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"Please allow me to introduce myself…" (Stones, Sympathy For The Devil)
This is one of those lessons that arrived accidentally…
… and I had to stop and ruminate about it for a while before it made sense.
I'm lucky I learned it early, too.
It's provided me with a home base of sanity when the chaos has reached shuddering crescendos and it was hard to think straight (let alone make snap decisions when crisis loomed).
You may find it obvious.
That's fine. Just don't go thinking it's obvious to the rest of the mean ol' world out there… cuz it ain't.
Here's the story: One of my first jobs working for Gary Halbert was to fly to Detroit… and interview a guy who'd just lost 750 pounds.
Yeah, you read that right.
Gary had an idea for a diet product based on the dramatic tale of this now-slender young man. It had to be a true story, too, cuz we found it in The National Enquirer.
I mean, it was dripping with credibility.
The photo of the kid at his heaviest made people just stare and blink. We're talking about filling up a king-sized bed all by your lonesome, with a little tiny face lost in folds of flesh.
The last time he'd been on a scale, they hauled him over to a machine that weighs horses.
Now, there's more to this story, of course… including my first encounter with a Michigan ice storm (I flew out there in freakin' December, wearing my stylish, thin, warm-for-Los-Angeles leather coat… and learned a lesson about chill factor walking out of the airport, tell you what).
Also including the side-story of how the kid, now down below 200 (yep, he really had lost all that weight) went through multiple operations to remove the excess skin, which was donated to burn clinics.
And more. I can regale a room with the stories from that adventure for an hour.
But this isn't a post about losing weight.
No, it's much more important to your life than that.
Let's continue: Gary and I began a rocky relationship with this kid for a few months, trying to film him for his product (a self-help course for people wanting to lose massive amounts of weight steadily)…
… while navigating the kid's mounting arrogance, ego and control-freakism.
Gary and I loved to delve as deep as possible into the working personalities of people — that's where the genius of all great advertising lies.
So we spent many an evening wondering what made this kid tick.
Finally, I hit on something. "You know what? Something inside him caused him to get so big in the first place."
Stay with me. It's not as obvious as you might think.
Halbert's eyes lit up. We were on to something.
See, at first the kid seemed nice, loving and family oriented. Poor guy had just sort of lost track of his size, and oops, got big. Perfect spokesman for a diet product or course.
Soon, though, you could almost feel the invisible manipulation tenacles slithering around your throat as he challenged anyone who dared to question his authority and superiority on… well, everything.
Now, I'm no shrink. But we soon realized how that kid had used his obesity to control his family to the point their entire lives were devoted to his care. Like slaves.
And he liked it that way. And he shed the weight when he figured out another way to keep them under his thumb (by becoming a celebrity via fat loss).
Okay. So this kid, who at first seemed kinda sweet and loving, turned out to be harboring a nest of demons.
So what?
Well, it was one of those "a-HA!" moments where half a lifetime of puzzles suddenly were solved.
Here's that lesson: Everybody has demons.
You, me, the mailman, your little love-bug honey, the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.
Not all the demons are malicious. Some are fairly innocent… like a constant craving for chocolate, which can impact your desert choices at a restaurant if you're the type of couple who likes to share.
Or like a fear of heights, which can impact your vacation plans together.
And there are common demons, which seem to inhabit most of the population: Fear of change, greed, road rage (a cousin of feeling powerless against The Man), whack-job political suspicions, predudices… and I'm sure you can add to this list easily enough yourself.
And there are demons whose main job is keep things confusing: The passive-aggressive little trolls who excel at twisting reality into forms only they recognize.
This realization — that everybody's got demons — at first was a huge relief.
Personally, I had always assumed (for no good reason) that if it was unclear who was at fault in any given situation involving me… I should take the blame.
It just seemed wrong to assign bad motives to other people. And I knew I had demons in my head — desires and fears and the lingering inchoate rage of barely surviving puberty and struggling in the adult world.
And I kind of enjoyed believing I lived in a world with mostly demon-free people around me.
I could handle my beasts (most of the time).
But the thought that someone else might be harboring the same impulses I had rattled me to the core. Better to pretend there were pure souls out there in the majority.
This is COMMON, folks.
This is standard operating procedure for most human minds… to not go down that rabbit hole inside your brother's core.
It's why the neighbors of the serial killer next door always express surprise. "He was a nice, quite man. A little odd, but we never suspected anything." (Despite the occasional screams from the basement…)
As a marketer, you have to abandon many of the pleasant illusions that comfort everyone else. Like believing your customers are different. Or that you can sell lots of stuff by appealing to the "noble" virtues of your audience.
I've often cautioned friends who were nibbling at the edges of the entrepreneurial experience: You will be startled, at first, by what you discover about your fellow earthlings.
The sheer volume of fear, desire, greed and sick need is unsettling. It's a jungle/madhouse/war zone out there.
However, once the initial shock wears off, you'll be fine.
People are infested with demons of varying levels of nastiness.
So what?
They're still lovable. The world is still gorgeous. And knowing how the universe operates — rather than pretending to know, and being wrong (like most folks) — offers you a supremely better life.
For one thing, you won't often be fooled. You'll be a wicked-good salesman, too… because 99% of all selling is based on understanding the psychology of the process.
And your philosophy of how to live well can evolve (and thrive) based on reality… not wishes and dreams.
Now… what is the FIRST practical application of this advanced knowledge?
It is this: Look around…
… and figure out who's watching your back.
Most people's heads are crawling with demons they don't realize or acknowledge…
… and yet they LISTEN to the gibbering.
I've seen this too often, both in business and in private life.
When people operate alone, or in isolated situations, they "take their own counsel".
What they THINK they're doing is going over the facts, weighing options, and judging the pros-and-cons objectively.
However, what they're actually doing…
… is taking whispered advice from their demons.
And that seldom turns out well.
Much later (as the dust settles and the survivors of the decision begin to climb back on the Maslow hierarchy-of-needs staircase)…
… they'll ask themselves "What the HELL was I thinking?"
