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Skip to comments.Bozell Column: Skipping Violent Talk on the Left
Posted on 09/07/2011 1:44:11 AM PDT by Mozilla
After the mass shooting in Tucson of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge, and other bystanders, President Obama gave one of those unite-the-divide speeches that give journalists leg thrills. We need to sharpen our instincts for empathy, he said.
He lamented political finger-pointing: It's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds. The initial speculation was that conservatives were responsible for the Tucson horror. Even after this proved to be false, the attacks were relentless, with a barrage of media reports on the alleged excesses and mean-spiritedness of the Tea Party and all things right of center.
On Labor Day, Teamsters president James Hoffa was in Detroit addressing a rally starring the president. Hoffa told Obama there was a war on workers, and the unions were Obamas army. He said: We are ready to march. Lets take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong. Obama then showed up and said that voters would be looking for straight shooters. The rhetoric was just fine by him.
The same media that mercilessly attacked conservatives after the Giffords shooting couldnt ignore this, you say? True, the venue was too high-profile: a union leader at an Obama rally on Labor Day. While ABC, CBS, and NBC were compelled to notice, there was virtually no outrage. Indeed, The Washington Post and The New York Times skipped right over it.
So much for all the news thats fit to print.
Were a conservative Perry? Palin? Bachmann? to talk in martial terms about taking out the opponent, immediately the media headlines would scream Conservatives Threaten President. Minutes later, there would be calls on the Justice Department to investigate this physical threat.
But leftists can use these terms at will. A month ago, Politico reported on an anonymous Democratic strategist with White House ties declaring Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney. ABC, CBS, and NBC skipped that one. The Post and the Times stepped over it, too.
On August 22, at a Congressional Black Caucus event in Miami, Congressman Andre Carson, Democrat from Indianapolis, said Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens...Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party would love to see you and me...hanging on a tree.
Carson clearly didnt think about talking in a way that heals, not a way that wounds. But ABC, CBS, and NBC all skipped that one, too, as did the Post. The New York Times ran a brief item on how Rep. Allen West was thinking about quitting the Black Caucus over Carsons remarks.
NPR noticed this tape on August 24 and played it on the afternoon show Talk of the Nation. Political director Ken Rudin said Listeners should know that we talked about whether to air this tape or not. But if a Republican had said something like this, you know, something outrageous like this, we would of course say it, use it, because it just shows the extremes that people have gone to.
Good for Rudin. But he was the exception. Most media outlets ignored these extreme comments without blinking, or had a discussion that ended with the order Spike it.
Normally, an expose of alleged conservative rhetorical excess is followed by the pressure to apologize. In Hoffas case, however, theres been none. Not only that, but when asked, Democratic Party chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz flat-out rejected the notion. I know you'd like to focus on language, that's not what the American people are focused on, she told Fox News.
This is especially rich, since Wasserman-Schultz is a close friend of Giffords and made the rounds of TV interviews in January to discuss the dangerous talk in (conservative) politics. She told Katie Couric on CBS the first thing her daughter asked her was Mommy, are you going to get shot? She claimed her little girl worried that Mommy, Florida's going to pass an immigration law like Arizona and then people are going to be mad at you.' You know, they're paying attention. The civil discourse is very important because it's not just it's not just adults that that this permeates. It's our children.
If the networks had any interest in fairness or balance, theyd be asking the DNC chair to denounce the harsh language. So whats worse, the hypocrisy of Obama & Co.? Or the aid and comfort provided by the news media when they ignore that hypocrisy?
ABC, CBS, NBC, WP & NYT are all hookers that "walk the street", and worse, every night for their pimp, the DNC.
When a leftard/libtard is running his/her suckhole about "bipartisanship" or "reaching across the aisle" or "can't we all just get along?"
They mean, "when will you learn to stfu and go along with our program!"
That is all that is ever meant. Anyone thinking different just ain't been paying attention for the last half century or more.
A good fix for such inattention at such important times as these is the same fix I suggest for the intellectually inbred morons that believe any increases in taxes won't just be spent x5 before the following year.
That fix is:
Get a 2 foot square of plywood. Paint one side bright yellow and stencil Think! across the top of it.
Then drive a green sinker through the center from the backside of the plywood so that the pointed end is on the painted side.
Paint the nail bright red and label it Reason!
Hang the plywood, painted side out, on the wall of your choice with the nail about about forehead height.
Slam head repeatedly against nail until either Reason! penetrates the skull, or a Darwin Award is earned.
If the instruction is survived, it is a simple thing to Think! about how painful it is to have Reason! manually inserted into the brain every time the plague is passed in daily wanderings throughout the house. This should unjam the Think!/Reason! interface and keep it unjammed for a good while.
of course, plague was meant to sound a lot more like plaque but... whatever.
Hey, its just a community organizer organizing the community... That's how its done. The man's keeping us down and all...
When Sarah announces there will be a barrage of legal challenges to her personally and to the Tea Party by government agencies and political action groups. We can also expect to see agitators at rallies generating violence. It will get very, very ugly. Do not expect the MSM to be objective or truthful in all of this. They will be actively promoting chaos and blaming all violence on conservatives. It is vitally important to adopt a nonviolent strategy to counter malicious intent on the left.
We are still a society that respects the truth. We must believe that we can win this struggle by taking the high ground. Should the time come when we are being murdered in the streets by government police action open warfare will be required. Until then we must not engage in acts of violence or retaliate with violence. We can win the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens with reason, truth and justice.
Compromise with leftist dogma is absolutely not acceptable. The destructive force of Marxist doctrine must be understood by all Americans. We must finally bury this evil doctrine. We do this by shining the bright light of truth and reason. We keep the faith with those who love this country and seek its return to greatness.
No compromise, no violence and speak truth into the darkness of deceit. This is our campaign. Now, if we only had a leader who believed these principles and was willing to fight for them. Oh, right, there's Sarah. Don't see anyone else.
Why do we continue to whine and Moan about the Media? We continue to state the Obvious,the Media and the Leftists in the White House are working together,so? We know it,why doesnt someone on the Right DO something about it. How about introducing a Bill to License the Media?
Either that or do What Beck is doing and start a whole Media empire that just reports news From an American Perspective Period, none of this Balance crap where I have to Listen to Disgusting looking Morons like Alan Colmes and the rest of the Cadre of Lying Communists.
I am a proud member of the "sons of bitches." I eagerly await these union thugs trying to take me out. Bring it, you big-mouth, lard-assed cowards. I want my tax money back that bailed out your union pay and benefits at GM and Chrysler - the companies your union thuggery bankrupted.
My problem with it is perhaps semantic, though to a degree that's problematic to what's left of my mind.
Until then we must not engage in acts of violence or retaliate with violence
The verb retaliate above is, imho, simply loaded with a self-shackling negative connotation in that it implies any resistance to evil to be 'violent', hence unacceptable somehow.
I've lived my life by the rule of not taking the first swing, but said rule does not oblige me to allow that swing to connect !
Should zombie rabble decide to swing up this driveway threatening me/mine, it is absolutely not incumbent upon me to allow them to connect with blows or bullets before responding.
As many as possible of those that attempt harm will be met with lethal force.
Such is my duty both as a man and a responsible citizen.
Said admonition strikes me as a re-wording of the whole 'turn the other cheek' thing with which I'm in firm disagreement, and posted the following to that effect here just awhile ago:
That whole (other cheek) concept always struck me as something disturbingly similar to an unfunded mandate.
Especially from one who supposedly kicked ass and took names amongst the moneychanger set.
If that's blasphemous/heretical/etc then so be it.
If whatever God is has a problem with good people protecting their loved ones and their work, or with defensive martial acts against evil bastards raping our Nation, then please mark me down as firmly in the 'heathen' column.
ymmv .. cheers
Mommy, are you going to get shot But Mommy, Florida's going to pass an immigration law like Arizona and then people are going to be mad at you.
I can't stand it I am having a Jimmy Carter flashback
"I was discussing the Bomb this morning with Amy" etc
How old is her daughter- did she hear about it this morning on the Cartoon Channel?
Why doesn't someone do something about it?
Well, unfortunately, those who self identify as conservative tend towards being reasonable folk.
Reasonable folk don't arm up and get busy until a bit after it's too late to do any good.
It's worse than that - they've drunk the communist koolaide.
"If only we can expunge capitalistic thought, the resulting communist paradise will be heaven on earth. Man will be perfected, and WE will be in charge of it all."
Why do you think such numerically inferior groups are ramping up the violent rhetoric? Are they stupid and can't count? Perhaps.
But more likely, they've been given the implicit promise that the government will back them if the other side "retaliates".
I absolutely agree, if they threaten me or mine, I will "retaliate". But this is what they are pushing for - someone they are bullying to actually fight back.
At that point, look for the race/victim card to be shouted from the rooftops, and demands made that the government do something about these "cracker vigilantes" that are "attacking" the poor, downtrodden victims of society.
Nonviolence is profoundly agressive. It is not a reaction to violence. It instigates violence. Jesus was, indeed, in your face. He took names and personally assaulted evil doers with the power of moral outrage. The outrage he instigated led to his death.
Ultimately he defeated evil and death with his ressurection. He died once that all of us might be saved. Saved not from death but from the sting of death, that we might live with him eternally.
Dare I say it. A good death exposes the root of evil and the power of God's love.
Even the founders recognized that people tend to put up with a lot while tyranny is "tolerable", and only about a third of them at the time finally determined that the situation had become "intolerable".
'Turn the other cheek' implicitly refers to a level of violence that is well below damage or destruction. It refers to an act that can be brushed aside if the ego is controlled. That, I believe is the point of the injunction, the HEART not the cheek.
At the moment however, and for the past 6hrs, me and the big shopvac are aiding/abetting the two big sumps
in some serious retaliatory action against this damned 'Katia-raining-trucksful-per-hour' attack.
In the meantime:
take care
buy more ammo
store canned goods
hoard TP
and be alert
That whole story by Debbie W-S about her risk of getting shot & why stinks to high heaven. It's akin to Hillary's Bosnian sniper claim — totally unverifiable. I would suggest that News editors not publish such self-serving political drivel. It smacks of Nazi propaganda.
Found this over at Castra Praetoria
"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." - Theodore Roosevelt
I do believe that the above applies to today's events and explains just how this hole got dug so deep to begin with.
Any compromise with the leftards only means the hole digging slows down and only slows down temporarily. The hole never gets refilled and we never manage to climb out of the hole.
We get comfortable in our continued and continuous degradation.
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Skip to comments.The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Show Thread - Friday, March 27, 2009
Posted on 03/27/2009 8:30:44 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
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still in pj's and sippin coffee
Yoh - made it
For those interested, this is what I sent out to my email lists this morning.
We all know that there are always going to be Stalinists among us who will be able to convince some people that it is possible to bring about "utopia on earth" if only they will vote for the right leader to run everything by "correctly" implementing the ideology of "Marxism-Leninism theory". We have all heard them make statements to the effect that, "The only reason Communism has never worked so far is the fact that the wrong people have been trying to implement it."
[[ Stalinism - The term usually defines the style of a government (force/fascistic tactics) rather than an ideology. The ideology is "Marxism-Leninism theory", reflecting that Stalin himself was not a theoretician, in contrast to Marx and Lenin, and prided himself on maintaining the legacy of Lenin as a founding father for the Soviet Union and the future Socialist world. Stalinism is an interpretation of their ideas, and a certain political regime claiming to apply those ideas in ways fitting the changing needs of society, as with the inevitable transition from socialism to communism. (Forest rangers tell people not to feed the animals who live in the wild because once they become dependent on people providing their food, they lose the natural ability to hunt and forage for themselves. Once they lose that ability - it is INEVITABLE that they can no longer remain free - their dependency has made them weak and vulnerable in the wild. After that happens, they feel safer being penned up and are thankful for any crumbs their owner/benefactor decides to throw them from time to time.) ]]
This especially should be read by anybody who admires the Stalinists who promise to feed, clothe, & provide a "job" for him in exchange for his vote, as it will help him to connect the dots - (if he has the courage) - and understand why his life decisions invariably wind up making him unhappy and disappointed. :)
Pat Santy (aka: Dr. Sanity)
Industry: Science
Occupation: M.D. (Psychiatry / Aerospace Medicine)
Friday, March 27, 2009
The following post was originally published on 3/29/07 and continues to be relevant today...]
Avaro Vargas Llosa writes in TCS about the impossibility of "perfect" totalitarianism (a perfect oxymoron, in my opinion)
Why Perfect Totalitarianism Is Impossible
"As I was watching "The Lives of Others,'' Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's masterful Oscar-winning film, I couldn't help thinking how many Cubans, North Koreans, Iranians or Zimbabweans must have been performing little bits of moral heroism in the face of oppression at that very moment. Even their fellow countrymen will never know how many acts of defiance are being perpetrated today by ordinary people against totalitarian regimes — ensuring that the human spirit continues to exist when everything seems bent on crushing it.
The German film focuses on Gerd Wiesler, a captain in the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret police, five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is ordered to spy on a playwright and his actress girlfriend simply because the minister in charge of culture lusts for the lady and needs an excuse to put the writer away in order to clear the path. Through a tantalizing series of small twists and turns in which what is not said is more important than what is, the plot leads us toward the moral awakening of Wiesler. As he records the details of the playwright's and his girlfriend's lives, the gray, obedient bureaucrat discovers in himself a humane depth to which nothing in his ideological rigidity or in the chilling machinery he efficiently serves seemed to predispose him. This moral awakening is intimate and unassuming, and it leads Wiesler to an act of quiet heroism that will save his intended victim from the fate that the minister wishes for him without leaving traces or claiming credit for his actions later on.
What "The Lives of Others'' reminds us of — and the reason it is such a timeless work of art — is that man is capable of totalitarianism, but not perfect totalitarianism.
Even when all the pegs are in place, something will alter the clockwork mechanism of the regime. That ``something'' is human nature, pure and simple.
Nobody in the film is a perfect totalitarian in the sense that no one — not the bosses, not the servants, not the victims — acts in the way that the logic of the system dictates they should act in any given circumstance.
There will be moments of weakness in the least humane of despots and moments of fortitude in the most hopeless victims that will shatter the perfect order of the totalitarian system. ..... [snip] Continued: http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
I have a question for all here.
What did Rush say at the end of his show yesterday? He offered an apology for the last few minutes on his morning update, and I did not hear the last two hours.
Thanks for any insight into his comments.
PRAY FOR ME....Layoffs going on in my company last week, this week....I can't take the pressure. Oh well....living under a bridge in Florida might be ok. :)
Day 67, and it seems like the end of the third Obama term...
Wake me up!
At this rate, there won't be any need for him to have a second term, as we will have a world wide currency, our jobs will be outsourced, no one will want to go into the medical profession, and we will all be bankrupt but still owe $50,000.00 each to the Fed.
The deer will overrun our illegal gardens because the guns have been confiscated.
We will be able to donate to only one tax-deductible charity, the New York Times. It will not endorse a candidate, but it will only report the news in favor of Dau Won.
Nope. I missed it as I was at work.
I'm listening to his show from yesterday right now....but only about a 1/2 in.
Aint there Gators under those bridges?
Good luck weathering this economy.
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Watching her final early morning run up the Derwent River to the finish in one of the many spectator boats on Friday, "was a great sight" said an elated Oatley. He then said her loss to Investec Loyal (now Ragamuffin Loyal) by three minutes eight seconds last year made the outcome on Friday where she finished at 7.22am (AEDT): "even sweeter and next year will be even sweeter again to get seven [wins] - six today, next year seven."
Oatley then reiterated the pain he felt for Wild Oats XI being pipped last year, saying: "it hurt like hell", but that it made Friday's win more "special."


