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About This Game
Revealing a brand new storyline, characters and locations for the Resident Evil™ series, Resident Evil™ Revelations delivers an exceptional survival horror experience.
Built from the ground up to take advantage of the Nintendo 3DS features, Resident Evil Revelations delivers outstanding visuals that bring the fear to life. The touch screen allows for easy switching between weapons, the analyzing of evidence and puzzle solving. Players can also adapt their shooting style with the ability to quickly alternate between the first and third person shooter views with the 3DS controls.
Jill Valentine and BSAA partner Parker Luciani have been sent to search for Chris Redfi eld, whose last known GPS data positions him as being onboard a supposedly abandoned cruise ship. Far from being empty, danger hides around every corner as Jill and Parker explore the confi ned space of the ship and must face a menacing new enemy and virus; the T-Abyss. Adding a new unique horror setting to the series players will venture underwater as they try to escape the terrifying creatures roaming the ship.
Meanwhile, unknown to Jill and Parker, Chris Redfi eld and new female BSAA agent Jessica Sherawat trek through the mountains and uncover information about Veltro, a terrorist organization. The pair must work together to fi ght off hordes of infected creatures and prevent further terror; but will they discover the truth about Veltro in time?
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Many of our alumni have benefited from Alice Lloyd's Caney Cottage Scholarship Program. This program, the only one of its kind in the nation, financially assists qualified alumni from our 108-county service area in Central Appalachia at graduate or professional schools upon completion of their program at Alice Lloyd College. Students attending the University of Kentucky live in ALC-owned housing near the campus. Those at other graduate schools receive cash stipends toward tuition if they qualify for a Caney/Berger Scholarship. These scholarships are offered on a competitive basis.
The College's goal is to help our graduates as they pursue advanced degrees and then return these highly-educated Appalachians back to the region to become the catalysts for change. Eighty-three percent of you have come back to Appalachia and are working every day to provide the leadership the region needs to push forward into a brighter future.
Alice Lloyd College gives more to its students because it expects more of its students. We only ask that our graduates give back to the region and to this college. We want to give every Appalachian student we can the gift of a quality education that will open doors to them that might otherwise remain closed forever. All our young people need is an opportunity. Continue to support the college that remained steadfast in supporting you!Give Now
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United States of America 1890 – France 1976
The enigma of Isidore Ducasse
1920 reconstructed 1971
object wrapped in felt and string
no. 8 of an edition of 10
signed and dated, incised on brass plate adhered to felt, "Man Ray 8/10 / The enigma of Isidore Ducasse 1920-1971"
40.5 (h) x 57.5 (w) x 21.5 (d) cm
Purchased 1973
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
© Man Ray. Licensed by ARS & VISCOPY, Australia
Like most of his objects made up to the late 1940s, May Ray's sewing machine wrapped in an army blanket and tied with string was originally assembled to provide an unusual subject for a photograph. The inspiration and title derive from a famous line by Lautréamont in Les Chants de Maldoror 1869, evoking 'the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella'. The photograph of The enigma of Isidore Ducasse was reproduced in December 1924, in the first issue of the Surrealist periodical La Revolution Surréaliste, and Man Ray later reissued the object in an edition.
May Ray's photograph in La Revolution Surréaliste was unattributed, uncaptioned and unexplained.[1] Thus, as JH Matthews points out, it acted as a password to the Surrealist initiate, a reference to the enormous impact of the poetry of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870).[2]Although obviously related, Man Ray's objects are more fantastic and mysterious than Marcel Duchamp's assisted readymades. Tied with string, this hidden but suggestive shape has a fetishistic, sinister presence. Were the sewing machine (we are told) to be unwrapped, the felt would retain the imprint of the shape within. The enigma of Isidore Ducasse had a profound effect on other Surrealists: Salvador Dali's essay, 'The object as revealed in Surrealist experiment',[3] Man Ray's bound plaster cast, Vénus restaurée 1936, Hans Bellmer's bundled dolls, and Duchamp's Mile of string at First papers of Surrealism in 1942.
Although intentionally discarded after being photographed, The enigma of Isidore Ducasse has had a long life since its first creation in New York in 1920. The versions remade by Man Ray in the 1960s and 1970s―the Canberra example is no 8 from the 1971 edition issued by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, under the artist's supervision―actually vary a great deal in form. The fabric 'strait-jacket' also ranges from felt to a type of hessian or burlap. Much later in life, Man Ray painted La rue Férou 1952, a work which shows a figure pulling a bound object in a handcart along an empty street.[4] Perhaps this painting stands testament to the endurance of Man Ray's bizarre and intriguing object.
Lucina Ward
International Painting and Sculpture
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
[1] Elsewhere, the preface signed by J-A. Boiffard, Paul Ellard and Roger Vitrac, in La Revolution Surréaliste, December 1924, p 2, reads: 'Any discovery changing the nature, or the destination of an object or phenomenon constitutes a Surrealist achievement. Already the automats are multiplying and dreaming … realism prunes trees, Surrealism prunes life. Quoted in Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: the rigour of imagination,Thames & Hudson, London, 1977, p 161
[2] JH Matthews, 'Modes of documentation: photography in La Révolution surréaliste', in Modern Language Studies, vol 15, no 3, Photography and Literature (Summer, 1985), pp 38–48, at p 39. The poetry of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870), writing under the penname, Comte de Lautréamont, was much admired by André Breton and the other Surrealists for its strategy of dislocation. In Les chants de Maldoror 1869–70, Ducasse describes a young boy as being as 'beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella'
[3] Published in The Quarter, vol 5 no 1, September 1932; reprinted in Lucy Lippard (ed) Surrealists on art, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970, pp 87–96
[4] Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 59.7 cm, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, on permanent loan from Staff Stiftung, Lemgo.


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Welcome one and all to the Fight of the Week!
A new weekly feature, every Wednesday @ 10am, which pits pop-culture icons against each other in the most brutal arena known to man - Fandom. Your votes decide the outcome! Remember always that this is not a popularity contest, this is a true fight, and your opinions should be based as such - it's not about who you like more it's about who will kick who's ass. We'll give you the lowdown, you let us know what you think. Enjoy and let's get it on!!!