And the answer is: You weren't thinking at all.
You let the demons into the control room.
Now, how does this affect you as a business owner or entrepreneur?
I'll tell you: Most of the biz owners I consult with are essentially isolated.
They don't have confidants to tell their secrets to… they don't have people who share their burdens… they can't brainstorm ideas because no one around them understands what's going on…
… and they sink or swim, every day, locked inside their own head.
With all those demons tugging and whispering and planting astonishingly dumb ideas in their brain.
This is, essentially, what separates the winners in the marketing world from the never-ending queue of losers.
The winners always — always — network relentlessly…
… and rely on the power of mastermind groups and coaching to stay on the cutting-edge, motivated and happy and on the best possible path at all times.
I know what it's like to be alone out there. I started my career completely solo, clueless and barely managing my fear (and the near constant deluge of bad ideas popping into my skull).
I used books as a crutch, and it worked to a point. I learned a few tricks, and I used the "What would Claude Hopkins do?" philosophy when stuck.
However, as soon as I discovered like-minded souls in my Los Angeles area sandbox, I formed mastermind groups, or joined existing ones.
There is no second-best way to maximize your potential, at anything.
One professional, all alone, may be occasionally brilliant, and may develop a killer reputation. And actually enjoy the job.
However, you team two pro's together… especially when they're simpatico on biz philosophy… and you get way more than just "times two" the brilliance.
No, you get a big-time multiple of brilliance. It wasn't just Halbert and I teaming up — it was also bringing our mutual support teams together… the people both of us already trusted for advice and criticism and brainstorming.
Our network was instantly many times larger, and amazingly more powerful.
And — best of all — we finally had someone we trusted and respected… to tell us when we were being fools, or idiots, or about to jump off a cliff.
It works like magic to put your butt on the right track, chugging steadily toward the rewards you seek.
Being alone sucks.
Teaming up rocks. It's the only way to fly.
This is why, when you scratch the surface of a top marketer, you discover a long history of using brainstorms and mastermind groups underneath.
I've always had partners or people I trust (and solicit opinions and advice from), ever since I discovered the sheer awesomeness of sharing brain-wattage with fellow travelers.
However, I've never officially hosted a mastermind group.
Until now.
People have been hounding me to do this for a very long time. Certainly, whenever I've held Hot Seat seminars or Writing Sweatshops, the effect is very similar to a mastermind.
Except it's just a one time thing.
A real mastermind is ongoing. So you get to know your colleagues, and they get to know you.
And so their perspective on your plans is coming from a place of trust and familiarity, and a desire to root for your success…
… and to watch your back as you progress.
This is the great victory of a mastermind: You are no longer alone out there.
You've got a group of smart people invested in your success.
And you can finally tell your demons to go bugger off…
… cuz you're getting solid input and criticism now. The right stuff for powering your rapid ascent up the levels of success and happiness.
Okay, blatant pitch:
I'm now hosting two mastermind groups… for the first time ever in my career.
We started with one. My biz partner Stan Dahl and I decided it was high time to bring together a great group of people committed to the mastermind concept…
… and get busy.
We let word of this mastermind slip at the recent Action Seminar… and we immediately had more people wanting in than one group could possibly handle.
(The right size for a mastermind is no more than 12… very small and tidy. Any bigger, and it's a seminar, not a mastermind.)
So… we split the original single group… into two groups.
Which allowed us to customize each group… so we have one that is primarily for entrepreneurs and small biz owners…
… and another one primarily for copywriters and consultants.
Stan and I have over 50 years between us as professional marketers, business builders, consultants, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.
I can say — without blushing — that we are among the "first choice" consultants hit on by marketers who understand the value of experience and current savvy.
We're "Success Junkies", and proud of it. And we bring a wealth of knowledge, insider advantages, vast resources, and breathtaking skill to the table.
And we're personally hosting each and every mastermind session of these two new groups.
I'm just letting you know about it.
We start both of them in early April… so you can still grab bragging rights for being among the very first members.
I just checked, and as of right now (while I write this) there are still a couple of spots open.
If being part of a regular mastermind group with me sounds interesting, go here to find out the details of joining:
I can tell you that, for the first folks who signed up, it was a no-brainer decision.
And if you're still relying on your inner demons to watch your back as you navigate this increasingly rocky economy and biz climate…
… then maybe you should see what's up here.
Okay, end of pitch.
I'll see you again soon.
Stay frosty,


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Ringgold ousted in double-overtime, 3-2
Tears, the look of shock, and reflection.
Those were just a few of the emotions that the Ringgold Rams had on their collective faces at Joe Montana Stadium following their heart-wrenching 3-2 double overtime loss to Franklin Regional Monday night in a WPIAL Class AAA first round contest.
"It is always hard to lose in the playoffs, regardless of how it happens," Ringgold coach Frank Perez said. "You have to give all the credit to Franklin Regional because they came to play.
"I noticed as the game went on, they were getting a lot of the bounces and sometimes that's how it goes."
Coming into the contest, Perez had stated that a key would be for his team to control the tempo, and that is exactly what Ringgold (14-4) did from the start.
The Rams set the tempo as soon as the opening whistle was blown and right after taking the opening kick, the Rams played the ball in and got their first shot on goal 28 seconds into the contest and while the shot didn't go in, Ringgold instantly set the tempo.
"We wanted to set the tone and we did," Perez said. "But Franklin Regional counterpunched and were faster than I thought."
The Rams had several chances early to score, and the Rams finally got on the board with 12:28 left in the half when Troy Dolanch drilled 40-yard shot past a stretched-out Ralph.
However, it only took Franklin Regional 30 seconds to tie the score when sophomore Ryan Watson played a ball down the left side and blooped a shot past Ringgold senior goalkeeper Jeremy Reiland.
"When they countered, we didn't get back on defense and we lost the momentum we had," Perez said. "We had chances, but I am so proud of our kids and our guys rose to the occasion all season."