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Are you wondering why your social media efforts aren't working?
Social media success sometimes appears arbitrary.
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Merry Smiles
East Hampton
December 17, 2012
Dear East Hampton Star,
I would like to thank all of the people who donated toward Toys for Tots at the One Stop Market this past season. With your help and support, this has put merry smiles on children's faces.
With much gratitude,
On behalf of all Santa's helpers
We Can't Wait
December 24, 2012
Dear David,
The time for platitudes is past. It will do us no good to wring our hands and curse the gods. Global warming is here. You want to spend time arguing over what to do about the shoreline and if this is a creation of man's doing while totally disregarding the Blue Planet, so be it. I want to get ready for the next Sandy in all the practical lifesaving ways possible. We can't wait for the East Hampton Town Board to appoint committees of people whose only interests are self — which is what got us where we are in the first place. We not only can, but will be the Rockaways, Staten Island, or worse, Fire Island.
As someone who went to Fire Island for 35 years, a place no Native American ever lived, I have heard the stories of how Gus Pageals, the owner of ferry boats, gathered the handful of residents in 1938 on one of his ferries and ran it aground when the island was washed over by a surge of the sea.
I, teaching middle school science in late '80s, read in The New York Times Tuesday Science section of the rise of the seas and the prediction of massive storms, and told my friends to move off the island and sell. I also watched my brother-in-law move his oceanfront house back twice. Finally in the spring of 1995, I walked the beach in a northeaster when the shoreline was littered with houses that had been plummeted by the great Atlantic and taken down. In 1996 we left Fire Island behind.
But it's not property we should be worried about — it's how do we take care of our residents, especially since many are aging. Each hamlet needs a place for people to go that is safe, secure, and ready to minister to people. Of course, schools are the best places since they are all equipped with multiple bathrooms, large areas for the safe set up of cots, and kitchens.
We need coordinated lists of people with extraordinary needs and people who can check on them in a massive power outage, able-bodied volunteers who help oversee the care that will be needed to see to the needs of the people and a full-time emergency manager (no slight intended to Bruce Bates) who can work on this preparation. We need to hold meetings, educate people on what to do, and a town board that understands, not one out to protect the businesses in Montauk.
Are you up to the task, Mr. Wilkinson, or would you rather argue with a citizen who dares to question how you lived in L.A. working for a corporation like Disney for 10 years and spent your entire summer in Montauk?
The role of government is to take care of the needs of the people. You don't need a committee to begin to mobilize. You need staff. This is serious and the time is now.
Erosion Policy
East Hampton
December 21, 2012
Dear David:
Army Corps of Engineers Fire Island to Montauk Point study: B.J. Reynolds, a technician with the United States Geological Survey, Jordan Raphael, National Park Service, Cheryl Hapke, a geological survey scientist, Christopher Gardner, Army Corps, New York District, and Chris Soller, superintendent of the Fire Island National Seashore.
East Hampton Town erosion-policy committee: a Montauk motel owner, another Montauk motel owner, a third Montauk motel owner, a Montauk real estate broker, a surfing organization, a dredging company, president of the Group for the East End, and a program director at the Nature Conservancy.
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Springs Library
December 24, 2012
To the Editor,
Just a short note to Alec Baldwin concerning his recent altruistic offering to the libraries of our East Hampton township. It's a wonderful gesture and one we all appreciate, but, unfortunately, it seems that the Springs Library was left out.
Just as a reminder, the Springs Library and historical society are completely volunteer. The library staff is there solely to help the community, and no one gets paid. It seems that the Springs and the Bonac community got the short end of the stick again.
Be Careful
Hampton Bays
December 15, 2012
Dear Editor,
Please stop changing the Hamptons! The deer, raccoons, and squirrels were all here before us — so why kill them by driving too fast at night?
So be careful of the animals, humans. Appreciate the natural beauty of the Hamptons; let us preserve and respect it.
Where Deer Live
December 21, 2012
Dear Editor,
With regard to the deer, I believe we should count them, have an expert assess what population our area can sustain, harvest the excess, butcher every deer we harvest and store them in freezers, and distribute them to local food pantries.
Deer should be looked upon as an asset, not a liability. Anyone going to the woods should spray themselves with tick repellent. Pets should have Frontline or some other insecticide. Property owners should design their landscaping to include plants deer do not eat. Plantings that are vulnerable to deer should be sprayed with deer repellent (Tony Minardi boasts a particularly effective new brand) or enclosed behind deer fence.
Drivers can buy deer-warning devices from hardware stores to affix to the bumpers of their cars to ward off deer. Drivers can choose routes that are not in the middle of the woods where deer live. The can drive slowly in areas where there are deer warning signs.
I love the deer and find them beautiful creatures. I never cease to thrill when I catch sight of them grazing in herds or moving through the woods. Yet I live in the woods and have felt like murdering them when they eat buds off my long-awaited lilies and ravage carefully nurtured roses. In the end I put up a deer fence: boxwood, ferns, and daffodils on the outside, hydrangea, geraniums, ivy, and coleus on the inside.
Gives Us a Chance
Stamford, Conn.
December 20, 2012
To the Editor,
The Newtown incident strikes at the heart of everyone. It's not just about the children; it's about all of us. It has taken away our innocence! Whether you are 7 or 70, there is that child inside every one of us. That's why we can all relate. Nothing in a long time has galvanized the same emotion inside each and every one of us.
The Newtown tragedy is also about to bring front and center where we are as a nation, as our attention now turns to what can be done about this. Are we so politically impotent right now that we can't come together and save our own children? Newtown gives us a chance to effect change, and we now sit at a crossroads as a country.
Politics get in the way of our politicians and there is a growing movement to change the system. America is already giving away the greatest home court advantage in the history of the world because of our inability to act in a changing world. Countries like China have longterm goals and realize a country's stability and position in a global economy, which we created, ensures its growth and a better life for its people. We have lost sight of our own creation.
Can we maintain our freedoms, yet come together for the greater good? That's the challenge looking forward. If anything good can come out of Newtown, let it be that we are politically willing to act collectively for the sake of all of us.
This is a benchmark moment for the U.S., and Newtown may tell the tale. We all know our government can't agree on a budget, or how and where to use our military, or even how or if to monitor our money on Wall Street. All of which would mean protecting the American way of life! Let it start in Newtown with gun control.
There is a growing sentiment in this country for political reform, like changing term limits for elected officials. After all, congressmen start running for re-election the day after the election, due to a two-year term. Presidents have little time to accomplish anything since two years into a four-year term they start running for office again, in the form of not accomplishing anything so as not to offend anybody. If you were the most powerful man in the world, wouldn't you want to maintain that position above all else? Senators have a six-year term, but no term limits.
Now imagine if none of that were true and everyone had a single six-year term. Six years is long enough for stability and decisive action, but short enough for cleansing and change. This would partially paralyze special-interest groups like the N.R.A., and gun control could be addressed.
I am not anti-gun and I don't think any of us are — it's part of the American culture. I have been firing weapons since I was a child, from .22-caliber rifles to trap shooting with shotguns. But did the single mother of this monster in Newtown really need an assault rifle to protect herself? Wasn't a single handgun or two enough? She loved guns and it killed her, along with everyone else who died that day.
The argument has been the same for a long time now. Guns don't kill people, people do, and that it is a changed society that has led to all of this. Also there have always been a lot of guns around and it is the fault of a more violent and less moral world. Well if that's true, isn't that making the case for the other side? You can't regulate society, but you can regulate guns. If you can't change morality, then change the mortality rate from some of these weapons by changing the laws.
Let us also stop using the Second Amendment as a shield. If some guy thinks the arsenal in his basement is going to protect him against the government and he can rise up against a corrupt one in this day and age, then he is probably also ignorant to the smart bomb that's coming down his chimney. The point is, an antiquated Second Amendment, which states the right to bear arms, was meant for a time of muskets, not madmen killing children.
This tragedy also obliterates the argument that if not for a gun, then a knife or another deadly instrument would be used. You could not inflict that kind of carnage in that short of a time. Also, adults would somehow have intervened. At worst you would have had a hostage situation. At best the coward who did this wouldn't have even tried.
Let some good come out of this tragedy. Newtown can save us all from political ineptitude. If we can come together on gun control, the third rail of politics, then we can come together on other issues as well. Let the lessons be learned and lives not lost for nothing.
Guns in America
East Hampton
December 24, 2012
To the Editor,
Every year in the United States, 1,200 to 1,500 children 15 or younger die from gun-related incidents. Newtown is tragic but a small piece of the problem. Most of the other kids were not killed by deranged, unstable people. They were the collateral damage of a society that struggles to deal properly with the huge amount of arms in circulation. There is a problem around the gun debate. The fabricated hype distorts reality. Money and political scheming overwhelm rational thought and drive the emotional idiocy.
There are many ways to look at the issue of guns in America, but first and foremost is that the proliferation of guns is an enormous business with enormous profits. Second is that the U.S. has always had a culture of violence that is different from every other industrialized country. Third, the relationship to Americans and arms is similar to an alcoholic with alcohol. (Statistics seem to bear out this belief that our inclinations to killing each other have a serious socio-pathological derivation that needs to be examined and probably treated.) Fourth is the so-called lack of clarity regarding the Second Amendment regarding arms for protection that has little relevance in the 21st century. (We have a larger security apparatus today than we had a population in 1776 — 2.5 million.) Fifth, the National Rifle Association's original mandate was hunting and conservation. Today, conservation is a nonstarter, and automatic weapons are for killing. Sixth is that the only freedom having a gun gives us is the opportunity to commit suicide.
The gun scam by the N.R.A. and the arms industry is only about the sale of weapons. If the response to Newtown is more arms in the schools or threats to leave the state if new controls are instituted, nothing else needs to be said. All the bullshit about protecting our freedoms, the Constitution, and protecting our homes is really about getting people to buy more guns. Add the political component of gun ownership to the equation and people are voting for guns over butter. The N.R.A. is asking gun owners to stand up and bend over. We used to buy bonds to help the country, now we buy guns.
We are great at mourning. We grieve, hold vigils, plant trees, empathize, sympathize, have clergy give speeches, pray, and shed tears. We feel the pain of the victims and with heads bowed and hearts broken we go back to our regular lives, waiting for the next tragedy.
We have a problem that demands a national debate. Up to now we've accepted as collateral damage the deaths of 1,500 kids every year. It's obviously not a big enough deal or we would have done something about it. It seems not worth the effort for our politicians to sit down and figure this one out. Is it not a big price to pay for a culture that insists on embracing violence as part of its God-given heritage?
The Critical Issues
December 19, 2012
Dear Editor,
The liberal media is so in the tank for Obama that during the run for re-election the liberal elites left out all of the critical issues. They are as follows: out-of-control debt, Obamacare's trampling of the Constitution and religious liberties, sky-high gasoline prices, massive unemployment, fragile housing market, rampant illegal immigration, and the Middle East is about to explode.
Benghazi is bigger than Watergate. Will he stall the investigation for the next four years? Hillary Clinton can't go before Congress to testify; she has a concussion. Tons of excuses, and the media ignores, ignores all of it.
This president ignores destruction by the union protestors. Why? Because he owes them. He promised in his photo-op with the citizens of Staten Island, New Jersey, and the Rockaways that he would cut the red tape and help. These people are still wondering when is the help going to come, as they guard their homes, oh yes, the homes with no electricity.
As he prepares to vacation again in Hawaii these families are going where for Christmas? The so-called bill to help them is now filled with pork, yes, pork. The money is going everywhere but to New York.
Oh yeah, you voted for him. Good luck. And toast Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — they loved the photo-op also, where is their help? Politics talk and bullshit walks.


