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Herbal remedies and more to keep the holiday blues away
The yule tide season is the most magical time of the entire year. If you let the hectic holiday pace get to you, you won't be nearly as much fun. Luckily there are herbs, relaxation techniques, and other helpful hints will make winter your favorite time of year!
Green Tea – Soothing, Healing Warmth
Green tea (Camellia Sinensis) has been shown to have anti-stress, antioxidant, and other beneficial health benefits against serious maladies. A new study released this August suggests green tea reduces symptoms of depression - though it is unknown yet how green tea may do this.*
The clinical term for feeling unable to experience pleasure, anhedonia, goes along with feeling unmotivated, and both are associated with depression. In other research, the biochemistry of simply brewing a pot of tea and sipping from the created brew can alter both our mood and the efficacy of our immune function.*
Another tip for relaxing tea brews: add non-tea herbals such as Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) or Chamomile to your teapot. Chamomile has a gentle, sedative effect that promotes stomach health and relaxation. The steam from Chamomile itself is enough to free up tired lungs and help you breathe easier during the winter months.*
Lemon Balm is a rarity among traditional healing herbs and medicinal botanicals in that it has soothing and relaxing effects on mind and stomach, and tastes delicious!* In fact, Melissa officinalis is often used as a food additive for flavoring. Add it to your tea to make Winter easier to bear, or just use delicious Refreshing Green Tea Blend from Blessed Herbs. It contains rejuvenating Green Tea and Jasmine Green Tea as well as Lemon Balm and other medicinal herbs!
Get more information about refreshing green tea benefits and ingredients.
Finding Your Own Spirit in the Sky
In addition to enjoying all the benefits of green tea every day, my favorite wintertime tip to reduce the effects of stress is to look up to the sky for as long as I can: five minutes works. I pretend I can identify constellations, and in daytime or in the city I say I am watching clouds move.
(Note: if you're looking at the sky during the daytime, take to not stare at the sun. And if you're fortunate enough to be in a locale where the sun is shining bright and there is snow on the ground, wear sunglasses to help protect your eyes from reflected light.)
Really, all I need is to let the sky see me. Moonlight, sunlight, star light, urban night lights – these remind me I am made of matter and light. Some days that's all the meditation I can fit in, but I feel my neck relax, my shoulders drop, my breathing slow down. And I know, without knowing how, that there is a cascade of healing effects on my heart, my immune cells, every neuron, and every cell.
Courtesy of Amanda McQuade Crawford
Amanda McQuade Crawford, M.A. is an herbalist and clinical psychologist practicing integrative health care in Ojai, serving Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
*Effect of green tea on reward learning in healthy individuals: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study.
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Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnamby Huynh Quang Quang Nhuong, Vo-Dinh Mai (Illustrator)
The land I love was lost to me forever.
These stories are my memories....
Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands if Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers, wild hogs, and deadly snakes were as much a part of his life as tending the rice fields while on the back of his pet water buffalo,/h3>
The land I love was lost to me forever.
These stories are my memories....
Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands if Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers, wild hogs, and deadly snakes were as much a part of his life as tending the rice fields while on the back of his pet water buffalo, Tank. Here are fifteen tale that will transport you into a world of lush beauty and terrible danger -- and a way of life that is gone forever.
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Chapter One
Tank, The WaterMy family had land on which we grew rice. During July to January, the rainy season, the rice field was flooded, and only water buffaloes could be used to till the soil.
We owned three water buffaloes, one male and two females. One day our male died of old age. My father decided to look for the ideal water buffalo to replace him: a bull that was both a hard worker and a good fighter. Fighting ability was important because tigers raided the herd near the edge of the jungle. Buffaloes born and raised among mountain tribes had the reputation of being excellent fighters, but they were often too fierce, violent, and impatient to handle. On the other hand, buffaloes born and raised in the lowlands were patient and obedient, but they did not make good fighters, for they lived in an area where fierce predators aid not exist. Neither type of buffalo would meet my father's needs.
However, it was possible to have the ideal buffalo if a young bull had a fierce father from the mountains and a patient mother from the lowlands. This unusual mixture occurred if a fierce mountain bull wandered down to the lowlands and met a female which would bear its offspring. The owner of the female might not know that he had a mixed-blood calf until the calf grew older and the thickness of its coat indicated the mountain origin of its father. So sometimes a farmer who had more buffaloes than he needed would unwittingly sell a valuable mixed-blood calf.
My father, by a combination of luck and patience, discovered a mixed-blood buffalo at the ranch of a buffalo merchant in a townfar below the river and bought it at a, good price.
I was six years old when my father brought the new calf home. He let me give the young buffalo food and water, and sometimes he allowed me to pat its shoulders. But he told me never to approach it when I was alone, for calves were unpredictable. Although they usually obeyed everybody taller, than they were,they did not obey small children and, sometimes might hurt them.
I listened to my father, but I trusted our calf. I knew he and I would become great friends.
Our calf grew into a handsome and powerful buffalo. He not only became the head of our small herd, but also became the head of all the herds in our hamlet after many ferocious and successful fights with the other males. We named him "Tank," because when he hit another male during a fight, he struck as heavily as a tank.
One day a young bull from a nearby hamlet trespassed on Tank's territory and challenged his authority. Tank roared a few times to warn the intruder, but the other buffalo was determined to fight. When we heard Tank's roars weknew, that there was trouble in the hill field. Everyone in the hamlet rushed to a hill to watch the fight. We could not prevent it, so we stayed on high ground to protect ourselves; for a defeated buffalo would often run to humans to be rescued and, in its panic, trample them.
Tank left his herd and faced the arrogant intruder. The other buffaloes stopped eating and waited. Suddenly the two bulls charged and ran into each other head on. I heard a mighty thud. Both buffaloes fell back. My heart was pounding. It was the first time any of us had ever seen Tank fall back. Tank was the pride of the hamlet, and we would be very ashamed if he lost the fight; or worse, if Tank were killed, some of our female buffaloes might follow the victorious bull home to the, other hamlet, and it would be very hard to bring them back.
