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teafortwo needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
I am a singer songwriter working on a new EP and I need an album cover for it. The album cover should be the artist name/logo with some sort of element (see below). Hence I need the logo to be designed. I want to be able to use the logo on the cover of the EP as well as other merchandise such as stickers, website, tshirts etc. Please listen to my music to see if you get any ideas.
Artist Name: YAEL
Album Name: EP
Track List (it may change)
tea for two
shed their fear
i wonder how
favorite two
All songs written by Yael Meyer.
Produced and Mixed by Bill Lefler.
Engineered by Craig "The Regulator" Frank.
Recorded at The Death Star in Los Angeles, CA.
© 2009 Yael Meyer (BMI)
Publishing Happy Tree Music (BMI)
All rights reserved.
CD inside:
tea for two
shed their fear
i wonder how
favorite two
© 2009 Yael Meyer (BMI)
Publishing Happy Tree Music (BMI)
This is VERY important. I want the logo to be appealing to both men and women ages 20-45. People who listen to the following acts. Ingrid Michaelson, Damien Rice, The Weepies, Lenka, Keren Ann, Feist. Young, cool hip audience who is into discovering new underground singer-songwriter/folk/pop music.
Cover and logo should give off an image of the artist/music as being young, hip, cool, eco friendly, artsy, simple and graceful, with something to say.
Please check out the following websites for inspiration on logo, artist name, font, color, illustrations etc: http://www.timmyersmusic.com http://www.nellyfurtado.com http://www.theweepies.com http://www.damienrice.com
What I am envisioning is the logo as my name YAEL with either an illustration of a growing tree behind, within, to the side or growing out of the letters, or an illustration of a flower or cute flying bug sitting a top one of the letters, or the logo as my name in the middle with an illustration of a girl (me - see pics on my wesbsite) sitting playing guitar/ukulele.
I will also need you to provide the design option for the actual CD itself.
Please no black, gray or white backgrounds. Colors that are warm and bright, or soft and calming.
Logo should be able to be read clearly on a thumbnail on itunes.
Go to the following link to listen to 2 tracks that will be included on the EP for inspiration and to get a sense of my sound. If when you are listening to the music a completely different image than anything I mentioned before comes to your mind, please go with it!!
Final artwork should be provided in vector file and jpg.