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Natchitoches. The Natchitoches Tri-Centennial Celebration presents the sounds of Rockabilly and Country Music featuring Hank Staples and Thundercreek, with Paul "Johnny Cash" Eve, performing a tribute to Johnny Cash, June 14 on the Riverbank Stage beginning at 7 PM.
The concert is part of the Tri-Centennial Celebration Second Saturday line-up of events that highlight the theme for June, "Sports and Recreation." All events relate to sports and recreation in the area with programs covering fishing in the 18th, the creation of an artificial bait company, and baseball at the plantations. June is also the induction ceremony for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, June 19-21.
The concert features music from two popular performers from the 50s and 60s, Johnny Cash and Johnny Horton. Together they performed at the Louisiana Hayride and along with Hank Williams created the "Rockabilly" style of music. Johnny Horton was known as the "Singing Fisherman." He fished the Cane River Lake many times which was the inspiration in 1959 to open the Natchitoches Bait Company with Johnny Cash. The company produced 1,000 lures a day with "Ole Fireball" as the marquis fishing bait.
Johnny Horton is best known for his number one hits, "The Battle of New Orleans," "North to Alaska," "Honky Tonk Man," and "Sinking of the Bismarck." Johnny Cash's legendary hits, "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring of Fire," I Walk the Line," and "A Boy Named Sue" are part of music history. Between the two they wrote and recorded over three hundred songs, many on the Billboard Chart as number one hits.
Events begin Saturday, June 14 at 8 AM. Our tribute concert on the Riverbank Stage features Hank Staples and Thundercreek performing from 7-8 PM, followed by Paul "Johnny Cash" Eve from 8-9 PM. Admission to this concert, and all events, is free. For additional information visit www.natchitoches300.com and our Facebook page Natchitoches Tri-Centennial Celebration.


