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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The Marist men's tennis team (17-3) will face #12 overall seed Texas A&M (17-12) in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship, it was announced Tuesday. The Red Foxes will face the Aggies on Friday, May 10 at 2 p.m. at the Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station, Texas.
This is the Red Foxes' 10th NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, and fifth in the past six years. Marist enters the tournament having won 10 straight matches.
The Red Foxes defeated Fairfield 4-2 on Sunday to win the 2013 MAAC Championship and clinch their berth in the NCAA Tournament. Junior Lorenzo Rossi (Lugano, Switzerland) was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player after he claimed the decisive point at first singles in a come-from-behind three-set thriller, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Texas A&M (17-12, 7-5 SEC) finished the regular season ranked first in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), falling to the Eastern Division champions Georgia in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament. The Aggies are led by three players ranked in the top-100 in the ITA National Singles' Rankings. Jeremy Efferding (#21) went 22-10 this season and was named to the All-SEC First Team. Shane Vinsant (#84) and Harrison Adams (#100) finished 25-11 and 21-11, respectively and were each named to the All-SEC Second Ream and All-Freshman Team.
The winner of the Marist-Texas A&M match will advance to the Second Round to play the winner of Texas and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. That Second Round match will take place on Saturday, May 11, also in College Station.
Tickets are available for reserved and general admission seating at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center. The Athletic Ticket Office can be reached at 1-888-99-AGGIE.
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Marist Men's Tennis All-Time NCAA Tournament Destinations
1998 - University of Texas
2000 - Baylor University
2001 - Louisiana State University
2002 - Harvard University
2003 - University of Alabama
2008 - University of Mississippi
2009 - University of Florida
2010 - University of Southern California
2011 - University of California-Berkeley
2013 - Texas A&M
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Where Did All the Fat Go
Lose weight and gain muscle with Biggest Loser's Dr. Huizenga.Top Rated Diets of 2017
One weight loss reality show that has had extremely great success is The Biggest Loser. This show takes contestants from all over the country that have large amounts of weight to lose and sends them to a ranch with personal trainers. Contestants are on a strict diet and do massive amounts of exercise. Well if you're a fan of the show, one thing you might wonder about is who created the diet the contestants go on, or who's the brains behind what they're doing.
Dr. Rob Huizenga is actually the head physician that monitors all of the contestants on the show and is the creator of the weight loss methods on the show. Dr. Huizenga has compiled all of the information behind his weight loss plan into a book titled Where Did the Fat Go? : The WOW! Prescription to Reach Your Ideal Weight – and Stay There! : Lose Fat – Gain Muscle! This book is designed so that those who can't be on the reality television show can achieve the same results, even though they don't have access to personal trainers or a fancy ranch. This book includes all of Dr. Huizenga's plans and showcases how some at-home viewers had great success following the plan on their own.
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So the only "con" is you have to do exercise?
And if you're morbidly obese, how unreasonable is every other factor in life . . . from tying your own shoes, so sitting in chairs designed for someone half your body weight?
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C-COR.net Reports Sales Drop10/17/2002 5:07 AM Eastern
Another cable-equipment vendor released a rocky earnings report, with
C-COR.net Corp. reporting first-quarter net sales of $44.6 million, a 14 percent
drop from the previous year's sales of $52 million.
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I received this book for free on Goodreads First Reads Giveaways. It was signed by the author. I really liked the premise and enjoyed the story. I would categorize this as YA Romance.
Evie is a great character. I think she has a lot of room to grow as the series progresses. She took chances and stood by her choices.
I liked Quinn at first, but found him a little too manipulative and selfish at several points and this lessened my sympathy for him. I hope he grows too as the series progresses.
I would love to know more about the Shepherds and those above them. Really great "what if" question to answer about after-life possibilities.
A positive comment aside from the story: for an indie, I was pleasantly surprised at how nice this book looked. The cover art is really great and the typography is attractive and smart. I like how the cover title typography is mirrored on the chapter headings. And I love that the text was full justified. YES! So many of the small press/indie books left align the text and it looks terrible.
NOTE: the cover of my book looks like the cover for the ebook--blue/purple with white typography, not like the image that's attributed to the physical book. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that version, I just don't know what it looks like in person.
I look forward to reading more from Linda Lamberson.
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the federal government establishing a nationally recognized holiday in honor of the legendary icon, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While many people see this day as one of volunteerism, certain organizations have also taken it upon themselves to create events where powerful dialogue and deep analysis of some of Dr. King's most powerful ideas and solutions to still-present hurdles can be examined. In fact, the dictate of "don't take the day off, take the day on," by WNYC Radio's Director of Community Engagement and Audience Development, Brenda Williams-Butts set the tone for what may be one of the most-provocative and inspirational events in New York for the 2011 King holiday: WNYC's "Made in America" King's Dream in Today's Economy."
