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EFF, CloudFlare Ask Federal Court Not To Force Internet Companies To Enforce Music Labels' Trademarks
This month, CloudFlare and EFF pushed back against major music labels' latest strategy to force Internet infrastructure companies like CloudFlare to become trademark and copyright enforcers, by challenging a broad court order that the labels obtained in secret. Unfortunately, the court denied CloudFlare's challenge and ruled that the secretly-obtained order applied to CloudFlare. This decision, and the strategy that led to it, present a serious problem for Internet infrastructure companies of all sorts, and for Internet users, because they lay out a blueprint for quick, easy, potentially long-lasting censorship of expressive websites with little or no court review. The fight's not over for CloudFlare, though. Yesterday, CloudFlare filed a motion with the federal court in Manhattan, asking Judge Alison J.
EFF will go to bat for users' rights at this month's hearings on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 1201's overreaching restriction on circumventing "access control" or "digital rights management" (DRM) technologies comes in direct conflict with lawful activities like conducting security research, repairing cars, and resuscitating old video games. For that reason, Congress included a provision allowing the public to petition the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress for exemptions to the 1201 clause. It is a long, complex process that happens every three years with no guarantee that previous exemptions will stand, so EFF is back on the ground to advocate for several important issues.
In past years, EFF successfully petitioned for the right to jailbreak your phone and use DVD video for fair use remixes. In the 2015 petitions, we are working to uphold these uses and more. Here is what we are focusing on:
It's International Day Against DRM, which means folks around the world bring attention to the dangers of the so-called "technical protection measures" embedded in their stuff. But DRM (which stands for Digital Rights Management) isn't the whole problem; equally pernicious are the laws that prevent folks from circumventing the DRM in order to do otherwise perfectly legal things.
For example: perhaps you want to get your car in shape for that summer road trip. Maybe you're looking forward to a summer project where you make a fan video. Or perhaps you are organizing a reunion with friends that will include a gaming night, and you'd like to dig up some of the old games you used to play in high school.
Ending the scourge of DRM has long been an important goal for EFF, and the need has only increased in recent years. As the evidence mounts that we're already deep into what EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow has dubbed the War On General Purpose Computing, efforts like the Free Software Foundation's International Day Against DRM take on a new meaning.
It's not just about what we can do with the books, music, movies, and games that we buy, though that remains an important fight. It's a matter of basic consumer rights and security.
YouTube is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. We're glad YouTube has managed to survive the copyright wars, when so many other services did not. We hope we even helped. So, congratulations YouTube, well done. Wouldn't fixing ContentID be a great way to celebrate it?
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text: Well, I recently "did my time" in our GREAT nation's service (Estonian Defense Forces), and am I glad. Now I can spend time trying to forget about it just in time for the regathering in four years. But let's get to the point: I suddenly realized the lack of manga about the conscript's humorous perils that ensue when a young gentleman's life is interrupted by the draft - these kind of stories are somewhat popular in Russia at least. And THEN I googled to see if Japan even has a system like that... and DAMN! While I expected something like this from a small island nation, there sure is a hell of a lot of other countries where the draft was abolished, no wonder I haven't seen any western comics or shows about it either. And while it IS a year of your life down the drain (two in some countries) you people don't know what you are missing (I'm talking about the kind of fun several thousand unmotivated armed men who are children at heart can have while running through the forest "playing war"). But that's your loss, mine is that of all of the possible fiction (and sometimes what you want to believe is fiction about the army - we had a nice little episode of a few guys playing rugby with an old RPG grenade that was found while digging trenches) that won't be created.

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Yamaji was a necessary sacrifice. The reason why the picture was there serves as an indication that Yamaji's Zanpakuto is not really just a Zanpakuto. My theory is that, much like the 'Diamond Dust Rebellion' OVA of Bleach, Zanpakutos are real beings sealed within the swords. Hence, the idea of a 'flaming god' cannot be too farfetched considering the fact that Ichigo achieved a full 'bond' with his Zanpakuto. So far in the manga, he is the only one character that has been known and shown to have done this. SO FAR. So the reason why Ichigo was placed under the 5 war potentials was primarily because research regarding such a thing never really happened AFTER the extermination of quincies 1000 years ago since (I'm guessing…) the people who could fully bond with their Zanpakutos vanished. (Into Squad 0.) Hence Yama said that, if that happens, he will no longer be there because that was the cue for the return of Squad 0.
I honestly think that Yamaji is not that weak and stupid. He made it look like he really wanted to end the war by himself but in fact, he knew he was a sacrifice that was needed in order for Squad 0 to come.
The incomplete picture to me here is the presence of Okikiba in the First Division Camp where Aizen is in captivity. CC Yamaji asked him to stay there and if Juha Bach claims that he had met with Aizen, what has happened to Okikiba? Is he dead? Or is he some guy that's just supposed to report the status of the war to the Squad 0, much like that guy Philippides to the Greeks?
