intel's business unit in China, said in an interview with Financial Times news-paper that the Core i-series "Ivy Bridge" central processing units would go on sale eight to ten weeks later than initially planned. The high-ranking executive from Intel did not elaborate, but said that schedule adjustments were made "because of the new manufacturing process".
X-bit labs reported on Monday that Intel would start to sell the first high-end Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" products on April 29, 2012. Mass availability of dual-core Core i5/i7 as well as desktop quad-core Core i5 central processing units will start from June 3, 2012. The remaining 22nm chips, such as mobile dual-core as well as desktop Core i3, will be launched in summer and fall, respectively.
It remains to be seen whether delayed roll-out of Ivy Bridge microprocessors for desktops and laptops will also mean postponements in shipments of other products made using 22nm tri-gate process technology. Intel has a number of promising 22nm products in the pipeline, including next-generation Xeon processors for servers and workstations as well as HPC compute accelerators code-named Knights Corner.
Since Core i-series "Ivy Bridge" chips were supposed to bring massive performance and feature improvements to mainstream systems, it is likely that their delay will affect performance of PC makers and other companies participating in the industry.


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Longitudinal evaluation of milk type consumed and weight status in preschoolers
- 1Division of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- 2Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Mark Daniel DeBoer, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, PO Box 800386, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; deboer{at}virginia.edu
- Received 4 September 2012
- Revised 10 December 2012
- Accepted 16 January 2013
- Published Online First 18 March 2013
Objective To evaluate relationships between type of milk consumed and weight status among preschool children.
Design Longitudinal cohort study.
Setting The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, a representative sample of US children.
Participants 10 700 US children examined at age 2 and 4 years.
Main outcome measures Body mass index (BMI) z score and overweight/obese status as a function of milk type intake.
Results The majority of children drank whole or 2% milk (87% at 2 years, 79.3% at 4 years). Across racial/ethnic and socio-economic status subgroups, 1%/skim milk drinkers had higher BMI z scores than 2%/whole milk drinkers. In multivariable analyses, increasing fat content in the type of milk consumed was inversely associated with BMI z score (p<0.0001). Compared to those drinking 2%/whole milk, 2- and 4-year-old children drinking 1%/skim milk had an increased adjusted odds of being overweight (age 2 OR 1.64, p<0.0001; age 4 OR 1.63, p<0.0001) or obese (age 2 OR 1.57, p<0.01; age 4 OR 1.64, p<0.0001). In longitudinal analysis, children drinking 1%/skim milk at both 2 and 4 years were more likely to become overweight/obese between these time points (adjusted OR 1.57, p<0.05).
Conclusions Consumption of 1%/skim milk is more common among overweight/obese preschoolers, potentially reflecting the choice of parents to give overweight/obese children low-fat milk to drink. Nevertheless, 1%/skim milk does not appear to restrain body weight gain between 2 and 4 years of age in this age range, emphasising a need for weight-targeted recommendations with a stronger evidence base.


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Skip to comments.Mass Demonstrations Across Texas Demanding Marriage Equality [protest anti-gay Rick Perry]
Posted on 10/17/2011 8:20:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
While we've never dated a Texan, we can assume by the actions taking place across Texas tomorrow that the saying "Everything is bigger in Texas" is, indeed, true. Find out what nine different cities have in store to protest anti-gay lawmakers like Governor Rick Perry.
On Saturday, October 15, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Harlingen, Houston, Huntsville, Odessa and San Antonio will unite in the struggle for marriage equality.
From public and boisterous marches and rallies to intimate and symbolic marriage and committment ceremonies, the nine cities aim to send a message to their leaders that all families deserve equal protection and recognition.
"The doors to religious-based ceremonial weddings are wide open for same-sex couples throughout our state as more and more religious leaders are supportive of marriage equality for LGBT Texans," says Jay Morris, co-lead organizer for GetEQUAL Texas. "Unfortunately, the doors to the house of justice have been slammed in our faces, and 1,138 federal rights provided by marriage are denied to our families due to state and federal regulations like the Defense of Marriage Act. Today, we are protesting that state and federal inequality and drawing attention to the need for pro-family laws that will provide safety and protection for ALL Texas families, including the over 17,000 children being raised by same-sex couples in Texas."