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Painted Word Poetry Series Continues Feb. 27
- 02-20-2013
- By University Communications
The Painted Word Poetry Series, which highlights established and emerging poets, hosts Marie Elizabeth Mali, Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Fleming Museum.
Mali, who practiced traditional Chinese medicine before earning her master's in fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College, is author of the book of poetry Steady, My Gaze. She is co-editor with Annie Finch of Villanelles, an anthology of the best of the villanelle, a nineteen-line poetic form introduced to the English language in the early 19th century.
Presented by the Fleming Museum, the series is curated by Major Jackson, Richard Dennis Green & Gold Professor in UVM's Department of English. See the upcoming schedule on the Fleming's website.


text: hybrid Ford's Little Engine That Could Challenge Hybrids By Tracy Samilton • Jul 24, 2012 Ford Motor Co. intends to prove that good things come in small packages — really small packages. The company has taken engine downsizing to a new level with its new three-cylinder EcoBoost engine, which has been introduced in Europe and is set to hit the U.S. market next year. The EcoBoost offers more power than many conventional four-cylinder engines, with fuel economy numbers a hybrid could envy. Early fans are calling it a modern "little engine that could," and Ford is betting that American customers are ready to embrace a three-cylinder engine.


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Berkeley Student Cooperative 80th Anniversary Gala
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Event Details
Join us for the Berkeley Student Cooperative's
80th Anniversary Celebration!
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Hs Lordships Restaurant
199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley
Ticket includes a three-course meal, a glass of wine, and hors d'oeuvres. No-host bar.
The value of each ticket is $80. The balance is tax deductible under applicable laws. Student sponsorships are fully tax deductible.
(Make donations directly to the BSC at bsc.coop/donate)
GROUP SPECIAL: table of 10 for $1,000, includes 2 bottles of champagne for your table! Contact Madeleine Loh to make arrangement.
Wheelchair Accessible. IF YOU REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FOR MOBILITY, contact Madeleine Loh and we will make your evening comfortable!
Questions? Please contact
Madeleine Loh at email@example.com or call (510) 649-8984
When & Where
Hs Lordships Restaurant
199 Seawall Drive
Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
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The mission of the Berkeley Student Cooperative is to provide a quality, low-cost, cooperative housing community to university students, thereby providing an educational opportunity for students who might not otherwise be able to afford a university education.


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Conceptual Menir House Features Innovative Green Elements
This conceptual proposal for a residence with combination solar panel and wind turbine offers the best of both worlds, with a dose of stage-like performance. Shaped to look like a rock, the dwelling stores water in its outer shell as an insulator to conserve energy. Furthermore, the transforming device embodies a playful spirit with its daisy-like shape that seems more like a toy rather than a high tech piece of equipment.