Our first glimpse of Squad 0 might actually come from Hueco Mundo. If Kubo shows them in the next chapter, that would be awesome. And of course, what we want. But that will have to wait. We have yet to know whose sword lies in the face of Urahara. And honestly, I would want to know that more than actually knowing the people who have the ability to put an end to this war and this arc – Squad 0. Oscuridad
He Who Speaks Without An Attentive Ear Is Mute.
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shut up you weakling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are just angry because i didnt let you became my SERVANT!!!!!! but icould not accept that because you are too weak to be my servant sorry
It doesn't really matter to me the 5 he considered. He's pulling back when the zero squad are about to appear. This might be tactical, but you are only tactical when you have chance of losing. Hence, there will be several others of the zero squad that are very powerful that would certainly affect this list of 5.
Proud (and confused) subscriber of Shonen Jump Alpha.
Bleach Wiki mentions that He was originally set to appear in the manga during the same part in the series, but had to be cut by series creator Tite Kubo due to time issues.
He was added in the anime though .
Here another picture of him (from the anime):
If we were to assume that his story was more or less like that in the anime, then he might have participated in the war against the Quincy (thus might had a reason to kill of that Quincy). His current whereabouts would have been HM and he have the tendency to point his sword even at shinigami ;P.
Beside, I'm not sure if that can be Grimjow. Some people suggested that Grimjow was one of the bodies (materials) hanging out of that Espada's Scientist secret storage. If so, then naturally he would have been taken to Science Division of SS.
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Mabel J. Harper Edwards, 87 of Alton, formerly of Elizabethtown, passed away peacefully at her home 10:55 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, surrounded by her loving family.
A memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, at Vickery Funeral Chapel in Equality. Visitation for Mabel will begin at 2 p.m. until service time at 3 p.m. Graveside service will be private.
Mabel will be laid to rest at Raleigh Masonic Cemetery in Raleigh. Mabel Jewell Jones was born Aug. 14, 1926, in Galatia, to Joseph Clyde Jones and Evelyn (Akins) Jones. Mabel was also blessed to be able to call Virginia Jennings Jones her mother as well (after her mother's departure in 1930). She always said Virginia was her mother and best friend. As a child, Mabel's fondest memories were with her dad, square dancing around town at the neighboring houses. This fostered a love of dance in Mabel that lasted a lifetime. Mabel cherished family and friends. They were always most important to her.
August 3, 1946, Mabel married Wayne Harper in Alton. She owned and operated M.J. Harper Insurance Agency in Alton for many years. Mabel's greatest love was born July 22, 1960, they named her Pamela Marlene. Pam gave Mabel three precious gifts in 1980-1981, Derek James, Layla Sue and Kelly Jewell. In February 1985 she married Edward N. Edwards. They moved to Hardin County in 1989, where she made her home for many years. Mabel was also blessed to have six great grandchildren, Hannah Jewell Heinz, Keely Jaxyn Hobbs, Ashleigh Rose Shell, Weston Allen Greer, Kaden Heath Hobbs and Drayke Kevin Shell. They truly were the light of her life.
Mabel was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Alton, and proudly told family of the pew that she and Wayne had bought together at the church so many years before. Mabel was a loved and respected insurance agent all over Illinois for most of her life. She loved her life's work and was passionate about it, and the people she worked to serve. They were like family to her, and she spoke highly of so many of them long after retirement.
Mabel was preceded in death by both husbands; her parents; two sisters, Barbara Ann Anderson and Wanda Lou Erixon; a brother, Joe Junior Jones; and also best friend Anna McBroom.
She is survived by her sister, Judith Kay Parsons; beloved daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Kevin Masten; three grandchildren, Derick (Tracy) Heinz, Layla Shell, Kelly (Heath) Hobbs; and six great-grandchildren. She also left behind special cousins Bill Jones and Norma Hazel and cherished friend Della Darlene Austin.
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Turning hundreds of individual battle stories into one narrative is like putting together a complex jigsaw puzzle. Good thing history buff Don Cygan is a patient man.
Over the years, Cygan had read differing accounts of the Battle for Bastogne, a pivotal engagement on Christmas Day 1944 in which paratroopers of the 101st Airborne, along with other units, stubbornly held out against the German onslaught despite a dangerous lack of supplies and poor weather conditions.
Cygan, an eighth-grade history teacher at Sagewood Middle School, can't point to the exact reason why he gravitated toward the story, spending five years conducting interviews and pulling military records from American and German databases. He says that the battle has surprisingly received little attention from historians, and he was compelled to reconcile the contradictory versions of the events.
"In battle, there's always varying accounts because of what they call the 'foxhole-eye view,'" Cygan said. "You're only aware of what's going on within a hundred-yard radius, but when you overlap the stories with the reports, you get a bigger picture."
The 49-year-old first-time author was enthused when he was able to get in contact with those who fought, including American veterans in their late 80s and early 90s. He even interviewed a German soldier named Ludwig Lindemann, who was forthcoming about his involvement in WWII and candid about his former belief in Hitler's plans.
The missing pieces of the story were adeptly filled in by Leo Barron, a fellow historian who served in Iraq and had been doing his own research on the Battle for Bastogne. The co-authors even traveled to the site in Belgium and spoke to the ancestors of those who lived in the area at the time of the Battle of the Bulge, of which the Battle for Bastogne was a turning point.