As this is our first fight, I'll offer a few extra words of introduction:
This is a brawl composed almost purely of fandom. I want you to be fair in your evaluations, though. Consider this a real fight, even if your loyalties lead you in one particular direction. I'm going to set up a scenario and place it within each of the story's respective timelines. Vote your mind and, for God's sake, defend your damn answer! Post your opinions in the comments below. Let's get a good debate going here.
The Skinny
A Star Destroyer, carrying Darth Vader to a meeting with the Emperor, has a massive failure of its sensors and drops out of hyperspace. Lord Vader does not want his master to be displeased by any tardiness. He tells the Captain, under threat of Force-choke, that he must make that meeting immediately, no matter if the sensors are operational or not.
As the ship adjusts its course, it comes under sudden attack by massive amounts of Rebel forces. As wave after wave of TIEs fail to fight back the ambush and the shields of the Destroyer are nearly depleted, Vader rushes to his TIE-Advanced x1 and escapes just as the Destroyer implodes upon itself.
As he was not able to clear the concussive radius in time, his TIE is knocked off course and left spinning through space, a sensation not unfamiliar to the Sith Lord.
A nearby wormhole opens up and greedily swallows the spinning ship as Vader tries to regain control.
As it spits him out on the other end, he regains control of the ship, but is unable to contact Empire Fleet Command or, really, anyone else. His scanners indicate that most planets in the near by star system are either barren or gaseous. One planet, however, seems to have intelligent life, albeit with primitive technology.
He also feels a strange presence there… someone who is extremely powerful with what feels like the Dark Side. Thinking this might be some sort of lost Sith Lord whose knowledge Vader could surely steal, he flies to the planet to take a closer look.
Within an old, daunting house, the man once known as Tom Riddle sits contemplating his most recent loss to his hated rival, Albus Dumbledore, within the halls of the Ministry of Magic. He had proven to the world that his strength had returned and that he was, once again, to be feared by the populous, both magical and muggle alike. Lord Voldemort would now rise and rule over the world with an iron fist.Suddenly, Voldemort feels a strange presence right outside his door. He pulls out his wand and rushes to see what his feelings tell him is something incredibly powerful.
Outside, in the din of an English thunderstorm, a strange craft lands near the isolated old house. The rear ramp opens and Vader emerges. He begins crossing the long, rain-soaked yard toward the ancestral home.
The door flings open. Voldemort stands, wand in hand, his snake-like eyes staring down Vader.
No words need to be exchanged. Each knows what drew the other to this place. They realize that, now they're both here, this has to happen.
Vader draws his lightsaber, Voldemort readies his wand.
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Upon their return from an amazing Summit conference for the ACS in Reno, to prepare for our local Relay for Life, Judi Bishop, event chair and Amy Day, team development chair are really geared up to have an outstanding Relay in Emery county in 2009.
"We are filling the committee and volunteer list beginning now, as we have a Relay U in Salt Lake in November, for all committee members to attend. It will be an informative and fun week end. If anyone is interested in being a first timer or returning to this great event please contact Amy at 687-9771, or Judi at 653-2221,"said Bishop.
"With this being Emery county's 15th year and the Relay for Life's 25th year, we would like to have persons who were volunteers, teams, committee over the span of the Relay here to come back and help us with an alumni event and teams.
"We will, each and everyone of us at sometime in our lives be effected by cancer, be it ourselves, loved ones, family member or friends. Our wish as with other diseases is to find a way to eliminate it all together. This research takes time and of course funding, which through Relays we can help with funding. We also through funding can assist those already afflicted if they need rides to treatment or in other ways.
"We have to have the passion to want to see this done and through volunteering with events such as Relay we can accomplish that goal.
"Our theme this year will be fun to work with as it is, "Back to the Future," and we have some great ideas to launch and we welcome other ideas also. Please come join us either as volunteer, to be on a committee, form a team or just come have fun with friends, neighbors, family and other residents from all over the county. You will have a fun and memorable experience," Bishop said.
Any and all who were on committees in 2008, are welcomes back, so give them a call.
The Relay for Life committee would also like to welcome the survivors to contact them and be active participants in relay 2009.


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By PATSY STODDARDEditor
The Utah Department of Transportation Commission met in Castle Dale for their Sept. board meeting. Several local interested people and county as well as city officials addressed the commission on local concerns with transportation. The local area presentation was given by Nathan Lee as he described several projects in region 4 which includes, Beaver, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Washington, Wayne and a small corner of Utah County on US-6 the boundary is close to the Tie Fork Rest Area.
Craig Johansen from Johansen and Tuttle addressed the commission on the Moore road. He said the entire corridor needs to be fenced. Some of the fencing has been done, but it needs to be completed along the entire corridor. Last winter there was a lot of snow on the desert and the cows wintering there gathered on the roadway because it was warm and the only place clear of snow. This caused the cows to bed down on the road and there were accidents there with the motorists unable to see the black cows on the black road until they were upon them. He said the fencing and cattle guards need to be completed and he estimates it will take $1 million to finish the project.
Commissioner Bevan Wilson said the Moore Road paving project has been a great service to connect the county with I-70. Several out of the area people are using the road and it's a great asset to the county and in connecting Green River to the western side of the county.
Johansen asked UDOT to change the sign at the Moore road take off which states there are no services available. He would like the sign to advertise what is available to travelers in Ferron and Emery and the other towns.
Brad Giles from the Castle Dale city council thanked UDOT for their help in cleaning coal off the bridge leading out of Castle Dale. "We are one of the few counties in the United States that doesn't have a stop light."
