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I want to add a column to a Sql Server table with about 10M rows. I think this query would eventually finish adding the column I want:
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but it's been going for several hours already. Is there any shortcut to get a "not null default 0" column inserted into a large table? Or is this inherently really slow?
This is Sql Server 2000. Later on I have to do something similar on Sql Server 2008.


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About 9.9 percent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment as of June 30, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday. That number, adjusted for seasonal factors, was close to a record high of more than 10 percent at the end of April.
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Job Drought Continues Unabated
ByPeter Morici, Senior Contributor to TheStreet
Thursday February 3, 2011, 7:00 am EST
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Economists expect the Labor Department to report on Friday that the economy added 150,000 jobs in January, barely enough to hold unemployment steady at about 9.4 percent and far less than should be expected 19 months into an economic recovery.
Additional tax cuts effective in January are giving the economy some lift but being temporary, their effect is limited. And, tax cuts, no matter how popular, do not address structural problems holding back jobs creation--principal among those are the huge trade deficit, rising health-care costs and persistent shortages of venture capital and bank lending for small businesses.
In the fourth quarter, consumer spending increased at a 4.4 annual rate and contributed importantly to the 3.2 percent growth in GDP. Spending was especially strong in December, as consumers shrugged off higher gas and food prices. Holiday shoppers were value conscious, but they still spent robustly.
In 2011, the temporary payroll tax cut will further boost consumer enthusiasm. However, over the last several months consumer spending gains have outpaced incomes, and some moderation should be expected. Real consumer spending will likely grow in the range of 3 percent to 3.5 percent, and contribute more modestly to GDP growth the first half of 2011. It could slow even further the second half.
The trade balance contributed positively to economic growth in the fourth quarter, with real exports increasing and imports decreasing. Petroleum imports were lower in the fourth quarter, but U.S. production likely will decline again in the Gulf and elsewhere and imports will rebound in 2011.
No longer can Detroit be blamed. Ford and the others are aggressively offering high- quality, more fuel-efficient choices across the board, but federal energy policy impedes, artificially and in a self-defeating manner, safe domestic oil and natural gas production. That taxes growth directly by destroying high-paying jobs in the energy sector and indirectly by pushing up pump prices and the trade deficit.
In the fourth quarter, nonpetroleum import growth moderated too and exports surged, improving the real trade balance and boosting GDP growth.
However, these trends will be tempered in 2011 by slower growth and sovereign debt problems in both Europe and Japan, and caution inspired by political conditions in northern Africa. Coupled with an overvalued dollar against the Chinese yuan and other Asian currencies, these factors will drive the trade deficit higher and create a substantial barrier to jobs creation through 2012.
Every dollar, which goes abroad to purchase oil or goods from China and elsewhere, does not return to purchase U.S. exports, reduces demand for U.S. goods and services and taxes jobs creation.
At 3.3 percent of GDP, the $500 billion trade deficit is a tax on domestic demand that offsets the benefits of tax cuts. Consequently, the U.S. economy is expanding at a 3.2 percent annual pace instead of the 5 percent that is possible after emerging from such a deep recession and with so many Americans unemployed.
Growth in the range of 3 percent to 3.5 percent is not enough to dent unemployment, unless hundreds of thousands of adults quit looking for work as they did in December. Counting discouraged workers and those working part-time who would prefer full-time jobs the unemployment rate is closer to 17 percent.
Since December 2009, the private sector has added 112,000 jobs per month, but most of those have been in government-subsidized health care and social services, and temporary business services. Netting those out, core private sector jobs creation has been a paltry 58,000 per month, which comes to 18 per county as compared to more than 5000 job seekers per county.
Coming out of a recession, temporary jobs appear first, but 19 months into the expansion the pace of permanent, non-government subsidized jobs creation should be accelerating. Instead, core private sector jobs increased only 60,000 in December, and core jobs growth has fluctuated around that level for the last nine months.
By the end of 2014, about 13 million private sector jobs must be added to bring unemployment down to 6 percent, and current policies are not creating conditions for businesses to hire 360,000 workers each month.
Without fixing the trade deficit, in particular the decline in U.S. petroleum production and commerce with China, high unemployment will be a permanent feature on the U.S. economy. Neither the Obama Administration nor Republican leadership in the Congress appears prepared to do what needs to be done.
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That's how much the price of EVERYTHING has gone up IN AMERICA since Christmas Day, just 6 weeks ago. This is according to the very reliable Billion Prices Project at MIT, which collects pricing data every day from online retailers using a software that scans the underlying code in public webpages and stores the relevant price information in the database. The daily online index is an average of individual price changes across multiple categories and retailers that provides real-time information on major inflation trends.
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I find it interesting that it is all of a sudden 'news' that when a large number of people are unemployed that a rise in foreclosures follows.
It stands to reason that if you borrowed money for a house and you lose your source of income you are likely to be foreclosed on. That doesn't make the lender immoral or evil. And it doesn't necessarily make the borrower unresponsible. And it certainly doesn't mean that taxpayers should be left holding the bill.
I would suggest that people use this as a learning to not take out loans to purchase things they can't afford and to manage their finances to manage these not-so-unlikely scenarios.
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Government is indispensable in the creation of high unemployment. Left to their own devices, people will generally find uses for each others talents. Every individual is both a producer and consumer, employee and customer. The United States is rich in knowledge and natural resources. Given stable currency, reliable access to credit, and basic consumer protections, business ventures will be created to fill the needs of any given population. Large groups of people create opportunities merely by existing.
The heavy hand of Big Government creates massive distortions in this process. It increases the cost of labor, through regulations and burdens like ObamaCare. By increasing the cost of labor, it drives down demand. It destroys industries through moratoriums, and chokes the life out of profitable ventures with heavy taxation and regulatory oversight. Government can easily increase the cost of pursuing an opportunity so much that smart businessmen will simply ignore it.
Not even massive natural disasters can destroy jobs as efficiently as government, because eventually even the worst earthquake or hurricane ends. Government keeps unemployment high for years on end. It even subsidizes joblessness, through lavish and prolonged unemployment benefits.
Big Government is also vital in the creation of shortages. In a free society, entrepreneurs respond to demand by increasing supply. This is one of the reasons competition drives down prices. If Company A is not generating enough supply to meet the needs of consumers at reasonable prices, Company B will soon appear, and find a way to increase supply so it can satisfy those needs.
Only the government can step in to shut down competition and deliver shortages, artificially increased prices, or both. It blocks the exploration and development of natural resources, keeping American consumers at the mercy of foreign suppliers. It can block entry to a market with taxes and licensing requirements. It creates labor shortages by empowering labor unions, whose fabulously expensive workers would otherwise be undercut by non-union shops on almost every bid. There is almost no way to create a monopoly, or manipulate supply to artificially drive up price in the long term, without the assistance of government.
Government is the mother of entitlement. Only the State can make unsustainable promises to favored constituents, and leave future generations to cope with the crushing burden of fulfilling them. A private entity which operated that way would go out of business, or end up in jail, like Bernie Madoff.
A business entity that suckers people with ridiculous promises that can never be kept will be sued for fraud. Government, on the other hand, does this all the time, with complete impunity. Virtually every action Big Government takes produces an obligation against future generations. For example, Obamas budget continues his weird obsession with spending billions on high-speed rail. Whatever other functions high-speed rail might serve, you must understand that it is also an obligation. If we followed Obamas plan of spending $53 billion to develop a massive high-speed rail network, future politicians would be obliged to keep spending on it forever, no matter how much money it might lose. Abandoning it would be tantamount to wasting that $53 billion investment, to say nothing of destroying all the jobs connected with operating the trains, so the high-speed rail system would be subsidized for eternity.
Only Big Government could produce the public-sector union benefits that threaten to bankrupt several states. Private management generally understands it has a vested interest in providing benefit packages that wont bankrupt the company in the future. Politicians, on the other hand, love nothing better than to promise big pensions and benefits to loyal union members, because it buys their support without costing the present-day politician a dime. Only the government can build billion-dollar levels of corporate entitlement through massive bailouts.