The two buffaloes recovered from the powerful collision and ran at each other again. This time they locked horns and tried to twist and break each other's necks. Next, each pushed the other and tried to overturn him. At first the intruder sustained Tank's push very well. But then, little by little, he began to lose ground. Tank pushed him farther and farther backward. Unfortunately for the other buffalo, who had fought quite well so far, there, was a deep trench behind him. When his two hind legs fell into the trench, the animal was helpless. Tank's sharpened horns hit first his neck, then his shoulders; but unlike other buffaloes, this one did not call for help.
My father felt sorry for the bull, and he asked my cousin, whom Tank loved the best, to try to stop Tank from killing him. My cousin rushed to Tank's side and called his name. Tank, furious because he was hurt himself, nevertheless listened to my cousin and let him lead him away. The defeated intruder was rescued from the trench and set free, and we never saw or heard from him again.
Tank became so famous that people from far away brought females to breed with him. Buffalo thieves also considered him a prize. One day it rained very hard and Tank did not come home. The next morning we went to look for him. We asked a friend who had a hound dog to help us. My father, my cousin and I, and a few well-armed friends followed the hound and found Tank near a river crossing about fifteen kilometers from home, tied to the root of a tree.
When we untied Tank, he was very happy and licked everybody who had come to rescue him. But we were puzzled. There was blood scattered all around, but Tank himself was unharmed. And why, if thieves had taken Tank so far away from our home, had they finally left him there?
Weeks later these questions were answered.
Meet the Author
Huynh Quang Nhuong also wrote The Land I Lost, which was published in five languages and received numerous awards. He was born in Mytho, Vietnam, and now lives in Columbia, Missouri.
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Darrell Issa Voted To Keep His Tax Rate Down, Media Avoided The Subject
In several on-air interviews about the then-pending fiscal cliff legislation, journalists allowed Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to attack the bill without noting Issa's personal financial stake in opposing the legislation and keeping his own taxes at a lower rate.
In appearances on Fox News' Fox & Friends (1/2), CNN's The Situation Room (1/1) and CNN Newsroom (12/31/12), the issue of Issa's wealth was not broached by the reporters and anchors who interviewed him.
As Politico reported [1], Issa's 2011 financial disclosure statement [2] showed almost $15 million in earnings from investments. The vast majority of Issa's income comes from investments -- income that will be taxed at a higher rate under the legislation that just passed (capital gains taxes will be increased [3] from 15 percent to 20 percent for families making over $450,000 a year.)
The Center for Responsive Politics estimates [4] that Issa has a net worth between $195 million and $700 million. Roll Call ranked him [5] as the second wealthiest member of the 112th Congress, based on the lowest and most charitable estimate of his wealth (members of Congress are only required to report ranges of their wealth, not exact numbers.)
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A lazy 1000 kilometres or so to the south - through what some locals call "the GAFA", as in the Great Australian F--- All - in Tennant Creek, all the talk was of the Rotary Club Ute Extravaganza, in which locals got to show off their best you-beaut utes, with a side competition for the best personalised number plate.
As reported in the Gulf and Barkly News, "the winning number plate with the most votes was DAVE 32, (69 votes) belonging to local Dave Mills." (And no, seeing as you ask, I don't know what number plate came second or even third behind the pearler of DAVE 32, but I certainly wondered. I don't even want to think about what came last.)
The right mail
When TFF passed through the Isa, the local talk was still all about the inaugural running of the Mailman Express horse race, held at Buchanan Park race track, in memory of local legend Wally Mailman, who was a rodeo rider. His daughter, Deborah Mailman (of Radiance and The Secret Life of Us fame), presented the winner with a cheque for $4,000 and Mailman Express belt-buckle. Again, a good time was had by all.
The same local rag that reported the horse race had the following item on page 2, beneath the headline "Crowd behaviour acceptable: police". "Although more than 50 arrests were made, Mount Isa police are pleased with the overall behaviour of the crowd during the mardi gras last Friday night". (Just a thought, but I don't think the Isa's mardi gras is quite the same as our own.)
A golden glow
From the perspective of Sydney Town, TFF has had a couple of churlish things to say in recent weeks about the whole concept of the Commonwealth Games, but it's interesting to see it from the perspective of a tiny country town just beneath the Gulf of Carpentaria.
There, last Monday, Normanton's newly crowned favourite daughter, Diane Reeves, returned after winning a gold medal in the ladies' pairs trap shooting - gained without an AIS scholarship, extra funding or the like. As far as Reeves knew, there would be just her mum and dad to greet her, but pretty much the whole town - some 350 people - turned out, including the mayor and all the schoolchildren waving Australian flags. They cheered, she wept.
New balls, please
Golf? Funny I should say that, because even in these distant parts, the golfing culture is strong, with courses liberally dotted even in the most far-flung places - though to be fair they do have a different approach from the way we play in Sydney town.
A quote from one of the blokes I played with in Darwin gives some clue. According to him: "A good scorer beats a good golfer every time." The locals have a sure-fire technique for teaching male golfing novices how to keep their head absolutely still driving the ball from the tee - tie a small piece of fishing line from the peak of one's golf cap and lightly attach the fish hook on the other end to a particularly delicate part of one's nether-nether regions. Apparently, it works a treat, but TFF decided to pass.
"I have not lifted the smallest of my fingers to encourage investment [in soccer] because, in the past 12 months, it would have been an exercise in futility. The sad truth is, Soccer Australia has not been able to deliver to its sponsors." Nick Greiner, who is - believe it or not - the president of Soccer Australia. (At least its doing better than Women's Soccer Australia, which was liquidated last week.)
"I'm fed up with all this mess and therefore I'm going to write Jelena off as a Belgrade citizen. I want her to become a UK citizen." Damir Dokic. That's fine, Dammy. Jelena can go. Back here in Australia, it is you who we really want to come home. Dunno why, but we all just miss you. C'mon, Damir, just say you miss us, too, we can all have a big hug and get on with our lives as if nothing ever happened.
"Players will always want to go to a bigger club. That's life. There is no player in this country who wouldn't want to play for Manchester United. We are without question the highest-profile team in the world." Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. Is there no-one in all England who is happy to play for their club simply because it is their club? Regardless, United were brought down to earth during the week by the mighty Zalaegerszeg of Hungary, 1-0.