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The Cowboys are hopeful about the Monte Kiffin era, but the simple fact they've had so much turnover at defensive coordinator makes you wonder how successful he'll be able to be.
The 72-year-old Kiffin became the Cowboys' fifth defensive coordinator since the beginning of the 2007 season, leading head coach Jason Garrett to an interesting choice of words.
"We've settled on Monte Kiffin, and I use the word 'settled' and I kind of laugh to myself," Garrett said, via Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "This guy has coordinated this style of defense as well as anybody in the National Football League for the last couple of decades."
Of course, Kiffin doesn't have a Warren Sapp on this roster, and is changing established 3-4 personnel to a 4-3 set, for a coach that doesn't particularly have a mandate.
"We hope we can get there as quick as we can — as quick as we can get there," Kiffin said. "This isn't like three-year plan right here. I don't think we had that wherever we went. I don't care where you coach. All I can tell you is there are no guarantees. I just tell you right now these guys are going to get coaching."
If this Cowboys offseason has taught us anything, there's little security for any of them, so those results better come quickly.


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Piab expands the piPremium vacuum pump line for its vacuum conveyor series- the piFlow p. With the addition of the new larger sizes, it would allow for greater speeds to handle difficult-to-move powders and granules over a greater distance. The piPremium pump, together with the piFlow p vacuum conveyor is ideal for meeting the high demand from the food and pharma industries. Users benefit from the latest in vacuum technology from Coax's ejector efficient design that saves on compressed air energy costs. The working environment is improved with a lower noise level from an integrated silencer. Uptime is increased with a maintenance-friendly design of less internal parts, one connection point. Its hygienic aspects provide for easy dismounting of parts and cleaning.
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Can you believe winter is just around the corner? It's almost time to break out the gloves, scarves, hats, and of course, your warmest winter coat. On especially cold November days, some stars have already been spotted out and about wearing their warmest gear.
Celebs like Ariana Grande and Harry Styles know what it takes to be warm! M put together 15 photos of celebs wearing their winter coats. Can you guess which celeb is which? Put your knowledge to the test by playing our guessing game below. To get the answer, all you have to do is click the arrow!
Click through the gallery to guess which celeb is wearing the winter coat. How many did you get right? Tell us your score in the comments!
For more winter themed guessing games, you can check out our guess who's wearing the winter hat game here.


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Enjoy Jazz
Forty-four days, sixty-nine concerts, and twenty-one events: those are the numbers for the tenth presentation of the Enjoy Festival, a show that no fan of music should miss. From October 2nd to November 10th, 2008, in the German cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim, and Ludwigshafen, one could attend concerts, master classes, matinees, and parties, all in the unique atmosphere that has made the event well known and appreciated for many years. The opening had famous names such as the Ornette Coleman Quartet and Herbie Hancock. The days that followed had Paul Weller, Gianmaria Testa and Paolo Fresu, Tricky, Norma Winstone, and Abdullah Ibrahim, among others.
Moleskine produced a special notebook for the festival, personalized on the cover and on the inside, with all the most important information about the event.
Enjoy Festival is also on line (http://www.enjoyjazz.de), on MySpace, and on You Tube.


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SPIRIT LAKE - It's never the ending any team wants, but it happens all too often.
Playing well the last couple weeks, Estherville Lincoln Central was looking to make a tournament run. But the Midgets couldn't come up with the hits against Sioux Central's Tim Saunders and lost 2-0 to the Rebels on Saturday.
"I knew it was a scary game going in," said ELC coach Lee Evans. Upsets happen all the time, especially in baseball.
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The Estherville Lincoln Central Baseball Team gathered one final time for the 2013 season following the Midgets' loss to Sioux Central in the Class 2A district game in Spirit Lake on Saturday.
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"Their pitcher had three pitches working tonight and his changeup was outstanding," he said. "The kids were a little over anxious and expanded the strike zone more than we should have."
ELC managed just two hits off Saunders, a one-out single by Adam Reiter in the fourth inning and a two-out single by Tyler Swanson in the seventh inning."
ELC's best chance to score came in that fourth inning after Reiter stole second base and went to third on passed ball. With two outs, a walk to Matt Burrell had runners at the corners. But Tucker Milburn flew out to shortstop to end the threat.
In the sixth inning, ELC's Billy Snyder reached on a one-out error by Sioux Central-the Rebels lone fielding mistake of the night. But both Reiter and Derek Nieland flew out to center field to end the threat.
Saunders finished with just four strikeouts in the contest with two walks. However ELC batters popped out nine times. The rest of ELC's hits went right at the Rebel defense. Burrell had drawn a leadoff walk in the second inning, but Sioux Central turned the double play when Milburn hit a grounder to the shortstop.
Meanwhile, Sioux Central scored the game's only two runs in the fourth inning.
Colton Miller hit a one-out single and went to second on a sacrifice by Mac Prior.
ELC starter Tyler Swanson then gave up his first walk of the night to Kash Buse and then was called for balk. Designated hitter Ryan Etherington then came up with a tow-RBI single.
That was the only inning the Rebels had a runner on third base. ELC's defense played well in the fifth as Sioux Central's Evan Balder drew a leadoff walk. When Franky Perkins tried the sacrifice bunt, Swanson hopped off the bound and got Balder at second. Courtesy runner Kal Swanson was then thrown out trying to steal second base. Cleanup batter Nick Sievers then grounded out to first baseman Bryce Hansen.
Swanson took the loss. He struck out seven while giving up five hits and two walks.
"I thought we had a great week of preparation," said coach Evans. "We just couldn't produce any runs."
ELC says farewell to eight seniors: Adam Reiter, Derek Nieland Matt Burrell, Tucker Milburn, Tyler Swanson, Evan Hansen, Bryce Hansen and Justin Frederick.
"These are a great group of kids," said Evans. "it's always tough for in the last game of high school."
ELC ends the season with an 11-15 record. Sioux Central (6-23) will play North Union at 5 p.m. today in Spirit Lake.
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National Night Out Scheduled for Tuesday October 1st
Texarkana will be joining with other communities to observe the 30th National Night Out on Tuesday October 1st.National Nigh Out is designed to:
1. Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness.
2. Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime efforts.
3. Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police community partnerships.
4. Send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and are fighting back.
Residents are encouraged to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside wth neighbors, police and fire personnel. Many neighborhoods throughout Texarkana will be hosting a variety of special events such as block parties, cookouts, visits from police and fire personnel, contests, youth activities and anti-crime rallies.


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Query host for the number of processors
When deciding on an execution policy for your multi-threaded tasks, you sometimes need to decide how many threads to use. Often, you may want to base this upon the number of processors available.
Instead of hard-coding such values, you should likely query the host for the number of available processors, using
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Honda Factory Performance Package Now Available for Accord Coupe V6
Limited-edition HFP package enables the sportiest Accord available today
Jul 16, 2013, 06:00 ET from American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
TORRANCE, Calif., July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The limited-edition Honda Factory Performance® (HFP®) package for the Honda Accord Coupe V6 goes on sale today at select Honda dealers in the United States. First shown at the 2012 SEMA Show in Las Vegas and recently performance tested by Honda's North American racing company, Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), the HFP package adds significantly enhanced vehicle dynamics and distinctive styling cues to the already-sporty Accord Coupe.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130716/LA47816)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100923/HONDALOGO)
To verify that the HFP package is more than just a pretty face, HPD, better known for its pinnacle racing efforts, was enlisted to conduct back-to-back track testing of the Accord Coupe V6 in stock and HFP forms. Their testing revealed that both cars are able performers, but the Accord equipped with the HFP package, utilizing a sport suspension package and 19-inch summer tires, felt more confident and stable and is capable of going around the track faster than the stock car.
"The new Accord Coupe V6 is already a natural on twisty roads, but the HFP package really takes it to a new level," said Lee Niffenegger, program senior engineer at Honda Performance Development. "With a lowered ride height, sport suspension and more performance-oriented tires, the HFP kit definitely provides more controlled body motions and enhanced stability."
The HFP package features 19-inch HFP alloy wheels; a decklid spoiler; HFP sport suspension (lowers height by 15mm and enhances handling); HFP front, side and rear underbody spoilers; red interior illumination; HFP floor mats and HFP badges for each side and the trunk. The HFP package, like all Honda Genuine Accessories, carries a 3-year/36,000-mile limited warranty when installed at the time of new vehicle purchase, and is engineered to be fully compatible with the vehicle. Enhancing its exclusive appeal, only 500 examples of this limited-edition HFP package will be sold for the 2013 Accord Coupe V6. The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of the package, not including installation, is $4,620.
Connect with Honda:
Media Newsroom (for journalists): www.hondanews.com
For consumers: http://automobiles.honda.com
For enthusiasts: www.hpd.honda.com/innovations
HFP on YouTube: www.youtube.com/honda
Flickr: www.flickr.com/hondanews
Twitter: www.twitter.com/honda
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Honda
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The 2.6.33 Linux kernel has introduced a useful new service called the DRBD - Distributed Replicated Block Device. This service mirrors an entire block device to another networked host during run time, permitting the development of high-availability clusters for block data. Explore the ideas behind the DRBD and its implementation in the Linux kernel.