The score remained 1-1 until the 31:42 mark of the second half when senior Hunter Homa took a ball played from the left wing off of the foot of junior Devin Beck and beat Ralph to give Ringgold a 2-1 lead.
Unfortunately for the Rams, they once again could not the lead for long as the Panthers (13-3-2) scored just under three minutes later.
With 28:52 left in the contest, freshman James Young beat Reiland from 25-yards to knot the score.
In overtime, Ringgold avoided disaster with 13:18 to go when it almost scored in its own goal, but Reiland made a sliding save.
Just under a minute later at 12:20, Dolanch appeared to win the game for Ringgold on a breakaway, but he was called for offsides.
The contest remained tied after the first overtime, but unfortunately for Ringgold, its season ended 54 seconds into the second overtime as sophomore Danny Ferriero got in close and beat a diving Reiland with the game-winner, and more importantly, the season-ender for Ringgold.
Despite the loss, Perez shared positive thoughts about his team which moved up from AA and won the Section 4 AAA title.
"I don't think our guys realize what we did this year moving up with the quality in (Class AAA)," Perez said. "But what I will most remember about this team is that we became a family.
"I don't think we were during camp, but we grew as one and it wasn't about individuals. This team was fun and we enjoyed the ride."
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God's story woven for us is, rightly understood, the greatest love story of all time. It is the story of an all powerful creator, so in love with His creation that He devises a plan to deliver his people from their own self-made destruction. It is a story that begins and ends and is wrapped all around in love. Love of creation. Love of life. Love of justice and mercy and grace. Love cannot be coerced, cannot be bought, cannot be forced – love must come from a great source within. For us, that source is God Himself, who has imprinted on all of us His spark of love. For God, the love that motivates His story is simply an expression of His most basic nature. God is love. As we light this candle, we are reminded again that just as the flame begins with a spark, our love story with God began with His love for us.
There is a greater story being told. It is a love story, and we are supporting characters, surrounded by the love of God's hero, Jesus. If we are living in God's story, we are living in love. There is no other way.
Prayer God, we can truly come to you in prayer and say, "we love you." We can do so because you are our great source of love, and we recognize that the love we have for you is merely a reflection of the love you have already shown to us. We love you for who you are, for what you have done, and for what you are doing daily in our lives. We love you for loving us, for sending Jesus to deliver us in our darkest night. We love you because it is the only response that understanding you can bring. We love you, and so we serve you with our whole mind, body, and spirit. Amen.


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Whole house filter question.
I would like to put in a whole house water filter. Can someone point me in the right direction as far as which one's are better, easier, cheaper etc? Thanks, Mike
When you say "whole house" do you mean a disposal cartridge type filter?
If so they are the worst choice because they were never meant to be used as POE (point of entry) "whole house" filters.
And if your water is clear, there's no sense in filtering invisible 'dirt' and anything dissolved in the water that might harm you, it will go right through all 'sediment' filters anyway.
Thanks for your response.
To answer your questions our water is turning all of our toilets and tubs red. It has done this for years and it's almost impossible to clean. Sometimes our whites in the laundry come out redish tinted.
So I don't know if it's rust or iron or what exactly does this. We have a well and water softner - FYI.
I've heard whole house filters will take care of this problem. No rust salt does not work and when Culligan tested it, they said it was fine.
I'd love to hear your opinion now that you know our situation! Thanks, Mike
You are going to need to run some basic tests for hardness and iron. You say you have a softener already and are still getting iron stains yes? A softener alone will remove some iron but if the iron is above the ability of the softener to remove it will eventually plug up the resin bed in the softener. Get a water test done first and then get back to us.
If you mean a sediment filter, that won't help at all. If you mean an iron filter, you don't know you need one yet.
Mix a 1/2 cup dry measure of IO in 2-3 gallons of warm water, stir it up so it all dissolves and pour the solution into the water in the salt tank and do a manual regeneration. That will clean out the iron/rust in the resin bed and the control valve etc. and help the softener remove the iron and hardness in your water.
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Experience the remarkable Île-de-France region, made up of Greater Paris and its surroundings, from the deck of a passenger barge and the seat of a bicycle. Begin with two days in the City of Light then barge along the Seine and Loing rivers, disembarking each day to bike through breezy fields and colorful forests, into charming towns and up to the front doors of châteaux.
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Made in France, A Shopper's Guide
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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness.
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
by Fodor's
This shirt-pocket map and guide includes essential information on the city's history, highlights and sightseeing, ideal for a short visit to the City of Light.
Lonely Planet French Phrasebook
by Marie-Helene Girard, Anny Monet
This handy phrasebook focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
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The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
by Ina Caro
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Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris
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1066, The Year of the Conquest
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Monet, the Ultimate Impressionist
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Michelin Green Guide Normandy
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The Secret Life of the Seine
by Mort Rosenblum
After losing his Paris apartment, Rosenblum, a born storyteller, takes to a houseboat moored on the Seine. The result is this entertaining tour of the places and people he encounters during his explorations along the river.
Six Armies in Normandy, From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
by John Keegan
A provocative account of the invasion of Normandy and the battles that proceeded it. Keegan's intense descriptions of the war in northern France are accompanied by perceptive analysis of the military tactics that resulted in Allied victory.
D-Day June 6, 1944
by Stephen Ambrose
Ambrose's riveting popular account of the climactic battle of WWII.
Joan of Arc
by Mary Gordon
In elegant, insightful prose, novelist Gordon meditates on the courageous and complex young girl and the iconic status she has acquired.
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
by Henry Brooks Adams
First published at the turn of the century, this classic work is a meditation on the Medieval world as reflected through its most famous religious structures.
Madame Bovary
by Lydia Davis (Translator), Gustave Flaubert
The landmark novel of a woman who suffers in search of relief from her humdrum life in a provincial village outside Rouen.
A Traveller's History of France
by Robert Cole
This fast-moving survey covers the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times.