"Dumbfounded and speechless comes to mind. We couldn't see it coming ... the horse had bolted and we were in the barriers for most of the race." Newcastle Knights coach Michael Hagan, after his side succumbed 64-14 to Cronulla last Sunday.
"I barracked for the Swans when I was a kid and obviously, being a NSW boy, it does hold something, for sure." Wayne Carey, giving a clue about his possible signing intentions for next year.
"You're a bit reluctant to sledge when they're holding a 12-gauge shotgun." Russell Mark, Olympic gold medallist and recent Commonwealth Games silver medallist, pointing out why abusing opponents has never really taken off in his sport of double trap shooting.
"The history and environment of the Australian male have put in his [soul] a feeling for games and competitive sport which seems to be necessary for his fulfilment. When Australia was a pioneering community involved in conflict with a land and climate where victories were never certain and seldom easy, games or contests in which a bloke had a chance to win were agreeable if not imperative compensation for the dispiriting setbacks ..." This is the take of one of the curators at the Stockman's Hall of Fame, in Longreach, displayed on an exhibition documenting the history of sport in the outback. It probably offends against a couple of "isms", but I like it anyway.
"Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you have to do is stand up and say, 'My name is Fred and I am an alcoholic.'?" This line came from Pine Creek's local newspaper Up The Creek. (See item above.)
"Today I suggested that we put a suggestion box down and the players put down their complaints if they have any." Souths president George Piggins, maintaining there was no player revolt against coach Craig Coleman
Pieter van Zyl. A name that will live in infamy in rugby circles. He is the South African boofhead who charged onto the field during last Saturday night's Test between South Africa and New Zealand and dislocated referee David McHugh's shoulder, obliging him to leave the field.
Gloria the Superbitch. Winner of the Pine Creek Ladies' Armwrestling competition. (See item above.)
Wallabies. With a 26-point win over the Springboks and a bonus point tonight, they will be worthy winners of the Tri Nations tournament ... while the All Blacks will be equally worthy winners if they don't.
Cronulla. Registered an extraordinary 64-14 win over Newcastle last weekend to become serious title contenders after a singularly ordinary start to the season.
Peter Brock. The famed King of the Mountain announces a return to that same mountain, on a one-off basis, in October at the age of 57.
Carlton. Their umpteenth consecutive loss, against Port Adelaide last weekend, ensures that for the first time in 105 years of VFL/AFL competition, they will get the wooden spoon. Told yers. (And it has also given ammunition to a committee of rebel members who want the Carlton board, most particularly John Elliott, to do the right thing and fall on their swords.)
Paul Okon. Socceroo captain signed a three-year contract this week with Terry Venables's Leeds United. Told yers!
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This is a discussion on NYC gun-laws go too far!! within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by buckeye .45 No, it doesn't keep and bear is rather straightforward, as is "shall not be infringed". with all due respect, I ...
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Anti's use the words common sense when they argue against our rights and want to portray us as extremists.
I am not willing to give up any more of my rights... That is common sense.
I don't care for someone calling themselves a gun owner when they bought themselves a cute little 22 and blather along and troll on an obviously pro 2a forum... More common sense for you.
Keep talking... You've already been invited to seek further conversation elsewhere by forum members and staff<---impressive by the way.
The more you talk the closer we are to getting our wish.
First of all, welcome from FL!
If you haven't done so, head over to the new member intro area and tell us about yourself.
Second, you probably won't find much support for a watered down version of the 2A here.
A lot of us believe that the problem is not guns, but evil people.
So, make all the gun laws NY or NYC wants to make - it won't change the evil inside people.
Anyway, hang in with us. You won't change our minds.
But, we might bring you over to the dark side. ;-)
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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We'd better stop now. I think it's time for David Letterman.
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"I'm set up to play a game right now. However, I doubt most people would want to get into a gun fight with me."
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It could be the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians: fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed.
Researchers have published details of how lumps of meat would be cultured in laboratory vats rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm.
Scientists have adapted the medical technique of tissue engineering, where individual cells are multiplied into whole tissues, and applied it to food production.
"With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply," Jason Matheny, an agricultural scientist at the University of Maryland, said in the journal Tissue Engineering.
Researchers said meat grown in laboratories would be more environment-friendly and could be tailored to be healthier than farm-reared meat by controlling its nutrient content and screening it for food-borne diseases.
Vegetarians might also be tempted because the cells needed could be taken without harming the donor animal.
Mr Matheny and his colleagues have taken the prospect of "cultured meat" a step further by working out how to produce it on an industrial scale. They envisage muscle cells growing on huge sheets that would be regularly stretched to exercise the cells as they grow. Once enough cells had grown, they would be scraped off and shaped into processed meat products such as chicken nuggets.
"If you didn't stretch them, you would be eating mush," Mr Matheny said. However, tasty and textured cuts are a long way off.
Kerry Bennett, of Britain's Vegetarian Society, will not be tempted, but said "if they're going to make chicken nuggets with it, then it's probably not going to taste much different".
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Dumpling Squash with Cream and Sage
Halves of these small winter squashes make individual servings when baked with a garlic-sage cream sauce.
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Source: Martha Stewart Living, November 2010
- 6 dumpling squashes (about 3 1/2 pounds), halved, seeded, stems removed, and bottoms trimmed to sit flat
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh sage
- 1 cup homemade or store-bought low-sodium chicken stock
- 4 garlic cloves, halved
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Arrange squash halves, cut side up, in two 9-by-13-inch baking dishes. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle sage over each. Pour 1/2 cup stock into each dish, and scatter garlic around squashes.
Bake, covered, until squashes are tender when pierced with a fork, 45 to 55 minutes. Heat broiler with rack about 8 inches from heat source.
Transfer garlic to a bowl using a slotted spoon. Mash with a fork, and stir in cream and 2 tablespoons liquid from baking dishes. Spoon over squash halves, including edges. Broil squashes until bubbling and golden, 3 to 4 minutes. Serve immediately.


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Politicizing Churches Harms both Church and State
Cleveland County Democrats Cornbread & Beans Luncheon
by Dr. Bruce Prescott
August 6, 2004
On behalf of Americans United and Mainstream Baptists thank you for the opportunity to speak to Cleveland County Democrats. Both of the organizations I represent are non-profit organizations and we do not endorse political parties or candidates. We have members that are very active in the work of both the Democratic and the Republican parties. Some of members of Americans United are in the Libertarian party and I suspect some are members of the Green party.