Co-hosted on January 16th by WNYC Host Brian Lehrer, WQXR Host Terrance McKnight and Princeton Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, the event was a unique exploration of Dr. King's influence on social relations and labor justice. And as America faces its most challenging economic times since the depression, this particular topic selection by the station demonstrated its astute understanding of relevance to community concerns as America's most listened-to AM/FM news and talk public radio station.
Held in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum, "Made In America" celebrated the 5th annual MLK celebration by WNYC radio. Prior to one of three panels, which took place at one of the Brooklyn Museum's state-of-the-art auditoriums, the event featured a montage of still images including those of a Coretta Scott-King at the Democratic National Convention in 1976 to Dr. King and Rosa Parks at dinner in her honor in 1968. The panel discussions then offered a probing look at Dr. King's vision far beyond that kind of social inclusion, what one speaker, Dr. Obery Hendricks of New York Theological Seminary referred to as a "user-friendly" version of the legend. In fact, Dr. King spoke out fervently regarding economic injustice, and it is this fact that we cannot forget today. Dr. King spoke of poverty as one of the most urgent items on the socio-political agenda, and it should be remembered that he was assassinated while in Memphis attempting to obtain union recognition and fair wages for Black sanitation workers. Thus, his mission was not solely regarding civil rights but overall human rights, the right to dignity; that being inescapably tied to earning a fair income, the right to participate fully on the economic playing field. This, unfortunately, is something we still see lacking in the Black community today whether looking at the tech industry, garment industry, health industry and more. Why?
Panelists recalled that King's constant challenge to power figures such as President Lyndon B. Johnson at that time was instrumental in that he called for greater self-critique by the president in order to best serve a nation. Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, a professor of history at Tufts University noted that King recognized that it was the blatant segregation permitted in America, which allowed for the persistence of such economic disparity. "When white people suffer economically, it's called a depression or recession," Dr. Joseph exclaimed. "When Black people suffer from the same thing, it's a social problem. This in incorrect...and in fact we have to realize that today we are in a Neo-Colonialsm not a Post-Colonialsm." Sadly, with African-American unemployment, not coincidentally, still double that of the nation's average, King's message is still just as urgent today thus there is still the need to remain vigilant and demanding.
The unique viewpoints combined at the event also lend to analysis of Dr. King's vision in terms of economic rights for current day undocumented immigrants by Make the Road New York Youth Power Program's Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur as well as those of the domestic workers by Ms. Christine Yvette Lewis, an organizer of Domestic Workers United, thereby providing great breadth and education for the audience. Dr. Hendricks also included the spiritual reminder that King well-believed that economic rights for all was not just important for the strength of a democracy but an obligation of the soul in that God calls us to show economic justice to all, as a mandate of the Bible. A staggering thought as the world holds more billionaires than it ever has.
Panel discussion at the event was complimented by seamless integration of musical performances by celebrated bassist and composer Christian McBride with vocalist Melissa Walker as well as vocalist Maya Azucena. The talent provided a vital emotional supplement to that of the intellectual discourse, thereby offering attendees a deeply rich experience appropriately inserted given that Mr. McKnight pointed out King's recognition of the power of music to galvanize people and did so.
Ms. Williams-Butts said that the event was reflective of the station's ever-deepening service to the community and that WNYC hopes to create a ripple effect through Dr. King's message of service. "Made in America was a team effort to create a much-needed dialogue in honor of the Martin Luther King celebration," she added.
Upon reflection of this event and given the buying power of Black Americans, those of us in hiring positions and/or positions of any influence in any manner must encourage and demand diversity and fairness in all its forms in whatever manner of workplace to which we have access, if we have any hope of social peace in this country. For information on broadcast excerpts of the event, visit www.nyc.org/shows/bl <http://www.nyc.org/shows/bl>.
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Richard Cordray and the CFPB Are Monitoring Your Banking Habits
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is following the example of big companies that mine pools of information for insight into consumer behavior. The agency maligned by big banks for being overaggressive is assembling a Big Data operation to monitor how millions of Americans interact with lenders and rack up debt.
The two-year-old CFPB—which recently announced it's recouped $425 million for consumers wronged by financial-services companies—is building massive data sets with records from companies it oversees. It's demanding information on credit cards, credit monitoring, and debt cancellation products from major banks, and spending more than $10 million to buy data on auto and payday loans as well as mortgages from Experian, CoreLogic, and other companies. "Within the next year," says Sendhil Mullainathan, the consumer bureau's assistant director for research, "CFPB will be the best place for consumer finance data."