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First the trickles. Then the main leaks. Then the dam breaks.
And the Calgary Folk Music Festival has now finally uncorked its complete list of 2013 artists to slake the thirst of local music lovers with nary a squirt or drop left to give.
"There's no more," says longtime artistic director Kerry Clarke with a laugh. "We're not spending any more money and we're not creating any more spots.
"We can only squish so many little artists onto seven stages."
Seventy-six musical acts, comedians and improv performers, to be exact, who will be inhabiting Prince's Island Park come the period of July 25-28.
And of those, there are several you could classified as relatively big, including mainstage acts: veteran British pop act World Party, the project of former Waterboys member Karl Wallinger; Canadian indie folk-rock hero Hayden; Australian jam band The Cat Empire; influential electro act Thievery Corporation; acclaimed Canuck musician Afie Jurvanen, who records and performs under the Bahamas moniker; Polaris Prize-nominated T.O. trio Elliott Brood; Ohio rockers Heartless Bastards; and Creedence Clearwater Revisited, featuring the rhythm section of classic rockers CCR performing all the band's hits sans John Fogerty.
Those bands join the previously announced headliners M. Ward, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Kurt Vile and the Violators, and the Alabama Shakes, whom Clarke considers something of a coup because it's always hard to get artists on their way up and with the kind of buzz the band has surrounding it.
Part of the reason behind that score, is the fest's working relationship with the new Edmonton festival Interstellar Rodeo, which takes place the same weekend and allows acts to double-dip in this part of the world when it may not have been on their radar.
Of course, it also means the hometown folk crew has to go about its business a slightly different way, providing festival-goers with those aforementioned announcements — the last one timed with Interstellar's reveal — rather than dumping their entire lineup in one big whoosh, as they were previously prone to doing. It's actually something more and more festivals are doing, with a similar philosophy being employed locally by Sled Island and this weekend's Calgary Expo.
Clarke actually says its somewhat beneficial for they and fans, building something of a groundswell before the final announcement, which then gives the spotlight to some of those lesser known acts.
"Because we are festival of discovery and there are a lot evolving artists as well as headliners, we want to do a combination of, 'Hey, here's some headliners to get excited about that you may have been dying to see and here's a bunch of other artists that we're excited about that we give you some time to let them simmer and find out about them, maybe look them up, take a listen to their music.' And it helps us because we really are wanting people to come away with their new favourite artists."
Of that group of lesser known but truly bright lights you can count: U.S. indie stars old and new such as Grant Lee Phillips and Sharon Van Etten; a strong country contingent featuring Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison; oddball and traditional folkies the likes of Dan Bern, Amelia Curran and Dala; blues and soul artists such as Blind Boy Paxton, and Samantha Martin and the Haggard; world musicians including Romanian act Fanfare Ciocarlia, French electro-swing and Gypsy-funk ensemble Caravan Palace and the Mexican Institute of Sound; legends such as Albert Lee and Mary Margaret O'Hara; and a healthy batch of Albertans led by Lucas Chaisson, Tom Phillips and the Men of Constant Sorrow, and The Mountaineer.
And of all the bunch, Clarke singles out a pair that should have people on the Island buzzing the entire weekend, with one being Scottish artist Rachel Sermanni — "Mark my words, I think she's going to be a star," she says — and Quebec singer Amylie, who the artistic director compares to Feist.
Then again, there are 76 acts to choose from the final list of which is now up and complete on the fest's website calgaryfolkfest.com. Or at least she hopes.
"It's like taking a whole bunch of kids on a trip to Europe," Clarke says laughing. "You stop calling them by name and start counting to make sure you haven't missed any."2013 Calgary Folk Festival headliners
Thursday, July 25
M. Ward
Alabama Shakes
Friday, July 26
Thievery Corporation
Saturday, July 27
Steve Earl and the Dukes
Cat Empire
Sunday, July 28
Kurt Vile
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
The Calgary Folk Music Festival runs July 25-28 on Prince's Island Park. Early bird passes and single-day tickets go on sale April 25. Call 403-233-0904 or go to calgaryfolkfest.com.


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Kyra died on Saturday, November 3rd.
Born on July 11, 2004, Kyra was the last puppy of six, and very obviously the runt. Weighing in at 3 oz, while the others we're pushing one pound, we didn't know how long she'd make it.
Shortly after her birth we realized she had a cleft palate; a hole in the hard and soft palates that didn't allow her the ability to suck or nurse. The vet told us to put her to sleep, that even if she did survive puppyhood he had never known one to live past six. We decided to do what we could and began bottle feeding her every couple of hours.
She learned to sneeze on command to clear her nose and she learned to drink water and tip her head backwards. She was the funniest, liveliest little dog. She loved her family and didn't have much use for anyone else, unless you were throwing her ball or frisbee.
She lived to play. Her favorite toy was a too-big-for-her basketball. She would push it around the yard until it got stuck against the deck or flower bed and she'd start licking it. She licked the leather off of a few really old basketballs. But she could have just a much fun with tennis balls, golf balls or plastic frisbees. At one point she had a fabric frisbee that she'd trip on when she ran because she was so small. The plastic ones she learned to flip up to carry where it would cover her eyes instead of tripping over it. She also enjoyed the golf cart. She could be found sitting on it anticipating a ride or just enjoying her special blanket in a basket napping spot.
She made the house exciting and she could make anyone laugh.
She had been extraordinarily healthy her enter life, except for a few freak accidents, and went downhill quickly this week. She was at the vet on and off all week getting blood tests, IVs & x-rays and they couldn't pin point the exact cause of her lethargy and weakness. They thought an auto-inmune disease. Eventually we made the decision to help her to the bridge, an on our way to the vet to see her & say goodbye, she died on her own.
The littlest wonder who wasn't supposed to live or to live past 6 had eight very happy, enjoyable years.
I was able to take her to the crematory and bring her ashes back to my mom the same day which meant a lot to both of us. As much as I loved Kyra, she was my mom's life and baby. She will definitely be missed by a lot I people.
I'd like to post some pictures later wen I get to a computer.
My parent's house feels so empty now. I am so grateful I could be home this weekend with Kyra & my mom, but it still doesn't seem real :-(