So, what I have to say is not something that is a partisan political issue. I am speaking about issues that have to do with the Constitution of the United States. It is of profound importance to every citizen of our country.
I wish a Republican organization would give me an opportunity to speak to them about these issues. I've never received an invitation from one of them. Libertarians have heard me and the Sierra Club has invited me to speak to them next month – which is probably as close as you can get to the Green Party. But Republicans still seem to be afraid of alienating the radical religious fringe on the right.
Having said that, let me begin by saying, I am alarmed at what is happening to the First Amendment in this country.
More than any other group, my Baptist forefathers were responsible for getting the First Amendment added to the Constitution. In 1787 Baptists in Virginia, James Madison's home state, refused to adopt the constitution until it guaranteed religious liberty for everyone and freedom of conscience for all citizens. Madison thought the absence of religious tests to hold public office was adequate to guarantee freedom of religion. Baptists wanted the guarantee of religious liberty made explicit. So, until Madison agreed to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, they threatened to elect John Leland, their leading evangelist and spokesperson, to the Virginia Assembly – that would have denied Madison a seat at the convention where his home state would discuss ratifying the Constitution that he had written for the entire nation. That is why a number of informed and respected historians say that separation of church and state is the Baptist legacy to the history of Western Civilization.
It is a legacy that many of my uninformed and misdirected Baptist brethren are now working to undo. Many Baptists are at the forefront of the Radical Religious Right. That movement, which includes more than just Baptists, is methodically working – step by step – to discard the First Amendment and make the United States a theocratic kingdom.
They won't tell you that they are creating a theocratic kingdom. If they did that, you would comprehend what they are trying to do and you might be motivated to rise up and try to stop them. Instead, they describe what they are doing in pious terms that sound good and make you feel fine and lull you into a false sense of ease and security.
It is the same Orwellian double-talk that politicians — in both parties — are using to get whatever they want. They don't tell you that they are passing legislation to open preserved forests to the logging industry, they call it a "Healthy Forest Initiative." They don't tell you that they are giving corporations and billionaires a free ride, they call it "tax relief." They don't tell you that they are preserving huge, unregulated monopolies for drug companies, they call it a "prescription drug benefit." And Radical Right politicians are not going to tell you that they intend to make the United State a theocracy, they are telling you that America has always been a "Christian Nation." It resonates with Christian experience, it makes the majority feel good, and if some still feel a little uneasy about what this means for persons of minority faith, they have a preacher on every TV, radio and street corner of the nation telling you that if our country fails to observe every jot and title of biblical law we will suffer the fate of Sodom and Gommorah.
I'm not telling you anything that many of you don't already know. Every place I go I find that I am preaching to someone who is in the choir. I'm just concerned that the choir of people who are willing to stand up for church-state separation is far too small. This ought to be a bi-partisan issue where all Americans can stand side-by-side in the choir and sing together. That used to be the case.
My father-in-law was a lifelong Republican and, being a Baptist minister, he was also a strong and vocal advocate for separation of church and state. My father is a lifelong Democrat, and being a public school teacher, he knew that it would be a violation of public trust for him to try to pray with or proselytize the impressionable young children from religiously diverse backgrounds who came to his classroom. My father and my father-in-law didn't agree much on politics, but at least they could agree on the value of the First Amendment. Today there are not enough people familiar with the First Amendment to realize that we are being lied to, manipulated and misled by people that have been entrusted with positions of great power and grave responsibility.
All it took to undermine the First Amendment was a handful of ego-driven, megalomaniac media ministers who blamed separation of church and state for every change that grieved the hearts of racists and bigots — whenever, that is, they weren't begging for funds to broadcast more of their railings. No respectable minister of the Christian gospel would go on the airwaves and beg for money. Now, three decades after broadcasters began selling their public service time to the highest bidder and opened the airwaves to these shameless beggar preachers, both political parties are prepared to sacrifice America's first freedom on their altar.
Religious liberty for everyone — not just Christians — is our first freedom. It's the first freedom because it is the bedrock foundation upon which every other form of freedom rests. It secures our right to a free conscience and protects the rights of minorities. If you can strip away the right of any minority to worship as they please, to be free from indoctrination into someone else's religion, and to be exempt from paying taxes to support someone else's faith, then you can undermine any other right that minorities enjoy in our society.
Respect by the majority for the principle of church-state separation has deteriorated to a level that is unprecedented in our nation's history. It has moved us dangerously close to a tipping point from which no one knows how we will recover.
I'm not just engaging in some wild, apocalyptic preacher-talk when I say this. I really mean it. We are living at a defining moment in the history of our nation and our world. Already, after pushing their agenda for more than a quarter of a century, the Radical Religious Right has taken the gloves off and they are beginning to fight bare fisted.
You read about it in the newspapers and watch it on your television every day:
If there is anything new about this theocratic agenda it is how far it has pushed to politicize churches in the last six weeks alone. If you need documentation, just visit our website at www.auok.org. Every weekday I post links to current stories from around the country that deal with church and state issues. Major stories about unprecedented attempts by political campaigns to politicize churches began to explode around the first of July and it seems like there is something new every day.
Politicizing churches – enlisting them as active participants in the campaigns of politicians and political parties – is bad for both church and state. First, let me talk about how it is bad for the church. (Now I'm going to take off my AU hat for a moment and put on my Baptist preacher hat.)
Contrary to what some would have you believe, GOP does not stand for "God's own Party." God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. It is blasphemous for any party or candidate to try to wrap the cross in their flag and claim Divine sanction. Jesus told us to "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to render to God the things that are Gods." The principle separating church and state is a Christian biblical principle and it is time that Christians in both parties start observing it.
What could possibly trivialize genuine faith and destroy its credibility more than to create the impression that it can be manipulated to serve the political purposes of the highest bidder? And that is precisely what "Charitable Choice" begun under Clinton and the "Faith-based initiatives" that were expanded by Bush are doing.
What I am saying ought to strike fear in the heart of people of sincere faith more than the threat of harm that any terrorist can do. Our nation can survive attacks like the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building and 9/11. We can clear away the ruble, bury the dead, bandage the wounded, grieve for our losses and rebuild again with a stronger sense of community and a greater commitment to justice.