The agency aims to identify how financial products and services are used and abused so it can sharpen its rulemaking and do a better job policing the industry. "A very important function at the outset is to see who's making a lot of money from a particular practice relative to other companies," says Ronald Rubin, a former enforcement attorney for the agency who's now a partner at Hunton & Williams in Washington.
Bank executives are fuming that the agency is casting such a wide net. "Do they need the reams and reams and reams of data we're having to provide to them?" Susan Faulkner, senior vice president at Bank of America, asked in a speech at an industry conference this spring. Hundreds of bankers in the audience let out grunts of agreement. "The agency was founded with a mission to watch out for American consumers, not to watch them," Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on April 23. His colleague Mike Johanns, a Republican from Nebraska, added: "To many people this is going to sound downright creepy."
Big Data "is the way of the world," Richard Cordray, the CFPB's director, countered at the hearing. "The big banks know more about you than you know about yourself and me, too," he said. "The notion that the regulators wouldn't keep up with them in trying to do our job of overseeing them, I think would be quite misguided."
Joan Claybrook, a former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, says the agency was able to diminish injuries by building a database to catalog auto safety defects. "It's useful to have a broad, basic database so you can evaluate new problems quickly," Claybrook says.
The CFPB is considering making its data sets public. If it does, it will have to ensure that whatever it releases doesn't give away identities, says David Jacobs, an attorney at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The CFPB says that won't be a problem: It's prohibited by federal law from collecting records with names, Social Security numbers, or any other personally identifiable information. Researchers have no interest in specific individuals anyway. "Just the opposite," says Mullainathan. "They need to know about thousands of people."
The bottom line: The CFPB's decision to gather and publish data on how Americans interact with banks has a Big Brother feel to it, some Republicans say.


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My 17 year old son wants a Jeep Wrangler. He's worked 2 years saving his money. I know nothing about Jeeps...so, I hoping for some community help. ?
I've found a 2004 Jeep Wrangler ROCKY MOUNTAIN with 110K mls. (Much higher mileage than I had hoped for, but I'm finding these things are not cheap) Auto./ Four Wheel Drive/ 6 - Cyl./ The guy said there is no rust/ carfax is clean/ My question is...what is this worth...what's a good deal? How many miles do these vehicles typically go? I've included a link to vehicle photo. Many thanks guys!!!
2004 Jeep Wrangler ROCKY MOUNTAIN
Around Delaware about $10-$12k. I wouldn't worry about 110k the 4.0 will run well over 200k with regular maintenance
So $9200. would be a non offensive offer then?
The question I would ask myself if I were in the market, is what is my budget, and look for one that is. I very rarely buy one from a car lot, but I always know what I am looking for. If it has the 4.0 inline 6 don't worry about the miles so much. If you want a cheaper Wrangler look into they YJ's. a 95 model 4.0 would be my best suggestion. Depending on what has been done to upgrade it, the price would start about $3,000.00 around here for a stocker in decent shape.
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Well just like anything else there are a ton of opinions on what is best. If your son has been saving that long then I would buy him a reliable vehicle. There are nothing wrong with YJ's but it is hard to find one with low miles. To be honest it is hard to find one more than few years old that doesn't. People drive Jeeps.
I think looking at a TJ is the right thing to do. TJ's have coil springs over leaf spring which quit being on wranglers in '95. Looking at a TJ from 2000 on is also a good because they have a coil pack versus a distributor. Somewhere around that time they changed the soft top material to sail cloth which is quieter. I prefer a soft top so that is a good change to me.
Without question I would buy a 4.0 jeep. A 2.5 is a 4 cyl. and not to offend anybody they are underpowered....especially if your son decides to go up in tire size.
Now I have no idea what a Rocky mountain edition is. To be honest I am a CJ guy. So everything I just recommended I dont have. :) But based on local prices and the fact that isn't really bad on miles IMO I would say that a price between $8k and $10k would be a good price for this time of year. That is assuming the top is in good shape, good tires, etc. Rubicon TJ's are starting to come down a little in price and have seen some with similar mileage that could be bought for the $12.5k range. They are going to hold their value...especially if kept kinda stock.
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Adobe's Premiere Elements has been the favourite consumer video-editing application, at least on the PC platform, for some time now. But while alternatives from Corel and Pinnacle haven't noticeably leapt ahead, there is stiff competition from CyberLink's increasingly accomplished PowerDirector. And so, conforming to Adobe's now annual cycle for its software releases, we have version 11 of Premiere Elements. But does it do enough to see off the challenge from CyberLink?