Various other organizations in Texas are participating and helping to organize specific local events, including PFLAG and The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin.
Aug 28, 2011:Rick Perry pledges to support traditional marriage ""Kudos to Governor Rick Perry for making it clear: he's a marriage champion," National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown said in a statement.
By signing the pledge, "Perry makes crystal clear that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, gay marriage is going to be even a bigger issue in 2012 than it was in 2008," Brown said, "because the difference between the GOP nominee and President (Barack) Obama is going to be large and clear."
The pledge also includes a vow to support the Defense of Marriage Act in court, appoint judges and an Attorney General who will respect "the original meaning of the Constitution," and appoint a presidential commission to investigate harassment of "traditional marriage" supporters."............
Thank you mr perry; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793891/posts
Contact CASH and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, "family values" hypocrite and fraud."
They're protests were about as big as your protest org.whodat.
Their —
What a disgusting website.
On one of my awful night mare travels to the north east I saw on one car a sticker saying.
"Family values" another sticker said Pro family and then I saw the other sticker.
"Marriage equality, love comes in all ways"
On the side of the car it has yet another sticker
"it was the American flag but had rainbow colors and a peace sign where the stars go"
Seen another car with a sticker saying "Catholic for marriage equality"
Now that is an oxymoron right away, how on earth can one be Catholic and yet pro homo or not have a problem with homo's or their agenda?
The left and homosexuals use the name game to make some think they are Christian, pro family etc, they play the victim all the time but ask them if one man should have more than one wife and they say no, don't be stupid, that is outrageous and then go on a massive rant of saying how you blew it out of proportion, that you are hateful etc.
Of course these dopes do not see the hypocrisy they are using.
During his speech, Perry referenced his signing of a bill to revoke the taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business in his home state of Texas.
Im proud to fight for and was proud to sign a budget that defunded Planned Parenthood in Texas, Perry said. Our obligation is not only to protect life and bestow freedom on future generations, but its also to instill character.
Perry has received an A grade from the two leading pro-life groups in Texas.
Governor Rick Perry has always championed the pro-life cause, tirelessly advocating for the sanctity of innocent human life in numerous ways, Texas Right to Life executive director Elizabeth Graham tells LifeNews.com.
Governor Perry has worked alongside Texas Right to Life, helping shepherd our pro-life bills and eagerly supporting our measures, Graham said. As governor of Texas, he has intervened to stop anti-life legislation on a number of occasions, and he has helped clear obstacles when necessary......
Whatever else one can say about Perry, you can't say that he isn't a staunch support of real marriage.
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Their protests were pathetic and yet again homosexuals or the left , both of the same try and tell us they are the majority but hate it when people get to vote on the issues and their agenda.
Perry's push for the sonogram bill has fortified his long-standing ties to family values and pro-life groups but it has also made him a target from other circles.
"We would aggressively work to defeat him [Perry], of course," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, which describes itself as non-partisan but typically backs Democrats. Star Telegram
In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence "When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan jabbed Mr. Perry on public schools in mid-August, it was only the latest skirmish between the governor and the Obama administration since late 2009, when Mr. Perry announced that the state would not sign on to common core-curriculum standards."...
Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry Americas trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred and fear as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.
And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.
Thats a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors.
You blame Perry for that? Pathetic
Oh....so the Ron Paul-backed swishers are at it again...
Yet, we are led to believe by the Fangirls that a semi-literate Texas governor who is polling behind Michele Bachmann in New Hampshire is the only Republican that can stop Romney and beat Obama. LOL!
The Left is priming the pump.
Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future........."This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.
What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States."............