I am not sure society will survive for long without the vital prophetic voices that rise up against social injustice and call on society to do a better job of feeding the poor, caring for the sick, providing for the elderly and disabled, and lifting up the downcast. Nearly all the social advances in this country have been led by a small group of men and women whose faith – whether it was a religious faith or a humanistic faith in the common good of all humanity-- it was faith that gave them the courage and the credibility to stand up and speak out against injustice and to ultimately prevail.
To trivialize faith, to undermine its integrity and destroy its credibility by subjecting it to the machinations of money and the manipulations of secular politics threatens more than physical well-being of a few, it threatens the heart and soul of our entire society. (Now, I'm going to take off my Baptist preacher hat, put on my AU hat and talk about how politicizing churches is bad for the state.)
Politics is the art of compromise and religious convictions are often very uncompromising. When uncompromising religious convictions clash, explosions often occur. Some people think that the twenty-first century will be characterized by a clash of civilizations and wars between religious cultures. Many Southern Baptists and evangelical Christians think 9/11 marked the beginning of a great clash of civilizations and they are fervently reading Bible prophecies looking for signs that will lead to the battle of Armaggedon. They do not hesitate to exert political pressure on the President of the United States to make sure that his policies conform to their interpretations of how Bible prophecies are supposed to unfold. That is why President Bush back off of his criticism of Ariel Sharon when Sharon's policies in the West Bank were undermining our President's proposals for peace.
We live at a time when the head of a foreign government can change the foreign policy of the world's only superpower – in literally, a matter of days -- by calling upon Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and a handful of TV preachers.
If that is not enough to alarm you, then this should. We live in a pluralistic democracy. Our nation grants equal rights and promises fair opportunities for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to people of vastly different faiths, convictions and beliefs. For two hundred and twenty-five years our country has been spared the political strife and civil wars that have characterized the histories of literally every other land on the face of the earth. But today there are a lot of Christians -- many of them holding high public offices – both in this state and in Washington,D.C. -- who believe that democracy is heresy because, "In the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal, and the adherents of other religions."
These "Christian Reconstructionists" are patient revolutionaries who fully intend to make America a "Christian Nation" by force of law and/or by force of arms. Right now their agenda, what I have been calling the theocratic agenda, is being worked out slowly – step-by-step – by force of law. Here, in barest form, are the goals that they are trying to achieve. You'll have to decide for yourselves how much progress you think they have made in advancing their goals and how you will respond to their continuing advances.
Here is Dominion Theology's blueprint for civil society:
1) Make the ten commandments the law of the land (Could that have anything to do with Roy's Rock?).
2) Strengthen patriarchically ordered families (Could that have anything to do with opposition to equal rights?).
3) Close the public schools and make parents totally responsible for the education of their children (Could that have anything to do with 'No Child Left Behind' and the push for vouchers and the explosion of home-schooling?).
4) Require "tithes" to ecclesiastical agencies to provide welfare services (Could that have anything to do with 'Charitable Choice' and Faith-based initiatives?).
5) Reduce the role of government to defense of the nation and the defense of property rights (Could that have anything to do with the rhetoric about 'starving the beast' and policies that bankrupt the government with expensive wars while cutting taxes?).
6) Close the prisons – reinstitute slavery as a form of punishment and require capital punishment for all of ancient Israel's capital offenses – including apostacy, blasphemy, incorrigibility in children, murder, rape, Sabbath breaking, sodomy, and witchcraft.
This last goal is breathtaking in its scope. So, let me conclude by quoting Henry Kissinger's analysis of how people typically respond to revolutionary powers that do not accept the legitimacy of the existing order:
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The Tim Tebow saga is about to start a new chapter.
The Denver Broncos traded the polarizing quarterback to the New York Jets Wednesday on a day filled with NFL headlines. The deal sends Tebow and a seventh-round pick to New York for a fourth and a sixth-round pick, according to the Denver Post.
The move came just one day after Denver signed four-time MVP quarterback Peyton Manning to a five-year, $96 million contract.
It is not usual for a team to get rid of a young quarterback. It is not usual for a team to get rid of a quarterback who won seven of his first eight starts the previous year. It is especially not usual for a team to get rid of a quarterback that led them to a playoff victory.
But this offseason has been far from usual.
With one of the all-time great quarterbacks released this offseason, Denver saw an opportunity to improve dramatically at the position. While Tebow won games last season, his play, particularly his throwing ability, was a question mark throughout the year.The Broncos decided to hand the reins to Manning, even after he missed last season due to a neck injury.
Mark Sanchez is likely to remain the starting quarterback in New York, but this move is certain to add to the pressure he has faced.
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A man who learned to ride on a donkey and a billionaire's granddaughter yesterday helped Britain break Germany's decades-long domination of Olympic dressage in London.
It was the host's first gold in the equestrian event, and 20,000 people cheered as Charlotte Dujardin and her horse Valegro completed the victory at Greenwich Park in south London. Germany won silver, while the Netherlands took bronze.
Dujardin broke a record set by teammate Carl Hester, 45, on Uthopia, to overcome Germany, which had won every Olympic team gold in dressage since 1976, apart from the boycott year in 1980. Laura Bechtolsheimer, 27, with Mistral Hojris was the third member of the squad.
"Outrageous," Hester said in an interview after the medal ceremony. "Just amazing that I learnt to ride on a bare-back donkey."
Hester grew up on the Channel island of Sark, off the Normandy coast between Guernsey and Jersey, where the only transport available were horses and donkeys. When he was 19, he applied for a job at a riding center in Hampshire, England, and was given his first opportunity to compete.
Bechtolsheimer is the granddaughter of German retail billionaire Karl-Heinz Kipp. She moved from Germany to the village of Ampney St. Peter in Gloucestershire, England, when she was a year old with her father, former German dressage rider Wilfried, and mother Ursula. Coached by her father, she started riding on a pony called Peacock when she was three years old.
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Kipp, the founder and former owner of the Massa retail chain, is worth $5 billion, according to an estimate by Forbes in March of this year.
Bechtolsheimer yesterday said she'd been inspired by Britain's first show jumping gold in 60 years the day before.