At first glance, a lot appears to have changed. Loading the application gives you a choice of opening the Organizer or main Editing environment, as before, although the dialog has been completely redesigned. But while the differences with the Organizer are relatively subtle, which we will describe shortly, the Editor's interface has had a major overhaul, and now bears even less resemblance to Adobe's professional Premiere Pro, from which it was originally derived.
There are two modes, which correspond to the storyboard (or sceneline) and timeline modes found in most consumer-grade video-editing applications, including previous versions of Premiere Elements, just with some differences. In Quick mode, your clips are positioned sequentially. Unlike many storyboard implementations, the width of the pictorial representation on the timeline indicates duration visually as well, with wider pictures being longer and the lion's share of the screen is taken up by the video preview.
Expert Mode reveals the more familiar multi-layer timeline, but the slightly smaller preview window still takes up more than the top half of the screen. The traditional source and programme dual preview workspace is conspicuous by its absence, as is the media and effects bin that took up the right-hand third of the interface in the previous version. So, the focus is on how the end result looks, rather than the process of getting there.
Further accentuating this, whichever view you are using, the various tools and effects categories are subtly positioned around the edges of the main window as icons. On the right can be found icons for adjustments and tweaking the settings on your special effects. The adjustments include adjusting colour by hue, lightness, saturation and vibrance, with automatic options. You can also adjust via red, green and blue channels, as well as gamma, lighting, temperature and tinge, for a relatively comprehensive range of tweaking tools. However, configuring these settings involves clicking an icon within a grid of nine icons corresponding to less or more of the parameter in question. This is a good visual way of working for novices, but seasoned video editors will long for standard sliders with a little more fine precision, and these are hidden behind a 'More' option that reveals them. The audio controls can also be found here, and use regular sliders.
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I am a senior at Texas Tech in Lubbock and being new to the forum and duck hunting I was curious as to what kinds and number of calls I should use most of the time. A couple of my buddies are big time hunters and they have all sorts of calls. However, they both said all I need is a mallard, whistle and a goose call. What do all of you think? How about suggestions for a poor college kid. I already have a Duck Commander call that one of them gave to me for a mallard call. Also, how is the best way to learn calling, and how do I get a hold of them? Thanks a lot guys. I've hunted absolutely everything and I absolutely love this crazy, cold and wet game!!!!


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The 19th and 20th centuries in the U.S. produced social movements that greatly influenced their times, from abolition and women's suffrage, to labor and civil rights. What will be the impact of social movements in the 21st century? Historian Timothy McCarthy is adjunct lecturer on public policy, and director of the new Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Q. As you begin to lead this new program at the Carr Center, please tell us about the role the program will play at Carr and the Kennedy School, and how you see the relationship between social movements and human rights issues.
McCarthy:The Carr Center does amazing work in trying to look at a broad range of human rights issues as they relate to policy both domestically and throughout the globe. It's been doing vital work in the areas of genocide intervention, responding to mass atrocities, state building, and a whole range of other issues.
This program seeks to understand the relationship between human rights and social movements, to try to understand how social movements historically and today seek to shape – and contest in some instances – what we understand as human rights, how we practice human rights, how we can be better practitioners of the work of human rights that we do. The program is attempting to understand that dynamic relationship between mass mobilizations and grass roots organizing on the one hand and these conceptions of human rights that we try to live and practice on the other.
Q. You have observed that U.S. presidents are never at the forefront of social change, but that they are usually prodded by social movements. As an historian, how do you see the relationship between social movements and policy makers in the past? Will social movements continue to have significant influence on policy in the future?
McCarthy: I like to tell my students that no president comes into office as a socially or politically transformative figure. Abraham Lincoln did not enter politics as an abolitionist; Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not enter the presidency as a union man; John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson didn't enter the presidency or the decade of the 1960s as devoted grass roots civil rights activists. Barack Obama, the current president of the United States, did not enter the White House as a leading advocate for LGBT issues. All of these presidents have had to be prodded by social movements.
There have been moments throughout our history when times of great social change have been catalyzed by this dynamic relationship between enlightened leaders on the one hand – presidents who are willing to change, willing to evolve in office – and social movements that actually push them and demand that they do so. And so when you think about the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, it was achieved because of a movement that unfolded over the course of two generations, which influenced and persuaded an enlightened leader to do the right thing morally, ethically and politically.
The same thing was true of the labor movement and FDR – prodding him and convincing him that the right to unionize and the right to collectively bargain was a fundamental human right for all workers. Like John F. Kennedy and even more with Lyndon Johnson, it was the civil rights movement that had been taking place for a generation that moved these men in the direction of social justice on issues of race and socio-economic inequality. All of these presidents were prodded by social movements. Without these social movements you would not have had the great social transformations that have characterized this country.