And, of course, only government can produce crippling levels of debt. A private corporation would see its credit rating ruined, and probably face legal charges, long before it reached the absurd situation Obamas 2011 budget places us in. No company could sell its stockholders on a business model where it spends 30% more than it takes in, for years on end. No corporation can use force to arbitrarily extract more income from its customers, as Obama plans to do with the many tax increases built into his budget document. No private concern can randomly charge one person for services rendered to another. A private citizen will never awaken one morning to discover he is $30,000 in debt to a company he would prefer not to do business with.
An activist government produces unemployment, shortages, entitlement, and debt by using power to reverse the normal operation of market forces. That is the strategy laid out in Obamas gigantic budget. The bigger government gets, the more it will do these terrible, but entirely predictable, things and the more time it will spend telling the private sector it is somehow responsible for problems that simply could not exist unless the government created them.
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By Peter Ferrara on 2.16.11 @ 6:09AM
President Obama's budget released on Monday proposes to spend $3.73 trillion for 2012. He can't say Bush made him do that. That proposed spending is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008.
Campaigning in 2008 he promised voters that his plan involved a "net spending cut." That net spending cut translated into $836 billion in increased spending this year from 2008, according to President Obama's own budget documents. That is a federal spending increase of nearly 30% since 2008. Either President Obama does not know what "net spending cut" means in English, or he bamboozled a lot of people in 2008.
Almost makes you want to take to the streets to demand resignations and honest elections. But that couldn't happen here. For one thing, you need a free and independent press to have true democratic elections.
Fool Me Once, Shame on You…
But President Obama keeps on trickin'. In his budget message and in his State of the Union, Obama celebrated what he calls a domestic spending freeze. Actually, the freeze applies only to non-security, domestic discretionary spending, which is 12% of the budget. He wants to freeze these programs now after he increased them by over 80% in his first two years. As Investor's Business Daily said yesterday, "Freezing spending at this elevated level is little more than numbers legerdemain, a kind of three-card Monte played on sucker taxpayers."
That freeze involves a total spending cut in 2012 of $6 billion in 2012 from where spending would have been, out of a total proposed federal budget for the year of $3,729 billion. That is a cut of 0.16%, which is actually not worth even talking about. Put it in the context of your family budget. Suppose you had take home pay of $3,000 per month, and you were regularly falling short of enough to pay the mortgage. So you decide to get serious about controlling your spending. Your proportional equivalent of Obama's discretionary spending cut out of your own family budget would be $4.83.
In contrast to Obama's $6 billion cut for 2012, the House Republicans Monday committed to $100 billion in cuts from Obama's budget for 2011. The Republican cuts for 2012 and beyond will come in Paul Ryan's House Republican budget due in April. Moreover, House Republicans already voted to approve trillions in future spending cuts, as scored by CBO, in approving the repeal of Obamacare. This is a fair comparison between the parties today on the budget and spending.
Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, the total spending cuts in Obama's budget for the next three years come in at $20 billion, out of total spending for those years of over $11 trillion ($11,000 billion). As the Journal observed, "Hosni Mubarak was more in touch with reality last Thursday night."
The budget deficit for this year, President Obama's third year in office, is now $1.645 trillion ($1,645 billion), as projected in Obama's own budget documents. This is the highest in world history, let alone U.S. history. That is due to federal spending this year equal to 25.3% of GDP, a quarter of our entire economy. That compares to federal spending of 20.7% of GDP in 2008, and 19.6% in 2007, the last budget year of the former Republican majority Congress.
President Obama's budget projects that this deficit will be cut in half by 2013. But in last year's budget, Obama projected that this year's deficit would be $1.227 trillion, more than $400 billion less than Obama says it will be today. On the basis of his impossible 2013 projection, President Obama is already running around the country expecting applause for his claim that he has made good on his campaign promise to reduce the deficit in half by the end of his first term, while his actual deficit for this year of $1.645 trillion is again the highest in world history! The deficit for 2008, by the way, was $458 billion.
Apart from defense spending cuts, President Obama's budget claims $1.1 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years. But $700 billion of that is due to tax increases, discussed further below. Another $1.26 trillion is phantom savings supposedly resulting from reductions in costs from "Overseas Contingency Operations." But were we really planning before this budget to spend $136 billion in 2021 in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or $882 billion from 2015 to 2021, over a trillion counting supposed debt service savings? Actually no, so these phantom "budget savings" are actually just another phony budget trick.
Even with these tax increases and phantom budget savings, the national debt held by the public will soar to $19 trillion by 2021, more than triple that national debt total of $5.8 trillion in 2008, again according to President Obama's own budget documents. Indeed, the national debt held by the public will have more than doubled from 2008 by next year, under President Obama's budget. This means President Obama will have accumulated in just one term more national debt than all previous Presidents combined, from George Washington to President Bush.
But that is not the whole picture. Gross federal debt includes the debt held by the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, real debt that will have to be paid to continue to pay promised Social Security and Medicare benefits. That Gross Federal Debt is projected to total $26.346 trillion by 2021, which would be 106% of GDP that year, more than our entire economy that year.
This is why Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Atlantic yesterday, in a piece entitled, "Obama to the Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers":
To all those under 30 who worked so hard to get this man elected, know this: He just screwed you over. He thinks you are fools. Either the U.S. will go into default because of Obama's cowardice, or you will be paying far far more for far far less because this President has no courage when it counts. He let you down. On the critical issue of America's fiscal crisis, he represents no hope and no change. Just the same old Washington politics he promised to end.
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On Closer Inspection The Employment Report Is Even More Depressing
Bruce Krasting, My Take On Financial Events | Jul. 9, 2011, 9:33 AM
I suppose that the Non Farm Payroll report could have been worse than it was. But not much worse. Some of the talking heads are calling the latest news a soft patch. Maybe so. We shall see. My read is that the report was (more) clear evidence that the economy is grinding down. The second half of this year is likely to show only marginal growth. The June NFP was the tip off.
Johan Hulath at Morgan Keegan prepared the following slides. As is often the case pictures tell the story better than words.
A recap of the NFP data. Note that there is no category that was not under street expectations. Things are much worse in employment land than anyone thought.
Labor force participation is now at levels not seen in a decade. A look at this chart confirms that as of Friday it hit a new record low.
So why no jobs? Easy, we are not making as much stuff. Follows are some regional indicators of economic performance. Yes, there are a few plusses on the list but mostly it is flat to down. This chart and the key underneath tells the story of the decline.
The best single gauge of manufacturing comes from the ISM. This is now at 55. A fall below 50 would signal a contraction. Are we going to get to that magic number? This chart suggests we might:
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Nearly a quarter of the people living in Washington, D.C. are on the program.
9:13 AM, Mar 11, 2013 By DANIEL HALPER
On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012.
The federal government also says that in a given month in 2012, the number of households on food stamps was 22,329,713.
The state with the highest average number of participants per month in 2012 was Texas, with an astonishing 4,038,440 folks drawing from the program. The second highest is California, with 3,964,221, and then Florida, at 3,353,064.
Washington, D.C., with an estimated population of 617,996, had an average of 141,147 participants. Meaning, roughly 23 percent of folks living in D.C. are on food stamps, according to the numbers provided by the federal government. The participation rate in Texas, which has an estimated population of 26,059,203, 15.5 percent.
The state with the lowest number of participants in the program was Wyoming, with 34,347 out an estimated population of 576,412.
Over the weekend, Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that the Obama administration is encouraging growth in the food stamps program as a way to stimulate the economy.
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Debt Soared $5.5 Trillion Since Last Senate Budget
By John Merline, Investor's Business Daily
If you want a sense of just how massive the nation's debt problem is, consider this: The U.S. added $226 billion in new debt in just the 35 days since President Obama missed the legal deadline to submit his budget.