"I watched that from start to finish, I was jumping up and down on the spot as they were going all clear," Bechtolsheimer said. "Seeing how awesome the crowd were when the British show jumpers won their medal in such style, it definitely made me think 'right, I want that, too."'
In dressage, the horse and rider perform a series of controlled movements and are awarded scores for individual and overall performance.
Britain had only been 0.5 percent ahead at the half-way stage. Fluid and near-flawless rides by Hester and Bechtolsheimer extended the lead to 1.16 percent, giving Dujardin the chance the clinch the gold.
'Legs Like Jelly'
Despite "legs like jelly," Dujardin scored an Olympic record of 83.286 percent.
"I didn't ride like I knew I could but he still felt really good," she said. "It's so surreal. Valegro is the horse of a lifetime."
Britain has 22 gold medals overall at the London Olympics, putting it in the record books as the most successful Olympic campaign in 104 years.
"What this says about dressage is that it is accessible to anyone," Hester said. "The three of us come from three totally different backgrounds."
Hester hired Dujardin, 27, as a stable hand five years ago. He's also her coach as well as the co-owner of her horse, Valegro.
Hester said the long partnerships between the three riders and their horses had been key.
"We've all been with our horses for over five years, and that shows that you can handle them in atmospheres like this and with problems that arise from the tension that can be produced in an Olympic stadium," Hester said.
It can take up to eight years to train a dressage horse to an Olympic level. The Dutch team, which included triple Olympic individual champion Anky van Grunsven, and the German squad struggled because some of the horses and riders hadn't worked together for long.
In 2010, dressage fans in the Netherlands mounted an online protest after former German Olympic show jumper Paul Schockemoehle bought record-breaking black dressage stallion Totilas from its owner, Kees Visser. Schockemoehle paid a record 15 million euros ($18.7 million), Dutch broadcaster NOS reported at the time.
Totilas was the first horse to score above 90 percent in competition and win both team and individual gold at the 2009 European Championships and the 2010 World Equestrian Games with his Dutch rider Edward Gal, who won bronze yesterday with his new ride Undercover.
Shortly before the London Olympics, Totilas's new German rider, Matthias Rath, pulled out of the games, citing glandular fever. None of the three German riders that took silver yesterday had ever competed at an Olympic level before.
'Worked Hard'
"It's important for the sport that many nations can reach this goal," German rider Helen Langehanenberg said in an interview. "It's not that the Germans are getting weaker. The other countries did their homework and really worked hard on it."
Van Grunsven, whose medal performance has made dressage one of the most popular sports in the Netherlands, said Britain's success was "great for the sport."
The seven-time Olympian singled out Hester.
"He has really played a very important part in their gold medal by picking those two horses, I really admire what he's done," Van Grunsven said in an interview. "Besides from the fact he trained those two horses, he's also been able to show his best under pressure, in front of a home crowd. That's pretty astonishing."
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text: Politics 16 January 2012 Kelvin's honest amorality, Mitt's weird faith and Toby's school rules Peter Wilby offers a guide to interpreting the red tops, worries about Mitt Romney, is alarmed about Sign up for our weekly email * When the former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie ran L!ve TV and I edited the Independent on Sunday, both then controlled by the Mirror Group, we shared a works canteen where, on three consecutive weeks, he approached me, carrying a tray of egg and chips, sticky toffee pudding and the like, to praise the brilliance of one of my columnists. The next three weeks, he approached again, advising that she had "gone off" and ought to be sacked. In the seventh week, under cross-questioning, he admitted that he didn't know what he was talking about and had been muddling two different columnists. This rather cavalier attitude to facts and judgements was evident in his entertaining session at the Leveson inquiry, in which he explained that, if a story "sounded right", he would "lob it in". Against the self-serving testimony of most tabloid editors and journalists - who wish us to believe that they study the Press Complaints Commission ethics code as parsons study the Bible - MacKenzie's honest amorality was refreshing. Did he have "regard to issues such as privacy"? "Not really, no." Facts? Well, he pointed out, the law often got them wrong, as miscarriages of justice showed, so why expect journalists to get them right? The high point was when MacKenzie stated that, if a reporter hacked Tony Blair's phone to reveal a political scandal, he would get six months' jail if the story were published in the Sun, a Pulitzer Prize if it were in the Guardian. Confronted with this textbook example of how tabloid journalism works - start with a false premise and then draw a preposterously inflated conclusion from it - Lord Justice Leveson asked if he really meant it. "I sort of three-quarters mean that," MacKenzie replied. Which is a useful guide to interpreting red-top stories. They are usually three-quarters true. The difficulty is to know which three-quarters. Latter-day moralists The strangest thing about the race for the Republican nomination is that the supposedly "moderate" candidate holds the weirdest views. Mitt Romney may look and sound normal, and even dull, but he is a Mormon who says that his religion has shaped his life and career. The Mormon God lives on a planet near the star Kolob, which provides the sun's light. He was once a human being of flesh and blood and you, too, can become a god, ruling your own planet, provided you enter the faith and lead a sufficiently virtuous life, wearing sacred underwear and eschewing abortion, gay marriage, alcohol, tobacco and coffee. Mormonism thus provides a sort of celestial extension to the American "log cabin to White House" myth. Mormons also extend opportunity to the dead by compiling in Utah an enormous archive of the deceased and carrying out retrospective baptisms. Until recently, in what the late Christopher Hitchens called "a crass act of mass identity theft", those "prayed in" to the Mormon Church in this way included Jewish victims of the Holocaust. You may object that any religion can be mocked if its doctrines are taken literally and that the Mormons' beliefs are no dafter than those of any common or garden Christian who runs for US president. But we get into a terrible fret about the prospect of Islamists winning Middle East elections. Why do we not worry more about the religious faiths of American presidential candidates? After all, they will be the ones with their hands on the nukes. Train of thought I couldn't make up my mind about the high-speed rail link, otherwise known as HS2, which sounds vaguely similar to H2O and possibly, therefore, like water, essential to life. Then I read a headline in the Financial Times: "Link must be built, economists say". All doubts are resolved. The line should definitely not go ahead. Economics lesson Behind Michael Gove's rant against "ideologues . . . who put doctrine ahead of pupils' interests" by opposing his academies programme lies the agenda that has driven every education secretary for the past 30 years: wresting schools away from local authorities and putting them in the hands of private companies under Whitehall supervision. The Tories present their policies to create state-financed academies and free schools as the "big society" in action. They are nothing of the sort. The most forensic analysis comes, improbably, from Toby Young, founder of the most prominent free school, West London. In his ebook How to Set Up a Free School, Young argues that few if any more schools like his, wholly controlled and operated by parents, will be established. Gove, he explains, now requires so much detail before his department provides the support necessary to start a school that "the playing field is now tilted" in favour of the numerous private companies trying to muscle in on state education. "A policy designed to shift the balance of power away from the state and towards volunteer groups has been hijacked," Young concludes. Gove still refuses to allow companies to make profits from controlling schools. However, the companies that are rushing into the market clearly think that he will eventually change the law - and that is the inescapable logic of his policies. Watering the babies Further to my pre-Christmas item about the official French advice to drink no more than a litre of wine a day - which, you will be pleased to learn, I followed throughout the festive period - a reader recalls seeing the same arresting poster as late as 1979 in, of all places, the maternal and infant health section of the French health department. Perhaps, as she suggests, this explains the sharp fall in the country's infant mortality over the past 30 years. Peter Wilby was editor of the Independent on Sunday from 1995 to 1996 and of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005. He writes the weekly First Thoughts column for the NS. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 16 January 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The battle for Britain More


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I'm thinking it would be a good idea to have a handgun at my bedside hidden within a combination safe in my top nightstand drawer. What kind of safe would you recommend for that purpose?