In our current day, we have a president who many of us do believe is enlightened and ready to forge forward and produce change, but it is only going to be because of the social movements that push him that we are actually going to get that change.
Q. Where do you see lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) issues and the LGBT movement fitting in to the challenges faced by President Obama and other contemporary policy makers? What other social movements are emerging as being influential at the start of the 21st century?
McCarthy: I think the LGBT movement offers a case in point of what I've been talking about. Here is a social movement that is energized, that is rich in resources and creativity and political capital at the moment, very much demanding a more aggressive embrace by President Obama of a whole range of LGBT issues, not just marriage equality but employment nondiscrimination, equitable health care provisions, adoption laws and so forth. Whether or not advocates ever get to where they want to be as a movement will depend in some ways on how President Obama responds to the demands. And so I think this is a perfect example in the 21st century of a moment when a president can be moved by a social movement that is energized and I'm hoping that will be the case.
In terms of what movements are emerging that will lead us into a new century or that will characterize the first part of this new century -- I think there are increasing calls for global economic justice. Within the U.S. there is an educational reform movement that is characterized by an increasing energy and resources around charter schools and charter school reform, not only in our cities but all across the nation. I think the idea that every child deserves an education as a fundamental human right is also something that will emerge and has been emerging in the early part of the 21st century. The environmental movement is also picking up steam and is having a great deal of impact on our public policy and there are a whole range of other issues both here and abroad that I think will continue to flower and evolve and grow and continue to shape the way we work not only as a nation but as a nation among nations across the globe.
One of the things that I think is crucial in trying to figure out this relationship between social movements and human rights is how nations with very different political traditions, very different economic resources, very different social and cultural understandings, how they interact with one another within the realm of human rights. Can we begin to see beyond the borders of nation, of race, and economic inequality and start to understand that human rights are fundamentally about what it means to be human and what it means to be a full human being with the right to equality and freedom and dignity and peace? That will require nations and governments and peoples to see beyond themselves and to understand that there is a human project that is at the root of this human rights project.
Q. How will the research at the Carr Center help inform the understanding of these issues?
McCarthy: The new Human Rights and Social Movements program at the Carr Center attempts to explore three connections. On the one hand its attempting to explore the relationship between human rights and social movements: how social movements have shaped the way that we understand human rights; how they can test the consensus view of human rights or the practice of human rights that currently exists; and how they continue to do so in the modern day. And so this relationship between human rights and social movements is one area of focus in the program.
The second area of focus – well, I'm an historian, and I'm interested in how the past bears down on and helps to illuminate the present. And so one of the goals of this program is to really understand the history of human rights and the history of social movements, to try and understand what this historical relationship can teach us and help guide us to do in the present. So the relationship between history and the present is certainly an important one for this program.
The third thing that we seek to do is to try and figure out what I call the problem of coalition. One of the things I have found in my study of social movements is that social movements are always challenged to try and figure out how to build the strongest coalitions of people within the movements themselves. How to tap into the energies and creativities and resources that exist in the broadest possible range of people that might buy into or be part of a movement. And so that's one problem of coalition building within the movement. There's also a problem of coalition building between movements. How does, say, the black freedom struggle relate to the LGBT movement? How do fair housing advocates connect with people who are working on anti-poverty law. And so I'm interested in trying to figure out how we can build and how we can strengthen movements both internally and also externally, between movements that might be able to share resources and that might have something to teach one another. Too often movements operate separately and it drains resources and it prevents people from coming together to teach one another about how to engage in the work of social justice and human rights. And so this new program seeks to explore all of those connections, and I look forward to the work ahead.


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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, these are the remaining two of eight cabins, circa 1836, that were built by African-Americans to house African-American slaves who were brought to this area to raise cotton. The quality of the woodcraft, especially the full-dovetailed corners, shows that the builders were skilled craftsmen who took great pride in their work.
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Archive for March 7, 2012
Rush Limbaugh Defended the Monster Joseph Kony 2012
I. Am. Speechless.
Yesterday I posted a video produced by Invisible Children about Joseph Kony, the ruthless, soulless, ice-in-his-veins head of the "Lord's Resistance Army," a Ugandan militia group that kidnaps kids out of their beds.
Under threat of death, boys are made to be killers and/or mutilators (killing and/or mutilating their own parents included) and girls are forced into a life of sex slavery.
I'm ashamed to say I hadn't heard of Joseph Kony before watching the video (see it here) but when I did, I got mad as hell. I will never forget the name or face of Joseph Kony.