That's more than the government will spend this year on education, homeland security, law enforcement, housing aid, energy and the environment, combined.
A 1921 law requires the president to submit his budget plan to Congress on the first Monday in February, but Obama so far hasn't produced one, and the White House says it won't release its plan to get the nation's deficits and debt under control until sometime in April.
Senate Democrats, meanwhile, haven't produced an annual budget also required by law since 2009. Over that time, the nation's debt has climbed $5.5 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
Senate Budget Committee Democrats are now promising to introduce a budget plan this week.
April Fools?
Obama initially claimed the holdup on his fiscal year 2014 budget was the last-minute "fiscal cliff" deal, which required them to redo their budget figures.
That agreement let the Bush tax cuts expire for people with incomes over $400,000, while making the rest of the lower Bush tax rates permanent. It also extended unemployment insurance, put off the automatic sequester spending cuts by two months, and let the Social Security payroll tax break expire.
"Because these issues were not resolved until the American Taxpayer Relief Act was enacted on Jan. 2, 2013, the administration was forced to delay some of its FY 2014 budget preparations, which in turn will delay the budget's submission to Congress," Jeffrey Zients, a director at the White House Office of Management and Budget, wrote to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in mid-January.
But the fiscal cliff deal delayed by just one day the Congressional Budget Office's annual report, which also had to account for all those fiscal cliff changes. The CBO budget and economic outlook report came out on Feb. 5.
The budget holdup comes as Obama and Democrats try to figure out how to deal with the nation's debt crisis while protecting their favored spending programs and claiming only to want to raise taxes on the "rich."
As the Hill reported this week, "disputes over tax cuts, spending reductions and entitlement reform all present challenges to Budget Committee chairwoman Patty Murray and Majority Leader Harry Reid."
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Device for avoiding a collision in a lane-change maneuver of a vehicle: It's not quite KITT, the artificially intelligent Trans Am that starred alongside David Hasselhoff in the 1980s television show Knight Rider, but a newly patented computerized driving system takes a step toward the car as driving companion. Not only will it upbraid you when you are about to make a boneheaded lane change, it will actually take control of the steering wheel and prevent a collision.
The device, patent No. 7,893,89, was developed by a team of engineers at Germany's Continental Corporation. It relies on cameras embedded in a car's side mirrors. The cameras stream video to a computer, perhaps located behind the dashboard, equipped with object-recognition software that scans every 66 milliseconds for the shapes of approaching vehicles. Once it identifies a vehicle, the system tracks the approaching car's changing geometric relation to other visual cues on the horizon to determine its approach speed and distance.
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The emergence of electromechanical steering systems, which are increasingly replacing traditional hydraulics in vehicles, makes such computerized interventions easier to implement. Meanwhile high-resolution cameras continue to drop in price, making the system more cost-effective, Lüke says. Soon all that will separate your average driver from the 1980s-era Michael Knight will be a "turbo boost" and a few cans of hair spray.


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What kid doesn't love play dough? It really is a fantastic medium to create and play with, but sometimes it's even more fun if you break away from the usual play dough toys (spaghetti press, scissors, cookie cutters, etc...).
I've been needing to make a new batch (homemade is the best, it doesn't dry out like the store-bought) since ours had turned gray from all the play we've done with it. I found this website which is totally dedicated to different play dough recipes and gave this recipe a try. I can't wait to try some of the other recipes.
One thing that's important when you make play dough if you want to have vibrant colors - add the food coloring before you heat the dough. If color is added to the white dough after the heating process, the colors will be more muted.
Just look at all the fun these girls had with their dinosaurs, rolling pin, and some wiggly eyes!
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UK Actor Shares Agency's Rejection Letter: 'We Already Have a Gay Actor'
A London-based actor took to Twitter over the weekend, sharing a rejection letter he received from a talent agency that is going viral.
Joseph Segal took issue with the company's reasoning for being rejected, which said he was being refused because of his sexuality.
"We already have a gay actor on our books... We feel there would be a clash," reads a photo of the note that Segal posted to Twitter.
"Today I received this email from an #agent I am hurt and frustrated. Are all #gayactors the same?" Segal tweeted. "Do we not get cast? Are there not enough roles for us? If you can take the time to #RETWEEET please do and spread awareness!"
Segal received support from fellow Twitter users.
After an outcry, the agency responded to Segal with an apology, asking him to share it on Twitter.
On Monday, the actor thanked people for showing their support.


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This appeared in Sunday Times today....
Playing Musical Chairs in Delhi….
Musical Chairs was one kiddie game I detested as a child.And continue to detest even today.I used to wonder why over wrought mommies would want to encourage toddlers to occupy someone else's just vacated kursi? Where did the thrill lie? What were the special skills on display? Why were kids made to run around a row of chairs to music that stopped and started arbitrarily? Did the game make any sense to those playing it? Worse, did anybody really enjoy it? As I remember this dreadful diversion, the only person getting a kick out of it was the one controlling the music…. and causing panic. Those poor innocents looking bewildered and feeling confused, frequently ended up in tears, or on their butts, as more aggressive children rushed past them to grab a free chair.Often, I would witness insensitive parents admonishing their bachchas for not being fast enough, smart enough, agile enough, to grab that free chair, leading to more tears. And yes, it was always the class bully who won the prize.
Political musical chairs are played in a similar fashion. It happened this week. And the game is likely to continue. After Pranabda was given the most prestigious kursi (and a horse carriage ride) in India, without having to run around too much, everybody thought the music had stopped. But they were wrong. Madam had merely pressed the pause button. Pranabda's old kursi couldn't be left empty for long. If anything, given the unholy mess he had created as F.M. that was one chair which needed someone's derriere to warm it quickly. Before other ambitious contenders could stake their claim, Madam moved swiftly and brought in an old hand ( P.Chidambaram) to kick start the sluggish economy and get the much needed money flow going. Some said P.C. (not Priyanka Chopra, mind you) would occupy this particular hot seat for a shortish period, while Madam plotted the next move. If he managed to convince skeptics that he was capable of some bold initiatives that would undo the damage inflicted by his predecessor, he'd be promoted and given an even better kursi ( keep guessing which one) . Meanwhile, P.C.'s old job was going… and Madam brought in another party faithful to warm that chair. Sushil Kumar Shinde's first day as Home Minister did not get off to a great start, unfortunately, what with his cancelled trip to Pune overlapping with the blasts that rocked it. Not the most auspicious beginning, made worse by his tepid response to the explosions.Terrible timing all around, considering Shinde's just relinquished Power portfolio and the monumental blackout that crippled 60 crore people in North and East India the very next day.Shinde's quotes on Pune were almost as bad as newly minted Power Minister Veerapa Moily's on the worst power failure ever, when he assured very angry citizens that he wouldn't 'allow' such a calamity to recur. Right! Through all these natural and man- made disasters, two people remained dumb struck and characteristically quiet – our Prime Minister, and the Son of India, Rahul Gandhi. The former is waiting for instructions as to which chair he will be allotted next. And the latter probably believes every chair is rightfully his – all he has to do is choose.
That brings us back to Madam. And the difficult job in front of her. Playing musical chairs at this delicate stage is riddled with risks. Nobody is in the mood to indulge her beyond a point. There are heavyweights like Sharad Pawar, who need not one, but five chairs, minimum. And are willing to shove others out of the way, if needed. Everybody is eyeing just one kursi – the one occupied for now by Manmohan Singh. If Madam so decides, she could easily move P.C. into the top job after testing the waters for a few months. P.C. would be the apt person to keep that kursi garma garam for Rahul Baba – provided Rahul Baba wants the job in the first place. Given the unmistakable signs of indifference and apathy on our Baba's part ( poor guy…. let him party in peace in London and Jeddah, if he wants to, yaar), Madam will have to accelerate the tempo of the music and remove a few chairs from the long row. Finally,there will be just two people left in the game. God help us if the bigger bully wins! Well… if that happens, India will have to switch to Kho Kho and Kabbadi.