You didn't mention having children in the house.
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I have a heavy-duty, 4 drawer metal filing cabinet, by my bedside. It takes a key to unlock it. The key has a magnet glued to it, and the key is hidden in a spot that is close and easy to grab.
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(Host) It's been two and a half months since the Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George. Federal Investigators say it could take more than a year to definitively determine why the boat suddenly overturned on a calm October Sunday. But lawsuits and proposed legislation have followed the accident that killed 20 elderly sightseers.
VPR's Susan Keese reports:
(Keese) The tragedy still stings, and not only in the community around Lake George. It's also felt in Michigan, where survivors and relatives of the 20 passengers killed are coping with loss, lingering injuries, and memories.
(Johnson) "I really don't think it takes a very imaginative person to think about being underneath the water with a boat on top of you seeing people panicking and screaming and other people dying right in front of your eyes."
(Keese) Michigan attorney Ven Johnson has already filed six lawsuits in Federal Court in connection with the accident. Another suit was filed in federal court in New York State. And the lawyers say more are coming.
Johnson's suits accuse the Ethan Allen's owners and captain of safety violations, including insufficient staffing. According to state regulations the Ethan Allen should have had a second crew member with 47 passengers on board. The suits also claim the owners replaced a canvas awning with a wood-and-fiberglass enclosure without allowing properly for changes in the boat's stability.
(Johnson) "And in this case with the added weight of these windows that they used for sightseeing... it added significant weight and it made the boat unsteady, and then when you added way too many people for the weight of the boat it caused the boat to tip over more easily."
(Keese) Overcrowding has been mentioned often in connection with the accident. The average weight used to calculate how many people a boat can safely carry is 140 pounds. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting the investigation, says the 40-year-old standard is too light for passengers today. In 2004 they advised the Coast Guard, which certifies most boats, to raise the weight to 174. The Coast Guard has been studying the problem. But a Coast Guard spokesman says the agency won't be ready to begin taking public comment until almost a year from now.
Meanwhile, the NTSB has cautioned that even if the Ethan Allen was too crowded, it doesn't prove that overcrowding caused the accident. The same is true for the structural changes, which by state law didn't require the boat to be recertified.
Still, almost immediately, New York Governor George Pataki raised the average weight to 174 pounds for passenger boats regulated by the state. That includes any passenger boat not involved in interstate navigation or commerce. Pataki also called for a review of all of New York's commercial boating laws and regulations.
(Gibson) "Some of these things were important to get underway sooner rather than later. And so we took steps and within days of the accident was when the governor charged us with taking a look at marine enforcement, taking a look at operations."
(Keese) Wendy Gibson is with the New York Office of Parks and Recreation. That's the agency that oversees state-regulated vessels. Her agency plans to announce a broader package of reforms soon. State Senator Betty Little says that's a good thing.
(Little) "Those regulations when we looked at them, in all honesty, I think they hadn't been looked at in a long time because fortunately we hadn't had any commercial boating accidents within New York State like this."
(Keese) Little represents the district that includes Lake George. She's introduced legislation at the Governor's request.
(Little) "The one that we are doing legislatively is that the pilot or captain of any commercial boat involved in an accident that has injuries or damage is required to take a drug and alcohol test immediately."
(Keese) Much has been made of the fact that local officials didn't require the Ethan Allen's captain to be tested following the accident. The local sheriff says he had no probable cause to order the test because he didn't believe the captain had been drinking. He says his office has ruled out criminal charges.
But Kate Hogan, the Warren County District Attorney, says she'll wait for the National Transportation Safety Board results before she closes the case.
(Hogan) "I can't make a legal determination until I know what happened. And we're still at the point where I do not know what definitively or empirically caused this boat to turn over."
(Keese) Hogan says once the cause is known a Grand Jury would have more options than just deciding criminal charges are in order.
(Hogan) "They can hear testimony and make a determination that there should be a grand jury report, which is a finding with respect to public officials' conduct in this case and a report as to whether all the inspections were as they should be."
(Keese) The lawyers in the civil suits say the NTSB findings will be important to their cases as well.
For Vermont Public Radio, I'm Susan Keese.


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As the population of Missoula grows, and municipal budgets fail to grow accordingly, agencies like Missoula Parks and Recreation are relying more heavily on the private sector to fund new projects. Case in point: the proposed aquatics center project is facing a $1.8 million shortfall. Now project supporters are calling on the public to help make up the difference.
In a climate where public/private partnerships seem to be the only way to get large public works projects off the ground, the Missoula Skatepark Association is writing the manual on how to get things done.
