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- 1 Schedule Recordings
- 2 Set Priorities
- 3 Upcoming Recordings
- 4 Delete Recordings
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Schedule Recordings
Program Guide
The electronic program guide (EPG), allows you to see what is currently being shown on the channels you receive. The EPG is color coded, each color represents a different category of show. The colors are determined by the theme currently being used and can be customized by editing the file "ui.xml" in the directory for the theme.
The guide needs data from somewhere. In North America you can get this data from Data Direct, in other parts of the world you use XMLTV. mythfilldatabase retrieves the program data and should be run nightly. Starting with version 0.19, DVB-T sources can use EIT to build the program guide.
Program Finder
The Program Finder allows searching by letter or number to find what shows are available. In the left hand column, select the appropriate letter. In the second column, a list of titles is available. In the third column will be a list of times the show is airing.
A description of the program appears at the top of the screen, showing the original air date and the time and channel of the next airing.
Search Words
Search Lists
New titles
Custom Record
Manual Schedule
Manual Schedule allows the MythTV user to manually enter parameters to be used for recording. This is very similar to controls that were made popular on VCR (video cassette recorder) devices.
The options are very straightforward and simple to use:
Channel: The desired channel to be recorded
Date or day of the week: This can be set to record a show up to two months in the future.
Time: The start time of the recording. Can be selected in 5 minute increments.
Duration: From 1 to 360 minutes
Title (optional)
Once this information is entered, the next step is to Set Recording Options.
Set Priorities
Upcoming Recordings
This screen lists all of the scheduled recordings, showing the time, channel, and title. When a program is actually recording, the text is shown in a red font; normally, it is green. Once a program has been recorded, it is removed from this list by MythTV.
Delete Recordings
Should you desire to erase any of your recordings, this is the screen to do it from. A list of all currently saved recordings is presented, along with a helpful thumbnail video preview of the content and a status bar indicating how much disk space has been used and how much is still free.
To delete a video, scroll to the selection, and press the "OK" button on the remote. A confirmation screen will appear; select "Yes, delete it" and the video is erased. This screen defaults to "No", so should you accidentally press "OK" here, your video will still be saved.
Previously Recorded
As its name implies, the Previously Recorded screen showcases all of the titles that have been recorded by your MythTV box. This is useful for making sure you do not record a program you already have. Should you desire to do so, however, just select the program and another screen will show with the following options:
Allow this episode to re-record Remove this episode from the list Remove all episodes for this title
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Monday, July 23, 2007
The Business Advantage of Rails
It's important to realize that the greatest strength of Rails is not what but who. Rails places huge emphasis on making programmers happy. What makes programmers happy? Elegant systems which make them productive and take tiresome, tedious bullshit out of their daily lives. People who value that are the people you want to hire.
The technology you choose will shape the people you hire, and the people you hire will shape your culture. People who get tiresome, tedious bullshit out of their way forever are great people to work with. Conversely, tolerating tiresome, tedious bullshit without ever fixing it is absolutely not a character trait you want your hiring process to be biased in favor of. Think about the effect that this decision has on your corporate culture. You want to bias your corporate culture against wasting time, and against putting up with problems that could be solved gracefully and easily. It is infinitely easier to bias your organization's culture in favor of these traits by hiring Rails programmers than it is to filter Java programmers for those same traits (for example).
Joel Spolsky's hiring rule is "Smart and Gets Things Done". The implicit hiring rule if you're hiring a Rails programmer is "Smart, Gets Things Done, and Is Happy." This is very very much better, as a hiring rule. The reasons are utterly simple. Interacting with other people is a huge part of working. Corporate politics are inevitable, because politics is really just the art of getting people to agree on what they're going to do. But even though corporate politics are inevitable, dysfunctional corporate politics are not. The politics of happy people are infinitely preferable to the politics of unhappy people.
It sounds touchy-feely but "Is Happy" should be a hiring priority right up there with "Smart" and "Gets Things Done", and Rails is one way to make that happen. Programmer happiness is a guiding design principle in both Ruby and Rails. One reason people work with Rails is because they value their own happiness. If everybody you hire prioritizes their own happiness, the corporate culture which results will probably be a healthy one. If you want to get something done, give it to the busiest person you know; if you want the process to be fun, make sure the busiest person you know is also somebody very happy.
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Interesting post, but I will not say that "programmer happiness" is a "business" goal, unless maybe you are in the programming business ;o)ReplyDelete
Ah yes, clearly the measure of complexity is how many pages you can write about something. Never mind that Hibernate has entire books written on it and Struts and JSF each have entire books written on them... Many entire books... Many longer than 700 pages... While I don't like being a fanboy much, that's a very bad measurement there.ReplyDelete
@franck - but I am in the programming business! every programmer is, by definition. I think you can actually generalize this out to any kind of knowledge work. what makes accountants happy? clean books. if accounting processes at Enron had been optimized for accountant happiness, Enron would have been a very different company.ReplyDelete
this whole line of reasoning assumes honest people who like to work, but I think that if you start with that assumption, it can become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
@shadowfiend - I had to delete that post. the bit about Rails being nothing but hype was rude, and I have a zero tolerance policy about that. I'm extracting the bit you responded to:ReplyDelete
The RoR book from Thomas & Heinemeier Hansson has approx 700 pages. 3 chapters are devoted to ActiveRecord alone. This complexity doesn't make me happy.
This comment is like a complaint that snowboarding isn't fun because to learn how you have to fall down in the snow. Obviously there's always a tradeoff between the hard work to learn how to do something and the pleasure of actually doing it.
I think the original poster will find, if they keep learning Rails, that the actual experience of coding Rails and working with it is a lot of fun.
I don't mean that Rails is effortless and will enable you to make money without actually working. I just mean that the work you do is very satisfying, and more satisfying than the work you would do to get identical results with different systems.
Obviously, however, I'm going to have to rethink my thesis, because it's partly untrue. Rails makes diligent programmers happy, but it also attracts people who complain about hard work, and worse yet, the "hard work" of learning the most newbie-friendly serious Web framework there is.
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2007 at 5:14:00 PM PDT
You said "Rails makes programmers happy". Well, I'm a programmer and, it does not make me happy. I don't like working in Rails at all. And I think I have give it a fair chance.ReplyDelete
I like working in Java, Python, and even C. But not Rails. I can't really put my finger on what exactly I don't like about Rails. I just don't enjoy developing in it as much as I do in the other platforms I listed.
Maybe I just drank too much Kool-Aid.ReplyDelete
I agree with hiring happy developers, and keeping them that way with technology that doesn't suck.ReplyDelete
Re: Ruby
Even though I don't like the title of this guy's post (he refers to your post), I think he makes a good point that even in Ruby the complexity can get out of hand, and that a good refactoring tool would be nice. Does such a beast exist? As I read his post I had the thought that Squeak/Smalltalk has a refactoring browser, so you can refactor in it. In terms of Ruby being like Smalltalk, it would be nice if Ruby was more like Smalltalk in more than just language syntax.