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At the recent New York Comic Con, I announced a new project for 2013, a series called The Protectors, which is the brainchild of Chicago Bears defensive end Israel Idonije. Israel, or "Izzy," founded Athleta Comics in order to bring The Protectors, and hopefully future projects, to life. The exclusive announcement story was featured in USA Today, with comments from both me and Izzy, and can be seen here:
The Protectors combines professional sports with the kind of superhero/cosmic storylines you might see in Avengers or X-Men. Now I know what you're thinking, and you're right: sports hardly ever works in comics. The vast majority of the time, it reads awkwardly and looks worse. So when The Protectors came across my desk, I knew we had to get the right artist to draw it, or all would be for naught. So I called my buddy Bart Sears, to see if I possibly could lure him back to comics. Bart has been working in video games and commercial art for the last few years, but the prospect of The Protectors brought him back to sequential storytelling. I truly can't think of anybody more suited to draw this story.
The Protectors will feature original characters, as well as cameos by real-life athletes. We intend to create a story that accessible to both comic fans and sports fans. Follow the Athleta Comics website for a pretty steady stream of updates and exclusive content, and expect the first issue to debut at C2E2 in Chicago next April.


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These girls were made for the Felt Badge swap over on Craftster. My partner mentioned that she liked "odd Ripley's type themes" so I ran with it! I did a Google search for "Sideshow Posters" and found inspiration in a painting that I'm kicking myself for not being able to locate now!! I'll keep looking.
I used wool-blend felt and 1 strand of DNC embroidery floss to put her together. She is roughly 2" tall. Jake couldn't wait to get her out of the house. He thought she was a bit creepy but I liked her and was sad to have to send her away. Hopefully she's happy in her new home.


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Rock writers are a lazy lot, prone to groupspeak and really only willing to chase a story to places that offer booze, BBQ or both.
That's why we'll tell you that San Diego-bred indie rocker Crocodiles sound like Jesus & Mary Chain, the '80s UK band that helped birth shoegaze. Or Echo & the Bunnymen, the more ethereal U2 contemporaries who never got their American due.
But there's a lot more to what makes America's best noise pop band tick. Elements of Wire, Can, Suicide, '60s Farfisa-fueled garage pop, 13th Floor Elevators all course through the veins of the music made by Charles Rowell, Brandon Welchez and their band mates.
The crux of the sound is that sense of melody and dreaminess matched with razor-sharp noise injection, Rowell tells the Reader on the phone as Crocodiles prepare to begin their current tour.
It's all about finding that fine line between beauty and discordance, he says.
"We're big fans of the classic pop songs, but we're really intrigued by noise," Rowell says.
It's all encoded into the two songwriters DNA, as even their listening choices bounce back and forth on that ugly/beautiful musical spectrum.
"We like T. Rex, but there's also the side of us that like Crass," Rowell says.
That also means that the band seeks to contrast a pretty melody with dirty or dark subject matter. Though there's indications that Crocodiles' third album, the forthcoming Endless Flowers, may work towards dispelling some of the darkness that inhabited their first two albums, 2009's Summer of Hate and 2010's Sleep Forever.
Rowell says the record uses the bigger, cinematic production of Sleep Forever as a leaping-off point. There's a lot of new vibes and sounds that the band hasn't tried before on the new album.
The songwriting process was fairly extensive this time, with plenty of material never making the final cut. Rowell says the songs feel more developed than any of the band's past work.
While past releases mostly featured heavier, uptempo rock songs paired with a ballad or two, this time the band worked on closing the gap between those two extremes, adding jangly guitars and elements that could almost be considered ska or reggae-derived.
"We kind of filled it out in the middle. It's a moodier record," Rowell says.
Still, that juxtaposition of noise and melody remains at the heart of the band's sound.
"I just think it's a little bit more colorful this time around," Rowell says.
After 15 years of writing songs with Welchez in Crocodiles and previously in The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Rowell says that sound just comes out naturally no matter the project.
"It's important to not lose the identity of the band," Rowell says.
The other big change on the recording was the addition of the members of Crocodiles live lineup to the recording sessions, which took place at Berlin's LowSwing studios. The first two recordings primarily feature just Rowell and Welchez.
After the duo wrote songs, they rehearsed with the band for three weeks and then recorded the mostly live takes in two weeks. The idea was to capture that energy of the band's shows.
"We ate a lot of schnitzel, drank a lot of beer and recorded the third album," Rowell says.
Minimal overdubs were recorded, which left some of the mistakes and experimentation of the live, group takes in tack.
"We left in a lot of the personality," Rowell says.
Now with a full-band album under their belts, the lineup seems to be coalescing into something fairly permanent, Rowell says. The five-piece version of Crocodiles has been playing together since 2010.
Endless Flowers will also be the band's first album not released by Fat Possum Records. Instead Souterrain, a subsidiary of City Slang, will release the album in Europe and Frenchkiss Records will handle the U.S. release.
Rowell says there's a label enthusiasm for this album that didn't exist at Fat Possum after Sleep Forever came out. The band didn't even have to approach Frenchkiss about signing Crocodiles.
"It's kind of like starting over," he says. "It's really refreshing with these two new labels."
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One thing I've been wondering: how many of you go back to visit SDA churches (or any church) from time to time? My SDA church attendance during the past couple of years has been confined to a funeral (one of my childhood friends, very sad). I stopped going to visit church when I visit home. I think of the many weddings I have attended in the past couple of years, only 2 were in a church--neither of them SDA. However, it looks like a friend of the family is getting married in an SDA church and I will be attending one this spring.
I love joyous occasions like weddings, so I don't mind those. However, my boyfriend's parents love to try to get us to attend church (they don't bother me AS much, mostly him). My stepmother also told me that my dad feels really badly that I don't attend church--so I went with him the last time I visited. I don't mind spending time with my dad in the least. It's just that I'm at the point right now where I DO mind going to church nowadays. I love religious and gospel music and was raised in that tradition. I became an atheist, not as a particular reaction to SDA doctrine, but because the cognitive dissonance was not something that I could live with long term! However, the more I read about the SDA church, the more it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Am I being a witch for just wanting to tell the boyfriend's parents that I wish they'd STFU and leave us alone about it? (I can see the stuff hitting the fan if/when we get married. Because I'm NOT getting married in the church.)
Sorry for the rambling, I'm just wondering how many people still visit or attend church occasionally.
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I haven't been in a church in the last 7 years except of course when I did some IT work at a Baptist church, but there was no service at the time so I hardly think that counts. Personally though, I never felt comfortable in any church anyway, even when I was trying really hard to believe.
I would suggest against telling off your possible in-laws. At least until you are married, its kinda your boyfriend's responsibility to keep them out of your business. He needs to let them know how you two feel. You are still an outsider in their eyes (assuming here) and would be blamed and resented for the shit hitting the fan and the bad feelings would likely follow you into your marriage. You then become the harlot that stole their son to drag him off to Hell. They may never accept you or respect your marriage if that becomes the case.
Your boyfriend may need to grow a pair in order to do this, but I think its absolutely necessarily.
Jason-My boyfriend explained his reasons for not going to church to them a long time ago, but they still send tracts and tell him to go to church and pray with every sabbath phone message. I don't want to make it seem like he hasn't talked to them, because he has. (In fact, he says they're quite restrained with me. LOL) I think I'm just very prickly nowadays about the fact that people feel comfortable making assumptions about my religious beliefs. I admit that I'm venting here because it's a safe place--I wouldn't want to cause any sort of family rift.
I don't go to any church and I avoid them at all costs.
Going to church and going to a wedding or funeral that's at a church are two totally different things. One is attending for the sake of a deity, the other is attending for your friends or family.