Imagine a day when "skater moms" outnumber "soccer moms." Try to picture caravans of parents in Subaru Outbacks and Volkswagen Jettas dropping youngsters off at the park with skateboards rather than baseball mitts in hand. Think of a place where athletes of all ages practice their sport together in harmony, and where shouts of "sick" and "bad" are complimentary words of encouragement?
That's just part of the vision for Missoula's future skatepark at McCormick Park, and it's soon to become a reality thanks in large part to the efforts of the Missoula Skatepark Association (MSA).
With summer officially here, MSA is ramping up its fund-raising efforts in hopes of breaking ground on the $500,000 concrete skatepark this fall. To get there, MSA is using every tool available to raise the additional $225,000 needed to break ground.
"Missoula recognizes the need for a skatepark in this community. The biggest challenge now will be getting the rest of the money together," says MSA president Chris Bacon.
The project is well on its way, thanks to unprecedented cooperation and enthusiasm on behalf of skaters, city Parks and Recreation officials, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency and private businesses. Add to that a small army of organized and energized volunteers, high-profile grants and donations from celebrities and unique fund-raising efforts, and you have a recipe for success.
"[MSA] is one of the best groups I've ever worked with on any project in 20 years in being in the park and rec field," said Donna Gaukler, director of Parks and Recreation.
Earlier this month the Tony Hawk Foundation donated $15,000 to the project, the second-highest grant the skateboarding legend's charitable group awarded in its last round of grants.
Miki Vukovich, executive director of the Tony Hawk Foundation, said one of the reasons the foundation gave such a large sum to the Missoula skatepark project is the professionalism exhibited by MSA, the level of community involvement and the ambitious design of the park.
"[MSA has] accomplished a lot on their own," Vukovich. "A lot of times, people who are just starting come to us and we help them get through some of the hurdles, but our grant process is something that comes in a little bit further down the road. These guys are way down the road. Certainly at this point the park is imminent. It's just a matter of time before it's built."
According to Gaukler, her department began to realize the need for the park more than five years ago when a group of skaters, including MSA president Chris Bacon, built ramps beneath the Higgins Ave. bridge. When skaters were told they weren't allowed to skate there, the ramps were removed and Gaukler approached Bacon about the possibility of a free public skatepark.
The Missoula Skatepark Association was formed and the group began working with city officials to come up with a plan and design for the park.
Bacon and his band of skaters formed a fund-raising committee in 2003, and by the end of the year the project had $150,000 in the bank, thanks to a $100,000 commitment from the Missoula Redevelopment Agency and a $50,000 donation from the rock band Pearl Jam, whose bassist Jeff Ament lives in Missoula.
Opportunities to attract further MSA support through fund raising seem to be inexhaustible. Volunteers collect aluminum cans to redeem for cash, and a mini ramp at Edge of the World (formerly Board of Missoula) continues to draw skaters and donations. Other fund-raising tactics include skateboarding and snowboarding video premiers at Crystal Theatre (which have garnered as much as $1,000) and T-shirt sales. In 2004, MSA partnered with the Big Sky Brewing Company as a beneficiary, along with the Clark Fork's Brennan's Wave project, of a portion of beer and ticket sales for the brewery's summer concert series.
This summer, the group is the only beneficiary of the five-show concert series at the Big Sky Amphitheater. According to Big Sky founder and president Neal Leathers, MSA could net an estimated $20,000 to $40,000 over the course of the summer.
"The keys to making [the concert series] work out here is really having groups that can bring in large numbers of volunteers," says Leathers.
Additionally, American Expedition Vehicles of Missoula has put up a $72,000 Jeep Wrangler with a 570 HEMI engine to be raffled off for the skatepark. MSA plans to sell 2,000 tickets at $100 a piece. If all the tickets are sold, the raffle will net the group another $128,000. Coupled with the $15,000 grant from the Hawk Foundation and an additional $75,000 from MRA, 2005 is shaping up to be a banner year for the skatepark.
"I'm really impressed with their professionalism, commitment and creative ideas for fund raising," says Tod Gass, project coordinator for MRA. "These guys are putting in a lot of volunteer hours."
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The transfer window might be closed but the rumour mill rolls on. Here's the latest gossip and rumours from today's papers and around the web.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was in Spain to watch £45m-rated Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao - just hours after Mario Balotelli's latest strop.
Arsenal keeper Vito Mannone has dismissed any thoughts of going out on loan again this season – and wants the Gunners' No.1 spot for good.
Stewart Downing is in the doghouse at Liverpool over his criticism of manager Brendan Rodgers. He'll only be used in the Europa League before, the club hope, being moved on in January.
Birmingham want to send bad-boy Ravel Morrison back to West Ham just three months into a 12-month loan deal because of his unacceptable attitude.
Birmingham are also close to signing Papa Bouba Diop. The former West Ham midfielder is currently without a club.
Transfer stories from other papers and websites
Liverpool are looking at Ajax playmaker Christian Eriksen as a long-term replacement for captain Steven Gerrard. (Caughtoffside)
Arsenal have emerged as serious contenders for the signing of Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, after former assistant coach Pat Rice was seen watching him on Saturday. (Daily Mail)
Juventus have entered the chase for Manchester United target Robert Lewandowski who is currently playing for Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund. (talkSPORT)
Malaga have told Manchester City and Juventus they will have to pay £17million to land midfielder Isco. (Sky Sports News)
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The saying "mother knows best" springs to mind.
It took a hospital visit from Carole Middleton and the next morning her daughter Kate's bags were packed and she was out of the door.
Today Kate looked the picture of health as she stood on the steps of the King Edward VII hospital after the palace announced she is going home to Kensington Palace to rest.
The decision would not have been taken lightly — although reassurance from mother-of-three Mrs Middleton must have helped. Doctors would have advised William that home is now the best place for his wife.
Royal babies have been born at home for centuries — the Queen delivered Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace — and although Prince William was born in hospital, Princess Diana was cared for at home too.
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If hospital treatment is needed, being based in Kensington means the Duchess is just minutes away.
The royal couple, who guard their privacy jealousy, will have feared the story was developing into a media circus — a fear brought into focus by the Australian prank call fiasco.
The extra privacy at Kensington Palace will reduce the hype around the story, but for the King Edward VII hospital the last few days will have served as a wake-up call.
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