A survey has been completed but there isn't enough traffic to warrant a stop light on Center and Main in Castle Dale. There have been several accidents at this intersection. The speed on SR-29 by the high school will not be reduced, but a turning lane from Orangeville will be added for turning onto Center Street off of SR-29. This will be a big step for safety as several accidents have occurred at that corner as well. Giles said the city will appreciate the continued help with clean-up of coal. There are 650 trucks traveling regularly over city and county roads which leads to wear and tear on roads and resources. Giles said Castle Dale would like the bridge out of town to become four lanes in the future as traffic is forced into two narrow lanes over the bridge and several accidents have taken place on the bridge. New decking is scheduled for the bridge, but the city would like to see a four lane bridge in the future. "We realize we are small in population, but we keep the lights going," said Giles.
Sue Simmons from Clawson Town council said people are speeding through Clawson. Clawson Town would like to see the speed limit on the highway reduced. There are several places where roads lead off of SR-10 and it's difficult for motorists turning into Clawson.
Several people from Moab addressed the commission about road projects in their area. One major problem they have is with drainage and run-off. A project they are calling the North Corridor gateway which includes bike trails has been delayed due to a short fall in the bridge project and $10 million was transferred from that project to the bridge. Moab residents would like to see the North Corridor gateway project go forward and they are working towards funding solutions for the project. UDOT let them know the project isn't dead, it's just been delayed and will progress as funds become available and problems with drainage are worked through. The project may be scaled down from a complete redo project to rehabilitation of existing roads.
Kris Peterson reported on safety he said fatalities are down. He attributed the downward trend to roadway improvements, outreach programs on safety, working with law enforcement, help with survivability and a number of agencies making safety a priority.
The commission approved to help the Uintah Basin develop a public transit system.
The recreational trails program recommendations for funding included the Huntington Canyon Trails project for a total of $50,665 and includes trails in Emery and Sanpete counties. The project will perform trail maintenance for two work seasons on non-motorized trails in Huntington Canyon. It will re-route .3 miles of trail and create a new 80' x 40' road base surfaced trailhead to serve the Jordan/Seely Canyon loop.
The local area update includes: rehabilitation projects on Main Streets in Castle Dale, Cleveland, Ferron and Huntington. Bridge deck repairs will take place on SR-10 in Castle Dale and SR-24 in Wayne County. There is also a Huntington infrastructure project which includes sidewalks.
The South Moore Cut-Off road is complete at a cost of $22 million. Goblin Valley State Park access road is complete at a cost of $ 7.9 million. The Green River State Park Access road project cost $500,000.
Other recent projects have included: Wide Hollow to Fremont Junction $10 million; Eagle Canyon Bridge $6.5 million; Moore Interchange to Sinbad $10 million. Top of Spotted Wolf $ 7.5 million; Between S.R. 24 and U.S. 6 $ 2 million; Quitchupah Hill Climbing Lane $3.8 million; Emery to Muddy Creek $7.6 million; Ferron to Rock Creek Bridge $4.3 million; Rock Creek $3.5 million; S.R. 10 and S.R. 31 Huntington $2.1 million; Horseshoe Dugway to Carbon County $9.7 million. Green River Business Loop $2.8 million; Horse Canyon Road Climbing and Rest Area $5 million. Passing lane by Woodside $5.4 million; South Price to Stake Farm Road $3.6 million; South Price to Ridge Road environmental assessment $1 million.
The following is a list of how much money has been spent on road projects in the past:
I-70 History
1994-1999 9 $ 48,127,553
2010-2013 13 $ 35,118,000
Total 74 $ 188 million
Years Projects Amount
2006-2009 31 $ 63,920,606
2000-2005 22 $ 40,587,756
US-6 History (Region 4)
1994-1999 3 $ 2,308,209
2010-2013 12 $ 32,761,074
Total 56 $ 197 million
2006-2009 35 $ 153,050,794
2000-2005 6 $ 8,711,373
SR-10 History
1994-1999 5 $ 4,740,479
2010-2013 14 $ 19,780,101
Total 46 $ 85 million
2006-2009 12 $ 51,365,032
2000-2005 15 $ 9,133,361


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Royal Africa
Kings and Chiefs
Artist Unknown Kuba Kingdom, Bushoong people, Democratic Republic of Congo, 'Ceremonial dance skirt', raffia, early 20th century, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia
Royal Africa: Kings and chiefs is a Children's Gallery exhibition of art produced in and for royal and chiefly courts in West and Central Africa over 500 years
Like their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere, African kingdoms and empires supported a vast number of bureaucrats, advisers, courtiers, court officials and others, including artists of all kinds. Ancient and long-lived kingdoms such as Kuba, Asante (Ashanti) and Benin were, and still are, administered from the vast palaces of the kings who were religious as well as temporal leaders. Of the palace of the Oba (ruler) of Benin, Olfert Dapper wrote in 1662 that it 'occupied as much space as the town of Haarlem' and that its size and striking beauty compared favourably with architecture in his native Holland.
The wealth of art within the palace was equally impressive and the fine cast metalwork and carved ivory for which Benin was renowned features in the exhibition. This small 16th-century brass hip-mask, a badge of rank in the Oba's court, which associates the Oba's enor-mous personal might, symbolised by the leopard, with his ability to engage the aid of powerful outsiders in the form of the two flanking figures of Europeans.
The Yoruba people of Nigeria invest the elaborately beaded tall ade or crown with awesome power derived in part from the spirit of the previous wearers. It is only worn once, at the ruler's investiture. Every element is loaded with symbolic meaning; the shape, for example, recalls the primeval mound of the beginning of creation, the colours of the beads the attributes of powerful gods in the vast Yoruba pantheon.
The sceptre-like staff from the Baule people of Cote d'Ivoire shows a woman standing deferentially before another woman seated on a stool – a clear demarcation of status. This work, with its detailed carving and beautifully delineated tension between the two figures, has an impact out of all proportion to its size.
In the Kuba court in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women (usually the wives and daughters of the King and high-ranking court officials) produce the rich, velour textiles made of the dyed shoots of raffia plants which are sewn together to make the spectacular wrap-around skirts worn at court. The abstracted patterns which flicker across these cloths are repeated in the scarifications on the bodies of Kuba women and derive from the original mat laid on the sky by the creator to fix the cardinal points. Artistic innovation is an important feature of these textiles; the king himself is expected to invent new patterns.