As of yesterday early afternoon, the video, which was posted on March 5, had 1,845,000 views. As of today @7:42 p.m. ET, there have been 9,925,483 views.
Bravo to the world for that.
That said, check this out:
Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a militia group in Uganda responsible for mass killings and mutilations in that country (often forcing children to perform their atrocities), is the subject of a new film intended to promote efforts to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity.
In October 2011, Joseph Kony had an unusual backer in the U.S. media: Rush Limbaugh.
At that time, President Obama announced that he had "authorized a small number of combat equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield."
While conservatives like Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) supported the Obama administration's effort, Limbaugh saw the announcement as an opportunity to bash the President.
Limbaugh told his audience that Obama was sending "a hundred troops to wipe out Christians" in Uganda, and that he was "help[ing] the Egyptians wipe out the Christians."
On RushLimbaugh.com the headline was "Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians."
Listen to the audio of Limbaugh ranting here.
Judging from this, and his 9-hour humiliation of Sandra Fluck, during which he proved he had no idea what Ms. Fluck said in her congressional testimony, I can only assume that a little bird plants a seed in Limbaugh's ear and he goes off, without having any idea what he's talking about.
Back in the day, when I blogged at the NewsHounds, conservatives would nitpick about a misplaced comma, yet they listen to Limbaugh who obviously doesn't do his homework before he rips someone apart, as in the case of Ms. Fluck, or offers support, as in the case of the war criminal Joseph Kony.
It's about doing ones homework and knowing what one is talking about, or it's about not giving a flying f*ck.
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430 Abortion Restrictions Introduced in State Legislatures Last Year
Holy cow, my eyes almost popped out when I read this just now:
By any estimate, advocates of reproductive rights have had a pretty successful week here in Washington. Dozens of companies have pulled ads from Rush Limbaugh's show after the conservative radio host called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute." Senate Republicans are backing off their push to repeal the health reform law's contraceptives mandate. Their House colleagues don't look keen to pick up the fight.
Outside the beltway, though, the landscape is quite different. Despite intense backlash to some of the provisions, states could be on track for another, record-breaking year of passing restrictions on reproductive health.
"We're looking at about 430 abortion restrictions that have been introduced into state legislatures this year, which is pretty much in the same ballpark as 2011," says Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy group that focuses on health and reproductive rights. This year, Nash says, "is shaping up to be quite busy."
Keep in mind, 2011 was already a watershed year for abortion restrictions: States passed 83 such laws, more than triple the 23 laws passed in 2010. And much of that had to do with the 2010 election, when Republicans gained control of many state legislatures. With the political makeup of state capitols unchanged, lawmakers are continuing to put more limits abortion.
More details on how Republicans are trying to foist their evangelical religious beliefs on the rest of us, here.
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You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that Apple unveiled a new iPad this morning. That said, here is my (sad) Tweet of the Day:
We're in Afghanistan in Part to Protect Women and Improve Their Lives, Right?
So much for that:
Afghanistan's president on Tuesday endorsed a "code of conduct" issued by an influential council of clerics that activists say represents a giant step backward for women's rights in the country.
President Hamid Karzai's Tuesday remarks backing the Ulema Council's document, which allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes, is seen as part of his outreach to insurgents like the Taliban.
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan prior to the 2001 U.S. invasion, girls were banned from going to school and women had to wear burqas that covered them from head to toe. Women were not allowed to leave their homes without a male relative as an escort.
Among the rules: Women should not travel without a male guardian and women should not mingle with strange men in places like schools, markets or offices. Beating one's wife is prohibited only if there is no "Shariah-compliant reason," it said, referring to the principles of Islamic law.
It has suddenly become a lot harder to include the part about improving women's lives when trying to justify why we're still in Afghanistan.
Now Pat Robertson Attacks Sandra Fluke
Pat Robertson today:
You know there was a woman, the law student at Georgetown University who appeared before a congressional committee, and she said that students needed $3,000 a year for contraception and that they couldn't afford it. As I understand, the Catholic school was supposed to pay for it. Now Catholics say that fornication, if you will, sex outside of marriage, is a sin. This woman is saying 'I'm going to be committing sin but I want you to pay for my sin.' Now am I overstating that? Rush Limbaugh got a little bit over the top on that thing but is that what it amounted to?
Do insurance companies ask men if they're married before they agree to pay for Viagra Pat?
Geezus. It takes two to fornicate but men are entirely left out of all this.
Watch the video here.
Get to Know Joseph Kony (Kony 2012)
UPDATED below.
Until I watched this now-viral (1,845,000 views in two days), devastating video about the world's #1 war criminal, Joseph Kony, I didn't know who Joseph Kony was. (Thanks American "news" media.)