Normandy Map 513
by Michelin
A colorful, detailed map of Normandy at a scale of 1:200,000, featuring Rouen, Le Havre and the route of the Seine from west of Paris to the Atlantic.
The Food of France
by Waverly Root
An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, the book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace) and Oil (the south).
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The first-place Marist football team (5-3 overall, 4-1 Pioneer Football League) will play third place Jacksonville (4-4, 3-2) at home on Saturday. Kickoff at Tenney Stadium is scheduled for 1 p.m.
Marist is tied for first in the PFL with Butler, Dayton and San Diego, and Mercer (3-1 PFL) gives the league five teams with only one loss. The champion of the league will earn an automatic bid to the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
Last Saturday, the Red Foxes defeated Stetson, 27-0. Senior quarterback Chuckie Looney (Ocala, Fla.) led Marist with four touchdowns and 381 offensive yards. Defensively, fifth-year senior defensive end Terrence Fede (Nyack, N.Y.) had four tackles for loss, and senior linebacker Paul Sakowski (Chester, N.Y.) had seven tackles, including a sack. Looney was honored as PFL Co-Offensive Player of the Week, and Fede was named PFL Defensive Player of the Week.
Jacksonville won its last game against Davidson last Saturday by a score of 56-13. The Dolphins have scored over 50 points this season in all four of their wins, and quarterback Kade Bell had a career best of 323 yards and four touchdowns. Defensively, this was a season low for points scored against Jacksonville, and Anthony Joiner led the team with nine tackles.
Fans can listen live to Ed Weir (play-by-play) and Geoff Brault (color) beginning at 12:45 p.m. EDT. The contest will be air live on WKIP (1450 AM in Poughkeepsie), the Red Fox Network and iHeartRadio, and video will be carried on the Red Fox Network for a subscription fee.


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It's official: Microsoft's concerned about GNU/Linux
Without fanfare (as expected), Microsoft filed its 10-K form to the Security and Exchange Commission.
In it, however, we find that Microsoft bemoans the fact that their "business model," well, might tend to suck in comparison to the open source business model. Not only that — and maybe you should sit down for this — all that, ahem, innovation stemming from Redmond might suffer because they would have to lower their prices to keep competitive.
Let's take a look, shall we? Some of the more tasty, entertaining morsels are:
"Our business model has been based upon customers paying a fee to license software that we developed and distributed . . . . In recent years, certain "open source" software business models have evolved into a growing challenge to our license-based software model.
[And for this we are truly thankful.]
"Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is subject to a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other software and redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the license . . . . A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system."
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"Although we believe our products provide customers with significant advantages in security, productivity and total cost of ownership (emphasis added to highlight both the audacity and humor of this clause), the popularization of the open source software model continues to pose a significant challenge to our business model . . .
[When you stop laughing, I'll continue.]
" . . .including continuing efforts by proponents of open source software to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of open source software in their purchase and deployment of software products.
[For this we are truly thankful.]
"To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline."
[One can only hope.]
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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Lot of 9 Vintage Hand Made Swirl Marbles
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Up for auction is a Lot of 9 Hand Made Swirl MarblesThe marbles are approximately .48 inches or a little smaller than 1/2 inch The marbles have obvious pontills at both ends and looks great The marbles are in good condition, a couple of small chips hear and t but in good shape none the less As far as shipping I recommend shipping insurance because I will not be held accountable for lost or damaged freight. I charge fair and accurate shipping prices, if you are interested in combined shipping on single marbles or small lots I will definitely accommodate you. As always thanks ggod luck and happy eBaying ;)


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Candidates for offices in D.C. file finance reports
Friday, June 11, 2010
Candidates for D.C. offices began filing campaign finance reports Thursday -- the first disclosures since March 10.
It's the first report for several major candidates, starting with mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray (D). As of 6 p.m., the D.C. Council chairman had not completed his filing -- he had until midnight -- but he was expected to have collected only a fraction of the nearly $4 million that incumbent Adrian M. Fenty has raised.
It's also the first filing for Democratic D.C. Council chairman candidates Kwame R. Brown and Vincent Orange. Brown (At Large) filed his report early, posting a number just shy of $180,000 from 201 donors. The chairman of the council's economic development committee tapped a long list of real estate and construction industry sources, including $1,500 from developer Herb Miller and $1,000 total from Nationals owners Ted and Mark Lerner. Brown's take also includes $1,500 from Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and at least $1,000 from megadeveloper and potential mayoral candidate R. Donahue Peebles, as noted by the Washington Business Journal.
Orange's filing is expected to note contributions totaling upward of $135,000, according to a campaign source -- showing that Orange, who hasn't held public office since he gave up his Ward 5 council seat for a failed 2006 mayoral run, still has some juice.
But the champion fundraiser is council member David A. Catania (I), who is seeking a fourth full term as an at-large member. He added more than $200,000 to his coffers, bringing his total war chest to more than $300,000. In the ward races, Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) has outraised his fellow incumbents, bringing his bank account to more than $210,000.
Also still to file as of 6 p.m.: Fenty, mayoral challenger Leo Alexander (D), Ward 5 council member Harry Thomas Jr. (D), At-Large Council member Phil Mendelson (D), and council challengers Kelvin Robinson, Jeff Smith, Bryan Weaver, Delano Hunter and Kenyan McDuffie, among others.
By 6 p.m., the following candidates had filed:
-- Graham: $52,902 raised; $32,032 spent; $210,116 cash on hand.
-- Mary M. Cheh (D): $19,212 raised this period; $33,825 spent; $81,195 cash on hand.


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Surfing royalty – or royal asshole? Fierce leader and forward-thinking philosopher – or control-freak father? Insanely ahead of his time — or just plain insane? These are the questions that course through Surfwise, the 2007 documentary on Dr. Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, his wife Juliette, and nine children: David, Jonathan, Abraham, Israel, Moses, Adam, Daniel, Joshua and Navah. Often lauded as the ultimate surf family, Doc raised the whole brood on the road in a 24-foot camper, keeping them out of the classroom and in the lineup, seeking an existence full of healthy living and free of worldly possessions —all decades before homeschooled amateurs, the "Drive Thru" Series, David Koresh and Richard Simmons.