Sierra Club: Perrys Energy Plan: Wheeze Baby Wheeze [American families have enough to worry about] "Today, Texas Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry unveiled his energy plan for America. The plan, if implemented, will poison our air and water with toxic pollutants like soot, smog, arsenic, cadmium, dioxin, lead, and formaldehyde. It would also undercut safeguards from mercury, which is a neurotoxin and is known to harm developing fetuses. Rick Perrys energy plan reads like a roadmap for making Americas kids sick, said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. Under this plan, we can expect to see much higher rates of asthma among children, and risk to pregnant women from mercury..."
Blame, you have a reading problem, I thanked him, they only thing missing is the fox hug.
I really like Bachmann, but I don't think she can win. As of now I'm for Cain, but will support whoever wins the nomination. Even if it's mittens (barf), I'll have to vote for him over OCommie.
What values do you look for in a candidate?
Doesn't matter - just trash Perry even when he fights for the values that are dear to Free Republic.
Well a person that could walk and talk and chew gum at the same time. Would be a good place to start, then add "none life time politician" and the absolute requirement they support the rule of law. Need more?
How has you cadidate fought for our values? Perry has been a strong advocate for our values for many years but you choose only to use condescending attacks on him to turn people against him and away from his message on fighting for our values.
Why don't you show how your candidate has been better for fighting for our values rather than trashing Perry as he fights for family values?
I guess your candidate fought against some really huge demonstrations?
The ALL-CAPS in the word ALL means that they are including anyone who wants to get married, including bigamists, plural marriagists, people wanting to marry family members or pets. Right?
Otherwise, they want to exclude some people from "marriage", I want to exclude other people from "marriage", why are they more right than me?
you mention the Sierra club.
I went to a meeting of theirs to see what they get up to and what they say.
Now they are supposed to be about wildlife, etc.
are they hell.
They talked about getting salads etc in the local schools, they talked about looking to get certain people elected in certain areas and in their words that night "taking over counties one by one"
There was only 11 people there including 5 high school girls of whom were pushing their school to change their menu's at lunch.
Gov Rick Perry spoke to LaRaza about the drug cartels, shared responsibility of border security and that it is Washington's responsibility to secure the border -- that the Federal government should support the military, deliver the mail and secure the border -- and they aren't doing their job. [HE RECEIVED a lot of applause] He spoke of the money Texas spends securing the border, that it must be sealed and then we can sustain legitimate commerce...He told about protecting the sanctity of the vote and strengthening our shared values, family, faith hard work -- they are TEXAS values and we should unite as citizen's of one Nation under God and concentrate on what unites us. He told his Cuervo joke and they found it funny unlike the Liberal Latino Leaders Give Perry Lukewarm Response (or more likely they'd heard it before)
CAIR Disappointed with Rick Perry, and Thats a Good Thing........."Unfortunately, as I described in Perry is not the 5th column candidate this weekend at Pajamas Media, some took the bait. A few writers unleashed hell on Perry, probably not realizing that the governors relationship with the Ismailis could be used to further alienate and minimize CAIR, ISNA, and other Muslim Brotherhood-linked unindicted coconspirators in Americans largest terrorism financing trial. I argued that this lack of connectivity to groups that promote political Islam and Shariah was a smart move on Perrys part:".............
Amil Imani: Governor Perry's Islam Connection Being a lifelong critic of Islam, red flags popped up in my head at Perry's purported cozy relationship with Islam and prompted me to look very closely at the governor's record on this particular issue and at this specific time...... .No matter how I tried, I couldn't reach the conclusion that this inclusion promotes Islam or is pro-Sharia. It seems that the mere fact that Islam is included in the curriculum represents supporting it. And with regard to the concern that the education curriculum Perry promoted is pro-Arab and against Israel, the evidence is exactly the opposite. The lesson on Israel reads: ..