I think you're conflating frameworks and languages here. What about developers who choose to use Ruby *without Rails*?ReplyDelete
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I'm doing it again, and I can't seem to stop myself. I tried to give up the "driving like an idiot" thing for Lent. I failed. Right now I bet even God is peeved with me.
Then again, I'd like to see Him spend a few hours behind the wheel of the new BMW 1 Series M Coupe, the whole time driving civilly. Not a prayer. As far as I can tell, this car was built for one purpose: Get from point A to point B in as little time possible.
It's not especially big, nor could it be described as a practical car. It's not an especially stunning car to look at compared to, say, an X6. It does, however, have an uncanny ability to kick major ass, and therein lies the attraction
This particular model was festooned in BMW's Valencia Orange, which left it with all the subtlety of an Abrams tank in a supermarket parking lot. Its hue had a magnetic effect on eyes, causing people to stare and drop their groceries on children trapped in car seats. And of course, there was the burble, a demonic rasp spouting from the tailpipes. I think a few old ladies crossed themselves as I drove by.
I remember thinking the 1 M was something of a pointless exercise. For a few grand more you could get a proper M3 and all of its utilitarian goodness. The way I feel right now, I could give a damn about the M3 (and it's one of my favorite cars ever).
I'm trying to figure out why I like this car so much. I had the same problem with the X6 M, another car that makes little sense and yet manages to throw gasoline on the desire fire.
I could go on about how nice BMWs behave, how well they are assembled, the niceties of a four-year full maintenance package. To be honest, that type of thing is fairly common in the European market. You're paying a premium price and I suppose it should be expected.
But there's something extra-special about BMWs, something almost unquantifiable.
My sister-in-law is a partner in a successful medical group. She gets a healthy car allowance (in lieu of healthcare). Whatever. In any case, I let her drive a new X5 with the 4.4-liter V8. She made a whole bunch of weird noises while she was driving it, very sensual noises. It freaked me out.
We got her home and the next day she went off to Crevier BMW (a big BMW dealer in Orange County) and got an X5. She and her BMW could now be alone and woo each other in private.
She came by a few days later. Her car sounded like it was about to throw a rod from the block.
"Ummmm… I think there's something wrong with the carburetor or something," she explained.
I tried my best to give her a rundown of modern cars. Her eyes sort of glassed over. Regardless, something was seriously amiss with the X5, something I couldn't fix with a garage full of Craftsman tools. The BMW was flat-bedded to the dealer and she was given a loaner car in the interim. Three weeks later, the BMW techs still couldn't figure it out.
Sadly, she had to invoke the Lemon Law and was refunded her money. She went to the nearest Acura dealer and got an MDX. It made me sad.
In less than two weeks she was back at Crevier to trade the MDX for another X5. Yeah, that's pretty crazy—but so are a lot of women (I'm sorry, people).
"The Acura was a huge letdown after the X5," she told me. "The MDX did nothing for me. It was boring compared the BMW."
It's been more than eight months now and it appears the X5 is behaving beautifully, just like an X5 should.
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Kahlil Gibran "Spirit of Excommunicated Libertarian Conservatism" Awards
That quote encapsulates one of the best lessons I've learned from AAI President and co-founder Jim Zogby who, along with AAI Chairman George Salem and many others, is largely responsible for putting Arab-Americans on the map politically. Four years ago, when a number of the Presidential candidates came to Michigan for the AAI's Leadership Conference, Jim corrected one of the Democrat candidates' campaigns, who told him "first we're going to talk about our issues, and then we're going to talk about your issues (meaning Patriot Act, Middle East Peace Process, etc)." Jim bluntly responded, "Your issues are our issues, and our issues are your issues." (continued...)
Arab-Americans marked what one North Jerseyan called the "feel-good day of the year" (that was me) and another called their version of the Oscars with a black-tie awards gala in Washington on Wednesday, honoring leaders and groups who promote the common good...Attendees from North Jersey said the dinner highlights the diversity of Arab-Americans, who come from many countries, span the political spectrum and are as likely to be Christian as Muslim.
"It's like a pilgrimage for me," said Sherine El-Abd of Clifton, a member of the Arab American Institute's board of directors who has been attending the dinners since they started in 1999. "It's a time when you get really energized, and emphasizes the pride we have in our heritage." Hesham Mahmoud of Rutherford was most excited about the chance to hear a speech from [Nebraska Senator Chuck] Hagel, a conservative and critic of the war in Iraq.
...Mahmoud and El-Abd are active in Republican politics, and Samer Khalaf of Paramus is co-chairman of the Arab American Democratic Caucus. He said he has seen a change in political attitudes toward Arab-Americans in the past eight years.
George Ajjan of Clifton, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2004 against Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of Paterson, agreed. "Issues that are important to Arab-Americans are important to all Americans," Ajjan said. "Just because Arab-Americans have emotional feelings about the Middle East, it does not mean we're not as concerned about tax cuts, health care, civil rights and other things."
Without a doubt, the remarks made by Hagel, whose status as a favorite in the Arab-American community cuts across partisan lines, were the highlight. He began by joking that he "always savor(s) the opportunity to be with George Salem's rich and influential friends. For those of you who are not rich and influential, I am sorry you are here."
He described Arab-American input into the political process as "part of the arc of wise counsel that American leaders listen to" and then made one of his very few characteristic references to the Iraq War during the evening by saying, "it will matter little how many US marines or paratroopers we put in any country." Endorsing an expansion of regional dialog to include "Iran and Syria" (yawn), he said, "I've never found a situation in which things get better if you don't deal with them."
Hagel scored a very big hit with the audience by recounting his run-ins with the so-called "Israeli lobby" (that term has about as much finesse as the word "neoconservative"), in particular with one journalist who suggested that his support for Israel was not strong enough. Hagel asked rhetorically, "How do you measure my support?" He then mentioned signing lobbying letters, casting votes, or things he said publicly. The response was that the concerned parties "Can't count on [Hagel] as an 'automatic'". He asserted:
"I am a supporter of Israel, but first I am an American Senator. No relationship should ever be founded on holding hostage other relationships. Why can't I have a relationship with Israel not at the expense of my friends in the Arab world or the Muslim world. Why must it be a choice? It is not a choice."The rest of Hagel's talk, which was delivered in a very personal way and not from notes, was more anecdotal and philosophical in nature:
"The history of man is clear on one point – the human condition has always driven events – bondage, poverty, despair. When man is without dignity, little else matters...God didn't put us on this Earth to hurt each other, that was our choice...It is man made in its challenge, and it will be man-made in its answer...We are making a better world...every human being on the face of the Earth should have the opportunity to do more than just exist."He then surprised everyone with a personal anecdote that has to rank as one of the greatest moments in the history of the Gibran Awards. After joking that his mother only allowed "one lawyer per family, one politician per family", he talked about how his younger brother Jim was killed in car accident 6 months after he and his brother Tom had returned from Vietnam. On his brother Jim's tombstone is a quote from Gibran himself, from A Tear and a Smile. Hagel then suggested that it was a bit bizarre that they picked an Arab for their brother's tombstone. Since the family was Catholic, it would be more expected to pick something from St. Francis or a Pope.