The complementary partnership resulted in a "remarkable story" with heroics that previously had not been documented. Cygan, a retired Army and National Guard Reserve serviceman, said many veterans told him they had never shared their full story, not even with their wives.
"There are still huge stories coming out of World War II, things that people never got full information about because so much was going on," he said. "It's hard to realize the impact."
Cygan and Barron were not only intent on piecing together an accurate military account, but also wanted to capture the human element of the story, particularly because the battle occurred on Christmas Day.
After retaining an agent, the 320-page book was quickly snapped up by the New American Library, a subsidiary imprint of Penguin Publishing. The authors have been encouraged by "No Silent Night's" popularity since being released in November: nearly 5,000 physical copies had been sold as of Jan. 18.
Cygan, a father of two boys who has lived in Parker for almost 20 years, said he is glad to play a role in making sure that accurate accounts are on record and discrepancies are cleared up.
"It's important to me," he said. "The fundamental role of a historian is to make sure the stories get told."
Cygan is scheduled to appear during a book signing and discussion about "No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch. The book is also available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other retailers, and can be purchased as an e-book.


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it was such a mild day today.....9c
it was such a mild day today.....9c
It is pelting it down, there is an amber flooding alert in force. And unsettled weather with gales and heavy rain is forecast for the next week. Looks like a green or grey christmas...
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Chapter 11
He sees in vision the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews—He prophesies the latter-day gathering of Israel.
1 Moreover the
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 ¶Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the
6 Ye have multiplied your
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
10 Ye shall
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my
13 ¶And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren,
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will
20 That they may
21 But as for them whose heart
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Hitchens and Jesus
Meanwhile another actor in the debate between religion and atheism - also dead - is on a fast track to canonization by the Roman Catholic Church for sainthood. Pope John Paul II is the "good Christian" that in the mind of millions of believers stood as a bulwark against the tide of official Soviet atheism at one time and also stood against another threat: the growing irrelevance of all fundamentalist religious beliefs in the age of science.
In simplest terms in the minds of the pious it would be that Hitchens was "bad" and Pope John Paul was "good." The idea might apply not just to personal morality but to the notion that Hitchens and his ilk (the other so-called New Atheists) have somehow damaged faith in general and faith in Christianity in particular while the pope and other Christian leaders, say the evangelist Billy Graham etc., have done their best to strengthen the faith of millions while guarding the reputation of Christianity and thereby defending Jesus himself.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. All the raging of today's atheist apologists combined are but a flea bite compared to the fatal blow that Christianity has been dealt by its own leadership in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
John Paul II presided over the era in which the Roman Catholic Church became known mostly for being the largest and best protected pedophile ring in the world while - simultaneously -- attacking gays, women who demanded reproductive rights and scientists doing stem cell research etc., etc., as "immoral." And Billy Graham presided over an era of American evangelical expansion at the very time when the word "Christianity" in America became synonymous with far right social causes and above all the capitalist pro-corporatism that smacked more of Ayn Rand than Jesus.
Put it this way: Hitchens and company attacked the idea of the supernatural as bogus. (Disclosure: I "answered" Hitchens rather harshly in one of my books on religion and before that we'd "talked" a bit via email and one or two phone calls.) Their attacks were frontal and honest. Religious people - and I am one and will be in church this Sunday - had nothing to fear from the atheists' honest critique. Conversely the leadership of Christianity has utterly corrupted the Christian witness from within.
The death of the Christian witness (especially here in America) has been brought about by two fatal wounds: First, the conflation the teachings of Ayn Rand with the teachings of Christ. Call this the American version of Jesus-wants-us-to-be-anti-government-regulation-of-business and to be anti-health-care-for-all Tea Party-type "Christianity."
Second: John Paul II's real place in history is that of a pope that protected his institution rather than his flock. (I describe this in some detail in my book Sex, Mom and God.)While boys and girls were being abused by bishops and priests around the globe he looked the other way, covered up for them and did all he could to "contain" the scandal, a scandal that is still unfolding.
Billy Graham and his many evangelical clones that are now running mega churches and other Religious-Industrial Complex money making empires, have done their best to turn salvation into a process of voting for Republicans and thus corporatist leaders intent on protecting the "rights" of billionaires rather than the people. Billy Graham's son Franklin, now running the Billy Graham organisation is a corporate shill and supporter of far right "pro-business" causes.
So the sins of the evangelical and Roman Catholic "Christian" leadership are the same: The Roman Catholics have sacrificed their own children to the sexual greed of pedophiles out to protect their institution and the Evangelicals have sacrificed the poor to the greed of their corporate masters to protect American businesses.
And both profound and filthy betrayals have been done to protect institutions instead of people. Both betrayals have also been accompanied by levels of hypocrisy - the "family values" "pro-life" talk by people who condone pedophiles and no health care for actual families - that would make any decent atheist blush.
Result for the "Christian" witness?
On the one hand thousands of pedophile priests and bishops have been and are now free to abuse.