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Pray, Surfwise moves from hilarious to heartbreaking as the kids remember their upbringing as both an endless summer camp of adventure and a philosophical prison. And as they grow into adulthood, it strips bare Doc's world — and worldview. (Not bad for a film that Paskowitz didn't want to make and still refuses to see.) As the DVD hits stores this week, more people than ever will get a peek inside the RV and all the ups-and-downs of this living experiment: the thriving, the starving; the loving, the fighting; the endless cursing and the ridiculously blunt one-liners. ("We all had scrupulously clean assholes.") And with each new viewer, another member of society stands ready to cast judgment. Yet, for all the potential fallout, Doc says nothing can force him to watch the film or worry about the response. Proof that in a world of bad-ass rebel stars making their own surf vids and companies carefully crafting their anti-establishment image, this 87-year-old longboarder remains surfing's reigning "I don't give a shit" icon of non-conformity. – Matt Walker
SURFING MAGAZINE.COM: How did the film come about?
DORIAN PASKOWITZ: Well, Doug Pray read my book, [Surfing and Health,] and went to my son Jonathon. He said, "I think your dad is an interesting character for a documentary." And Jonathon said, "You're right." So I come out of the water at San Onofre one day and this guy says, "Hey, I'd like to make a movie about your life." And I said, "F–k off." I was very upset by it. I told him I didn't want anything to do with it. And then my wife and Jonathon kept after me — saying this would be a wonderful chronicle of our family and so forth. But I still really, truly object to it. I've never seen the movie. And I don't intend to see the movie. But I basically worked my ass off for four years with these guys because I felt like if I was gonna do it, I was gonna go for broke.
Well, you definitely put yourself out there. Do you have any sense of how it came out and how it portrayed you? If it was a negative, or positive – or even accurate . . .
I don't give a damn how it portrayed me. I don't care! [laughs] I don't care what they say. Dr. Bill Rosenblatt called me this morning from New Jersey and said, "We showed your film. Some people thought it was very interesting, some people thought, 'What?! This guy's an asshole!'" And I said, "Wonderful!"
What about the rest of it the family?
They love it. My wife's seen it five times. So as long as they like it, I'm happy.
I'm surprised there weren't more mixed {{{reviews}}} with nine kids. And the film does paint you as a somewhat controlling figure. Some say they wish they'd gone to school, and you even reflect at some point and say "I made some mistakes' . . .
Do they make it that equivocal!? I never intended to send the kids to school. Ever. I wanted them to surf. They can go to school now; they're 50 years old. But they can't do the things they did when they were surfing. When they were the last ones out at big Pipeline or when Israel won the championship in Australia. They can't do that now.
And a lot the control in conventional families is in order to press the child into behavior that's consistent with the conventions themselves. I pressured them that if you go near the blowhole when the rocks are wet beneath your feet, you are gonna get knocked on your ass.
But can you see how some might say raising those kids under your unorthodox life philosophy was selfish because it wasn't putting the kids first?
That? That was very simple: it was a way of life. There was no philosophy behind it. No plan. No template – like the belly of the board is six inches behind the midline. There was just my wife and I did a lot of f–king and we had a lot of kids. And once we had them, we wanted them around us. All the time. That was my job: to raise the puppies. When they became dogs, I don't think I was as good a leader as I was at raising puppies. Because to raise children, God, nature, The Force – whatever you call it – gives us the where-with-all to do it. Just being with them, having fun with them, living with them, feeding them — nature fixes it so if we just do that we'll have normal, healthy wondrous offspring who will in turn have normal healthy wondrous offspring. To raise children you have to be a great father; to raise adults you have to be great man. And I'm not a great man. So the mistakes that I made are the mistakes I made as the children grew up, from 14 on.
The Paskowitz family circa 1976
That's largely when the friction comes in the film — adulthood. But at the end of the movie, they get all 11 of you together for the first time in 10 years. Do you think doing the movie ended up being a wise choice in that sense?
Yes. And [that meeting] was kind of a contrivance that [the producers] set up as a way of bringing the movie closure, but it actually accomplished in real life what they tried to contrive as a storyline. As a matter of fact, right now, we are all very close together and all the little nuances of hostility and regret have all vanished. And it's really just wonderful to see that.
Without seeing the film, what do you hope people bring away from it?
Well, mommy says there's a bit of my philosophy of trying to save lives by teaching people what health is, and that they even mention the book. That's all I care about.
That's it?
Yes! Listen. I've had many things given to me. It's my job in every one of those things, including my medical profession, to give back as much as I've been given. Now I was a piss poor doctor, but I was passionately in love with health. And I said, I need to sit down and write a book so everyone can know this wisdom I've been able to garner from ordinary people and extraordinary people.
If I were out surfing and a guy lost his board and was drowning and I didn't pick him up ,I'd feel like shit. Well, I wrote a book that saves lives. I wrote a book that can help surfers be outstanding surfers at 50, 60 years of age. I wrote the book for fat people to get skinny. I wrote the book to make people have 25% better sex life, have 25% more compassion and spiritually, to make 25% more money. For people to extend their life expectancy, all by what they do consciously — not by some roll of the dice. In other words, the book is about health, which is more than not being sick and more than just being fit; it's a superior state of well being that has to be come by every single day through diet, exercise, rest, recreation, and attitudes of mind. There's the formula right there. And surfing has been the sort of … the domain from which all of the energies and soulfulness and spirit and the basic wisdom has come. And if surfers can catch onto that, they can surf into their 80s.
I went surfing yesterday — I went surfing yesterday in spite of the fact my heart leaks so much I can't sleep lying down. But I'm still healthy. Does that sound like a paradox? Well, the stories in that book are what got Doug Pray wanting to make the film to begin with.
So saying that, is there anything that will make you watch the movie to see how those ideas and stories came off?