Perhaps Hagel did not recognize the fact that Gibran was a Catholic himself [insert standard argument here about how not all Muslims are Arab, not all Arabs are Muslim], but this was corrected by one of the evening's other award recipients, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, who pointed it out.
However, technically speaking Hagel was correct, because as very few people know, Khalil Gibran was excommunicated from the Catholic Church after the publication of Spirits Rebellious. The Maronite authorities later rescinded his excommunication and he was given an elaborate funeral.
Why would such a great man be excommunicated from the Church? Well, the quote selected by another star of the Arab-American community, Washington Post Middle East correspondent Anthony Shadid, illustrates Gibran's controversial views rather well.
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."Not exactly Catholic dogma. Gibran was a classic Syrian nationalist, and a secular hero in the mold of Antoun Saadeh, founder of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) or Abraham Mitrie Rihbany, who wrote The Syrian Christ and was chosen by various Syrian-American organizations to represent them at the Paris Peace Conference following WW I. How interesting that 3 of the most prominent Syrian nationalists were all "Lebanese"...
Gibran wrote extensively on his political ideas, as the following quote may sound familiar:
"Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?"He was a conservative...
"I believe that even as your fathers came to this land to produce riches, you were born here to produce riches by intelligence, by labor...to be a good citizen is to produce wealth by labor and only by labor, and to spend less than you have produced that your children may not be dependent on the state for support when you are no more,"a libertarian...
"And what is it to be a good citizen? It is to acknowledge the other person's rights before asserting your own, but always to be conscious of your own. It is to be free in thought and deed, but it is to know that your freedom is subject to the other person's freedom,"and, as I mentioned last year as I quoted Gibran's piece To Young Americans of Syrian Origin, an inspiration to Arab-Americans:
"...stand before the towers of New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco saying in your heart, 'I am the descendant of a people that built Damascus, and Biblus, and Tyre and Sidon, and Antioch, and now I am here to build with you, and with a will.'As for the event itself, there are several other individuals who graced the stage that I should mention. First is New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. He spoke first and basically pandered, mentioning bluntly that he would close down Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons. He also said he would "look into" problems with the Patriot Act. Look into? Excuse me, but are Sections 213, 215, 216, and 505 buried under 50 feet of solid rock? Richardson spoke a bit of Spanish for good measure and then apologized for his last name.
It is to be proud of being an American, but it is also to be proud that your fathers and mothers came from a land upon which God laid His gracious hand and raised His messengers.
Although, in his defense, I have to say I respect Richardson's diplomatic credentials and familiarity with international affairs, even if I don't necessarily agree with his actions or positions. He's a Democrat President I could probably live with.
Then came California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who I must admit, was quite good, at least as far as liberal windbags go. She was way better than Princess Pelosi was in 2004, for example. Feinstein won over the audience by speaking forcefully against cluster bombs:
"I'm not here to talk to you about cluster bombs, we will lose that fight, but I will be back next year, and the year after that, and the year after that…we will ban cluster munitions!!!"Feinstein prasied Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for making repeated trips to the region, and for expressing her willingness to meet with Iranian diplomats at the ministerial level. She distanced herself about 8 picometers from the status quo in Washington by stating that she supports the diplomatic engagement of "Iran and Syria" (surprise, surprise), saying, "I really believe in this kind of diplomacy – sitting down at the table with someone with whom you disagree."
Feinstein endorsed the Arab Peace Initiative, and spoke about the briefing given to the Senate by General Petraeus. Feinstein said it was the largest attendance of any confidential briefing she's ever seen, and that virtually every Senator was there.
Finally, she said that she hopes the US "learns from preemptive war – it's the wrong thing to do." Hopefully Ms. Feinstein herself will learn that voting to authorize preemptive war, as she did back in 2002, and then pandering with criticism when it's politically safe to do so years later after thousands have died, is also the wrong thing to do.
AAI Chairman George Salem spoke about his work with the Aspen Institute, and mentioned that the organization was involved with the granting of $300 million of microloans in the West Bank and Gaza. He then introduced Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Dina Habib Powell, who led a business delegation to Lebanon, bringing executives from Cisco (CEO John Chambers) and Intel (which has extensive operations in Israel), as well as Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani and Yousif Ghafari, a successful businessman from Michigan who now serves the United States as a diplomat to the UN (and whose family supported my campaign in 2004). Powell boasted that she met with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and "the entire cabinet" (and by "the entire cabinet" she means, the members of the cabinet that we like, not the Hezbollah ministers who were democratically chosen.)
A contrasting view of Lebanon was given by Anthony Shadid, as he spoke about his coverage of the Summer War of 2006, particularly the attacks on Qana, which he described as "supported by the US and tacitly accepted and encouraged by some in Lebanon itself." Shadid is terrifically humble, he referred to his role as journalist by citing the proverb: A donkey that carries Jesus on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem still comes back a donkey.
Shadid mentioned 2 bad predictions he made: one was just before 911, when he told a colleague that the bin Laden threat was overrated, and another earlier last summer when he told his ex-wife that Beirut was the safest it had been in 30 years. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist then launched a discussion of the destruction he'd witnessed in the region, saying, "I've covered the repercussions of those mis-predictions...we've lost sight of the humanity of the Middle East."
With that, I strongly agree. But despite the turmoil overseas, the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards remains, for proud and fortunate Arab-Americans, "the feel-good day of the year."
Dina Habib Powell wants everyone to know that she used to bring leftover mloukhia to school for lunch and that she is a good friend of Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin.
I know, خليل should be spelled Khalil, but Gibran himself spelled it Kahlil.


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Why is Gingrich pushing Dinesh D'Souza's crazy theory about Obama's "Kenyan anti-colonialism"?
The release of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza prompts a perennial question: Why do people keep publishing books by Dinesh D'Souza?
There's a simple answer. Newt Gingrich provided it to me and National Review's Robert Costa on Saturday night. After the premiere of his documentary America at Risk, Gingrich mused about the brilliance of D'Souza's Forbes magazine cover story about the "roots of Obama's rage," based on his upcoming book with that title. The roots, according to D'Souza, were in mid-1960s, Marxist-inspired, Kenyan anti-colonialism. Gingrich repeated those words—"Kenyan, anti-colonial"—and called the article "brilliant."
"I'm going to actually get it, post it, and send to people regularly," said Gingrich. "It's the most interesting insight. You guys," he said, nodding at Costa, "might want to do a conference on it, unless AEI does it."
Getting Newt Gingrich to endorse your article is, in the year 2010, a nuclear trigger. Within a few hours, Gingrich was condemned by every Democrat with blogging software. The D'Souza thesis became the latest conservative idea denounced by Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman who likes to defuse grenades by jumping on top of them.
And that's the answer to the "Why publish D'Souza?" question. It should be obvious by now that there is literally no conservative argument too "crazy" to be obsessed over by liberals. Every time a new one surfaces, they try to run it out of the mainstream by drawing extra attention to it. In 2008, Obama campaign's strategy was to refuse to comment on rumors or conspiracy talk—until the campaign launched a Web site in June devoted to debunking all of it. In 2010, the Democratic strategy is to freak out, all the time, about everything. It's not going so well, but that's largely because the economy isn't going so well, either.