On the other hand Wall Street has been and is free to abuse.
So rest in peace Christopher Hitchens. At least you tried to tell the truth as you understood it and didn't live a lie. You didn't bugger little children and you didn't look the other way while the 1 percent stole the 99 percent's money. And unlike the recent popes and the evangelical leadership if there is a judgment day you'll be fine. You only disbelieved. You did not betray the "least of these."
Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book is Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway
9 comments:
- Frank Schaeffer said...
Hi Frank here testing posting comment since there has been a problem with this feature.
- December 22, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- herewegokids said...
Hi Frank. [:)] You've brought up some really good things to consider; even though I'm Catholic, and hold the last 2 popes in fairly high regard (I'm not sure how much personal responsibility there is there for the priestly scandal fallout, and how much is unfortunately part of the squeaky wheels of bureaucracy) I still agree that there will be accountability, and we have way too much of our own mess as Christians to be pronouncing judgments on atheists and agnostics who were/are people of integrity and honesty. I haven't read Sex Mom & God yet, so I will. Thank you for giving it to us straight! Sarah from Kansas.
- December 22, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Frank Schaeffer said...
Thanks Herewe... for the note. You got the point of what I'm saying here, don't throw stones if we live in glass houses, which we religious people all do! Best, F
- December 22, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Joel Edmund Anderson said...
Hello Frank,
Although I agree with some of what you've said, I think there is a bit of oversimplification here. First, I wouldn't characterize Hitchens as an "honest" atheist. He attacked straw men and never took the time to do any real research into the Bible or Church history. If one is going to criticize the Bible or Christianity, put the effort into actually finding out what it actually says. I think he "honestly" thought Tim LaHaye's "Left Behind" series was accepted Church doctrine for the past 2,000 years. But that just shows he was more interested in lashing out than actually taking the time to understand what he was criticizing.
Secondly, if American Evangelicals are guilty of mistaking small-government conservative politics for the Gospel, aren't you in danger of a similar thing by equating the Gospel to big-government liberal politics? My point is this: honest Christians simply have different views on politics sometimes. I wouldn't question Franklin Graham's faith simply because he thinks the federal government should be smaller and the state governments should be able to decide on their own health care systems. I probably don't even agree with a number of his theological views, but I do acknowledge that "Samaritan's Purse" is a noble charity organization that helps countless people. The issue of how big or how small the federal government should be is not a "Christian/non-Christian" issue. It is a political issue, and it is a matter of what people think works best.
Finally, as bad and horrific as the pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church is, I think those priests guilty of those acts and those bishops who knowingly covered it up hold the most blame and condemnation. Like "Herewe" said, I'm not so sure how much blame we can put at the Pope's door on this one.
But ultimately, you're right about Hitchens and the New Atheists--Christians have nothing really to fear from them. When I read the books by Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris, I was struck more by their ignorance about the biblical world and Church history than anything else. Well-informed Christians should be able to take their simplistic arguments apart. The fact that so many Christians can't, unfortunately, points to a failure of churches from all branches and denominations to truly educate the Christians. If an adult sermon on Sunday is saying the same thing as the 3rd grade Sunday School, something is dreadfully wrong.
- December 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- BluesLover said...
This is so dead-on. I've read you in Alternet.org a few times, and have become a huge fan. Like you, I come from a deeply religious background, and fairly recently had my eyes opened and began to live my life more rationally. Someone turned me on to the location of your blog this morning. So happy to have found you!
Rusty Horn (yes that's my name, my parents did that to me)
- December 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Frank Schaeffer said...
Hi Rusty: thanks for the very kind note and the encouragement. I'm pleased to meet you here. Best, Frank
- December 23, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- clothedandinmyrightmind said...
I think of the charges laid at the feet of Hitchens by lessor men and yet for some reason, Fundamentalists do not so much as blush at the Hyles-Anderson grads that have buggered children, ran off with another's wife, coveted and stolen money that's not theirs. This also doesn't address the boys and girls "camps" run by Lester Roloff proteges that were little more than concentration camps for teens. Yes, Hitchens was honest and true to himself.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- C Woods said...
It has been mentioned (in a comment here) that atheists like Hitchens haven't studied the Bible, yet a Pew study showed that, on average, atheists and agnostics know more about religion than most Christians. In my experience, that is true.
Many of my non-believing friends have read and studied the Bible and/or other "holy" books on their own because they had been told the stories therein were true or inerrant and when they started doubting that, they read the Bible and studied it and other religious writings so that they could make an informed decision about religion.
Bible reading was imposed on me by my highly-religious family, but I continued to study religion even after I began to doubt much of what I read in the Bible. As a senior citizen who does not believe in the "god of the Bible" I still read about religion almost daily.
What I cannot understand is why Christians think they are being oppressed. Christians make up about 75% of the US population. Most non-believers don't want to take religious rights from anyone. We want to uphold church/state separation and be accepted as full-fledged citizens whose goals, dreams, and values are similar to those of the religious.
Most of those who are more vocal (such as Hitchens) are attempting to express an opposing point of view, but few have any hopes of changing the minds of those who have strong and long-held religious beliefs and few would take religion from those who find comfort in it.