Jonathan and Juliette couldn't even pester you into it, the same way they got you to make it?
No, no, no. I don't' have any objections to [other people watching it]. I don't have any objections to anything that makes someone happy. But me watching the movie? That's just a pain in the ass to me. But it's not a pain in the ass to talk to you about it. That stokes me. Or to talk to that young boy Marzo and say, "Kelly Slater says you are the most talented young surfer he's seen in his life" — that stokes me. Or today I went down to Salt Creek and watched the kids run down the hill to paddle out – God, they're such passionate surfers at Salt Creek. That stokes me. All of that stokes me. But the movie? The movie is for you.
For more on the movie go to www.SurfwiseFilm.com and for more on Doc's book, "Surfing and Health" — the philosophy behind the film — go to www.AlohaDoc.com


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Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2016 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Synopsis :
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
Description :
Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging
support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to
crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2183)
Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly
handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause
a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2491)
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access
restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain
information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access
restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain
information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)
It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID
lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of
service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)
Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration
files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into
running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file,
an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly
clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack
memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909).
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Disgruntled performers threaten French summer festivals
PARIS (Reuters) - Performers, technicians and other casual workers in the French arts world are threatening to step up strikes to thwart the country's top summer festivals in protest at cuts to their unemployment insurance arrangements.
The threat came as President Francois Hollande's government faced other unrest, with train unions due on Tuesday to launch a 24-hour strike to protest a reorganization of the rail system. Taxi drivers will on Wednesday join a one-day demonstration in major European capitals over competition from chauffeured cabs.
France's summer festivals draw hundreds of thousands of visitors and include renowned events such as the Avignon Theatre Festival and Aix-en-Provence's opera festival - both of which were canceled in 2003 during an earlier bout of strike action.
Hollande wants to narrow the multi-billion-euro deficit in France's Unedic unemployment fund as part of wider moves to get France's public finances back into shape as agreed with European Union partners.
But festival workers - known as "intermittents" - have long refused any change to arrangements they argue are vital to supporting French culture, and say reforms agreed in March will make it impossible for many of them to eke out a living.
Earlier this month they launched strikes in the southern city of Montpellier that have already caused cancellations of events in its "Springtime of Actors" Festival, and the CGT union is calling for a nationwide strike on June 16.
"Montpellier on strike today, all of us on strike tomorrow," read a banner outside Paris Opera Bastille this weekend, where protesters delayed the start of the Verdi opera "La Traviata."
Prime Minister Manuel Valls nominated a mediator to try to defuse the crisis. The mediator's proposals will be submitted to the labor and culture ministries in two weeks.
France's some 100,000 casual festival workers have a special status under law. Although they only represent 3.5 percent of job-seekers, their unemployment compensation is two times higher than the average and in itself creates a deficit which amounts to a quarter of Unedic's annual shortfall of four billion euros. Continued...


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Bollywood to Hollywood: Indian actors chase dreams
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - From "Spiderman" to "Mission Impossible," Bollywood actors are increasingly finding their way into mainstream Hollywood films.
As Hollywood brings more Indian and Asian characters into its stories, established stars in India are now looking for a career in the West, hoping to make it big in an industry Bollywood looks up to for inspiration.
"Slumdog Millionaire" actor Anil Kapoor has landed a role in the next Mission Impossible film, while Irrfan Khan, who worked with Angelina Jolie in "A Mighty Heart," has bagged roles in both the next Spiderman film and Ang Lee's forthcoming "Life of Pi," Indian media reported.
Success is not limited to the men. Bipasha Basu, who as one of Bollywood's most popular leading ladies also has her eyes set westwards, has won a role in Academy Award winning director Roland Joffe's next film, "Singularity."
"The Indian audience is increasing every day, not just in India, which is one of the fastest growing movie markets, but also in the US," said casting director Uma D'Cunha, who helped Joffe zero in on Basu.
"Indian audiences would watch a Hollywood film with a Bipasha Basu, rather than one that doesn't have an Indian connect," she added, referring to both Indians in their homeland as well as the Indian diaspora.
An actor would be unable to balance a flourishing career in India with one in Hollywood, especially since it would be tough to shuttle between Mumbai and Los Angeles.
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Orange Slovakia has announced that maximum theoretical mobile data speeds of 42Mbps are now available in all regional capitals of Slovakia via its DC-HSPA+ network which it launched in late 2011, representing nearly 50% of the countrys population. DC-HSPA+ technology has been deployed at all 3G base stations in Banskej Bystrici, Bratislave, Kosiciach, Nitre, Presove, Trencine, Trnave and Ziline, and the 42Mbps service is also available in almost 300 other locations. All these locations give access to theoretical maximum upload speeds of 5.8Mbps. Ivan Golian, director of information systems and networks, said that Orange Slovakia is also steadily increasing its transport network capacity to support customers growing high speed data transmission requirements.
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Launching the blog book -- and Midweek
This was the week which launched the blog book. It is now well over 3 years since I have been blogging (reluctantly to start with, but soon with terrifying enthusiasm and not without its irritations, I am sure, for the long-suffering family). The whole thing has been strangely life changing, and in quite unexpected ways. If anyone had said to me four years ago that I would be sitting down to Sunday lunch to a couple of people from Swaziland whom I had previously only met electronically, I would not have understood what they were talking about.
But that is, of course, what happened a few days ago. (Thank you Paul and Glorious for coming from Africa to see the book on its way, thank you Eileen from the US, and thank you everyone else who went to such trouble to come to join in the fun.)
For those who haven't yet seen it, the book of the blog includes quite a few of the original comments from various commenters. And we decided to have two parties to launch the book, one in London and one in Cambridge, to make it as easy as possible for all those published commenters to make it. The Cambridge party was at Heffers, the London one at the Society of Antiquaries -- excellent locations, I should say.