Still, it's jarring to see D'Souza making the latest attack. His book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, is a mess. His most memorable previous books were messes, too. Every time he publishes a new mess, it gets the full Pastor Jones treatment in the respectable press. That's had basically no effect on his ability to get published or his ability to get onto the stage at conservative conferences. But it is good for liberals. D'Souza was the first modern conservative author to discover—the hard way—that if you want to be a pundit, there is no downside to making a reprehensible argument. The downside comes for the people who may agree with your politics but not your argument.
The start of the D'Souza phenomenon came in 1995, when he published The End of Racism. Written to ride the wave of books and articles that called for white America to get over its racial guilt, it included lines like the "American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." It was so sloppy and unconvincing that it killed the genre for a few years; it's a 700-page doorstop by a one-time AEI scholar that no one cites today. The next D'Souza implosion came in 2007, with the publication of another book that killed its genre. The Enemy at Home consisted of an argument that the "left" was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. That was an irresistible hook for a publisher, especially after the public had turned on the Bush administration and the war on terror. But D'Souza made such a hash out of it that the people who had danced around the left-and-9/11 idea realized how deeply stupid it was. Victor Davis Hanson joined the mob and pointed out, as politely as he could, that D'Souza's enemies list was "nonsensical."
So The Roots of Obama's Rage is D'Souza's third pseudo-academic swing for the fences. In the book, and in the Forbes article that Gingrich plans to spread far and wide, he strikes out. D'Souza's point is that Obama's Dreams From My Father and his father's 1965 report on socialism tell us all we need to know about why his love for America is a little limp, but he pads out the book and the article with a lot of meandering and dross about how he came to this conclusion. As in The End of Racism, he performs a pre-emptive ad hominem rebuttal to critics.
"I'm a native of Mumbai, India," D'Souza writes in the new book, "so I grew up in a different part of the world, as Obama did. I'm nonwhite, as he is. He had a white mom and grew up in an inter-racial family." (In 1995, he wrote: "I feel especially qualified to address the subject of multiculturalism because I am a kind of walking embodiment of it. I was born in Bombay, India in 1961.") This is the literary equivalent of putting on eyeglasses so a bully won't hit you.
Well, the hits are deserved. D'Souza admits to readers that this is his third crack at a Grand Unifying Theory of Obama, after a Hobbesian take he called "Obama's Leviathan" and an argument that "Obama got his big government philosophy from the civil rights era." Only after seeing Obama give a definition of "American exceptionalism" that didn't sound right did D'Souza go back to Obama's books and realize that the president was cribbing his politics from 1960s Marxist and anti-colonial theory.
"This is intellectual terrain I know well," he writes. Obama "demonizes his predecessor and his opponents," according to D'Souza, because he looks to former Kenyan Prime Minister and President Jomo Kenyatta as an inspiration. That creates a mystery about why George W. Bush criticized Bill Clinton or Clinton criticized Bush's father, but never mind: D'Souza's rolling. D'Souza looks at Obama's 2008 campaign and sees "social and cultural whitening" and the "triumph of lactification," a word he invents to describe said whitening. While everyone else read Dreams From My Father and saw Obama burning with disappointment in Barack Sr., D'Souza sees a man burning with "hatred derived from the debris of the anti-colonial wars." Even the title of Obama's book becomes ominous, when D'Souza takes his third crack at analyzing it: "[T]here have been cases of men who are so preoccupied with their dark dreams that they have difficulty adjusting to contemporary reality. The dream, as it were, becomes a time machine."
Read this book, or the version mystifyingly splashed on the cover of Forbes, and you have to think that D'Souza has ruined a very fun game for conservatives. He's taken a not-so-subtle political trick—the intimation that Obama must be hiding something about his past, something that reveals why he's been such a left-wing president—and made it much more difficult. That's because the quest to find anti-colonial sentiment in Obama's biography reminds us that, in fact, Obama has never tried to cover up this part of his past. If he had, the first lines of his star-making 2004 DNC speech screwed that up.
"My father was a foreign student," said Obama, "born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father—my grandfather—was a cook, a domestic servant to the British."
There's nothing in that speech about Obama Sr.'s 1965 musing about confiscatory taxes, but here's the man making his national political debut by hinting at the "source of his rage": colonialism. He seemed to have gotten over it. And if pulling that one quote from this speech to make a point seems cheap, it's less of a stretch then poring over, literally, a few dozen pages of a best-selling memoir to argue that the man who favored a smaller stimulus than Paul Krugman and a wider war in Afghanistan than Joe Biden is a closet Mau Mau.
What will be the impact of D'Souza's book? If 1995 and 2007 repeat themselves, Gingrich will be the exception—people in the rest of the movement will realize just how tissue-thin this research is. If they realize that, they may then look askance at Glenn Beck's search for similar evidence of Obama's radical history. They may even question the wisdom of questioning Obama's birthplace. Could the search for some skeleton key in Obama's past be a distraction? It could be! If it were a book, it could be called the The End of Birtherism.


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COLDWATER � Students at the Branch Area Careers Center recently did their part to help homeless Head Start students in Branch and Hillsdale Counties. The students from the business, management marketing technologies program, health science program and staff collected donations, underwear, socks and sweat suits. Jeanna Tesch, Branch County McKinney-Vento Circle of Care coordinator, said there is a need to provide clothing items, especially new socks and underwear, for students in both counties. �The fundraiser went over well,� Tesch said. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act is a federal law that ensures immediate enrollment and educational stability for homeless children and youth. McKinney-Vento provides federal funding to states for the purpose of supporting district programs that serve homeless students. Tesch said the federal funding for the program has been cut over the past couple of years and coordinators have had to look to other methods to raise funds and receive donations for the program. Tesch works closely with homeless liaisons at each school system in both counties. The current number of homeless students in both counties is around 765. �It is unbelievable,� Tesch said. �I think there needs to be more awareness brought to this problem.� Homeless students include children who are doubled up living with friends or relatives, unattended youth (students who live on their own) and those living in hotels, motels and campgrounds. �We help to provide services for them including free lunches, transportation and immediate needs of the students,��Tesch said. Tesch said several schools around the area have stepped up to raise funds and donations to help students. Reynolds Elementary School in Reading currently is collecting hats, gloves and scarves. Coldwater recently held a 5K Turkey Trot to raise funds and other schools are having pop can drives. Tesch, who works out of offices at the Branch County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said donations are taken throughout the year. �New socks and underwear are golden to us,� she said, because that is something people don�t think about donating. The Branch County Coalition Against Domestic Violence is located at 220 North Michigan Ave. in Coldwater.�
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Cat won't jump - Posted by Zuena
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Hi everyone,
I am hoping someone can help me.
I have two cats, they are 4 months old and identical. They were abandoned - placed in a box and left in a field - when they were 4 weeks old. I adopted them at 5 weeks.
I had them checked out by a vet at that time and they were found to be neglected but in good health otherwise.