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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Don't expect "Remember Stony Brook" to be a rallying cry for the LSU Tigers leading up to this weekend's Baton Rouge Super Regional series against Oklahoma.
Surprisingly, it took a while to be mentioned in the post-game press conference following LSU's win over Louisiana-Lafayette in the Baton Rouge Regional title game on Sunday. But when asked if last year's series loss against the Seawolves draws any extra motivation for the upcoming weekend, LSU coach Paul Mainieri was quick to dismiss it, saying only "last year's team was last year's team, this year's team is this year's team."
Though many in the college baseball community have dissected last year's NCAA Super Regional between Stony Brook and LSU for obvious reasons, it being one of the biggest upsets in NCAA postseason history, even in the days following that tough series loss, Mainieri and the Tigers only looked at the positives stemming from the situation. After all, at that point, it was all they could do.
So, in the coming days, the Tigers likely won't mutter the words "Stony Brook", but there's zero doubt that series loss has helped mold this year's LSU club into a tough, incredibly resilient bunch, more than capable of winning the program's seventh national title.
"No matter what breaks go against us, we find a way, and we seem to find a new hero each day," Mainieri said. "We didn't play great or consistent this past weekend, but winning is the goal, and you can win without playing great baseball sometimes."
This LSU team will be fun to watch this weekend against the Sooners, and even more so if the Tigers are able to reach the College World Series.
But while things have been fantastic for the Tigers throughout this spring, this team, in a way, has already exceeded at least some expectations.
LSU entered the season as a team we all thought would compete for a CWS appearance, but it wasn't a club void of question marks. The Tigers had the tough chore of replacing veteran shortstop Austin Nola and third baseman Tyler Hanover, while the third spot in the weekend rotation was a concern with the departure of Kevin Gausman.
Before the fall, the Tigers knew they'd have freshman Alex Bregman, while they awaited word until August to find out if Christian Ibarra would be able to enroll at LSU in the fall. If he was, the Tigers had a perfect replacement for Nola or Hanover. If not, it was definitely back to the drawing board for Mainieri's club.
Both players arrived in the fall, and left their mark. I vividly remember a text message from Mainieri in the fall claiming that Bregman was one of the better freshmen he's ever seen. Considering he's usually not one to intentionally pump up his player, that comment created much intrigue.
While Ibarra and Bregman were busy developing into instant impact guys in the fall, reliever Chris Cotton developed into an even more dominant arm, while most importantly, Cody Glenn developed into a very legitimate weekend rotation option after finishing last season with a 5.62 earned-run average.
All four of those guys rose to the occasion in the fall. All four continued that trend into the spring. Ibarra is one of the nation's cleanest defenders at third, and has a .325 batting average with six homers and 39 RBIs, while Bregman has been phenomenal in his first campaign, showing good range, a strong arm, and a consistent bat with a team-high .385 average, six homers and 52 RBIs.
Then there's the X-factor, shaggy-haired lefty Chris Cotton. Cotton, certainly in the mix to be the nation's best closer with the campaign he's having, isn't a blow-away fastball type of pitcher, but he has a nasty arsenal that's almost impossible to hit in a one-inning stint. Cotton has appeared in 35 games this season with a 1.29 ERA and 16 saves in 42 innings. Astonishingly, Cotton has struck out 45 and walked three.
Glenn is another pleasant surprise for the Tigers. A master magician at keeping the ball low in the strike zone, while displaying very good command, Glenn has a 2.41 ERA in 82 innings, along with 37 strikeouts and 16 walks. The Tigers were without Glenn in the Baton Rouge Regional because of a suspension tied to a violation of team rules, but he'll be back on the mound this weekend after the team voted to reinstate him.
As impressive as it is the Tigers have had many players step up this spring, it's been even more impressive to watch how this team responds to adversity.
The Tigers lost speedy outfielder Mark Laird to a rolled ankle two weekends ago at the Southeastern Conference tournament and proceeded to win the event. Then, Bregman and outfielder Raph Rhymes collided in the first game of the NCAA Regional against Jackson State, the Tigers finding a way to fight through the situation.
The Tigers also escaped a 5-0 hole against Sam Houston State over the weekend, while also taking care of business in the weekend finale against Louisiana-Lafayette despite not having hot-hitting Sean McMullen because of a tweaked hamstring. Then, of course, the Cody Glenn situation in addition to all that.
"We've dealt with a lot of adversity the past few weeks, getting into the loser's bracket in the SEC tournament and things like that," Bregman said. "This team just battles and that's the mindset we're going to have each time out."
Oklahoma will present some different tests than Jackson State, Sam Houston State and Louisiana-Lafayette did this past weekend. OU has a pair of the nation's elite arms in right-handed pitcher Jonathan Gray, who could very well be the top pick in this week's MLB draft, while Overton can get above 90 on the radar gun with good secondary stuff.
No matter how tough the pitching matchups this weekend might be, this year's LSU club has answered the call when asked, whether battling through injuries or even temporary suspensions such as this past weekend.
In the meantime, much of the talk around Baton Rouge leading up to the weekend will continue to be about last year's Stony Brook series loss.
Don't view Stony Brook as a source for motivation, more so a learning experience helping mold the 2013 club into a legitimate championship contender.
"This [Super Regional] is what coming to LSU is all about," Mainieri said. "A series in Alex Box Stadium to go to the College World Series. You kidding me?"


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Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 11:30 AM
Learn about recent discoveries on works in the Museum's European Collection, over lunch at the Woman's Club of Wisconsin, with Catherine Sawinski, assistant curator of earlier European art. The Fine Arts Society is one of eight support groups at the Museum.
Open to the public
$35/person (includes lunch); RSVP to Catherine Sawinski at 414-224-3293
Woman's Club of Wisconsin, 813 East Kilbourn Avenue


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In Crime Line, you're a homicide detective exploring a wide variety of murders, gathering evidence at the scenes, reconstructing the crime and catching the killer! Dive into 12 complex murders scenes, discover hundreds of pieces of evidence and interview dozens of suspects and witnesses to assemble their stories. Every clue is important, and every witness has a story to tell. Match the witnesses with the evidence to discover who is telling the truth and who is lying. Once you find the killer, you'll reconstruct the murder and find out what really happened. With each case, you'll find out not only who committed the offense, but the motive behind the crime! Solve each case efficiently and you'll be rewarded with more hints and higher rank.
Warning: This game features realistic murder cases and scenes, with images of illegal drugs, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and depictions of death.


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The standalone thing should not be visible to user as an app.But it should get integrated with my already existing app and display my other available apps.
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Let's face it, we've all seen so many cleverly decorated boutique hotels that it takes a lot to catch attention lately, doesn't it? I mean, we've seen everything from Beetlejuice looking B&Bs to crack den chic (a certain Manhattan too-cool-for-school joint, I'm talking to you). However, as I caught up on my magazines with an old issue of W the other day, a tiny picture from "August's Most Wanted" caught my eye (yes, I am that far behind on my glossies). It was a shot of a bedroom from the c/o Maidstone East Hampton. Let's enjoy some fresh eye candy from their Swedish icon designed rooms (inspirations range from Eero Saarinen to Birgit Nillson the soprano, not to be confused with Brigitte Nielsen, known for Red Sonya and Flavor Flav reality shows):
The decor inside this lovely classic in are very unexpected:
Pssst, if you like that chair from The Vernor Panton-inspired room, we have it for sale here.
This joint is also extremely dog-friendly.
They also have Kronan bicycles ready to lend out to all of their guests. I suppose you could put your tiny dog in the basket and pretend he's Toto. By the way, that would make you Dorothy.
They've also done their best to remain energy-efficient, from nixing the bottled waters to serving organic food in the restaurant.
Color me refreshed.
All images via c/o Maidstone.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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DUBLIN, Ohio – Even though he doesn't have an official title at the Presidents Cup, Jack Nicklaus remains a presence.
Fred Couples, captain of the U.S. team, put it all into perspective.
"We know who's in charge," he said. "Jack Nicklaus."
The winner of a record 18 major championships is an unofficial host for this week's biennial match-play competition between the U.S. and an International team.
On Tuesday he discussed his pride over the course he designed, Muirfield Village, becoming the first to host a Ryder Cup (1987), a Solheim Cup (1998) and a Presidents Cup (in addition to the annual Memorial Tournament).
"Obviously, that's pretty special," said the 73-year-old Columbus native. "We are the only ones who can say that."
Nicklaus was a four-time captain of the Presidents Cup, which has been dominated by the Americans. A similar thing was happening in the older Ryder Cup until the Europeans upset the U.S. side at ... Muirfield Village.
Nicklaus, as a veteran of elite match play competitions and as an ambassador of the game, addressed the course, the art of pairing players in matches and the pressure on the International team to be competitive.
-- Nicklaus said he knew he had to lengthen the 18th hole at Muirfield Village when one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour, Robert Garrigus, approached him at the 2012 Memorial.
"Garrigus came in here last year and he says, `Jack, remember I drove it up to 76 yards from the hole last year?'" Nicklaus said. "I said I remembered. He says, `I drove it to 64 yards today.' I wanted to wring his neck."
Now the par-4 hole stretches another 45 yards to almost 500 yards. Long hitters can no longer just drive over the nine bunkers along the right side of the fairway. Instead, they'll have to deal with a black walnut tree 305 yards off the tee then hit a long, uphill approach to a hard, fast, tilted green.
-- Asked how he decided pairings when he was a captain in both the Ryder and Presidents Cups, Nicklaus said he left it up to the team.
"I'd ask all the guys at the beginning of the week, `Who would you like to play with?' Or, `Who wouldn't you like to play with?'" he said. Then he would try to pair players with friends and not with enemies, if at all possible.
At the same time, if a player wanted to play against someone, he would try to accommodate them.
"Couples asked me to give him Vijay (Singh) one match. I remember I had (Phil) Mickelson) ask for (Angel) Cabrera," Nicklaus said.
At Royal Melbourne in 1998, Tiger Woods requested playing Greg Norman in singles.
"So my goal was to get Norman for him," Nicklaus said.
He traded picks with International captain Peter Thomson until he was able to secure Woods vs. Norman.
"I walked out and got the pairings and Norman said, `Why did you do that to me?' And I said, `Hey, you're not on my team!'" Nicklaus said. "We all got a big laugh out of that."
Woods had the last laugh with a 1-up victory on Sunday.
-- The U.S. is 7-1-1 in the Presidents Cup and has won the last four matches easily.
The Internationals could turn the tide at Muirfield Village, much like the Europeans did there in the Ryder Cup.
The U.S. team includes Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jason Dufner, Zach Johnson, Webb Simpson and Keegan Bradley – all major championship winners.
Nick Price's International side has Angel Cabrera, Ernie Els, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Ooosthuizen – and several relatively obscure players yet to make their mark on the world stage.
"The teams this year are probably skewed a little stronger toward the American side," Nicklaus said. "We hear about the American players because they are here every week. They have stepped up and done a good job.
"But I think that goes in cycles. You know, four years from now, the Americans might be begging for mercy."