Some of the richest, most wonderful and often most surprising art is produced in courts all over the world. This exhibition shows that Africa is no exception.
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SynopsisSpoiler!Katsuragi Keima is known on the net as the god of getting the girls while in real life he's known as otamegane and he hates all real girls. However he is approached by Elsie, a devil from hell, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in people. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of girls and the only way to get the souls out is by making the girl fall in love so the spirit gets forced out. And he's not allowed to fail or he will lose his head.
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The deer are active on the Eagle Mountains, hunters say, and expect by the end of Friday's opening day of shotgun season there will be deer hanging at camps.
Kevin McGuire of Dwight pointed out the two hanging racks that appeared to have been hewn from cedar trees at the large deer camp at the top of the mountain.
"I guarantee there will be some hanging there tomorrow morning," McGuire said.
Each year the men bounce their pickup trucks over the ruts of Eagle Mountain Road to the ridge top camp and friends come and go as they are able. Some hunt in the archery season, some in the turkey season and some — like Mike Jacobson of Dwight — stay through much of November. Jacobson arrived Nov. 2. He and Joe Thatcher were "charter members" of the group, coming each year for over 40 years.
Thatcher and some of the others came back to the campsite for spring turkey season this year and in April he died in full camouflage, shotgun at his hand of a heart attack.
Law enforcement searched starting April 11 and found Thatcher April 12.
Thatcher's absence lends a bittersweet tone to this year's camp. The group memorialized the spot where he died with a boulder etched with his name. McGuire said they got the exact coordinates of where his body was found from the U.S. Forest Service and knew they had the spot when they found a shell casing. That casing was left by the man who found Thatcher and he fired the shot as a signal to other searchers.
"I didn't know how much I'd miss him, but I sure missed him this year," McGuire said.
"He didn't pull in like normal."
For about 40 years the two hunted together in Southern Illinois. McGuire picked Thatcher up to drive west to hunt elk and Thatcher picked McGuire up when it was time to head south for whitetail deer season.
"Joe was the true woodsman out of everybody. Joe was out picking mushrooms, any reason to be out in the woods," McGuire said.
Russ Whitesell of Watsika said Thatcher is especially missed around the campfire.
"He was the best storyteller," Whitesell said.
Thatcher became a mentor to the young people who joined up with the group of hunters and took the training seriously.
"He would show them how to field dress a deer and say, 'Don't Tom Sawyer me, I'll show you the first time, but next time you've got it.' He took time for them," McGuire said.
Page 2 of 3 - Through the various hunting seasons in November there might be as many as 26 hunters staying at the camp at different times. A few years ago they decided they needed to start letting each other know where they were going to be when Andy Boseo of Manhattan fell from his tree stand. Boseo has hunted with the group since age 14 and was one of the kids Thatcher passed knowledge onto.
One day Boseo fell from his tree stand.
"He broke his cheek bone and had a mild concussion," McGuire said.
"And we didn't know where he was hunting."
The group found him, but knew there was a need for better communication. They pledged to let each other know where they would be. That pledge proved insufficient in the spring as they knew about where Thatcher intended to be, but finding him still required a search party.
They have devised a new method this year. The group obtained a large topographical map and numbered push pins with the numbers coinciding with their names on a chart. When any man leaves camp to hunt he pushes his pin into the map so if he doesn't come back when expected anyone in the group can know where to start the search immediately.
On the map held with pin No. 29 is a photograph of Thatcher's monument with a bottle of Crown Royal scotch on it, Thatcher's drink of choice.
"He liked Crown Royal to drink after the hunt. He never mixed alcohol with firearms or bows and arrows," McGuire said.
Jacobson knows the area as well as anyone, having hunted it since the late 1960s. His sister married into the Chrisman family and George and Anna Lee Chrisman of Raleigh owned the land. Now it is Forest Service land.
"You should have seen that road 30 years ago," he said.
"It wasn't a road, it was a rut."
The site is ideal because it is at the top of the mountain. It usually rains during camp, but the water does not linger at the mountain's top.
"It's high and dry," McGuire said.
"We got 2 inches of rain Sunday and it's already dried out."
Jacobson killed a deer with his bow earlier this month. The temperature was warm enough he had to take it to the Eldorado meat locker. Temperatures are about ideal now, cold enough the flies are not around to spoil the hanging meat, but not so cold to freeze everyone in their stands. The hunters observe the deer are in full rut right now, so the bucks should be on the move.
Page 3 of 3 - The group anticipated leaving the campfire early Thursday and retiring to their sleeping bags so they could be up and ready to hit the woods at 4 a.m.
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1) He is a racist. By constantly using race as a battling tool.
2) He is an extreme Liberal. If you are on either extreme you are probabaly more wrong than right.
3) He is one of those people who will never admit fault, error or defeat.
4)His life sucks and he takes it out on people who don't share in his views.
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i'd take an UDFA rookie to play RT over vlad and hunter right now
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No faith he'll ever start there.
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Jetsfan115, on 28 February 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:
I think that unfortunately you're right. Hunter is not good. I mean of course some plays he actually made his blocks, but our line broke down most often from the RT position.
Vlad I think could be OK, but he has to start taking this shit more seriously. And maybe with a new O Line coach he'll get a fire under his ass
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I haven't completely written him off yet, but I wouldn't go into the season thinking hes the guy. He has to show something in training camp and preseason games. I don't think the Jets will go into the season with just Hunter and Vlad, they will bring someone in whether it be a FA or draft a rookie.
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Yeah Im writing him off. When players who dont even make the teams in preseason puch Vlad back like he wieghs 50 pounds I write him off.
He has yet to show that he isnt one of the greatest Jets draft flops ever. Unless he has done total 1080 change Im not expecting anything from him. He makes Wayne Hunter seem like an all pro.
Maybe the fo has a plan...put Ducasse and Hunter in....get Sanchez destroyed...start other prospects and hope they luck into a backup that turns out to be great like Brady did for the Pats.