David Stein: Debunking the Rick Perry Pro-Shraria School Curriculum Myth .Salon.com recently pulled a neat little trick, one that is currently paying great dividends The liberal mega-site recently ran a piece that essentially accuses Governor Rick Perry of being a pro-Sharia candidate (complete with a ridiculously crude photoshopped image of Perry standing next to a Muslim crescent). Of course, the title of the piece, Rick Perry: The Pro-Sharia Candidate? ends with a question mark. Ha ha! Its not an accusation its just a question! Arent we clever, Salon.com. .
Gov Perry's stand against amnesty is summed up pretty well by Marco Rubio:
November 2009: Rubio: Reagan erred in supporting 1986 amnesty for illegal immigrantsIf you grant amnesty, the message that youre sending is that if you come in this country and stay here long enough, we will let you stay. And no one will ever come through the legal process if you do that.
Rubio said the U.S. must first get control of its borders and its visa system, which often allows people to enter legally but remain after their visas expire.
Only after you deal with illegal immigration in a serious way seal the border and the visa problem can you then create a legal immigration system that works. That still leaves you with 11 million people that are here illegally, Rubio said.
While criticizing amnesty for those illegals, he also rejected the idea of a massive police-state roundup. He suggested requiring tamper-proof residency and guest-worker cards and fining employers who dont verify that their workers are legal. That, Rubio said, would bring the 11 million figure down dramatically by attrition.
Asked later about about Reagans support for amnesty, Rubio said, I think he did it for the right reasons, but I think it ended up working the wrong way.
Rubios no-amnesty stance on illegal immigrants has drawn some criticism from immigration hard-liners who say Rubio didnt advance the issue when he was House speaker and the collapse of federal immigration reform efforts led state legislators around the U.S. to propose a variety of state-level immigration measures."......
Majority? That is your argument?
You can't defend your candidate's record of never taking a real fight for anything.
So you say the majority don't care about other candiates record of fighting for family values?
The environmentalists were all over shutting down Texas infrastructure (claiming 20 lanes running from Mexico to Canada)
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A record of fighting for family values is a liberal attack?
You show your true colors more and more everyday.
Perry should drop out and endorse Cain. He is only helping Romney otherwise. Any vote for Perry is a vote for Romney at this point.
Could be different polls numbers next month. That's how I have seen the polls thus far.
Can you ever post on the topic or do you just like to troll and disrupt threads?
No he shouldn't because the vetting is just beginning with Cain. His gaffes and flip flops are big enough to know that he just might get knocked down like the others. There hasn't been one vote cast yet.
The others led the polls because they weren't yet known. Herman Cain has been in this race for a long time. He has risen to the top of the polls, not because of people projecting themselves onto him, but because people HAVE gotten to know him.
Herman Cain is all anyone is talking about here in South Carolina. The poll today that shows him up 16% is no surprise to me.
When others had their flirtation with being frontrunner, the field wasn't set. Now it is. There simply isn't a viable alternative to Cain. All that the also-rans like Perry can do is throw stones and maybe elect Romney.
That is why I say that Perry should drop out and stop his pointless campaign. He had his shot and he blew it.
Of course that's how you see it, because you're married to your candidate. You can't seem to accept the fact that Perry is finished.
When it was sure that the field was set, Cain became the conservative candidate. That won't be changing.
He hasn't been vetted until the last week due to his former position in the polls. He is not fit for the office of potus as he has to backtrack nearly everything he says. He flip flops nearly as much as Romney.
Actually his rise in the polls came when Palin finally came out and said she wasn't running. Most of the new fans were simply the rabid Palinistas.
He is good at marketing and motivation since that is his job. The thing is those are just talk, not real actions. It's the same type of emotion driven reaction like 2008 with 0bama. I thought conservatives were more rational but it's obvious that isn't the case.
Well, they're rational enough to not support La Raza Rick. And thank God for that.
No they aren't rational. It's the same type of hysterical emotion driven crap as the 0bama zombies fell for. He's a motivational speaker and makes good money spreading the BS people want to hear.
The fact is that too many people have disengaged their brains in this election and are buying the lies on immigration issue being pushed by eugenics supporting white nationalists.