They have since grown into two beautiful, shiny black cats and they are thriving.
The only problem is that the younger one (I only call her younger because she is slightly smaller than her sister) won't jump. She doesn't seem to mind jumping down from something but she never goes up higher than my bed or a chair. She often gets stuck outside at night because she jumps on my chair, then the desk, which is right next to the window, and out... then she sits outside the door crying for me to let her in.
I have tried everything I could think of. I have put wet food on the window sill as a bribe, place a bucket upside down next to the window so she can jump on there and then up on the window sill, I have even lifted her up onto the window sill from outside - nothing works. She doesn't even try. Her sister always ends up gobbling up the bribe treat. When I walk around the garden, her sister is up the trees and on the perimeter wall in a flash - not her.. just just trails behind me.
I have noticed that the nails on her right front paw don't seem to want to retract properly. She is always getting stuck to my duvet or anything that is covered with material.
The only thing that I can think of is that there is some deformity in her legs - but I have noticed nothing. She moves normally and she never cries or seems to be in pain.
I am very concerned as there are massive dogs next door, and if she somehow lands up there and they chase her, she won't be able to get away.
The other question that I have, never having owned a cat before - when is a good age to get them spayed?
Does anyone have a suggestion or some advice please?
I have nothing to add however if there is fear that she may not be able to save herself outside...then keep both cats safe indoors.
I am certain others will be able to give you further advice.
There are many reason for a cat not being able to jump or simply not wanting to jump. They can range from leg injuries to hip issues to problems with depth perception to epilepsy and more. It would be a good idea to have your kitty checked by the vet to be safe. I echo BenMax's statement though. If she can't jump properly she really should not be outside - period. Neither should her sister. Better safe than sorry. A dog intent on getting it's prey will do just about anything to get it. I would hate to see your cats come to any harm.
As for a good age to get them fixed - some vets will spay as young as 8 weeks. Some want the cat to be at least 2 pounds. Some want to wait till the cat is six months as before that the organs are very tiny. It will depend on your vet. For right now it is also another reason why it's a good idea to keep them indoors. A female cat can go into heat as early as 4 months.
:sorry::offtopic: If you insist they have to be outside and you are worried about them coming to harm with your neighbours dogs (or cars) have you looked into cat proofing your yard so they can't escape? You can do this by either building them a small enclosure that is completely fenced in or you can have a cat proof top installed on your fence to keep them in. Here's a couple of sites that will give you tons of ideas to keep your babies safe. -
And thank you for rescuing them. :highfive:
I wonder if, due to the claws not working properly, your kitten sustained a fall so frightening and so early in her jumping career to turn her off? Or if the same cause of her dislocated claw joints (which may be due to congenital deformity or even due to abuse during early growth from whoever was callous enough to toss her out in a field) also caused other bone, joint, or muscle damage that is not easily seen on a regular physical exam?
Thank you for all the replies.
I will take her to the vet this week and have her checked out.
I suspect she was hurt by whoever abandoned her. Unlike Jeddy (her sister) she is not very affectionate and she shies away when I want to touch her, especially when she comes towards me and I want to rub her head. At night, when she cries outside and I let her in, I have to stand away from the door and then she shoots in past me. If I stand right in front of her she won't come in.
I understand that cats also regulate their own food intake and unlike dogs. won't gobble up all the food in the bowl just because it is there. I notice Jeddy eats little bits at a time but Miss Miley just eats and eats until there is nothing left, and then she will still beg for my food when I am eating. I think it's psychological and a result of being abandoned. She obviously got the worst of it.
Thanks again for all the replies - I am taking them both to get spayed and I will bring all this up with the vet.
Take care,
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Please give us an update after you have seen the vet.
We love pics. :D Thanks for posting them.
They are both adorable kitties! :lovestruck:
I understand that cats also regulate their own food intake and unlike dogs. won't gobble up all the food in the bowl just because it is there. I notice Jeddy eats little bits at a time but Miss Miley just eats and eats until there is nothing left, and then she will still beg for my food when I am eating. I think it's psychological and a result of being abandoned. She obviously got the worst of it.
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Welcome to the board. Hopefully all will check out fine at the vets. :pray:
Not all cats are jumpers, some are worse than others. Jasper wouldn't jump up for a long time after I got him, but I suspect he was used as a stud and kept in a cage for the first 5 years of his life. Rose is very similar to Jasper, she doesn't seem to have any interest in being high, she grew up in a factory for the first 3 years of her life. Now Sweet Pea and Puddles are jumpers. They like to rule the house and keep an eye out on the territory. I suspect your Miss Miley may not be the dominant one.
As for eating, if a cat has been starved at one time in it's life, it is not unusual for them to become binge eaters for fear of not knowing when their next meal is. I have two bingers, both were pregnant strays that were so very skinny when they were rescued. Hopefully Miss Miley is young enough that her binging will ease up :pray:
Please only allow your kitties outside when supervised :pray:, they can't fight cars, poisons, large dogs/coyotes and mean people. Would you consider harness training them so they can get some outside time?
Hello and welcome :)
What Love4himies said is very true I had the same doubt about Mulder (my baby bonkers or "loco") Because she just was so bad at jumping, even up to date although now she's way better than before she can't jump as high as her sister Scully. Once she climbed up a chair and went to the window when she was a kitten and before I could run to catch her she fell on her leg, she was limping I took her in my arms she lied down and we all stayed with her while she had a nap when she woke up she was walking normal I used to think maybe that caused her not to be a good jumper but that wasn't the case, she had no damage it's just jumping is not her forte.
Although checking it's always good and it doesn't hurt to make sure, she might just not be a good jumper.
BTW you're kitties are so CUTE!!! :lovestruck:
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Steve Kryger is complaining about the lineup at the GAC.
It listed the usual suspects – Dawkins, Harris, Myers (and sadly not Hitchens). But then I was confused. Was the Atheist Convention trying to save money by co-advertising with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival?
Out of the 34 speakers, 10 are comedians: Ben Elton, Mikey Robbins, Lawrence Leung, Jim Jeffries, Catherine Deveny, Simon Taylor, Tom Ballard, Stella Young, Craig Foster and Mr Deity. Sounds like good news for Melburnians – buy one ticket, get two conferences.
How flattering! Now I'm one of the usual suspects in a group of atheists! I do feel he missed an opportunity by not also counting me among the comedians, though.
But seriously, why are comedians such a common sight at atheist rallies? For this conference in particular, billed as a "Celebration of Reason", why are nearly one-third of the speakers brought in to have a poke and a giggle?
For atheists, religion seems to provide no end of potential comedic material.
EXACTLY! How nice of him to have answered his own question.
Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be clever enough to grasp his own point. It's a sad situation: in the Chinese Room of Mr Kryger's mind, some correct answers emerge, but he's too dim to be aware of them.
Granted, there's much about religion that can appear confusing and even difficult to believe. It's also easy to do a quick scan of the fringes and discover a barn full of straw men to encapsulate everything you don't like about religion. But this doesn't explain why atheists so frequently resort to satire, mockery, ridicule and scorn.