Any citizen can pray silently anywhere, even in school, or place one or even 100 religious symbols on/in any private home or place of business as long as they don't interfere with local ordinances, such as those limiting the size or volume of such displays. Any religious institution can do the same on it's own property. Non-believers don't care to take that right from anyone, but there is absolutely no need to pray openly or place religious symbols on public property as well, except to flaunt one's religious beliefs and/or show disrespect to those members of the public who believe otherwise.
I would assume you, Frank, have received some flack for your philosophical turnaround, perhaps even hate mail and threats. I would bet almost none of it came from Jews, Muslims, or atheists, but rather from "good Christians" who feel threatened by your change of heart.
In my opinion, the religious and non-religious, and people of various religions and even different sects of the same religion need to learn to get along, need to learn more about each other, respect each person's right to believe or disbelieve in any religion and to openly express such beliefs without trying to impose them on others through legislation.
Most of my friends are Christians. They have remained my friends because they don't judge me, tell me I'm going to hell, or try to convert me. I don't tell them they are stupid (something atheists are often accused of doing) and I don't judge them or try to convince them to become atheists. Discussing religion isn't a large part of our social activities, but we can do it with cool heads and remain friends. If only our leaders could do the same.
- January 15, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Profamilia Siempre said...
It would take a whole anti-left-wing-extremism sermon to expound upon all the hate, bile and naked anti-Christianity in this article. I am NOT a fundie, I am a theological and political moderate who happens to be anti-abortion and pro-traditional family. You have made it quite clear you hate and want to destroy people like me, all because of your complex past experiences and what a few over-the-top wingnuts and sex offenders hiding behind faith have done. Do not presume to preach against hate, because your writing is saturated with it. I will only take on the garbage in your last paragraph.
The truth AS YOU UNDERSTOOD IT? I didn't know Foucauldian my-truth your-truth shit was ANY part of Christianity. I do know that Christian does NOT need scare quotes when referring to Roman Catholics; I'm against the IFB-X and Neopente fundies on that. People not paying large amounts of tax because the Government that THEY ELECTED decided to promote a more libertarian approach, in line with the will of the voters, is THEFT from 99% of the population? Keep at it and English words will have no relation to fact whatsoever one of these days. After all, isn't that what you ultra-left postm... sorry, "progressive mainline Christians" want? IF there is a Judgment Day? As far as I am aware, that's not a negotiable issue. Of course, if there is no Divine Justice then the only route open to "Christians" is to try to get their kingdom to be of this world. A certain figure, who may or may not have existed and who may or may not- scratch that, DID exist and WILL judge both you and me one day, my friend, said a little something which directly contradicts that. Oh, and it would go against this thing you dearly love called separation of c...never mind, we all know it's separation of CONSERVATISM and state that you want and nothing less. Hitchens ONLY denied the Lord? If you ONLY spent your whole life arrogantly preaching godlessness to anyone who would listen, reaping financial awards and social and cultural acclaim for your New Anti-Faitheist claptrap which is a repackaging of the same OLD snake oil the fool of David's Psalm and the ancient Epicureans sold, then you can ONLY expect one result at the Judgment. What part of "by grace we are saved through faith" are you having trouble with, sophisticated metropolitan? If you're Biblically-illiterate the rest of that verse reads "Not of works, lest any man may boast." That is a no-exceptions litmus test. God won't allow an exception for the hard cases, the "works" which really get to people of your kind, like working to kill 30-week fetuses because the mother conveniently had a "single episode mental illness" , working to demolish cathedrals and spray-painting some misspelt version of "paedophile" on them, working to preach hate against the majority of Christians while purportedly against hate, or boasting about the fact you like to engage in sodomy OR are promiscuous (cf "gay pride", "slutwalk".) That, Mr.Schaeffer is NOT how you get saved.
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Don Cherry's rant at Leafs' handling of Nazem Kadri is misguided
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October 03 2012 01:36PM
If the Brian Burke feud with Don Cherry from late January has any spillover victims, it's Dallas Eakins of the Toronto Marlites.
That's Cherry's scope in this town. He's not just a media figure, he's a cult, and Eakins, a coach of an American Hockey League team, had to answer questions raised by Cherry on Twitter.
So let's recap the things Cherry has said in 2012 about the Maple Leafs' organization. In three mediums now, he has criticized the team for the way they treat American college players in relation to good Southern Ontario kids.
There was this interview with QMI from a few months back:
"I like Brian Burke. I have nothing against Brian Burke," said Cherry in an exclusive sit-down interview with the Ottawa Sun on Saturday. "But Brian Burke doesn't like me. That's the sad thing. We used to be the best of friends. I used to get St. Patrick's Day cards from him ... no more.
"Brian Burke does not like what I say about the Leafs. But what am I supposed to say about them? They haven't made the playoffs in (seven) years. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I guess he doesn't like it. But I am what I am."