"Mass" demonstrations? We had 60 sleazebags here in a park.
Actually, that's more of them than I realized. LOL!
Wrong once again:
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Hi all,
I am having a strange problem with Flash at the moment, one of my clients wants a video on their website, so I have uploaded a FLV player I have been using for a while (I think it's the JW FLV player or something). In the backend CMS it works fine (using exactly the same code as the frontend), in both Safari and FF, but in the front end it only works in Safari, which is very odd.
I thought it could be cross domain conflicts, but after reverting to a relative URL it still isn't working. I followed the Flash Satay method (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay) to no avail, and below is the code (have added full domains so you can test):
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There is also a test page up at: http://herpetosure.com/test, as you can see not even the basic flash player is loaded (at least for me anyway).
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I've been experimenting with hydrations levels and have a question regarding how and if hydration amounts affect yeast action. I've made 3 different dough each with varying levels of hydration but the same percentage of yeast - .5 IDY. This time with a hydration level of 65% my dough developed large bubble(s) which at lower level they did not. From what I understand on the site, those large bubbles are undesirable. I've made the dough like you recommend, mixing, portioning then right into the refrigerator in plastic containers for 2 - 3 days. Each time before they rose but never developed the large bubble(s) so my question is does larger hydration amounts affect yeast action? Should yeast percentages be lowered as hydration amounts increase? Thank you, Cindy
Just to oversimplify, it seems what has been said is that more hydration = faster fermentation. Is that correct?
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I am happy to report that I slept like a baby last night. I guess sushi and Guinness helps out with that.
Franco, Roseberry is right! It's 12 hours to kickoff, and you need to be working up the roux for that gumbo!
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Dial Help holds suicide prevention webcast
By GARRETT NEESE
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HANCOCK – People from various local groups met Thursday to find out ways to help prevent suicides.
Dial Help hosted a suicide prevention webcast and community planning event at the Copper Country Intermediate School District building in Hancock. The event began the 75-day lead-up to National Suicide Awareness Day on Sept. 10.
Speaking at the CCISD was Sandra McGovern, clinical director for inpatient psychiatric services at Marquette General Hospital. She presented a suicide prevention plan she is helping develop for Marquette County for her doctoral dissertation.
It's a larger undertaking than she thought when she started.
"It really is big, and it really is – not difficult, because everybody wants to collaborate, but it's hard to get everyone in the room at the same time," she said.
And a plan is needed, she said. Suicide is the 10th-biggest cause of death in Michigan. They're even more prevalent in the Upper Peninsula – 17.1 per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2009, 48 percent higher than the rest of the state.
The first step in the plan was a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. The breadth of the regional health system was a plus, as is LifePoint's expansion to smaller hospitals throughout the U.P, as well as community member support. However, there is still limited access to treatment, followup care and referrals; there are only 56 psychiatric beds in the Upper Peninsula. Primary care providers also lack confidence in dealing with suicide.
"They're afraid to ask about suicide," McGovern said. "They don't feel they're trained in it."
Other goals are to increase staff and physician awareness of suicide and decreasing delays in treatment of depression and suicide risk. But there are still threats such as funding cuts to mental health, the continued high unemployment rate and the high percentage of gun ownership in the U.P.
One step would be a Nurse Practice Act, which would allow Blue Cross/Blue Shield to pay for referrals to nurse practitioners. Legislation is in the state House of Representatives, McGovern said.
"This is something we really need to work on for our rural communities," she said.
McGovern said she would like to see Marquette County enact the strategic plan by January 2015, and have the plan accepted U.P.-wide by that December.
McGovern was preceded by the two-hour webcast "Everyone Plays a Role in Suicide Prevention: Turning Strategy into Action," broadcast from Chicago. That included a range of experts on topics such as suicide counseling in the military and among Native American populations.
Attendees at the event said it was useful.