We don't find religion confusing at all: many of us were brought up in a faith, and many of us godless folk are interested enough to study the subject. We're also not critiquing fringe beliefs: we're addressing mainstream Christianity, Islam, whatever, and also various versions of the religions within those domains.
And they are all absurd.
No, really. Once you get outside of, say, Lutheranism, it looks just as nonsensical and ridiculous to you as Mormonism or Scientology or Islam look to a Lutheran. What? I have to believe a rabble-rousing rabbi from the first century was a magical being with omnipotence and omniscience in order to get into Disneyland after death? What? It's faith not works that gives you the key? What? The talking snake and the flying horse were literally true? What? This special underwear, these ashes on my forehead, visiting this rock, dancing just this way, not dancing at all, chanting these special words, eating this food prepared just so, not eating that food ever, chopping off this part of my penis, wearing a beard, not wearing a beard, cutting my hair just so, not cutting my hair ever…all of these things I must do at the behest of the universe-spanning master of the cosmos, or to fit in with my people, and you don't find it all hilarious?
Even the ones who claim to be distancing themselves from miracles and magic and anthropomorphic beings in the sky and babble about believing in the "ground state of all being" or whatever other vacuous foolishness they've been spoonfed by some dithering theologian are laughable. You can't take someone seriously who has so piously dedicated their life to defending piffle with deepities.
My question for atheists today is this: do you think the incessant mockery and smug ridicule benefits your cause?
Does being a stuffy po-faced dimbulb benefit yours?
I've been to more than my fair share of Christian conferences. I've never attended a single conference where those of other beliefs (atheists or otherwise) were the subject of ridicule. I'm not suggesting this never happens, but on the whole, Christians are respectful of those with opposing beliefs.
This is true. They just say the proponents of those other beliefs will get theirs in a satisfactorily grim afterlife of torment and despair. Christians are very serious about that — they actually talk cheerfully about getting good seats in heaven to look down upon the writhing agonies of their enemies. I guess that's "respectful" in a way. They certainly do take the whole business very seriously.
But otherwise, ridicule isn't a good look for people who believe in the ridiculous themselves. The guy with the big red nose had better not risk poking fun at the other guy in the giant clown shoes, because next thing you know pies will fly and everyone ends up looking silly.


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11. Increase your home's curb appeal. Let's face it — you do not want your house to be a "drive-by." A recent real-estate article appearing in a trade publication suggested that 63 percent of people who drive by a for-sale house will elect not to go inside because of the negative curb appeal.
12. Bring your house up to selling standards. Don't be confused — repairs and maintenance items like replacing a malfunctioning heater/air conditioner or a worn-out roof is not an example of upgrading your house, it merely maintains its integrity. Sellers often come out on top because most buyers do not think to justify a lower offer price on the basis of aging systems and structures.
13. Be wary of upgrades before selling. What assurance do you have that, if you were to upgrade, the buyer would appreciate it and furthermore, they would be willing to pay you at least your investment cost? Not likely!
14. Know your competition and price concessions. Your house will be judged against your competition. If your house is not well-maintained, is outdated or has functional issues, it is better to deal with these issues up front and adjust your expectations about selling price.
15. Consider timing. Listing your house for sale is not unlike a major product launch by a corporation. It has to be done right the first time. Retracting your home from the market then returning with price adjustments or improvements does not make it "new and improved."
16. Keep emotions in check during negotiations. Understand that during the negotiation process, everyone is trying to use some leverage to their advantage. Recognize it for what it is and avoid jeopardizing the deal because of your reaction.
17. Learn your buyer's motivation. Try to find out about the buyer's needs. Do they need the location of your house or are they on a tight timetable? The right questions will help to unveil secrets that may help you in negotiating.
18. Live up to your commitment and then follow through. This may not seem to be a valuable tip. It is, however, perhaps the most important. Maintain a high degree of ethical and moral conduct and present yourself with the utmost of integrity. In a world where it seems as though profits trump virtues, we believe just the opposite. We urge you to disclose all truths, to act with reliability, to honor your word and to deliver on your commitments. To do otherwise could result in costly consequences.
If you have any questions about real estate in San Diego, send your inquiries to Charles Schevker or Natasha Alexander at firstname.lastname@example.com. They will respond directly to you, and those questions that have a broader public appeal will be published along with our next column in La Jolla Today.


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A couple of months ago, a kooky game grabbed thousands of iPhone users looking for free entertainment. Paper Toss, a crumpled paper ball tossing simulation, was a sick little game. The fun was there, but the depth wasn't. Paper Toss: World Tour is essentially a beefier remix, and it has gone global.
Figuring out Paper Toss: World Tour doesn't take long. Put simply, your objective is to put the ball in the hole. Flick your finger on the screen, score the bucket, and get your happy dance on.
In Soviet Russia, paper tosses you! What a country.
The 'it' factor in Paper Toss: World Tour work is its physics. Before each toss, you're given indicators that display the direction and intensity of wind in the environment. We loved these elements.
Paper Toss: World Tour provides a group of unique environments where you can get your toss on. The subtitle 'World Tour' means something here, as you'll be tossing paper in locales from the Taj Mahal in India to the tropical rainforests in South America. Things keep getting harder with each new spot, and there's support for online leaderboards.
Production value didn't take a backseat to gameplay here. Slick menus and an inspired, yet consistent, art direction are executed well. All the environments have smooth incidental animations going on in the backgrounds.
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Summer 2012
Service providers working in HIV prevention are often asked by their patients and clients about the risk of HIV transmission from an exposure to HIV through sex. What do the latest studies tell us about this risk? And how should we interpret and communicate the results?
It isn't easy for researchers to calculate the risk of transmission from an exposure to HIV through sex. To do this effectively, a group of HIV-negative individuals need to be followed over time and their exposures to HIV -- both the number of times they are exposed and the types of exposure -- need to be tracked.
As you can imagine, accurately tracking the number of times a person is exposed to HIV is very difficult. Researchers ask HIV-negative individuals enrolled in these studies to report how many times they have had sex in a given period of time, what type of sex they had, how often they used condoms and the HIV status of their partner(s). Because a person may have trouble remembering their sexual behaviour or may not want to tell the whole truth, this reporting is often inaccurate.
Furthermore, a person does not always know the HIV status of their partner(s). For this reason, researchers usually enroll HIV-negative individuals who are in stable relationships with an HIV-positive partner (also known as serodiscordant couples). Researchers can then conclude that any unprotected sex reported by a study participant counts as an exposure to HIV.
Several studies have aimed to estimate the average risk of HIV transmission from a specific type of unprotected sex (for example, vaginal/anal/oral; insertive/receptive). Due to the difficulties of calculating this risk, these studies have produced a wide range of numbers. To come up with a more accurate estimate for each type of unprotected sex, some researchers have combined the results of individual studies into what is known as a meta-analysis.
The results of several meta-analyses suggest that some types of sex carry on average a higher risk of HIV transmission than others. Below are estimates from meta-analyses that have combined the results of studies conducted in high-income countries. For types of sex where meta-analysis estimates do not exist, numbers from individual studies are provided.