A good time was had by all. The only problem for me -- who has an increasing difficulty with names (not, I like to think, a consequence of failing memory, but simply of having too many to remember . . . ha ha) -- was how to recognise the guests. Or rather it was how to tell those guests I had never seen before (the commenters known only previously through cyberspace) from my familiar friends whom I just happened to have temporarily forgotten.
I got it wrong several times. Sorry all. And it didn't get better after more alcohol.
That said, we all had a good time as well as a good deal to drink.
After the London do, I stayed over because the wonderful Profile publicity team had fixed up for me to be on Midweek on Radio 4 at 9.00 on Wednesday -- with a small crowd of other people most of whom were plugging their new books too. (This is one of the husband's least favourite programmes on Radio 4 -- and he is constantly comparing it unfavourably to what you can listen to at 9.00 on other mornings of the week. I'm not quite sure why he hates it so much -- partly because it never really says anything I guess.)
On this last Wednesday the guests were me, plus Phil Jupitus, Lawrence Dallaglio and Emma Freud (a unlikely combo). I rather virtuously read the books of Freud and Dallaglio (Rugby Tales) to try and get a handle on the fellow guests. I have to say that, while Dallaglio was an obviously nice bloke (and not without a bit of Latin, thanks to his Ampleforth upbringing), the book was a bit of a disappointment, for me at least. I guess that I had been hoping that it would show me just how wrong I had been about rugby players -- that they were not beer swilling thugs but went back to their hotel rooms and read a bit of Plato for pleasure or put on Radio 4 and had an early night.
If Dallaglio's anecdotes are anything to go by, the world of rugby is even more blokeish that I imagined and feared. Testerone oozes out from every page of this book. Yes they do regularly go on benders of 10 pints or more; their views of the female sex are what might politely be called laddish; and often enough the excesses of the night before mean that they have to bunk off training (some of which, especially the "eye exercises" does seem pretty weird). Maybe, I couldn't help thinking, the England team really would do better with some Plato, Radio 4 and an early night. (Still it's an Xmas present must for any rugby fan of your acquaintance!)
I'm not sure why you would want more accounts of the launches, but if you do -- try here, or here or here.
Oh in the pictures, you have Paulo and his colleague Glorious, the husband, Charlotte Higgins, Tom Holland, PL, the daughter, Harry Mount, Will Eaves (I think), FG, Foska, George Miller, Michael Bywater...but you will have to work out which is which.


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A year ago nobody knew who Wendy Davis was. Now, Democrats in Texas are hanging their hopes on the state lawmaker from Fort Worth. Tomorrow, Davis is expected to announce she is running for governor.
"This is the most high-profile, marquee name to run for statewide office in more than a decade on the Democratic side," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of The Quorum Report.
Kronberg explains why Democrats are excited about the possibilities for Davis, if she runs against Attorney General Greg Abbott next fall. It goes back to her 11-hour filibuster in a special session which delayed a vote on an abortion issue.
"She electrified a constituency that had been trending Republican, and that's suburban soccer moms."
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TiN/TiO2 nanoparticle photocatalyst was prepared by ball milling of TiO2 in H2O solution doped with TiN. The photocatalyst was characterized by UV–Vis diffuse reflection spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Based on the results of the characterization, the mechanism of the increase in photocatalytic activity was investigated. The results show that when the amount of doped TiN is 0.15 wt%, the photocatalytic activity of the TiN/TiO2 is at its peak. Compared with TiO2, the photoabsorption wavelength range of the TiN/TiO2 photocatalyst red-shifts about 30 nm, and the photoabsorption intensity increases as well. The photocatalytic activities of the photocatalyst are higher than that of TiO2 under UV and visible light irradiation. The increase of surface Ti3+ reactive center and the extension of the photoabsorption wavelength are the main factors for the increase in the photocatalytic activity of the TiN/TiO2. Doped TiN neither changes the TiO2 crystal phase nor creates new crystal phase by ball milling.


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I have been absent from the diary practically forever because I had a fall in June, and hurt my hind legs. Since I have some congenital abnormalities (that's what my mom calls them) I am not so limber as some and Iam just barely beginning to jump again. I am all better, but I felt awful for a while there.
Ever since Tuck died, I have discovered all kinds of things about myself I didn't even know existed.
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WASHINGTON – Psy, who set off a global sensation with "Gangnam Style," tried out a fresh sound this week as he released a hip-hop tale of drunken debauchery co-starring rapper Snoop Dogg.
Titled "Hangover," the South Korean star's new song returns to the "Gangnam Style" theme of material excess, but eschews the giddy K-pop arrangements of his 2012 megahit for more minimalist hip-hop beats.
The video features Psy and the notoriously hard-partying Snoop Dogg on a night of intense boozing. The subject matter is apparent from the video's first moments in which Psy vomits in a toilet bowl, only to start tapping his hands to the rhythm as Snoop Dogg jumps out of a bathtub revved up to party.
In a line that could quickly become a favorite in late-night bars the world over, the song goes: "The party's over! It ain't over!" and, "Drink it up and get sick. Bottoms up, get wasted."
The video takes the duo on a beer-sodden adventure through Seoul's rambunctious nightlife. At one point, young women twerk to the music and later Psy and Snoop Dogg skip through the streets with two flirtatious middle-aged women they met at a karaoke bar.
Psy released "Hangover" on YouTube, an appropriate forum for him after "Gangnam Style" became the most viewed music clip ever on the video-sharing site with more than 2 billion views.
In an elaborate roll-out for the video, Psy and Snoop Dogg also appeared on a special edition of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" comedy show in Los Angeles broadcast before game two of the National Basketball Association finals.
Psy, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, said that he and Snoop Dogg wrote the song through online collaboration and filmed the video together in Seoul in just 18 hours of production without breaks.
Psy says that he initially telephoned Snoop Dogg to pitch working together.
"He said, 'What is the title of the song?' And I said, 'Hangover,' and he said, 'I'm doing it,' " Psy says.
Snoop Dogg says that he "felt like I was in an action movie" by shooting a video in Asia.