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The 2013 signing deadline for this year's draft was at 5:00 pm EST on Friday, July 12, and 41 of the 57 former Perfect Game All-Americans that were drafted this year ended up signing with the teams that selected them. Excluding four players whose signing bonuses had not been revealed (John Magliozzi, Shane Rowland, Jacob Morris, Ricky Jacquez), the collective total that these players signed for was $52,700,980. That is an average of over $1.42 million per player.
The highest drafted PG All-American, Kris Bryant, the No. 2 overall pick of the Chicago Cubs, agreed to terms two days prior to the deadline for over $6.7 million. The highest drafted players among those that participated in the 2012 Classic, Kohl Stewart and Clint Frazier, the drafts Nos. 4 and 5 overall selections, signed for $4,554,400 and $3,500,000 respectively.
Since the game's inception in 2003, 132 players have been drafted in the first round, and over 70 have made their MLB debut, including the most recent players to enjoy a big-league promotion, Grant Green and Sonny Gray of the Oakland Athletics. Seven PG All-Americans will also suit up for this year's All-Star Game at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets: Bryce Harper, Buster Posey, Andrew McCutchen, Matt Harvey, Madison Bumgarner, Jose Fernandez and Freddie Freeman.
Over the last five drafts, 79 former PG All-Americans have been taken in the first round, including the No. 1 overall pick for three years in a row in Bryce Harper (2010), Gerrit Cole (2011) and Carlos Correa (2012). That total number extends to over 100 the last seven drafts (2007-2013).
Here are the Perfect Game All-Americans selected in the 2013 MLB Draft and the bonuses they signed for, if they signed. For the players that didn't sign, their college commitment (or the school they attended in 2013 for returning college players) is listed in parenthesis.


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Amid the ever-increasing cost of health care, it's essential to be constantly vigilant in looking for chances to claim tax breaks for medical expenses. Unfortunately, changes taking effect this year make that more difficult. Here's the story on those changes, along with suggestions on how to beat the system.
New Higher Threshold for Itemized Medical Write-Offs
Before this year, you could claim an itemized deduction for medical expenses paid for you, your spouse and your dependents, to the extent those expenses exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. AGI is the number at the bottom of page 1 of your Form 1040. It includes all your taxable income items and subtractions for certain write-offs — such as those for moving expenses, deductible IRA contributions, alimony payments and student loan interest.
The 7.5%-of-AGI hurdle was hard enough to clear. Now, thanks to the 2010 health-care legislation, an even higher threshold of 10% of AGI applies to most folks — effective for this year and beyond. However, if either you or your spouse will be 65 or older as of Dec. 31, 2013, the unfavorable new 10%-of-AGI threshold will not impact you until 2017 (until then, the longstanding 7.5%-of-AGI threshold will continue to apply).
Concentrate Medical Expenditures in Alternating Years
If you have flexibility about when medical expenses are incurred, you may be able to concentrate them in alternating years. That way, you can claim an itemized medical expense deduction every other year, or every third year, or whatever — instead of never.
- Example: Your annual AGI is $65,000. In 2013, you pay $11,000 of medical expenses because you have elective surgery, buy new glasses and contact lenses, and have some expensive dental work done. Next year, you pay only $2,000.
On your 2013 Form 1040, you can claim an itemized medical expense deduction of $4,500 ($11,000 minus the $6,500 10%-of-AGI threshold). Next year, you won't have any deduction. But if you had spread your two-year total of $13,000 of medical costs evenly over this year and next year, you would be completely out of luck in both years.
Deduct Expenses Paid for Parent or Grandparent
Do you pay medical expenses for a dependent parent? If so, you can add those expenses to your own medical costs for itemized deduction purposes. For a parent to be your dependent, you must pay over half of his or her support for the year. If you pass that test, you can include medical expenses paid for your parent even if you can't actually claim your parent as a dependent on your return. (You can't claim a parent as a dependent if he or she files jointly or has over $3,900 of gross income for 2013 or over $3,800 of gross income for 2012.) While you must still clear the 10%-of-AGI hurdle to claim an itemized medical expense deduction, adding a parent's expenses to the pot can really help. (The exact same considerations apply to medical expenses that you pay for a dependent grandparent.)
What if you pay medical expenses for a parent or grandparent but don't supply over half of his or her support? In that case, you cannot combine the parent or grandparent's medical costs with your own for itemized medical expense deduction purposes. Sorry.
Don't Forget Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums
Under the tax rules, a qualified long-term care policy is considered health insurance. Therefore, premiums you pay for a qualified policy are treated as medical costs for itemized medical expense deduction purposes, and they can help you clear the 10%-of-AGI hurdle. There are limits, however. The most you can treat as medical costs are the age-based premium amounts listed below (these numbers are adjusted annually for inflation).
|Age on Dec. 31, 2013
|Amount You Can Treat as Medical Expense
|40 or under
|41 to 50
|51 to 60
|61 to 70
|Over 70
Take Advantage of Your Employer's Health-Care FSA
Until this year, there was no tax-law limit on contributions to your employer's health-care flexible spending account plan (although many plans imposed their own limits). Amounts you contribute to the FSA plan are subtracted from your taxable salary. Then you can use the funds to reimburse yourself tax-free to cover qualified medical expenses. Starting this year, however, the maximum annual FSA contribution for each employee is capped at $2,500 by law. That doesn't change the fact that you should take full advantage of your company's FSA plan if one is offered. If you don't, you're leaving cash on the table. Bad idea!
The tax treatment of out-of-pocket medical expenses has taken a turn for the worse. But you can improve your personal tax results by planning for when medical expenditures will be incurred (to the extent possible) and participating in your company's health-care FSA (if one is available).


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See, I love festival reports like this one, on the L.A. Weekly Sundance blog. This entry takes a second to touch on the world of early-morning flyering to promote films playing at Sundance and Slamdance. Specifically, the blog checks in with two volunteers working hard to get posters up for Austin-filmed Homo Erectus (playing Slamdance). Legal poster space in Park City is hard to come by, so factions war against each other for dominance. And, according to this report, the Homo Erectus boys have a beef with the Rocket Science army.
Posters 'Erectus' All Over Park City
Posters 'Erectus' All Over Park City
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