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Neither is Wayne Hunter.
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Neither is Wayne Hunter.
You know, a lot of times you say shit on here that makes me wonder if you drink a gallon of paint for breakfast. Ducasse's problem is his TECHNIQUE. His "foot quickness" is actually what got him a 2nd round grade. He ran a 4.7 20 yard drill... considering that Clay Matthews ran a 4.2, I think Ducasse "foot quicknes" isn't an issue. Furthermore, if you look at the landscape of the NFL, most RTs aren't exactly circus bears. An RT is a behemoth who needs to stay in front of his guy. Ducasse has the size and the physical attributes, but his technique is shit. If we can somehow correct that, he'll be a solid starter.


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RIVERSIDE - Three law enforcement helicopters flew above the Big Bear area tonight in search of the fired Los Angeles Police Department officer suspected in the revenge slayings of a college basketball coach and her finance in Irvine and the early morning ambush killing of a Riverside police officer. The truck belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner was found burning just off a forest road in the area late today, authorities said.
All the areas where someone could have walked away from the truck were being searched by ground, Cindy Bachman of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said at a 9 p.m. news conference. "I'm not aware of any evidence found near the truck, nor am I aware of any explosives," Bachman said. Bachman said she was not aware of any vehicle having been stolen since the burned out truck was discovered.
Deputies have gone to about half of the 400 vacation homes in the area and there were no signs of forced entry at any of them, Bachman said.
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How is America gonna manage to keep away from these rabid, left-wing, Regressive, radical forces, aka, "typical Obama voters"?
This killer is LEFT WING, of course, praising all of the left wing media by name!! Crickets....
Recall Eric Rudolph and Danny Horning.
A coach and her finance? Do these people bother going to college now?
College actually teaches them to be stupid these days
He probably carried a motor-cycle in the truck and rode off before the timer was set to burn the truck.
He's long gone.
Left winger radical goes rogue, starts massacring his enemies
Saw them do that in 'The Mechanic' - the real one, from 1972 with Charles Bronson.
Two things:
1. This guys is seriously dangerous and must be taken out at all costs.
2. I wonder if his grievances just may be legitimate.
May be, but it doesn't justify unlawful killing, does it?
May be, but it doesn't justify unlawful killing, does it?
It's one reason I don't stick my arm in a lion cage.
What matters now is what degree of planning he used prior to this, and the competency of his plan.
If this is typical, he is now just trying to flee. But if it was well planned, with prepositioned caches around the state, his could very well circle back and continue his attack on the LAPD.
Essential elements of this are based in layered deception, convincing them he is going somewhere and doing something other than what he is doing. And when they discover the lead is false, they find other false leads.
Being a left-winger, and supportive of gun control and other such foolishness, indicates that he is not smart enough to have well thought out his actions, and is instead relying on experience and luck.
Mr. Bill goes on a rampage. MSM quiet.
I heard about this on the radio yesterday. It sounded like the plot of a Hollywood movie. Nothing was mentioned about the contents of the manifesto.
He doesn't seem to be following the set program, though. (you know, shoot 'em up then kill yourself). Wonder how this will play out? Also, it seems the people he's killed have little or no connection to his grievance. Prayers all the way around.
*** 2. I wonder if his grievances just may be legitimate. ***
Judging from his history, my guess is no.
He washed out of flight school. Became a REMF
He failed to fit in in the LAPD and lost his job
He lost his Mil security clearance and was RIFed.
His home was repossessed 12/12
Has serious bully/rage issues, made worse by what appears to be roid rage from his chemical body building the last 10 years
All his life's failures are other's fault, he even remembers names of people he beat up in elementary school for "disrespecting him".
The guy is an affirmative action ticking timebomb, and it was just a matter of time before he snapped.
yeah I totally agree, the liberals wish they could wipe all dissenters off the face of the earth
"The rampage began with a double homicide in Orange County on Sunday. One of the victims, Monica Quan, 28, was the daughter of a former Los Angeles police captain who had defended Mr. Dorner in his disciplinary proceedings."
Leftists are certainly fools, but they're also very cunning. Just look at the hundred years of planning and dedication it's taken for them to destroy the United States.
I get the impression this madman's been planning this out since the day he lost he job. If that's the case, it's going to be a long, bloody ordeal.
A strong candidate for the target of America's first domestic drone strike is quickly emerging here.
Justify? No. Explain? Yes.
"If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy." SCOTUS Justice Louis D,. Brandeis.
The guy is an affirmative action ticking timebomb, and it was just a matter of time before he snapped.
You're probably right. Only God and those directly involved know for sure.
No, they just use spellcheck.
No, and that's supposed to go both ways. Recall the photo of that blue pickup truck yesterday. It was two Asian ladies delivering papers, not a 270-pound black guy. That's too perfect of a mismatch to believe, but that didn't slow them down one step. That truck wasn't just shot at, it was "bullet-ridden" per MSM articles. That makes me think that the LAPD has never had any intention whatsoever of taking this guy alive under any circumstances, or the officers are poorly trained in firearms use, or the officers are trigger-happy, and that's a little worrisome.
I think he's just plain crazy.
And, as was the case with Major Hasan, everyone knew he was crazy and and a danger to himself and to others, but rampant political correctness prevented anyone from even thinking about doing anything about it.
Timeline of events. . .
If you have not heard it yet.....get ready.......
"he must be reacting to discrimination against him"
Yeah, I suspect that in his mind the grievances are legit. That is true with most crazy people, no matter how absurd the position may be to a sane person.
I find that, though I may find a person's actions abhorrent, I also find myself, immediately on hearing of things like this, wondering if their complaint is legitimate, even though it does not justify their actions.
I remember the first thing I thought when I heard about McVeigh bombing the BATF headquarters on the anniversary of Waco: Well, at least the guy picked a military target. I didn't side with him, but my reaction was different than it would have been if he had blown up a shopping mall.
The lack of outrage in the media over the cops shooting up the vehicles of innocent people just because they look like the ones the suspect is driving is also curious.