Now I do and now I'm fighting mad. We've got to get him.
UPDATE (@6:29 p.m. ET March 8, 2012)
Over the last several days, much has been written about this video and about the video's producer, Invisible Children. I get the controversy but I agree with the last paragraph of this "Viewpoint" post from Think Progress:
So, instead of continuing to debate the strengths and weakness of the Kony2012 video, or attack Invisible Children for their lack of financial transparency, let's figure out how to turn this momentum into a constructive opportunity that can result in smart policies that will have a positive, real-time impact in the affected areas of central Africa. Let's harness this energy and turn it into something productive that ensures we're telling the right stories, inspiring well-informed advocacy, and working together across governments, academia, grassroots activists, and local populations to help bring this chapter of the LRA — and the impact in affected areas — to a close.


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The topic for Day 2 was my "Favorite Christmas Dessert", and we were supposed to share the recipe. I don't have a specific recipe, but I do have a dessert tradition that is definitely my favorite to share with you all! Every year at Christmas, we make a "Happy Birthday" cake for Jesus and sing Happy Birthday to Him. Every year we choose a different flavor or shape to keep it interesting. One year was a chocolate cake, another year was a white-chocolate layer cake with fruit, and a few times we've used a fun tree-shaped pan I have. I think we need to try a brownie or cookie cake, or maybe this popcorn cake! Doesn't that look fun?
Lovebug and any other kids that are around get the job of decorating the cake. We use icing, and then an assortment of decorations – sprinkles, chocolate chips, candy coated chocolate candies, coconut – all fun for little hands!
Here is our tree-shaped cake from a couple years ago!
It's a special tradition and something we all look forward to every year. I love watching my daughter get so excited as she helps me plan and prepare for the most important birthday party of the year!
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In Wisconsin, 93 Cents of Every Union Dollar Given Goes to Democrats
posted at 8:00 am on March 9, 2011 by John Sexton
Forget the stuff about collective bargaining "rights." For Democrats and their union allies, this is all about the Benjamins:
Of the nearly $7 million labor unions have contributed to state candidates in Wisconsin over the last six election cycles, 93 cents of every dollar has gone to a Democrat.
Among educators, it's 75 cents of every buck. For public employees, 73 cents.
The data compiled by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign for the State Journal starkly illustrate why the high-stakes battle between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and labor unions over the last three weeks is about more than budget shortfalls and bargaining.
"I consider organized labor to be the backbone of the Democratic Party," said Mike Tate, state party chairman. "Part of Scott Walker's strategy is to weaken the infrastructure of the Democratic Party."
Got that? An attack on unions is an attack on Democrats. That's a level of honestly that hasn't made it into the debate much thus far. We've heard a lot of talk about "union busting" and the "right" of collective bargaining. We haven't heard much about where all that money goes after it's bargained away from the taxpayers.
What we haven't heard at all is an explanation for why any American should be forced to support someone else's political party with their earnings. In essence, Democrats want to be allowed to lay an extra payroll tax on certain professions to fund their operations. When the other party objects to this set up, they then claim people's "rights" are being taken away.
Since when is being forced to donate to one political party a right?


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Congratulations on your purchase!
Crimson Trace lasergrips Rock, especially on a little gun, with a short sight radius!
Keep it well lubed, feed it the proper ammo, and hopefully it will be good to you.
Congratulations on your purchase!
Crimson Trace lasergrips Rock, especially on a little gun, with a short sight radius!
Keep it well lubed, feed it the proper ammo, and hopefully it will be good to you.
I have not shot a lot of ammo yet in my SOLO. However, it seems like a GREAT gun. The main problem I have had so far is getting the first bullet to be picked off the mag. I have since discovered that the
bullets have to be "pushed all the way" into the mag. Once this is done it seems to load and fire fine.
The second issue (and most bothersome) is that the mag release button is very hard to push in and
release. I am hoping these problems are because it is new and not "broken in". If anyone else has had this problem would love to know.
I had both those issues and more that Kimber could not fix....finally after sending me a new gun....I sold it. Wanted to like it however it has to work.
$1,299.00 + $35.00 shipping on the auction sites? Not this cowboy. I like my Kimbers, but not that much for a pocket gun. Sure looks interesting though.
I bought one of the first to hit the market for $850....thought I got a good deal....could never get it to work...sold the replacement that Kimber sent me for $1000. Suppose it was a good deal.
I looked closely at the Solo. When I tried it at the range, as advertized, it only functioned reliably with SD ammo. That DQ'd it for me. I want a firearm that I can run cheap ammo through for practice.
Thank you for the post as I fired mine today and had the issue of the slide staying locked. Note to self read instructions.