A meta-analysis exploring the risk of HIV transmission through unprotected anal sex was published in 2010.1 The analysis, based on the results of four studies, estimated the risk through receptive anal sex (receiving the penis into the anus, also known as bottoming) to be 1.4%. (This means that an average of one transmission occurred for every 71 exposures.) This risk was similar regardless of whether the receptive partner was a man or woman.
No meta-analysis estimates currently exist for insertive anal sex (inserting the penis into the anus, also known as topping) but two individual studies were conducted to calculate this risk. The first, published in 1999, calculated the risk to be 0.06% (equivalent to one transmission per 1,667 exposures).2 However, due to the design of the study, this number likely underestimated the risk of HIV transmission. The second study, published in 2010, was better designed and estimated the risk to be 0.11% (or 1 transmission per 909 exposures) for circumcised men and 0.62% (1 transmission per 161 exposures) for uncircumcised men.3
A meta-analysis of 10 studies exploring the risk of transmission through vaginal sex was published in 2009.4 It estimated the risk of HIV transmission through receptive vaginal sex (receiving the penis in the vagina) to be 0.08% (equivalent to 1 transmission per 1,250 exposures).
A meta-analysis of three studies exploring the risk from insertive vaginal sex (inserting the penis into the vagina) was estimated to be 0.04% (equivalent to 1 transmission per 2,500 exposures).3
No meta-analysis estimates exist for oral sex (vaginal or penile) because too few good-quality studies have been completed. This is because it is difficult to find people whose only risk of HIV transmission is unprotected oral sex. A review of the studies that are available was published in 2008 and concluded that vaginal and penile oral sex pose a "low but non-zero transmission probability."5
In the three studies aimed at calculating the risk of HIV transmission from one act of oral sex, no transmissions were observed among three different populations -- lesbian serodiscordant couples, heterosexual serodiscordant couples and single gay men -- who reported unprotected oral sex as their only risk for HIV transmission. However, these studies enrolled only a small number of people and followed them for only a short period of time, which may explain the lack of HIV transmissions and makes it impossible to conclude that the risk from oral sex is zero.
|Risk of HIV Transmission From Different Types of Unprotected Sex
Number of Individual Studies
Range of Estimates
Meta-Analysis Estimate
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Receptive vaginal
Insertive vaginal
Some clients may see these numbers and think their risk of HIV transmission is low. Therefore, caution is needed when interpreting them. If these numbers are provided to clients, they should be accompanied by information that helps shed light on why the risk may be higher than it seems.
It is important to emphasize that a person could become infected from having unprotected sex once or a person could have unprotected sex many times and not become infected, regardless of how low or high the risk per exposure is.
A risk of 1% would mean that an average of one infection would occur if 100 HIV-negative people were exposed to HIV through a certain type of sex. It does not mean that a person needs to be exposed 100 times for HIV infection to occur.
The numbers in the table above are rough estimates. They are averages and do not represent the risk from all exposures to HIV through a certain type of sex.
We know that no two exposures to HIV are exactly the same. Research shows that, in addition to the type of sex that led to the exposure, several factors can increase or decrease the risk that an exposure to HIV leads to infection. These include the presence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a high viral load, a man being uncircumcised, a woman menstruating, other bleeding and activities that can cause tearing and inflammation, such as rough sex, longer sex, douching, enemas before anal sex, and tooth brushing, flossing or dental work before oral sex. Each exposure to HIV carries a unique risk of transmission that depends on the type of sex and a combination of biological factors.
The risk of HIV transmission may be much higher than these averages if biological risk factors are present. For example, research shows that STIs and some vaginal conditions, such as bacterial vaginosis, can increase the risk of HIV transmission by up to 8 times.6-8 As a result, the risk of an HIV-negative woman becoming infected through unprotected receptive vaginal sex could be closer to 1% (1 transmission per 100 exposures) if she has a vaginal STI.
We also know that for every 10-fold increase in viral load, the risk of HIV transmission increases by 2 to 3 times.9,10 Research suggests the extremely high viral load during acute HIV infection (the first few weeks after becoming infected with HIV) can increase the risk of HIV transmission by up to 26-fold.11,12 Therefore, unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person who has acute HIV infection could carry a transmission risk of up to 2% (the equivalent of 1 transmission per 50 exposures) for receptive vaginal sex and over 20% (equivalent to 1 transmission per 5 exposures) for receptive anal sex.
Although the risk of HIV transmission from a single exposure may seem low to some people, this risk increases over multiple exposures. In other words, a person who is exposed to HIV more often has a greater overall risk of HIV transmission than someone who is exposed less often.
If a woman has unprotected vaginal sex 100 times with a man who is HIV-positive, the cumulative risk is approximately 10% and may be higher if biological risk factors are present.
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Title: A Promise of Fire
Author: Amanda Bouchet
Series: Kingmaker Chronicles, book 1
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Source: Review copy from publisher
Format: E-book
"Cat" Catalia Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods—and her homicidal mother—have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever.
Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm—until he realizes he wants her for much more than her magic. Cat fights him at every turn, but Griffin's fairness, loyalty, and smoldering advances make him increasingly hard to resist and leave her wondering if life really does have to be short, and lived alone.
I'm always searching for new books to fall in love with. When I friend who knows my taste on books recommend me A Promise of Fire I knew I have to give it a try, even though I was going through a reading slump. Reading slump that soon got forgotten when I found myself totally immersed in the wonderful world Amanda Bouchet created for this series.
Catalia "Cat" Fisa has the power to know when somebody lies; a power many want to use and abuse. Knowing people will do anything to have a soothsayer in their power Cat does the only thing she can to be safe, she hides in a traveling circus. For years she has been living in anonymity with the circus, traveling from one place to another; but everything changes when a warlord, after meeting her realizes what she truly is, a King Maker.
The last thing Griffin wants is to kidnap the soothsayer, but he knows having a King Maker in his power will change everything for him and his family.
Griffin has just conquered a realm, he did it to help people with no magic- like himself and his family- that have been abused for centuries by magic users. Griffin knows he is at a disadvantage from magic practitioners and his newly conquered realm is at danger. He knows having Cat working for them will turn the tables in their favor, but he will much prefer if she does it on her own volition and not because she is forced to do it.
Cat fights and try to escape every chance she gets, but after spending time with Griffin and his friends she starts to realize he is not the villain she thought him to be and after meeting his family and seeing their interactions she can't help but wonder if a life in hiding and on the run is what she really wants.
A Promise of Fire has the perfect balance of fantasy, romance, smart dialogue, fun moments, and multilayered characters to produce a wonderful and an unforgettable story.
Amanda Bouchet's writing is vivid and fluid; I loved how she mixed Greek mythology with the fantasy aspects of the story. I also loved how she uses humor to lighten up the mood and to make the characters more endearing. The world building is very complex, well thought and very well depicted.
A Promise of Fire is a great debut and a book I recommend to fantasy romance fans. I can't wait to get my hands on the second installment of this series, Breath of Fire. January 3rd, 2017 can't come soon enough.
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I would like to tell you about my experience with the Owen County Adult Learning Center and its staff.