Hussein is probably itching to bring in a drone; he can use this as justification to fly them over America and the ground has already been broken when he starts using them to kill his enemies.
The dude is out past Lucerne Valley now and probably to Needles.
He would be a fool to remain in the wilderness. Like you said, he probably switched to a bike. With helmet and gloves he would be anonymous. Go a few hundred miles and he will be outside the search area. He probably has a dozen buddies willing to give him shelter.
Not really. There are no Republicans to blame.
They'd have seen the motorcycle tracks, and if that were the case, they wouldn't be talking about searching all the places he could have reached on foot. They said they found his tracks, so they must have been foot tracks if they are focusing the search like that.
He's a black cop killer. The LAPD will not risk an OJ verdict.
I wonder if there are snipers on the helos. There was a case a few years back I think in Alaska or the northwest where a survivalist had gone nuts and killing folks and he got into a fire fight with snipers on a police helo. One of the helo snipers was shot and killed the other made a phenomenal shot from the helo to hit the perp.
Of course, the Big Bear Lake area is developed and well paved, so the foot tracks probably ran out pretty quickly.
He unloads the bike a couple of miles walking distance from where he sets fire to the the truck. Cops confused.
The girl killed was the daughter of one of his enemies on the police force. At least I thought she was.
You would think a manhunt for a cop killer would be garnering a little more attention, especially after the newspaper delivery folks were shot up..
I suppose anything is possible. I don't think he is as prepared as his manifesto purports though. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been trying unsuccessfully to steal a boat, and still driving his own vehicle that he knew the police were looking for. I'm also pretty certain that his claim to have MANPADs was just blowing to smoke to try to dissuade them from tracking him with choppers. So I figure he is just winging it at this point.
Is it just me, or does the perp resemble a bulked-up LL Cool J of "NCIS LA?"
Shots may have been at Big Bear Asian ladies delivering papers...
Yes he does. I was trying to think of who reminded me off..
Or dogs...
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The Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in Situations of Armed Conflict
Cordula Droege
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Israel Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 310-355, 2007
Hebrew University International Law Research Paper No. 14-07
International human rights law and international humanitarian law are traditionally two distinct branches of law, one dealing with the protection of persons from abusive power, the other with the conduct of parties to an armed conflict. Yet, developments in international and national jurisprudence and practice have led to the recognition that these two bodies of law not only share a common humanist ideal of dignity and integrity but overlap substantially in practice. The most frequent examples are situations of occupation or non-international armed conflicts where human rights law complements the protection provided by humanitarian law.
This article provides an overview of the historical developments that led to the increasing overlap between human rights law and humanitarian law. It then seeks to analyse the ways in which the interplay between human rights law and humanitarian law can work in practice. It argues that two main concepts inform their interaction: The first is complementarity between their norms in the sense that in most cases, especially for the protection of persons in the power of a party to the conflict, they mutually reinforce each other. The second is the principle of lex specialis in the cases of conflict between the norms.
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By Louis SanseveroFerron
Just days after the tragedy in Aurora, Colo. then the usual chorus of anti-gun/anti-constitutionalists renewed their attacks on the Second Amendment demanding new anti-gun legislation and more stringent gun laws while totally ignoring the fact that the coward that perpetrated this senseless attack violated at least one gun control law.
The fact is the only people killed, wounded, and placed in danger were the people who followed the law and did not bring a gun into the "gun free zone" which was the theater. That is the basic flaw in all gun control laws, the only people that obey gun laws are law abiding people and the only ones placed in danger by gun control laws are unarmed, law abiding citizens . . . those intent on doing harm with firearms simply do not obey those statutes and that is the fact that anti-gun proponents fail to understand.
Two hundred and forty-eight years ago Thomas Jefferson in quoting Cesare Beccaria introduced that simple truth to America when he said "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."
These renewed attacks by those cynically seeking to exploit and politicize this tragedy to advance their assault on the constitution focus on the types of firearms and magazine capacities using the argument that "These (types of) weapons ("assault rifles") are not intended for hunting or target shooting," as if the Second Amendment of the Constitution was designed to address the issue of hunting and target shooting. That was not the intent. Just as the First Amendment is the voice and soul of the Constitution and the American people, the Second Amendment is their teeth. Its intent is to provide the people with a last resort to resist any despotic attempts to destroy the Republic, nullify the Constitution, and enslave the people.
We have only to look to the words of the notable men in our history, the founding fathers, and the framers of the Constitution to discover the truth of this statement. In the words of Thomas Jefferson "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."; "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." - Noah Webster; "But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights. " - Alexander Hamilton; "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson.
I could go on and on citing almost every founding father all agreeing on this one point, the right to bear arms is founded in the concept that to preserve liberty, the Republic, and the Constitution it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms without infringement, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them and that disarming this people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
In what appeared to me to be a signal to the forces of the anti-gun movement Justice Anthony Scalia made what is, in my opinion, the most undefendable statement I've ever heard coming from a member of the Supreme Court when he said that in context of 18th century history "They (the framers ?) had some limitations on the nature of arms that could be borne,". My questions to him is "If the framers indeed recognized such limitations why were they not included in the Second Amendment? Why is no mention of limitations present in their dissertations on the Second? Why did they include the phrase ' . . . shall not be infringed' in the Second when in other amendments they did delineate conditions and exceptions?"
No Mr. Scalia, the framers did not intend any limitations. If in stating, "My starting point and probably my ending point will be what limitations are within the understood limitations that the society had at the time. They had some limitations on the nature of arms that could be borne. So we'll see what those limitations are as applied to modern weapons."
Mr. Scalia meant that our right to bear arms is limited to those weapons contemporary to the constitution, as some anti-gunners have said, then this position would mean we would have to view the entirety of the Constitution in the same myopic manner; i.e. we would have to dissolve the Air Force since there were no aircraft contemporary with the Constitution and the Constitution makes no provision for an "air force" only an army and navy.Likewise we would have to throw out the income tax since contemporary with the Constitution there was no evidence of the concept of a tax on earnings or wages, and let's not forget women's suffrage and equality, both of these would likewise need to be eliminated since the concepts are not contemporary to the Constitution. In short such a view would likewise eliminate many of the aspects of our modern age which are not contemporary to the Constitution.