"It was excellent," said Barbara McLean, a counselor who is an independent contractor at Dial Help. "All kinds of up-to-date and evidence-based information, and also on the leading edge," she aid. And also the fabulous variety of experts who have been in the trenches. My only disappointment, really, was we didn't have more people from the schools and other agencies, because this is so important."
Chris Walkons, a student at Michigan Technological University, came because he is interested in volunteering.
"I've never been involved in anything like this before, so it was a good way of getting some introductory information about the topic and getting some information about preliminary ways of being able to address this problem," he said.


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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: First timer but will be back againIn full: I don't know why I have not done this race before it was brilliant. Organisation was great (even down to the weather), course was awesome and the whole experience was superb. The best word must go out to all the marshall's who were just the best and friendliest I have ever come across. The water stations were perfectly placed and well stocked and the additions of sponge stations just capped it all off. Finally the finish area was worth running for - not many races you can sit on the grass with a pint in one hand and a home made cake in the other.Date of review: July 7, 2014
In short: Another year another well organised fast raceIn full: Yet again the organisers did a good job. Better this year in so far as the only incline (slip road to get over A4) was in first 2K rather than at 7K. Crowds in centre were brilliant which always makes for a superb finishDate of review: May 7, 2013
In short: What a change from last year - really good race and points taken on bpardIn full: Ran the race last year and even without weather issues there would have been problems but as for this year the organisers have certainly taken on board issues and in general corrected them. The course, even with its loops back on itself was more friendly and actually led to larger crowds at more points. The people of Altrincham again did themselves proud but also the crowds at the the top of Brooklands Road were phenomonal coming back up to the top of Brooklands Road was like at the top of a climb on the Tour de France - the spectators narrowed the course (not a problem) and it was like going through a sound tunnel - Brilliant. The bag pick up was brilliant this year and worked superbly. As for the weather if you could ask for a perfect day for a marathon that is what you would ask for. A superfast course I think everyone I spoke to after the race had set PB's and big ones at that (me included). Only gripe was the mile markers seemed to be non existent - not a problem if like me you have a Garmin but really should have been more prominent. Water Stations really well run and Marshalling in general was superb. Thankyou Oraganisers, Spectators and Marshalls for making it a very good day.Date of review: April 30, 2013
In short: First time and won't be lastIn full: From arriving to leaving the organisation was superb. As for the race it too was really good even if Spring Hill was challenging. The spectators out on the course kept everyone going even when it was tough. The Marshalls were superb.Date of review: March 1, 2013
In short: Great Organisation and brilliant MarshallsIn full: Not a race I would do again due to is being a 3 lap race. However as far as Organisation went it was teriffic. The marshalls were the best I have come across at any race I have done - usually you get the odd Marshall who does not want to be there but every one here was smiling and encouraging they were brilliant. Date of review: November 19, 2012
In short: Hilly but enjoyableIn full: Not so sure about the picking up of numbers before race as this was a bit hectic but FairPlay to organisers the race still started on time. Marshalls around course were excellent and so encouraging. Not a PB race but the hills are not overly hard they just test you. Well done againDate of review: October 14, 2012
In short: Well organised but tough courseIn full: This was very well organised and the course,although alot more hilly than the gently undulating quote used by organisers, was very pleasing to run. Not often you get water in bottles at each water station on local races and this was brilliant.Date of review: September 4, 2012
In short: Pleasant Friday Night raceIn full: Organisation was good and the friendliness of everyone was brilliant. The inclines on the course made it a non PB event but overall they made for a tougher run.Date of review: July 2, 2012
In short: Great PB Potential and well organisedIn full: Organisation was very good although not a great race for spectators to be able to move between points due to route. Virtually flat and very quick. Great finishing area lots of space.Date of review: May 21, 2012
In short: Shame about the Organisation at start and finishIn full: Firstly the massive positives - Marshalls were brilliant out in that foul weather as for crowds well what more can be said - seeing wetaher in morning I expected limited people to brave it and come out to cheer how wrong could I be they were there in their numbers and were awesome, the noise of the crowd as you went through Altrincham was unbelievable - so massive thanks to Crowd and Marshalls. the course was very good and quick as well yes there were issues through Dunham massey butn this was due the weather and would have been fine otherwise.Now for negatives and these were major. No time had been taken to think what might happen if we had had inclement weather so both the at the start and the finish the organisation in the village was appalling and actually that is all I have to say as otherwise I could be here all day.Date of review: May 1, 2012
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This report on demand response and advanced metering fulfills a requirement of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) section 1252(e)(3)1 that requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) to prepare and publish an annual report, by appropriate region, that assesses electricity demand response resources, including those available from all consumer classes. The report begins with the introduction (Chapter 1), which describes the report structure. There are four other chapters in this report that provide the information requested by EPAct 2005 section 1252(e)(3).