"I don't like [Ron Wilson]. I don't like the way he treats the players ... like (Nazem) Kadri, he's my favourite kid," he said. "I don't think (Wilson) respects them. When some reporter reads this, he'll go to a player and ask: 'What do you think of Ron Wilson?' What do you think the kid is going to say? I don't like the way he throws his players under the bus."
Cherry's emotional line of thinking exposes his argument to many holes.
Blaming Burke for seven years without the playoffs is wrong. The fact is that Burke had nothing to do with the way John Ferguson Jr. positioned the Leafs before the last lockout, his reaction to the salary cap or Cliff Fletcher's disastrous trades. You can blame Burke for three years without the playoffs, not seven.
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In March, on Coach's Corner, Cherry took no prisoners in his legendary Leafs rant. I transcribed the whole thing here:
Last night I'm at the Marlies and the Rebels game… these guys, beautiful guys, they're T.O. young Nats. They will never play for the Toronto Maple Leafs. I heard your interview with Burke, and he said 'well we have a tough time here. We have, every team has five guys come in from Ontario.' Now I'd just like to tell you because more people come from Ontario, more hockey players come from Ontario, than any other place in the world."
"I'll just give you, Vancouver, I wrote it down, I had to write it down right there, Vancouver has four. Pittsburgh has six from Ontario. St. Louis! Beautiful team, surprise team! Nine! Last year, Boston had seven from Ontario, this year they got nine from Ontario. When Chicago won it the year before they had seven."
"Yes, every team in the National Hockey League has a guy from Ontario except one! Guess who it is? It's Ontario's Toronto Maple Leafs!"
Again, the raw emotion exposes Cherry to his flawed reasoning behind why the Leafs haven't been a successful hockey team.
In essence, he opened himself up. It's not that the Leafs are bad necessarily, but that the Leafs are bad without having a strong Ontario-born hockey player. That was the guy, Kadri, from London Ontario, who was going to be the Southern Ontario-born superstar for the Leafs. He had a wicked junior career starting in Kitchener and ending in London.
And never made the Leafs.
I'm not entirely convinced the team's development of Kadri has been especially flawed. He has yet to make an impact at the NHL-level because the Leafs' main concern is a glut of centremen that keep Kadri out of the way. Kadri's switched over to wing, but the Leafs have five scoring wingers in their top four slots going into next season.
But Cherry likes to set a certain tone. He's made the assertion that "Canada loses" when the Leafs win and that young hockey players in the GTHL and other Southern Ontario minor hockey leagues will never have the chance to play for their hometown teams—so long as Brian Burke is in charge.
And so Cherry's comments yesterday are not directed at Dallas Eakins necessarily but moreso that situational deficiencies have kept Kadri from succeeding in the NHL as of yet. That means that today Eakins, who seems like a reasonably level-headed guy who was simply answering a question a reporter asked about Kadri on the first day of camp, is the villain du jour in this systematic upheaval of Canadian hockey as we know it at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
That is, of course, according to Cherry.
And yet, nobody has asked Eakins either of the questions that needs to be answered in all of this:
Where does Nazem Kadri compare in fitness to last year?
Who are the other bottom three or bottom five guys in body fat on the Marlies?
Agreed... as I've said - this whole thing with Cherry and Kadri makes little sense to me.
sorry where in the quote does it say the cherry blames burke for the leafs being out of the playoffs for 7 year? It say, he says they have been out of the playoffs for 7 years so I say bad stuff about them, not they have been out of the playoffs for 7 years because of Brian Burke.
Next the leafs have not gotten any better with Burke as their GM.
This whole problem dates back to when Burke was trying to play big mean dog and prove a point to try and screw over murray when he wanted kadri. Murray would not give into the ridiculous demands burke was asking for. So Burke in spite, drafts a player he was not originally interested in.
Also Seguin is already better than Kessel and its not long before Hamilton is also.
@Wolf Cola
agree with your comment about the misrepresentation of Don's words but strongly disagree with your comments about Seguin being better than kessel. Let alone Hamilton. There is no comparison. The list of big BIG NAME players that have less points than kessel does over the last 3 seasons is a mile long! Kessel is one of the best goal scores in the game and will be a point per game player (give or take) for many years. Seguin plays on a team that won the cup and is a landslide better than the leafs in every way. Had he become a leaf his impact would have been minimal without that support. Seguin is an amazing player but he's not ever going to be the point producer kessel is. Ever!
I don't like how the Leafs publicly talked about his body fat testing. There is no reason to embarrass the kid. Dallas Eakins should know better.
I don't like how the Leafs publicly talked about his body fat testing. There is no reason to embarrass the kid. Dallas Eakins should know better.
I can appreciate your assessment on kessel. But I bet if you poll the GMs it would be 25-5 in favour of taking seguin over kessel. and maybe there is a point production difference but seguin is younger and ahead of kessel at the same age.
While Seguin is on a better team he also had 60 minutes less powerplay time and 180 lees on 5 on 5.