No Mr. Scalia, the Second Amendment means exactly what it says "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." What about ". . . shall not be infringed?" Do you, the other justices, the lesser courts, and the anti-gun movement not understand? Oh I know, it contains the word "militia" but by common usage contemporary with the Constitution "militia" meant every able-bodied male as described in the Militia Act of 1792 which gives contemporary meaning to the word "militia".
This act states, in part, ". . . That each and every free, able-bodied, white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of 18 years, and under the age of 45 years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, . . ."; in the 18th century life expectancy of males was 35-50 years dependent on locale of residency (I believe 41 years in the United States in 1792).
So any reading of the act said every male citizen from adulthood (18 years of age) to near the farthest extent of expected life were required to be members of the "militia"; in other words the militia consisted of every adult male. A contemporary of the Constitution, Richard Henry Lee (whose motion in the Second Continental Congress called for the colonies' independence from Great Britain, was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and whose famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States' Declaration of Independence, which he signed, and who served as the President of the Continental Congress) gives us a definition of "militia." "A militia, when properly formed, is in fact the people themselves... and includes all men capable of bearing arms." So much for the lie that the Second only applies to "militias".
In the words of Tench Coxe, another contemporary of the Constitution, "Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
Today, more than any time in our past, we need to reject any call for new or stricter gun laws and demand that our legislators on both the state and federal levels repeal all gun laws, the only legitimate way to change or limit the rights of the people granted in the Second Amendment is through Article V. of the Constitution, the amendment process, not from the bench through "interpretation" and not by statute.
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It's cooler, at least in the morning. Earlier the weatherman said that it was 69 out and that the high was supposed to be about 79!
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Skip to comments.Democrat Senator Supports 2nd Amendment as "Safeguard Against Tyranny" (!)
Posted on 02/01/2013 9:45:39 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn. "Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.
Just go to the top of page 4 of the pdf to see it for yourself.
Regrettably, there seem to be no more Hubert Humphreys, Scoop Jacksons or Zell Millers in the RAT ranks. Too bad; they loved America and were willing to listen to reason instead of insisting upon ideology.
Things change in half a century
Most 60's democrats were more like today's GOP. Today's DNC is more like the 60's Communist party.
1960, eh?
Yes, as the "progressives" make their intention known and damn the Constitution.
"Things change in half a century"
Even on February 1, 2013 another Democrat—Slow Joe Biteme—basically admits that all this sturm und drang over guns is just smoke and mirrors: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/01/biden-concedes-new-laws-wont-end-gun-massacres/
So, like Obamacare—if it won't work or if ain't broke why fix it?
For the same reason hounds lick their `nads: because they can.
PS Specifically from the article today: "Nothing we are going to do is fundamentally going to alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down," Biden said, echoing remarks President Barack Obama made in January when he said "there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely."
Like the TARP bailout where we learned yesterday that taxpayers will lose even more billions, and healthcare where we learn every day of some new charge (tax, penalty, fine—whatever) here they say `It probably won't work but .... '
After the (so called) `Assault Weapons Ban' in `94, the Columbine school shootings in `99. Someone here posted several pages of school shootings that happened during the ten year ban.
We can also thank Democrats for `gun free' school zones, happy hunting grounds for the criminally insane. The Democrats have the effrontery tot lump law abiding, tax-paying citizen gun-owners with criminals.
And the left scratches their pointy heads and can't seem to understand our umbrage and why we have so little patience with their nonsense.
Doesn't seem so remote to many of us.
Per the Demolshevik Senator, I don't believe him. If he weren't a Communist, he wouldn't belong to the Democrat Party. Its really just that simple.
It was said in 1960.
Per the Demolshevik Senator, I don't believe him. If he weren't a Communist, he wouldn't belong to the Democrat Party.
Stom Thurmond was a Democrat in 1960 if I'm not mistaken.
Are some of you are missing the point of this post?
Want to drive a Minnesota Democrat insane? Tell him or her that today, Hubert Humphrey would be a Republican.
I've done it. It works.
Oh, I get it...this is coming from the only good dims around....
DEAD ones!
Hmmmm....I need to remember this! LOL,
But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn. "Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.
That was then..... this is now. Once a liberal, socialist demoRAT will ALWAYS be a liberal, socialist demoRAT, grabbing as much power away from the people as possible.
I saw a similar quote from John Kennedy as well. Big deal!
I will guarantee that if JFK or HHH or Harry Truman were still alive today, they would be supporting 0dumb0sh_t & the radical socialist demoRATs right down the party line, including gun control, registration & confiscation. Once a socialist RAT bastard, always a socialist RAT bastard!
The america haters of the 60s now run america.
I think Ronald Wilson Regan would disagree with you...
Aren't they already insane????? I agree however, despite all the current RATS love for John Kennedy, he would have to run as a Republican as well. In the 60's they were not the Communist party, the Dems in college in the 60's have made it into a full on Communist party without the derogatory name.
Fair enough. I was trying to be kind.
The greatest number of murders of citizens--including murders of children--by means of guns was racked up not during the days of the Wild West but during the 70 years between 1917 and 1987. The folks doing the killing were political types eager to take over their nations and fundamentally transform their societies into their vision of paradise on earth. The major players, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, killed the majority of the 260,000,000 slaughtered during those seven decades. And none of them grew up playing violent video games.
Questions:1. How did the political thugs manage to round up all those citizens and march them off to the death camps?As both Washington and Mao said, "Power is in the barrel of a gun." Sure, we can vote. But the 2nd Amendment is the power behind the vote. The ultimate preservation of life and liberty lies not in the promises of an increasingly gargantuan and intrusive government but in the hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of the U.S. citizenry.
Answer: Superior firepower.
2. What could those soon-to-be-murdered citizens have used to prevent their deaths?
Answer: Superior firepower.