Chapter 2 presents the survey results on the penetration of advanced metering nationally, regionally, by type of utility, customer class, and by state. This chapter also discusses the key new developments, issues, and trends in the deployment and adoption of advanced metering
Chapter 3 briefly introduces each type of demand response program and the various time-based rates. It presents the survey results on demand response programs, including time-based rate programs, and gives the regional and national distribution of these programs, as measured by the number of enrolled customers reported in the 2008 FERC Survey. This chapter also uses the 2008 FERC Survey data to estimate the size of the demand response resource in the United States today.
Chapter 4 reviews demand response trends and developments. This chapter summarizes activity on demand response at the national and state level, and identifies several key trends in demand response implementation policy. In addition, this chapter reviews Commission demand response activities and steps that have been taken to ensure comparable treatment of demand response in regional transmission planning.
Chapter 5 summarizes and analyzes the barriers to demand response identified from various sources.
This report also contains seven appendices that provide reference material and additional detail on the 2008 FERC Survey and survey respondents. Appendix A lists the statutory language in section 1252 of EPAct 2005. Appendix B lists the acronyms used in this report. Appendix C contains a glossary of the key terms used in this report and the 2008 survey. Appendix D presents additional detail on the 2008 FERC Survey and documents survey response rates. Appendix E lists the respondents to the 2008 FERC Survey. Appendix F lists the entities that indicate that they operate demand response programs in their responses to the 2008 survey. Appendix G provides data tables associated with each of the figures in this report.


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Friday, May 6, 2011
For my madcap son, on his fourth birthday
My boy, my boy
Come talk to me
Tell me where the years took flight
Man, four years! I can only shake my head in disbelief at that. I guess the sleep deprivation has dulled my senses, specially the ones that mark the passage of time. All I can say is, I am glad he is not turning two. That, my dear friends, was one hell of a party, except that it was more hell and less party. It didn't look like it at the time but we did make it past that, and then another year and look at him now, he is playing with the globe and wants to know where Angola is.
This last year was extra-important in the overall scheme of things because as soon as he had finished cutting the cake and blowing out the candles, he was presented with a baby sister. Hey look, a birthday present for you, a baby! Enjoy the responsibility, happy birthday. He does take his role as Ragini's older brother very seriously. What sort of a baby have I got, he queries, I am asking her not to eat tissue paper and she is biting me. Tough times.
The shyness keeps coming and going but there is more evidence of a social being, someone who perhaps can tolerate the human race. Somewhat.
It's really difficult to encapsulate a whole year into one milestone letter. All I can say that some things remained the same. I am as far from being a perfect mother as conceptually possible. The house is messy. The maids are forever quitting and staging walk-outs. I regularly have nuclear meltdowns of my own, some of them quite capable of stunning even the kids into silence. I yell and scream and say No! No! No! much more than I should, despite all those e-mail forwards that instruct me not to, if I want to truly enjoy these years. In fact, I think there is way too much emphasis on enjoyment. There is no time for all that touchy-feely nonsense, I say. Not for me.