"For me, it was awesome, because I've always wanted to be in a martial arts movie," he says.
For the show, host Kimmel, Psy and Snoop Dogg appeared together at a Los Angeles karaoke club where Psy performed Snoop Dogg's signature 1994 hit "What's My Name?" and the South Korean star delighted the crowd by putting on his horse-riding-like dance moves from "Gangnam Style."
The "Gangnam Style" dance has spawned myriad imitations in videos around the world, in a global success all the more surprising as — unlike "Hangover" — the song is in Korean.
"Gangnam Style," however, is at its root satirical, poking fun at the quest for material wealth and status epitomized by Seoul's glitzy Gangnam district.


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¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1 tablespoon fresh chopped rosemary
4 cups cubed bread
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1 cup peas
2 cups smoked ham cubed
1 ½ cups Swiss cheese grated
3 slices bacon cooked and crumbles
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Wilt the spinach by placing in microwave safe bowl; cover with cling film. Poke two holes in the plastic wrap and microwave on high for 2-3 minutes. Set aside to cool. Once cool drain by squeezing well.
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I was driving home from a party tonight when i pull up behind an SRT-4 with a Mopar Stage 2 badge on the back. I pull beside him and he starts dancing, and im just about ready to downshift and have at it, when the light ahead of us turns red. I roll down my window and shout "nice car", he seemed like a cool guy after all, and he nods in agreement. Well, i got a poor launch (im new to this, i'll learn) but still pull ahead of him to where he's just behind my rear bumper (i <3 AWD). After i hit about 40 he pulled hard and just plain raped me from there. I shut down 'round 70 and we parted ways.
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Lessons from Lenore
| June 20, 2012
The following is a guest post by American Association of University Women Director of Leadership Programs Kate Farrar, courtesy of the National Women's Editorial Forum at American Forum.
It's a popular question: What person, dead or alive, would you most like to meet?
Thanks to the cover article of the June 4 issue of Time magazine, Lenore Romney may be rising to the top of many lists, especially among those of us keen to see more women enter politics.
In 1970, Romney was the GOP nominee seeking to unseat Sen. Phil Hart (D-MI). According to Barton Gellman's article, she ran at a time "when women in politics still released their glove and shoe sizes." On the campaign trail, when asked why she was not at home with her family, Romney would quip, "Well, I've already churned the butter for today."
And yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just look at the coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wearing headbands or going "au naturel." Or skim the story on former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's fingernails. Or think back to the last presidential election, when pundits wondered who'd stay at home with Sarah Palin's children. Male candidates don't get questions about their family obligations or their latest haircut, but women are not only asked—they're expected to answer.
Discussions of a candidate's appearance or home life are just distractions. We need to focus instead on the underrepresentation of women in American politics. Compared with other nations, we are far behind. Currently, women hold just 17 percent of the seats in the U.S. Congress and 22 percent of the seats in state legislatures. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Running Start are trying to close the gap through our Elect Her initiative, which trains college women to run for student government and future office. With women making up the majority of students on college campuses, we must encourage them to break the gender leadership gap and be our leaders of tomorrow.
At AAUW, we're doing our part by connecting women from around the country at our National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Held earlier this month, these college women met trailblazers such as Lilly Ledbetter and Sandra Fluke, who inspired them to speak out when they see injustice. And now that all eyes are turned on Michigan and state Rep. Lisa Brown, I can only hope that women across the nation will be emboldened to get involved in the political process – not just to honor our foremothers, but to make sure we build a better world for our daughters and granddaughters.
The Time article reports that after ending her campaign, Romney said, "It's the most humiliating thing I know of to run for office." And that was before Hustler and Photoshop. Despite the devoted support of her family—son Mitt visited all 83 counties in the state of Michigan on her behalf—the process scarred Lenore Romney. She told a friend that she hoped to someday be up to working on another candidate's campaign, but, she cautioned, "He will have to be awfully good."
Change is coming, and it's thanks to women like Lenore Romney that we've come this far. But it's up to us to finish the job. It's up to us to challenge the old guard with new ideas and the new faces needed to advance them. Mitt Romney gained the courage and experience to run for office from both of his parents—that's the kind of legacy we need to pass along to our daughters as well as our sons.
We need to share more stories of women stepping up and speaking out for political change. And we need more men to support their mothers, daughters, and wives who want to run. Ask them to run for office and support them like Mitt Romney did his mother. Silencing women doesn't work; let's give them a megaphone.


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Guns... the equalizer to the crazy, the violent, the psychopaths, and murderers in society.
Good letter, I just shared it with everyone I know.
This is a discussion on A womans response to Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; You Go Girl...
Guns... the equalizer to the crazy, the violent, the psychopaths, and murderers in society.
Good letter, I just shared it with everyone I know.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --- Will Rogers ---
Chief Justice John Roberts : "I don't see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment...was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant."
This reminds me, wait until Susan Hupp gets a hold of 'em.
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I hope Bob and Jason lose their jobs.
Sadly, another accurate response that will not see the light of day in the mainstream media.
An excellent letter. I hope she sent it to the editorial department of every newspaper she could think of. Maybe at least one will print it.
"If you make something idiot proof, someone will make a better idiot."
- Anon
Wonderful letter.
I sent an email to NBC. But I think we all know it will fall on deaf ears. That doesn't mean I'm going to lay down and let them win. I hope everyone here also sent emails to NBC. We must make them hear us everyday...everytime.
Serve my country, swear an oath to protect it, pay my taxes, fly old glory in the front yard, love and protect my family, honor the vets before me and help fellow americans in need.
By definition my country now calls me a radical
Anti-gunners see only black and white, never shades of gray. Sure, sometimes people ill-advisedly shoot too soon or for poorly conceived reasons, but it's not a perfect world. Thousands more people are killed, maimed and ruined for life and thousands of families are torn apart due to auto accidents, yet not once has anyone suggested banning cars. It's not about guns any more than it's about cars. It's about the mental health of Americans.
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