Very much a novice but managed to overpay for a solo. My first gun is a Springfield XD so I think am spoiled by the simplicity and reliability. That said I think I have worked through the solo issues and really love the gun. The right ammo and assembly makes all the difference I think. I also have the extended clip which improves the grip in my opinion.
I personally love the Kimber line, and currently own two, a Kimber Solo Carry and a Kimber Ultra Raptor in .45ACP naturally.
I generally carry them both at the same time, with the Solo Carry in front right pocket, and the Ultra Raptor in a strong side Desantis
speed scabbard, or an old jackass shoulder rig I've had for a hundred years. I'm a .45 guy, to the core, and have been known to make fun of men who choose a 9mm as their primary carry weapon. LOL Don't really want to wade into the "my caliber is better than yours" debate, but I've seen bad guys shot in the head with a 9 that lived to testify against the shooter, while I've never seen that occur with a .45ACP. I will sometimes leave the Ultra in the truck or on the bike when the weather is hot, knowing that the Solo Carry will bail me out, until I can reach the larger gun.
Having said all that, I will settle for the 9 as my second/backup piece, as it replaced a Keltec .380 that used to ride in that pocket. The solo carry functions fine, as long as you feed it the proper ammo, keep the dust bunnies and pocket lint out of it, and maintain it as if your life may depend on it. I know i'm preaching to the choir there.
Another little benefit I realized with the Kimber Solo Carry in that pocket, is it protects your leg when you hit the pavement at 45MPH. LOL!! My girlfriend and I went down last April on the Harley, when a rear tire blew out doing 60 MPH. I was able to whoa her up to 45 or so before she slammed the pavement on the right side. My jeans were shredded on the right leg, and my Solo Carry was peeking out, but the skin under where she sits was untouched. Sheared the thumb safety pin on the right side, and had some road rash on that side, but the safety was still engaged and I could have fired the weapon had I needed to. Tough little gun. Sent it back to Kimber to have the safety repaired, but decided to keep the road rash for memories.
I'll also admit that the Kimber finish sucks, on all their guns. The Solo Carry is no exception. The finish on mine has worn off where my benchmade knife that shares that pocket rubs against it. I don't care what it looks like though, so I just let it wear off. I will eventually get it to Wally Birdsong for his Black T finish, like I did for my Ultra Raptor, and never have to worry about it rusting again.
Hope this adds to the discussion somewhat. Ya'll be safe.
Dear God, for the same money you can get an honest to goodness 1911 or something else.
This is the electric car of handguns.
They will have to make it much more affordable before I can get serious about it.
Plain and simple
My Kimber Solo works perfectly. Not one FTE or FTF. I only use 124 or 147 grain ammo, as recommended by Kimber.
Perfect front pocket carry size. Sweet trigger. I don't regret buying mine at all. Paid $650 for it new.
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Bookkeeping: Selling Most of Braskem (BAK) on Quick Bounce
We just purchased Brazilian chemical maker Braskem (BAK) last Friday and already the stock is up 9%; certainly not what I expected, especially since the Bovespa index has been weak since. Somehow we caught a stroke of luck here - other Brazilian stocks are not doing that well.
I did not enter this position expecting a quick trade, but I am going to take what the market hands us. Since we have such a nice gain in a matter of days, I am going to take profits on almost the entire position and then buy back on (a) a pullback or (b) a breakout over $17. As I look at the intraday chart today, at 1:30 PM the stock jumped from $16.20s to near $16.90 in a matter of minutes on very little volume. That seems shady to me. If it can get over $17 I will be proven wrong... happy to take my 9% for 2 days work and re-assess.
Long Braskem in fund; no personal position


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Song Travels With Michael Feinstein: Cheyenne Jackson
Actor/singer Cheyenne Jackson is equally at home on Broadway and in front of the camera.
He made his Broadway debut as the understudy for both male leads in, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," and his cabaret debut--a one-man show, titled, "Back to the Start," which was a sold-out hit.
Jackson has appeared on NBC's, "30 Rock" and Fox's, "Glee."
He has recorded an album of duets with Michael Feinstein, called, "The Power of Two."
The pair are reunited here on "Song Travels" to discuss Jackson's journey from Idaho to the national stage and to perform a few musical highlights from along the way.
Find out more about "Song Travels" at vpr.net.


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I just spotted a ton of GB3k cars driving up I-81N through Syracuse, NY. They just took off from NYC today and are headed to Toronto tonight. Has anyone else spotted any cars or celebrities? I stopped at a few major gas stations off the highway in hopes to walk into Ken Block fueling up but I had no luck.
If anyone has a list of what car each driver is using please post!


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