Tiffany, since your boyfriend has already told his parents that he doesn't believe in their bull shit, he should now ask them to show him some respect and stop pestering him. If that doesn't work then he could always start sending them atheist literature, links to atheist blogs, and ask them to stop going to church.
I still have contradictory feelings on going to the church where I grew up. On one hand, the people there have loved and cared about me since before I was born. They've cheered me on through every life event and I feel gratitude for that. A small part of me wants to at least be able to go back and see how they are doing and to connect with them. Having been raised on gospel music, I do love that part of service as well. (I'll be honest, that is one thing that the secular tradition cannot offer me. *sigh*)
On the other hand, I am so different now and I can't help but think that some people would turn on me in a heartbeat or say "all that education has turned her away from the Lord". And I dread sitting through an entire church service and having to hear poor biblical exegesis (Dustin, I'm sure you can relate to that!) and talk about a Savior and a Prophet and a god that I simply can't get behind. I guess my feelings are more complex than I thought.
On my boyfriend (who is a wonderful person btw!): He does believe that 'something' must have created us all, but that's about it. Of course I asked him about who/what created that 'something'. He acknowledges the rationality of my question, but I think he's fine with being where he is. We get along wonderfully well because we're refugees from the church and have so many other things in common. I'm just more militant than he is.
As I said before, he's talked to his parents and I know that he's talked to his parents rather forcefully about me. (He hasn't really told me the details of the discussions.) I think that because his parents are older, he realizes that they're set in their ways and doesn't want to keep beating a dead horse. There was a recent incident that really pissed me off, but not sure that I feel comfortable writing it here. (If anyone is really curious, I can PM you.) That said, I think the idea about tracts and such is 'inspired'! ;) I will suggest that the next time he gets another Adventist quarterly. LOL
My parents are much more easygoing about my apostasy. (Well, relatively.) They both think my boyfriend's parents are kind of over the top. My mom and I don't really talk about it much, though she insists on telling me to pray when I have an issue every once in awhile. My dad cherishes a futile hope that I'll come back to the church when I'm older. (I tell him that I've been having these issues for twenty years. I hardly think that's a phase.) The interesting thing is that my parents have never, ever told me what I HAD to believe. So, although I know they don't feel thrilled about me being an atheist, that makes a huge difference in my comfort level about being open with them.
My wife is still clinging to her SDA roots and she occasionally wants to attend church. I bring her since she does not drive. I do not enjoy these visits and have actually just dropped her off the last couple of times since I really don't want to attend at all. The times I have attended with her made me scratch my head as I can't believe I actually fell for this crap earlier in my life.
Hi Tiffany. Not a SDA, (ex-Mormon). I will go to church for weddings, 3 yrs. ago, funerals, 8 mos. ago, things like that. But I think that is different than going for church services. These things I mentioned are for the individual person/people, so I will support them, simply because I love and care about them, NOT some god. I don't think that is a contradiction. If it for support of someone I care about, I will always be there if at all possible.
Unlike the others here, I go as often as possible! At least to Sabbath school. Well, I'm not "out" to these folks, and someone needs to correct them when they start talking out of the wrong end! Whether it's trivial stuff about the "Greek" city of Thessalonica (Hint: It's not Greek. Perhaps Adventists would have a better sense of history if we studied a little more than just a stilted version of Daniel 2.) or "off the deep end"stuff like promoting science and rights for minorities, I'm there every Saturday to bring some light to the darkness. If I don't bring them the good news of the atheist apocalypse, who will?
The Atheist Apocalypse is a great one-shot comic, btw. You should totally Google it!
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Bid of $10,755 wins 1937 'Snow White' billboard
DALLAS — A large, colorful billboard from the 1937 release of the animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has been sold at auction for $10,755.
In a statement, Heritage Auctions said it was not identifying the winning bidder. The Dallas-based auction house had said the rare billboard was expected to sell for at least $10,000 on Saturday.
The 20-by-9-foot billboard was printed in England to promote the Disney film there. It features three scenes, the main one showing a rosy-cheeked Snow White in front of a castle in her classic outfit with bright yellow skirt, surrounded by the dwarfs and other characters from the film.
The billboard had been in a private collection for more than a decade.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
James Henderson Blount - American Rebel Separatist
Blount was active in the Confederate rebel cause during the American Civil War. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private and later as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Second Georgia Battalion for most of the war. He actively fought to destroy the American Union.
After the war, he eventually entered the Congress of the nation he had sought to destroy. He was repeatedly returned to Congress by the voters of his district in Georgia. He may have then been lost to history as an obscure Congressman had not two events happened almost at the same time. The Hawaiian Revolution toppled the Hawaiian monarchy and Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States of America.
Grover Cleveland was the first Democrat elected to the presidency after the American Civil War. When he took office in 1885, it had been 24 years since a Democrat had been in the Oval Office. In a bitter election in 1888, he won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote to Benjamin Harrison. When he reclaimed the Presidency after the 1892 presidential election, he looked for ways to embarrass the former Harrison Administration.
Late in Harrison's term as President, the Hawaiian Revolution occurred. Local partisans, almost all of which held Hawaiian citizenship, overthrew the Hawaiian Queen. They set up a temporary government and petitioned to be annexed by the United States. President Cleveland flatly rejected their request. Instead, he sent James Henderson Blount to Hawaii to "investigate" the events of the Hawaiian Revolution.
Blount went to Hawaii. Not surprisingly, he came up with a report that satisfied President Cleveland's desire to cast a poor light on the Harrison Administration. If Blount had intended to give a fair account of the events in Hawaii in 1893, he would have interviewed all witnesses that came forward and he would have had each witness swear an oath. He failed to do both. The witnesses were not required to swear an oath and key witnesses who were unlikely to agree with the report Blount intended to issue were ignored.
James Henderson Blount then issued his seemingly preordained and now famous report in 1894. The Blount Report blamed the United States for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. During the Hawaiian Revolution, American soldiers were asked to land by US Minister Stevens to protect American property in Hawaii. These troops fired no shots, engaged in no battles, occupied not a single Hawaiian government building, and their only impact on the Hawaiian Revolution was the fact that people knew they were present. The local insurgency brought down the Queen. Blount translated this police action by American troops as an illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian government by the USA.
Congress was skeptical of the Blount Report. The party of President Cleveland (the Democrats) also controlled Congress. They held an investigation into the Hawaiian Revolution in 1894. It was bipartisan, swore in witnesses, and interviewed many of the witnesses that Blount choose to ignore. It then issued the Morgan Report which completely repudiated the Blount Report. President Cleveland wisely then dropped the issue of Hawaii. The Republic of Hawaii again petitioned for annexation in 1898 and President McKinley honored the request.
Despite the weight of historical evidence, the Blount Report has taken on a life of its own. The Hawaiian separatist community has copied it endlessly and it is present on the many sites which are making the ridiculous claim of "illegal American occupation." And, as a sign of their bias, these sites always fail to have a copy of the Morgan Report online as well. The citation of only historical data you agree with is a sure sign of a bad historical revisionist.
Unfortunately, in 1993, the US Congress passed a ceremonial act with no force of law apologizing for the American actions in Hawaii in 1893. This act was based on the Blount Report and ignored the Morgan Report entirely. There was little debate as is customary in "national cherry pie day" proclamations but this politically correct but historically challenged edict is now consider yet another part of the Hawaiian separatist gospel. If you think Congress is good at history, go back and check out the Iraq War Resolution in 2003 pointing to weapons of mass destruction. Congress was as accurate as the Turkish Parliament was in declaring that no genocide every happened in Armenia...
James Henderson Blount died in 1903. Little did he know, when he first took up arms against the USA in 1861 to destroy the American Union, that his later political actions would serve as a rallying cry for future generations of American separatists. As unlikely as Hawaiian secession is from the USA, if it ever happens, the Blount Report can be cited a major factor. As other parts of the USA (Texas, Alaska, and all of the former Confederacy) can make similar claims of illegal occupation based on supposed illegal acts of annexation, invasion, or being part of the USA against the will of the citizens, a legal precedent set for Hawaii would ripple throughout the American nation. James Henderson Blount, that obscure rebel and separatist from Georgia, may well have more of an impact on history than he ever imagined.