Seguin was 2.69 pp60 and kessel is 2.46
some other things to consider
19 YO Season .414 ppg
20 YO Season .451 ppg
21 YO Season .857 ppg
22 YO Season .785 ppg
23 YO Season .780 ppg
24 YO Season 1.00 ppg .451 GPG
Lifetime .717 ppg .361 GPG
18-19 YO Season .297 ppg
19-20 YO Season .827 ppg
Lifetime .574 ppg .258 GPG
Hall LY .442 GPG
LT .389 GPG .753 ppg
SO to recap, Seguin is way ahead of the kessel development and is prime to pass him this year in point production, Hall is already ahead of kessel in career GPG production and point production. And the reason I bring Hall into this is that without kessel the leafs would have finished last that year and had the option of hall or kessel if the trade wasn't made.
October 04 2012, 03:06PM
@What is happening to Ebs on the Shootout
Calm down, get a life, or troll somewhere else.
Concern yourself with your own team that has owned the bottom of the league for how many years now? Tearing other people/teams down will not elevate you.
Ya.. how did a conversation about Cherry defending Kadri turn into the obligatory Kessel / Seguin debate? Stupid..
Has anyone ever considered Nazem Kadri is Don Cherry's illegitimate son?
Nazem plays like gang busters the 1st 3 or 4 games when he's called up then disappears into the wind like the smoke from a J, Cherry's a fool for thinking playing less minutes on the 4th line with the Leafs will build more confidence for the kid than playing twice as many minutes on either the 1st or 2nd line on the Marlie's under Eakins tutelage. Dallas had a right to call the kid out as he is the boss & Kadri is his employee. He should of been in the best shape of his life with the money he's making Your always supposed to be working your hardest to make a good impression to get a promotion in the real world. He must of known he was out of shape coming into camp & if he was too stupid not to notice then Eakins had a right to embarrass him to try & make sure it doesn't happen again.
I'm usually a big fan of Cherry's but on this Kadri issue he has it completely wrong. That's why he isn't coaching any longer. Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Garry Cheevers and a bunch of other stars allowed him to gain a Stanley Cup ring. He's just got a HO for Burke now and taking it out on anyone associated with him.


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31 artists...31 days. Spend every day of March with me at The Altered Page to meet the 31 spotlight artists in my book The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed. See their beautiful faces, read their 'quirky' bios written in their own words, see some of their art that led me to invite them to be a part of my book, and hear my story of what they each mean to me. Then click on over to their sites and see what they have to say about The Pulse of Mixed Media.
Michelle Ward
It's not about your workspace, or your materials, it's about plugging in, getting messy, and seeing what emerges.
Like many of the artists in my book, I first learned about Michelle through one of my all time favorite books: True Colors. Her 'color' was Autumn. But my most vivid memory of her work in that book was her 'Stairway to Heaven' spread in Lisa Renner's Blue and Ochre book. Wow!
Since that time I have loved seeing the direction that Michelle's art has taken and really admire the freedom and joy that is a trademark of her work. She has been a leader in the mixed media community, through her blog, her rubber stamp line, her Street Team crusades, her new column in Somerset Studio, and the creativity that is in every cell in her body.
I first 'met' Michelle online less than 6 months after I started my blog when she so graciously agreed to support me and be a participant in my first, online version of The Pulse. I have almost met her in real life on several occasions and am so very excited to be able to finally and officially meet her later this month at my artist panel at The Ink Pad. Think if I ask nicely, she will autograph my copy of True Colors?
For every comment you leave in March on a 31/31 post on my blog and/or on the blog of the spotlighted artist, you will have that many chances to win one of three prizes in my giveaway. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have (but only 1 per post please). First prize is a copy of The Pulse of Mixed Media signed by many (and I mean many) of the 133 artists that have contributed to the book. Second and third prizes are one copy each of the book signed by yours truly.


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Casual yet fashionable, the White Mountain Chariot looks great on everyone! This riding boot is versatile and never goes out of style!
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
April 01, 2013
Cheap & Cute
"Like the title states, cheap & cute, but didn't last long. The material was light & soft, so with regular wear, the material started to crack between where it bent, mostly around the ankles."
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Location: Dallas, TX
January 02, 2013
Fell Apart Midway through Winter
"I ordered these boots early so that I could get the perfect pair I wanted before they were all out of my size. I received my boots in early August but didn't really get to start to wear them until about late October. Before the end of December the material started to crack and flake off around the ankles. I was so dissapointed. I love DSW, but will not be going with this brand again."
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Location: Lancaster, PA
December 20, 2012
"These boots are amazing! Extremely comfortable!"
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Location: Bronx, NY
November 20, 2012
Perfect addition to my collection!
"These boots are the perfect addition to my collection of shoes. They fit comfortably and the color i choose which was the brown was perfect. It fits well and best of all it fits perfectly around my calf.The zipper dont bother me as much because one of them you can barely see as it is the same color as the elastic part of the boot. It is a bit narrow so if you happen to have wide feet i might suggest to go one half size up. Other than that it is the perfect boots for the perfect price."
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The Thread's SXSW Street Style Awards
The Thread March 14, 2013 6:00 PM
The Thread wandered all around the streets of Austin to bring you our favorite street style looks from SXSW. From rocker tees to vintage dresses and everything in between, these festival goers brought it.
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By JANE MARSHALLDover, Tenn.