3. Why did they not have this means for self-protection against their own governments?
Answer: Because they had been disarmed and kept unarmed by their own governments.
4. What was the object of the first gun control laws in the U.S.?
Answer: To prevent freed slaves from defending their lives and property.
5. What did the Founders explicitly state was the reason for the American citizenry to be armed to the teeth with all the "terrible implements of war"?
Answer: To prevent government from doing to them here what governments had done to the citizenry in Europe.
6. Why is Barry Obama trying so hard to promote gun control as a means to protect people from what historically has been a minor problem (criminal use of firearms) while ignoring what has always been the principal threat to life, liberty, and property--uncontrollable government?
Answer: I guess we'll soon see.
The cpusa endorsed baraq in '08 and '12.
They didn't run a candidate.
Didn't want to run a duplicate.
nuff said.
Hubert expressed my exact opinion. Amazing, coming from a Minnesota Democrat widely regarded as a "leftist."
Good point... however Ronald Reagan is a very rare exception. Also Reagan was conservative from the very beginning, even as a registered demoRAT. I don't think you can say the same about JFK or HHH. Especially HHH. He was a liberal right from the very start. Same for JFK.
i was going to say "a democrat senator from what country?" but then saw it was from 1960....
I have a relative that was sure Romney was going to put blacks in chains and make slaves out of women (not quite literally, but close).
I pointed out to him that Romney is more liberal than his Democrat icons JFK & HHH, so how could he be so dangerous. I could hear the crickets. He's never responded.
Well played.
I am constantly reminding my Boston Irish Mom that it is NO LONGER Grandpa's Democrat Party.
I am proud to say she did NOT vote for the Lyin' King in either election.
The tyranny which seems remote in America, my ass. Even when seeming to make a case for our side leftists can't help themselves.
Tyranny in America doesn't appear remote to me at all. It's a Minnesota Dem who said this, but still a Dem. A pig just crapped on my head. I shook my fist at it as it flew away.
If you study JFK's speeches and policies and it's clear that if he was alive today he'd be a Republican....just like Governor Connolly.
Bill Ayers went from the Ten Most wanted list to the mentor and patron of a President.
I often silence liberals with this comment:
"The JFK Democrats wouldn't even recognize today's Democraps. It has become a loose aggregation of greedy liberal special interest and victim groups."
JFK was strong on defense. He inspired REAL hopes and aspirations to accomplish the impossible — like putting a man on the moon.
Obama is weak on defense and focuses solely on the "downtrodden" — never calling attention to an innovative entrepreneur or businessman or scientist. Never.
Gee, I wonder what senator said this ?
"You should draw a mushroom cloud and put underneath it, 'Made in America,' by lazy and illiterate Americans and tested in Japan."
Senator Ernest Hollings, democrat South Carolina from 1966 to 2005
He did get the lazy and illiterate Americans part right.
But ooooh so politically incorrect.
"Tyranny in America doesnt appear remote to me at all. Its a Minnesota Dem who said this, but still a Dem. A pig just crapped on my head. I shook my fist at it as it flew away."
take a look at the date he said it, it was 50 years ago.
Right you are! Partial transcript of 1985 video interview of KGB defector Yuri Alexander Bezmenov:
"Most of the people who (reeducated) in the sixties, drop-outs or half-baked
intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the Government,
civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with
them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You
cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information,
even if you prove that white is white and black is black you still cannot
change the basic perception and illogical behavior."
"In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete
and irreversible. To get rid society of these people you need another twenty
or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and
commonsense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of
the United States society."
∅bama: Spawn of the 1960's hate-America crowd ™
He's dead. Any other dims?
Hes dead. Any other dims?
He probably still votes though, so isn't his opinion still valid?
When Wayne La Pierre made the statement in the hearings that the 2A was about protecting the people from government tyranny, it seemed to me that Senators of both Parties got all nervous and jerky. Lindsey Graham made a point to call him out. We have too many in Congress on both sides who see that kind of talk as a threat to their power..
So, did anyone ask the WH Idiot why they want to do all this stuff if it's not to stop killing?
Today's DNC IS the Communist party.
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Absolute Return
A performance measurement that is irrespective of any market or index performance.
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The simultaneous purchase and sale of a security or pair of similar securities to profit from a temporary pricing discrepancy.
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A term from regression analysis that describes the strength of the relationship between a dependent and an independent variable. Strategies are correlated if the returns they provide are similar to one another in similar market environments. In the hedge fund context, returns are often referred to as uncorrelated to traditional equity markets, because hedge fund returns do not rely on market direction or outcomes.
Delta Hedge
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Directional Exposure
The amount of risk an unhedged position faces in the market as compared to the net exposure of positions involving long and short hedged relationships.
A measure of how sensitive a bond's price is to a shift in interest rates. In general terms:
Duration = (Change in price) / Price Change in interest rates
The manager of a fund-of-funds pools capital from investors and then allocates it to multiple hedge fund managers. By making a single investment in a fund-of-funds, investors obtain access to a number of different hedge funds in which, because of the high minimum investment required by each, they normally could not invest individually.
Hedge Ratio
The number of shares of common stock a manager sells short out of the total number possible.
Any investment that is taken in conjunction with another position in order to reduce directional exposure, such as purchasing a long position and a short position in similar stocks to offset the effect any changes the overall level of the equity market will have on the long position.
High Water Mark
Use of a high water mark requires a manager to attain performance above the highest previous level before earning additional incentive fees (see Incentive Fee). This ensures the investor does not pay for covering the same ground twice because losses must be made up before the manager begins participating in the profits.
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The return that must be earned each year before the manager starts participating in the profits (see Incentive Fee). Often, the Treasury bill rate or LIBOR is used.
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The hedge fund manager's share in the fund's profits (i.e., carried interest). Typically, 20% is charged each year in addition to a standard management fee.
The practice of borrowing to add to an investment position when it is expected the return from the position will exceed the cost of the borrowed funds.
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Short Interest Rebate
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The practice of borrowing a stock on collateral and immediately selling it on the market with the intention of buying it back later at a lower price after the market corrects itself.
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