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Hey, I somehow missed this. I need to visit more often. Good post, thanks.
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Usually, hyperbole about the Civil War, published on the web, is authored by individuals sympathetic to the Southern cause. It is amusing finding it alongside Yankee hauteur.
Truthfully, this morning is the first time I ever recall hearing of James Henderson Blunt, and even this awareness was acquired out of curiosity on a topic not related to the Civil War. Instead, it from from a text hosted at Google Books:
Blount, James H. Jr. 1912. The American occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1912. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
This was James Blunt's son. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, who after his volunteered commitment and Cuban duty had ended, subsequently volunteered to serve in the Philippines. He was appointed to be U.S. District Judge (Court of First Instance) in Philippine Islands, 1901-05. Whether his appointment in 1901 was from McKinley or Roosevelt (the assassination date strongly indicates it was McKinley), it is difficult to advance a credible argument that he was a pure-partisan Democrat. He was without doubt appointed by a Republican executive. I stayed up the whole night reading the text, and it seems to offer a decent write-up of the Philippine–American War from the perspective of a Ground Officer who foungt the insurgency directly on the field of battle, and then served on The Judge Advocate General staff. His depiction of McKinley was not kind, and intimating that poor war policy had been formulated as a reelection strategy; nor was he kind in descriptions of the two early civilian committees sent there at his behest. He made a good case for Philippine Sovereignty, thoroughly trashing the policy of Benevolent Assimilation, showing that it denigrated the service of American Military Personnel serving there, as well as the native population. Dean Conant Worcester, a McKinley appointed to the Philippine Commission, and later, secretary of the interior for the Philippine Insular Government, took umbrage to Blunt Jr.'s depiction. In a text arguing in favor of Benevolent Assimilation, asserting the Filipinos were inherently savages unable to provide for their own governance though self-government instituted among their own citizenry. Worcester was considered to be the committee's Philippine expert, because his occupation was zoologist, and two of his field expeditions had been to those Islands. Fascinating.
Now, returning to James Henderson Blunt Sr. He was born in a landed gentry Georgia family in 1837. He volunteered in the Second Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles, serving as a private for two years, and then a Lt. Colonel for two more. Indications are that this battalion fought without bringing dishonour and shame down upon their heads. He was allowed to campaign successfully for office as a US House of Representatives member in 1873, and was reelected to that office nine consecutive terms after this. His age at the time of his enlistment into the South's military in 1861, was all of 24 years, yet he had already graduated from the University of Georgia, Athens, studied law, and been admitted to the bar for two years. The Confederacy was wrong, and fomented upon the evil predicate that slavery ownership was a Natural Right which the Federal Government had not the legitimate power to abrogate, but many who took up arms for the South believed they were defending State Sovereignty from an overreaching encroachment upon the natural liberties, and States' Rights. It was the realisation that this obscene assertion of a preeminent and preexistent right to own humans had caused the dissolution of The Union and bloody war between Americans that was the catalyst for enacting the 13th and 14th Amendments, in an effort to moot a great deal of the States' Rights Arguments. These amendments were justifiable, and served the higher good.
Your assertion that the Morgan Report was a major contributory factor for the 1898 Congressional annexation of Hawaii need be substantiated with citations, given the events of that era; The Spanish-American War, The Occupation of the Philippines, and the widely held belief belief that Asian markets needed to be opened up to received American goods.
All War is inherently evil, even when fought for justifiable reasons. It permeates all sides of the conflict, and woefully affects the native peasantry chained to their pitiful possession of dirt in the midst of the firefights. Personal Honour is not a fungible commodity. It cannot be acquired on the field of battle. This is one of the two great lies states tell their soldiers, and history has shown that far too many fall for the deception, expending their personal honour cheaply, thinking it falls as manna in the everalways falling darkness of war, only to discover upon their return home, that within the desolation of their barren souls, there is only what remains.


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Remember Sammy Hagar's 1984 hit "I can't drive 55"? It was a protest of the U.S. law that created a national speed limit of 55 mph, supposedly to save gasoline during a manipulated "energy crisis" in 1974.
Remember Sammy Hagar's 1984 hit "I can't drive 55"?
It was a protest of the U.S. law that created a national speed limit of 55 mph, supposedly to save gasoline during a manipulated "energy crisis" in 1974.
Turns out it didn't save much gas at all. Plus, the law was immensely unpopular — and frequently ignored. But the law did give the police an opportunity to write more tickets to meet the quotas that "officials" say they don't have.
Congress repealed the law in 1995, allowing states to again set their own speed limits. The Governors Highway Safety Association says that since 1995, "34 states have raised speed limits to 70 mph or higher on some portion of their roadway systems."
Illinois set the limit at 65 mph on rural interstates and four-lane highways like U.S. 20 east of Freeport. It's 55 on two-lanes like U.S. 20 west of Freeport.
Last week the state Senate, voting 41 to 6, passed a bill sponsored by Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove, to raise the interstate highway speed limit to 70 mph. Oberweis is a suburban dairy owner. His business, like others, would benefit from faster speeds, he acknowledged.
The House now has to decide whether to act on the bill. Gov. Pat Quinn told reporters Thursday he wants to see what the House does and added that when it comes to roads, "It's all about safety."
Both the state police and the Illinois Department of Transportation are concerned about the bill, fearing it may raise the speed at which people actually drive and result in more serious accidents.
The interstate highways were built for speed limits of at least 70 mph. And that was the speed limit before the goofy 55 mph law passed. To those critics who say people would actually drive 80 if we have a 70 mph speed limit, I am not so sure. I've driven in many states with 70 and 75 mph limits, including Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Indiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado and California.
What I've observed is that traffic on those roads tends to travel at the same speed, which is close to the set speed limit.
In Illinois, Interstate traffic is chaotic. I'm on I-90 frequently and, although the speed limit is 65, traffic flows from 70 to 75 mph. State police rarely enforce the 65 posted limit. We should return to the original 70 mph limit and have the state cops actually enforce it.
Concealed carry
I see Gov. Pat Quinn wants to implement a version of "concealed carry" that lets local communities — specifically cities with home rule — determine whether to let people carry hidden guns. Illinois is under a federal court order to pass concealed carry legislation.
There are 204 Illinois cities with home rule. Then there's Rockford, which had home rule before voters turned it out in 1983. There's been no clamor from the people to reinstate home rule, although leaders from the wine-and-cheese set bring it up from time to time.
But if Quinn's plan becomes law, the promoters of home rule in Rockford will grow into a "strange bedfellows" coalition of pro-gunners and goo-goo (good government) liberals. Can't you just picture the parking lot at a home-rule rally? It would be a sea of Ford 150s and Priuses.
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The navy's current objective is based on developing its capabilities in terms of equipment and personnel in order to succeed in executing required missions in Lebanese regional waters and accordingly dispense with the presence of the maritime task force operating under U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon command in line with the implementation of Resolution 1701.
To move ahead we have adopted a more rapid pace of development since 2006, when new patrol boats were added to the fleet. Moreover, our coastal-surveillance capabilities have reached a high degree of reliability with the establishment of many radar stations along the coast. However, aiming for a stronger future, we recently adopted a ten-year naval strategy to meet the requirements in the protection of territorial waters and the EEZ, especially when gas- and oil-extraction begins.
Our ten-year strategic objectives, then, are as follows:
• Increase maritime domain awareness
• Conduct operations in rough (Sea State 5) waters
• Develop the ability to patrol the EEZ for future oil and gas platform protection
• Assume responsibility of the UNIFIL maritime task force in implementing Resolution 1701
• Expand naval basing
• Upgrade manpower abilities and training
Further, we have prioritized those objectives in four broad categories. Regarding material acquisitions, we list boats ranging in size from 20-60 meters, adding logistics vessels, and acquiring more fast patrol boats—especially rigid inflatables.