First, let me start off by saying that I dropped out of high school back in 1995. Needless to say, when I came into the center this past February, I was nowhere near prepared to take the GED test.
I took the pre-test, had it explained to me where I placed, what actions to take next, and to come back on Tuesday to start classes.
I am writing to voice my support for Neese Chilton who is running for Owen County School Board for district five. I have had the honor and pleasure of knowing Neese and her family personally for five years since she has trusted me to watch her son during the day time (I have known Neese for much longer but the past five years I have gotten close to her and her family). Neese is from Owen County and lives in the Wheatley area.
Ms. Mason, it sounds to me as though you have judged all Christians. Maybe you talked to or heard five or 10 saying something. I believe there are thousands of Christians that don't say such things.
I am a sinner saved by Grace. I'm not a model Christian or a Bible scholar, but Jesus said, "Judge not that ye be not judged" Matthew 7:1-2.
Did you open the door. We are to separate ourselves from such.
I hope that four to five years from now, we're on our way to a strong recovery, based on the fact that a record number of voters embraced their rights and made an informed decision at the voting booth in 2010.
There couldn't be a more important election than this one.
The corporate power behind many of the candidates is not out of generosity, but out of greed and the need for control.
To the voters in district four:
Troy Bramblett is running against Ray Smith for Owen County fourth-district magistrate in the Nov. 2 General Election.
Our district includes the areas of Wheatley, Monterey, Gratz, Pleasant Home and Perry Park. There is a crucial need to have new blood to represent our district.
On Thursday night, Oct. 14, a district-four forum was held at the Monterey Fire House for the purpose of meeting and asking questions to the incumbent Ray Smith and Troy Bramblett.
John Waltz in campaign literature claims that Congressman Geoff Davis "refused to help him get treatment he needed from the VA." When an experimental anthrax vaccine caused Waltz health problems.
There is no record to tell us what Congressman Geoff Davis did, or did not do for Waltz, just the claim to by Waltz, who is running for congress against Geoff Davis.
She claimed she was not a historian but a memoirist; yet the words of Georgia Green Stamper, guest speaker at the Owen County Historical Society meeting Thursday, skillfully took on the cadence of the color, life, and movement of Owen County history.
I have noticed in the News-Herald that many animals in several counties in Kentucky are being mistreated. Many dogs and puppies are being abandoned in our area. The Owen County Friends of Animals Inc. — (502) 514-1439 — has several dogs for adoption. They do a wonderful job taking care of homeless dogs, but financial help is needed. Please help "Man's Best Friend."
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BOULDER, Colo.—Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops envisioned it going down to the wire. Colorado's Dan Hawkins had a hunch his team would pull off the big upset.
Both coaches turned out to be correct and Hawkins' Buffaloes dealt a serious blow to the Sooners national title hopes when Kevin Eberhart kicked a career-long 45-yard field goal as time expired to send Colorado past No. 3 Oklahoma 27-24 on Saturday.
"I told them all week they're going to win the game," Hawkins said. "Not because I'm 'The Swami.' I've done this for 25 years and you just know. You know when your team's ready, you know when you're poised."
His players certainly didn't doubt his weeklong declarations of this impending upset.
"He just reinforced what we already knew," defensive tackle George Hypolite said.
This was the Buffaloes' first win over a top-five team since Dec. 1, 2001, when they bested Texas in the Big 12 title game, and their most significant victory in Boulder since a 62-36 drubbing of second-ranked Nebraska a week before that Texas win.
"They outplayed us and outcoached us," Stoops said. "They fought their way to a heck of a win."
After Eberhart's kick cleared the crossbar, the Sooners, who had blown a 24-7 second-half lead, walked off dejected, trying to avoid the onslaught of Buffs fans storming the field in celebration of what they hope is a revival of the once-proud program.
"My helmet got jacked and (wide receiver) Stephone Robinson took one in the eye," Buffs quarterback Cody Hawkins said. "I've been to some crazy concerts, but that was worse than all of them. … I think people smelled a lot better at the concert. Those people had been sweating for a long time."
Not so the Buffs, who didn't flinch when they fell behind by 17 points in the second half.
The Sooners (4-1, 0-1) came in averaging a whopping 61.5 points to lead the nation. But behind a tough defense, the Buffs (3-2, 1-0) earned their first big win under Dan Hawkins, who went 2-10 in his inaugural season last year.
The Buffaloes trailed 24-7 after Allen Patrick scored from 17 yards out following safety D.J. Wolfe's second interception. His first one led to Juaquin Iglesias' 13-yard TD catch in the first half.
But Oklahoma, which had scored 50-plus points in each of its first four games, was stifled after that, and Colorado outgained the Sooners 219 yards to 56 in the second half.
"There was no one being Superman out there, there's no one doing things that were supernatural," said linebacker Jordon Dizon, the nation's leading tackler. "It was just everybody doing their job and doing the right thing when they had to do it."
"To me it was long overdue. I mean long, long overdue," Buffs senior cornerback Terrence Wheatley said. "To get a big win against a big team in the national spotlight? I think it's good for us so people can realize we're a good team."
Good? Dizon cringed.
"We're on the verge of being great," he suggested.
Colorado began its comeback with Eberhart's 41-yarder to make it 24-10 in the third quarter.
After Ryan Walters picked off Sam Bradford, Hawkins hit Tyson DeVree for the score on fourth-and-goal from the 4, pulling Colorado to 24-17 on the first play of the fourth quarter.
Bradford, who was the second rated passer in the nation entering the game, finished 8-for-19 for 112 yards with two interceptions and was outplayed by the Colorado coach's son.
Cody Hawkins, a redshirt freshman, was 22-for-36 for 219 yards and two touchdowns.
"We knew we were going to have a chance to win," Hawkins said. "We didn't know how it was going to happen. … You look around, we weren't practicing scared. You guys all think I'm joking, but there wasn't anybody inside that locker room that thought we were going to lose that game."
The Sooners gave the Buffs a huge assist in their comeback when Reggie Smith muffed a fair catch and Colorado's Justin Drescher recovered at the OU 16.
Four plays later, Colorado tied it on Hawkins' 15-yard touchdown strike to Dusty Sprague with 4:05 remaining.
The Buffs forced another punt and Chase McBride's 33-yard return set up Colorado at midfield. Hawkins drove the Buffs to the 27, where Eberhart made the game-winner to give Colorado its biggest upset in years.
Oklahoma led 17-7 at halftime after managing just one long scoring drive, a three-play, 80-yarder that ended with Patrick's 34-yard TD run.
The Buffs' lone score before halftime was a 25-yard TD run by tailback Hugh Charles, who finished with 110 yards on 24 carries and led the Buffs' receivers with five catches for 48 yards.
Next week's Texas-OU matchup lost a lot of its luster with the Sooners' loss and Kansas State's equally stunning rout of the seventh-ranked Longhorns in Austin on Saturday.
"We have to bounce back from the loss like good teams do, like great teams do," Iglesias said. "We think we're a great team."
And the Buffs feel they're not far from that themselves.


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