But there were things that changed too. The house became...well...fuller somehow.I fretted endlessly about sibling rivalry, about the boy feeling neglected when the princess arrived and all sorts of things that only I can think up. Well, I should have spent all that time worrying about something else because he clearly adores her. More than anything, she amuses him, like a pet almost and I think we can live with that.
He still looks like me and like M and on good days, like distant granduncles and aunts. On my side, ha.
There is still no interest in food. He eats to keep us happy. The foodie gene has mutated.
He speaks English like a native of Bandra, which he is I guess and these days has taken to the upsetting habit of adding a questioning No? after every phrase. Mama, that boy no, he is my friend no and he wants me to come to his party no so you will take me no? I respond calmly, meaning I clench my teeth and shout - Adi, you don't have to say no after everything, no?
His Hindi on the other hand seems to a nod to our colonial past. I do think I saw him shed a silent tear when Bob Christo died. Daddy, what is that long thing with which we clean the floor, he asks the other day. Abey, angrez ki aulaad, jhadoo bolte hain usse, said the frustrated father. I think M and I should spend more time conversing with each other in Hindi. It's just that we cannot spell bad words in Hindi when we need to (and we do need to...at least I do).
He is a bit of a geek, there's no getting around that. He is fascinated by all things gadgety and electronic. We visited someone recently who had remote controlled curtains. You know the rest of the story. Let's just say peace was bought with a Spongebob DVD. He loves to read and write and know things. Most tiresome, when I am trying to focus and write the magnificent total of a hundred words everyday. But it's a fair trade-off. It's amazing to have a super-bright kid around. These days for example we are very heavily into saving the environment. We like to spot The Green Triangle on things and then we want to put them in 'a magic machine' that will throw out new things. Now to figure access to this magic machine.
So yes, fun year. Very tough, no doubt but rewarding in the non-monetary sense (always a toughie, that one). One whole year of being a mum to two. Surprises will never cease.
Happy birthday, Aditya. Live very long and very happy.
13 comments:
- Pepper said...
Happy Birthday Adi :)
- May 7, 2011 at 12:25 AM
- Mamma mia! Me a mamma? said...
Happy birthday, Adi love!
May the year ahead be full of lots more gadgetry, discovery, sibling bonding and some honest-to-goodness globe-trotting.
Hugs, sweetie. You're a big boy now!
- May 7, 2011 at 12:39 AM
Happy Birthday Adi. Have a great year ahead. Much love.
- May 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Richa said...
Hilarious...specially..the angrez ki aulad part!!
But very touching too. Its good to record milestones like that. You can read them after sometime and feel good about it.
Happy birthday to Adi. God bless!
- May 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- dipali said...
Awesome Adi! He had to be, with the two of you for parents:)
God bless the boy and his little princess sister!
- May 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM
- Anuradha said...
Very happy birthday to Adi! :) Reading about him has made me smile oh so often. God bless him.
- May 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM
- GB said...
Happy birthday to the little cutie......
- May 7, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Chandni said...
Adi turned 4?/ ALREADY?????
Okay, time to calm down. That's me talking to myself. He's a big boy no?
I adore your kids, I think he's a perfect little man and he will grow up to be a fine old man!
Happy birthday Adi. Some day when you read this, I'll show you a picture of you and me, and you'd know you had me at hello :)
- May 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- R's Mom said...
Happy Belated Birthday Adi :) I so loved the post and Parul be happy he doesnt speak Hindi...Since he is mumbai he will end up speaking typical Mumbaiyya hindi like my daughter which sounds really really weird!
- May 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Rads said...
Happy Birthday Adi (albeit belated ) :)
- May 12, 2011 at 12:23 AM
- the mad momma said...
Happy birthday Adi.. I'm sorry I'm late!
- May 13, 2011 at 12:16 AM
- Sue said...
Happy belated birthdays, Adi and Ragu. :)
And you, Parul, congratulations on surviving it all. Big hugs.
- May 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- Olliewood said...
Belated happy birthday to Aditya. Wishing him love and sunshine.. ~Ollie
- May 25, 2011 at 11:23 PM