We also hope to establish naval bases, including one for logistics, as well as upgrading the facilities and training support of our naval school. As for personnel, our key goal is to recruit at the technological high school level to meet the challenges of new technologies and equipment. Finally, we would like to see more instruction abroad for both officers and enlisted ranks, while increasing the number of in-country, mobile training teams—especially from the United States—to enhance proficiency in maritime affairs as well as in repair and maintenance.
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I keep meaning to update this dog goned blog. But for the past week or so I've been running around like a crazy person. I've also got a bunch of requests for articles that I need to get to. If I can manage to think of something to write you should be seeing pieces by me in Shambala Sun, Whole Life Times and Alternative Press before too long.
It's kind of interesting to be so in-demand and yet at the same time so completely obscure. I've noticed a very modest rise in attendance at the Saturday morning Zazen sittings at the Hill Street Center. But the increase has been so slight that I am yet again convinced that my career as a writer and my work as a Zen teacher are two very different things.
Anyway, I'm gonna try and write a bit about my trip up to Northern California. Here's the gig-by-gig version.
TUESDAY JUNE 12, VIRGIN MEGASTORE, SAN FRANCISCO: I was pretty psyched about this gig since I'm a fan of the Virgin Megastore. Of the big chain record stores in the USA they tend to be the most well-stocked. In Tokyo, HMV took over that honor when Virgin closed its big shop in Shinjuku. But I've yet to see an HMV in the USA, so Virgin is still the best over here. I didn't draw an enormous crowd. But the people who did show up made up for that in their enthusiasm.
9 AM Interview with Gary Gach of BuddhistChannel.tv: This was a lot of fun. Gary's a long-time Zen student and San Francisco resident. He actually typed the answers I gave to his questions verbatim into his computer as I talked. I'd never seen that done before. Then he showed me some of the cool sights in SF's North Beach area.
1:30 PM Lunch at New World Library: I got to see where my new book was published and got to meet the people responsible. They also publish The Power of Now, which Paris Hilton bought and posed with before going to jail. So they have a huge blow-up of that photo on the wall. Nice place, nice people.
4 PM Radio Interview with Anthony Wright: A long in-depth interview for radio by another long-time Zennie from the Bay area. He tunes pianos for a living, so his show is called Atunements. This will be podcast later. I'll post a link here when I get it.
7:45 PM Radio Interview with Michael Sammet of KZSC in Santa Cruz: This was very cool cuz Michael had obviously read my new book thoroughly and had very specific questions. You don't normally get this in radio interviews. It's usually like, "So you were punk rock and now you're Zen, tell us about that." But actually none of this day's interviews were like that. We even had a phone caller on this one!
THURSDAY JUNE 14, GATEWAYS BOOK STORE in SANTA CRUZ: It took forever to get to Santa Cruz from San Francisco. Luckily I 'd stopped by Amoeba Records before I set out and bought a Yoko Ono compilation CD. It was all her early screamy stff, very hard to take but somehow a good soundtrack for endless traffic jams. I go back and forth on playing music while driving. Mostly it just annoys me these days unless it's something I actively want to listen to. I don't like to turn on the radio just to have some sound happening like most people seem to. I'm either actively listening to something or I just turn it off completely. Anyway, the bookstore was fun. Kind of a new agey shop like Bodhi Tree in LA, but smaller. Afterwards John Malkin, author of "Sounds of Freedom," who did a great interview with Nishijima Sensei (I need to find the link), took me to eat at the Satur'n Cafe. It's a vegetarian malt shop. Seriously.
(Prior to going down to Sant Cruz I met Mark Nagata, owner of one of the world's most extensive collections of Ultraman memorabilia. Very cool.)
2 PM Interview with Tony Dushane of Pirate Cat Radio: Fun interview at a cool coffee shop in the Mission district. Tony has interesting facial hair, a kind of Ghoulari-ish goatee. Wish I could grow one of those. The show's called Drinks With Tony, and can be found at drinkswithtony.com (my interview's not up yet, but keep checking)
7:30 PM After Dinner Talk at San Francisco Zen Center: This deserves an article of its own. I'm working on it. But for now I'll just say it was a very good crowd, all very interested in Dogen. There's way too much I want to say about SFZC than I can write here.
10:20 PM Interview with Richard Ciccarone at Pirate Cat Radio: Actually Richard does a show with a woman whose name I've totally forgotten. That was fun. The interview questions came off a Starbuck's application. It was actually really interesting to try and make philosophical type observations based on those.
SATURDAY JUNE 16, COPPERFIELD'S BOOKS in PETALUMA: Petaluma is this neat old town way North of San Francisco. I think it's even past the Marin County border in whatever county is next. This was an interesting crowd. They mostly looked kind of like Northern California former hippies, but they had a lot of good questions. I have a secret affection for ex-hippies. As a punk rocker, I'm supposed to hate the hippies. But I never have. In Zero Defex I used to wear bell bottoms sometimes just to annoy hippie-haters. I could go on and on and on about the Sixties. But I'll spare you. 1966 was obviously the peak year creatively. For all the talk of the Summer of Love in '67, to me that seems like the year when the whole thing started going sour. By '68, it was turning decisively negative and yet The Beatles did my 2nd favorite album of theirs that year (The White Album, their best is Revolver from '66). Blah-blah-blah...
8 AM Interview on KRON-TV with Henry Tannebaum: Tommy Strange, guitarist for Zero Defex and long-time resident of San Francisco told me he liked Henry Tannebaum's show Gardening With Henry, so I figured this would be all right. And it was. A very short interview with me in stupid Buddhist robes. Fun. I'll post it whenever the folks at New World Library get around to sending me the tape.
10 AM-NOON: Hanging out with Tommy Strange. You have weird interactions among the members of a band. Although you work together it seems like every four piece band will break down into two 2-person friendships and a more basic working relationship with the others. Me and Mike, the drummer, were friends in the Zero Defex days while I didn't ever get that close to Jimi (vocals) or Tommy. The first two times I saw Tommy in San Francisco after 20 years were a bit awkward. But now we're gradually turning into pals. Back in the day I was too in awe of Jimi or Tommy to be really friendly with them.
3 PM Green Gulch: I attended a precept ceremony at Green Gulch, SFZC's organic farm in Marin County. Very interesting place.
5 PM San Quentin Prison: I just wrote a very long article about this for the Suicide Girls website. It'll "go live" at Noon on Saturday June 23rd. See it there. And remember, you don't have to join to see the articles. And you won't see any titties and bums unless you actually sign up and pay money to do so. So don't worry.
On Monday I came back to LA. But life's adventure never stops.
Remember we have an all-day Zazen on Saturday June 23rd at the Hill Street Center (details to your left). There are stills spaces avaialbale. BUT YOU MUST RESERVE BY FRIDAY!!! Last month a couple people reserved at like 11PM Friday night or even sent mails we didn't get until Saturday morning, or just showed up. We really can't accomodate more than twelve people at these all-day things. Walk-ins are fine on the other days. But please reserve a spot early for the all-day ones. OK?


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[[Image:Vent advancement2.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Venturing advancement diagram. Graphically displays the Silver Award path, expert-level award paths, the Sea Scout Quartermaster Award path, and the Eagle Scout trail for eligible males.]]
[[Image:Vent advancement2.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Venturing advancement diagram. Graphically displays the Silver Award path, expert-level award paths, the Sea Scout Quartermaster Award path, and the Eagle Scout trail for eligible males.]]
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Boy Scouts, Venturers, Special Needs, Scout Spirit, and What is "Active?"