Senators Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Max Baucus (D-MT) have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to create special health courts on a pilot project basis.
By calling a system that would deny victims of medical malpractice a basic constitutional right, health courts suggests a Rovean approach to a problem influenced by Orwellian Newspeak. Health is a positive word aglitter with promise.
Unfortunately, it is the health of doctors' financial situation that is being addressed, not the health of medical malpractice victims nor the health of those thousands of patients who will become victims of medical malpractice every year.
The outcome of cases would be determined by medically trained judges who share a professional background with the defendants. There you have it: the fox in charge of guarding the hen house.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have victims of medical malpractice sit in judgment? After all, they know firsthand the financial cost of malpractice and the onerous weight of pain and suffering. If the name were changed to medical malpractice courts, I can't think the medical profession would be so quick to support the courts.
The push to set up health courts seems to be yet another way to place a cap on pain and suffering and to deny victims the basic constitutional right to have a jury decide the amount of compensation that is appropriate for their injury.
Doctors and those legislators who support them should take a more direct approach to cutting the cost of medical malpractice. They should work to greatly reduce the incidence of malpractice. By doing so, using the word health to describe their initiative would not be an insult to victims.


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(November 04) Today we're celebrating . . . National Chicken Lady DaySunday, November 4th, 2007
National Chicken Lady Day
We love chicken flavored personalities around here. There's our personal favorite – Chicken Boy, whose birthday we celebrate every September 1st.
And the Chicken Lady brings back fond memories of the Chicken Lady character from the old TV show Kids in the Hall. So today we'll be celebrating her clucking twistedness.
But the real Chicken Lady honored today is a women in Florida who helps people learn public speaking through her not-for-profit organization – The Professional Speakers Network. Not as much fun as our Chicken Lady, but still worthy of her own holiday
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The National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Transportation and other authorities agree that school buses are the safest form of transportation for getting children to and from school. Some 475,000 school buses carry 25 million children, more than half of America's schoolchildren, each day, rarely with any serious accident.
School bus drivers are highly trained professionals who have your child's safety in mind. They receive specialized training in student behavior management, loading and unloading, security and emergency medical procedures.
Just how safe are school buses, even without seat belts?
School buses are the safest way for children to get to and from school, outperforming any other mode of transportation on the road-15 times safer than other types of transportation (combined) to and from school, including riding with an adult, walking or riding a bike.
Teens driving themselves to school and children riding with a teenage driver are 44 times more likely to be fatally injured than if they were on a school bus. (Source: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Committee on School Transportation Safety, "The Relative Risks of School Travel: A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment," 2002; http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr269.pdf - See table in appendix).
Utah School Bus Safety:
In Utah 1,904 to and from school buses transport 167,070 students to and from school, for 60,145,200 student trips annually over 26,483,116 miles. Utah has an excellent safety record with few incidents and injuries. Fatalities related to school bus transportation in Utah are extremely rare. National statistics indicate that of the approximate 25,000,000 students who do not ride school buses to and from school, about 800 will loose their lives on their way to or from school each year. For every 31,250 students who do not ride school buses to and from school each year, one will likely become a fatality.
It is estimated that five lives are saved each year with the students that are transported to and from school on Utah school buses. It is also estimated that of the approximate 330,000 students who do not ride Utah school buses to and from school, about ten will become fatalities while on the way to or from school each year.


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Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Chicken Sausage and Carrots
(Makes about 6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
2 cups dried green split peas (do not need soaking)
4 links Aidells Roasted Garlic Chicken Sausage (or use other types of sausage)
1 onion, chopped into small pieces (about 1 cup chopped onion)
2-3 carrots, chopped into small pieces (about 1 1/2 cups chopped carrots)
4 cups chicken stock (I use homemade chicken stock, but canned broth or chicken stock from a carton is fine)
2 cups water
1 packet Goya Ham Flavored Concentrate (optional, but it does add a lot of flavor)
salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
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Slow Cooker Lentil Soup with Bacon ~ The Lemon Bowl
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Slow Cooker Taco Soup ~ Tidy Mom
Crockpot (or stovetop) Black Bean Chili with Lime and Cilantro ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Slow Cooker Tangy Black Bean Soup ~ A Year of Slow Cooking
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Home > National Historic Sites > Grand Pré National Historic Site > Site Management
As a federal government property, Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada is operated under the provisions of the National Parks Act, Regulations, the Historic Sites and Monuments Act, the Parks Canada Agency Act and Parks Canada's Guiding Principles and Operational Policies.
Parks Canada wishes to ensure public support and to make cooperative agreements that will facilitate the contribution of local communities, the Acadian community, and other organizations and individuals to the protection of the Site and the celebration of its history. To do this, Parks Canada administers Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada in collaboration with the Société Promotion Grand-Pré . The main goal of the Société Promotion Grand-Pré is to promote Acadian culture and history related to Grand-Pré.
Grand Pré National Historic Site - Management Plan 2012 (PDF - 7.8 MB)
Grand Pré National Historic Site - State of Site - 2009 Report (PDF - 0.9 MB)
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