Program resources are offered for Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing, and Sea Scouting.
|— Advancement Policies #33088, pp. 36-38)
|The introduction to specific Venturing skills. Venturers may earn one or more of the five Bronze awards: Arts and Hobbies, Sports, Sea Scout, Outdoor, or Youth Ministries. One Bronze is required for Gold.
|Intermediate level requiring at least 12 months' tenure and work. Requirements are based on three areas: personal development, service, and leadership. Gold requires a pre-approved plan of action and a crew review board consisting of youth and adults conducted by the crew president. It is appropriate to present the award at a court of honor. Gold is required for Silver.
|This is the highest award for Venturers. In addition to earning a Bronze and Gold Award, Venturers do additional work in the areas of leadership, emergency preparedness, and ethics. Silver requires a pre-approved plan of action and a board of review.
The Venturing awards include Ranger, Quest, and TRUST awards:
|The Ranger Award is an additional award/growth opportunity based on outdoor/high adventure requirements. A Venturer must complete eight requirements and at least four of 18 electives. The Outdoor Bronze Award is half of Ranger. There is no board of review.
|The Quest Award is based on fitness and sports. A venturer must complete five core requirements and at least one of the five electives. There is no board of review. The Sports Bronze Award is the first requirement.
| The TRUST Award will help Venturers learn about themselves, their communities, their religion and culture, as well as those of others. They must complete five areas of requirements with the support of a religious leader in their community.
It is appropriate to present these awards at a court of honor or Eagle/Silver banquet, and to recognize them in local and school newspapers.
|The first step of the Sea Scout advancement program involves youth who are members of Sea Scouting and have learned the Sea Scout Promise and the Venturing Code and are active with a ship. They learn about seamanship, it's safety and customs, swimming, and working with ships as a crew member.
|The next step involves being active with the ship, explaining the Sea Scout emblem, understanding the history of the U. S. flag, participating in regular meetings, and learning special skills on the operation of boats, marlinspike seamanship techniques, yacht racing procedures, sailing abilities, ornamental rope work, and engine maintenance.
|This step involves the Scout in ship ceremonies, etiquette in boarding boats, ship participating, sharing of experiences with other youth, and showing proficiency in a variety of watercraft specialties.
| In addition to earning the above Sea Scout awards, the Quartermaster candidate must write and submit a paper on how their ship can contribute to the world fellowship of Scouting, be an active member of their ship, develop and conduct a service project and conduct a service project helpful to others, and show specialty skills in boating and marlinspike seamanship.
The Quartermaster rank/growth opportunity for Sea Scouts is based on seamanship skills. It requires a preapproval plan of action and a board of review. The Sea Scouting Bronze is half of Quartermaster.
Past Credit
|— Advancement Policies #33088, p. 38)
Multiple Credit
|— Advancement Policies #33088, p. 38)
Boy Scouting Rank Advancement for Venturers
Scouts who earn the First Class rank while a registered member of a Boy Scout troop may elect to continue working toward Eagle as a registered member of the Boy Scout troop or a registered member of a Venturing crew, or while retaining dual membership in a Venturing Crew, or while retaining dual membership registration in both a troop/team and a Venturing crew. Whichever registration status a boy elects, both Scoutmaster and crew Advisor need to confirm which adult leader the boy plans to have oversee his advancement process toward the rank of Eagle. That selected leader needs too be fully cognizant of the 12 steps from Life to Eagle (see description in this manual), the timeline requirements of certain merit badgess required for Eagle (see the current edition of Boy Scout Requirements), and the requirements of the Eagle Scout leadership service project (see reference in this manual).
Position of responsibility requirements may be met by the Venturer serving as president vice president secretary, or treasurer in his crew, or as boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, or storekeeper in his ship.
The Scoutmaster conference will be conducted by the Advisor or Skipper.
As the Venturer meets the requirements for the Star and Life ranks, a board of review is conducted by the crew or ship committee. The Eagle board of review follows the procedure established by the local council.
| Sea Scout advancements are approved by the ship's quarterdeck. In the case of the Quartermaster Award, the application is reviewed by the ship's committee with a member of the district advancement committee as chairman. Since the Quartermaster Award is a Venturing recognition, it may be earned by any young man or young woman registered as a Venturer.
All work on all Venturing advancement must be completed prior to the young person's 21st birthday.
Merit Badges
Venturers who earn the First Class rank while a registered member of a Boy Scout troop or Varsity team may continue to earn merit badges until their 18th birthday.
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Guide To Advancement, 2011 Edition (BSA Supply SKU #N/A)


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This Day in Sports History — August 26
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on August 26:
1933 — Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody lost a match for the first time since 1926 — breaking a stretch of 158 straight victories — at the United States nationals at Forest Hills, NY. (More info.)
1939 — TV station W2XBS transmitted the first-ever telecast of a major league game: the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. (More info.)
1960 — Swimmer John Devitt of Australia was awarded the gold medal over American Lance Larson in the 100-meter freestyle final at the Summer Olympics in Rome, even though experimental electronic timers showed Larson with a faster time. (More info.)
1962 — Jack Kralick of the Minnesota Twins no-hit the Kansas City Athletics, 1-0, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota. (More info.)
1972 — The Summer Olympics opened at Munich, Germany. (More info.)
1991 — Bret Saberhagen of the Kansas City Royals no-hit the Chicago White Sox, 7-0, in Kansas City. (More info.)
1999 — American Michael Johnson set the world record in the 400 meters in 43.18 seconds at the World Track and Field Championships in Seville, Spain. (More info.)


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Monday, May 14, 2012
Mothers Day
At the end of the day, shortly before the sun was down, she made our tree glow.
So beautiful! The blossoms in the shade looked purple.
During the day I had fun with the dogs.
Denny was worried that I was going to take away the new toy, since it was a present for me. It makes me happy when I see them playing with new toys.
The day before Mothers Day my DD and I baked a carrot cake. It's gluten free, and I was not sure how it would turn out. We've used coconut flour for it. (this above photo was taken after the cake was in the fridge for a while)
I shouldn't have worried, because this was the best carrot cake I've ever tasted. Especially right after we had assembled it, and cut it, the cream cheese icing was still a little soft. Yum!
In the afternoon, I finished spinning some fiber, which will be sock yarn soon. Here's a bobbin shot.
Oh, and I've got a new sheepy coffee mug, look, it's eying my piece of cake!
With all that cake eating, we finished the day off with a nice walk with Denny, Happy, and DD and I.
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8 comments:
- Queen of the Tea Cosies said...
Beautiful. Happy Mothers Day Monika.
- May 14, 2012 1:54 a.m.
- CelticCastOn said...
Happy Mother's Day to you!
I made a carrot cake for the first time this weekend too.
Denny looks so cute and innocent with his toy :)
- May 14, 2012 5:25 a.m.
- TracyKM said...
Is that the carrot cake from "Wheat Belly"? If not, can you share where you got the recipe? I want to make one next month and thought I should test it, but if you say it's great, then I won't need to test it :)
- May 14, 2012 8:48 a.m.
- Lindsay said...
I can't decide which photo makes me the happiest. Denny is adorable, that cake looks to die for, and I so love the spinning and coffee mug.
- May 14, 2012 2:32 p.m.
- Linda said...
MMMM, gluten free carrot cake? Sounds like a must-try, and soon. Yours looks delicious!
Oh, and I like the dog's newest toy.
- May 14, 2012 3:56 p.m.
- Virginia said...
Happy Mother's Day!
Love that shot of the tree. Also the one of the Denny.
By the way, due to your (maybe bad) influence, I have plans to purchase spinning supplies at the Webs tent sale this weekend. :)
- May 14, 2012 8:24 p.m.
- Stephanie said...
Cake looks yummy! Do you have the recipe? I have Celiac disease, so I have to eat gluten free. Thanks! (sjn821)
- May 17, 2012 11:38 a.m.
- 2paw said...
Glad you had a lovely Mothers' Day, I can see why Denny was worried you'd want his toy!! the cake looks delicious and sounds yummy too!!
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