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MONKTON — The Monkton Development Review Board (DRB) is nearing a decision on whether to permit a contentious application for a 30-plus acre quarry off of Monkton Road.
According to the application filed by Brisson Stone LLC and David Shlansky's Burchfield Management Company LLC, "Brisson Stone will rely on drilling and blasting rock ledge to produce unconsolidated rock and gravel that will be collected on-site." Burchfield Management filed the application, and the two enterprises are working together on this project.
NICO BRAYTON, LEFT, parries an attack by Theo Wells Spackman in a recreation of the duel from "Dangerous Liaisons" during a class at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater earlier this month. The class — titled "Are You Talkin' to Me?" and taught by Lindsay Pontius and Neil Worden — grew out of the notion that combat on the stage is supposed to look scary but is actually a careful and safe skill. Participants were taught hand-to-hand stage combat techniques and basic weapons in order to perform some of the most infamous fights in theater history.
BRISTOL — Jackman's Inc., a provider of carbon-heavy heating fuels like kerosene and No. 2 heating fuel, is giving solar a go.
The Bristol company, which got its start by selling firewood and coal in 1930, has long specialized in offering a range of heating options to its customers. In the last decade, the company began dealing pellets and bio diesel.
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When I moved back to the U.S. from China in December 2010, I felt rootless.
Growing up in a small township in western Pennsylvania and having graduated from a college of 1,600, I was fortunate to have had my formative years shaped by tight-knit communities. While I found a similar sense of support teaching at a Chinese public school after graduating from Kenyon College, that feeling of community eluded me the following year.
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Hospital officials are asking state approval for a fiscal year 2013 budget of around $69 million, including a 4.2-percent increase in net revenues and a boost of 5 percent in the rates charged for medical procedures.
MONKTON — Third time's the charm, or so the Monkton selectboard hopes so.
For the third time in four years, the Monkton selectboard is aiming to present voters at next year's Town Meeting Day with a proposal for a new municipal building.
BRISTOL — The Vermont State Police's drug task force arrested Katherine Heffernan, 27, of Bristol on Tuesday, Aug. 7, for knowingly possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it, U.S. District Court documents show.
Drug task force officials say they found more than 60 bags of heroin and more than $9,000 in Heffernan's Mountain Street home, in her car and on her person. U.S. District Judge John M. Conroy sent Heffernan to jail on Aug. 8. She is due to appear before him again on Aug. 22 for a preliminary hearing in Burlington.
ADDISON COUNTY — Data released earlier this year showed that in 2011 the Otter Creek poured more than 206 metric tons of phosphorus into Lake Champlain — almost twice the 18-year average of 121 annual metric tons.
An increase in phosphorus, which fuels growth of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, is not viewed by staff at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) as a positive harbinger in their effort to clean up Lake Champlain.
BRISTOL — Police are urging local businesses and vendors at Addison County Fair and Field Days to be on the lookout for counterfeit $5 and $10 bills this week.
An anonymous tip led Bristol police and the U.S. Secret Service agents on Tuesday to arrest Mildred Martin, 29, of Bristol for possession of a regulated drug.
But that's not why the federal and local authorities stopped Martin, according to Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs. They were informed that she and another person had counterfeit money and a firearm on national forest land.
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Pearson, John W. and Wathen, A. J. (2010) A New Approximation of the Schur Complement in Preconditioners for PDE Constrained Optimization. Technical Report. Wiley. (Submitted)
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ROCKFORD — Community leaders are known for their ideas, and they have plenty when it comes to the type of president they'd prefer to have lead Rock Valley College.
At heart, they want a high-caliber administrator who can prepare the region's largest community college for transitional years that could lead the city out of some troubling times.
"They better be very versatile," Winnebago County Board member Angie Goral said. "They also better be good with financing. There's a lot at stake at Rock Valley College."
Rockford, as the region has been hearing, is lined up for a period of transformation. Rock Valley has thousands of students who could join any improved workforce and fuel the economy.
The Board of Trustees is likely to select RVC's next president next week. Jack Becherer left in January; his 2013 annual base pay was $178,942.
Three finalists interviewed with the trustees and participated in community forums:
Interim President Mike Mastroianni, who has been with the college for 16 years. His base pay was $117,268 in 2013. Elizabeth Burmaster, president of Nicolet College in Rhinelander, Wis. John Hogan, associate vice president of student affairs at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. Laura Urban, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gateway Community and Technical College in Florence, Ky., dropped out of the running to take a different job.
The college has several partnerships in the Rock River Valley, and the next president is likely to meet with those leaders.
Kenneth Scrivano, president of the Rockford School Board, is hoping the local candidate will be chosen.
"We think that there's some strong advantages," he said. "They're aware of the community. They're committed to the community. They're willing to stick it out."
Rockford Chamber of Commerce CEO Einar Forsman said the new president should help the college adapt to the needs of the community, which has a large manufacturing base and graduation rates in need of obvious improvement.
"Dr. Becherer, while here, did an outstanding job," he said. "What's critical for any one of the candidates is that they're good with connecting into the community."
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Steganography is a science that pertains to the art of concealing data in a communication in such a way that only the sender and receiver know of its existance and method of access. The platform used for transmission can be anything from a paper document to a digital file. Additionally, it is more common than not to encrypt the hidden data whenever possible such as with digital files or images. The detection of steganographically encoded packages is called steganalysis.
External links
- Steganography Analysis and Research Center The Steganography Analysis and Research Center is a Center of Excellence within Backbone Security focused exclusively on steganography research and development of steganalysis products and services.
Algorithms and Tools
- StegoArchive.com An excellent resource for freeware/shareware steganography application downloads.
- Digital Invisible Ink Toolkit is a Java steanography tool that hides any file in a JPEG. http://diit.sourceforge.net/
- Hide In Picture is an open source stegnographic tool. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42816&package_id=34960&release_id=67439
- M5, by Andreas Westfeld, is both a steganographic tool and algorithm. It hides information in JPEGs. An attack was developed by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Dorin Hogea. Information can be found at http://wwwrn.inf.tu-dresden.de/~westfeld/f5.html .
- Publimark hides text in audio files. http://perso.orange.fr/gleguelv/soft/publimark/index.html


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With rapidly changing technologies, the importance of a strong relationship between the navy and the defense science community—and by extension, with key allies—is crucial. Ensuring that the relationship remains strong and that this community remains engaged in a range of maritime-related research tasks is a key strategic objective. The navy must be open to technological and scientific opportunities that may include approaching old challenges in new ways.
Another strategic objective is to ensure that the RAN attracts its share of the national skilled workforce required to meet its mission objectives. That relies on sustaining both an attractive employment offer and an effective and contemporary culture that highlights the intangible elements of service in a modern and sophisticated combat force. Our "New Generation Navy" cultural change program, now in its third year, is central to that effort.
A final strategic objective for the navy is maintaining its hard-won reputation for operational excellence. That can be done only through top-quality training, including maximizing the use of simulation, to support the range of missions we may be called on to perform.
The next 20 years will be an exciting time for the Royal Australian Navy.


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Student or Learner
Some people fear that technology is gradually taking over control in our lives, while others think that it has led to many positive developments in all aspects of their lives.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. 250 words
Technological appliances bit by bit are taking control of our lives and changing everything around us. Also there is a dispute between people who think that it is disagreeable and who suggests that technological revolution will lead to really essential changes. In this essay I will try to figure out both points of view.
The first advantage of technological inventions is that after moment when internet came in peoples' life, it became more simplified. For instance we can buy everything we want using internet shops. Home education is possible nowadays through Skype with teacher and it costs cheaper than education at university or at school. Communication with relatives who live abroad and with friends from other countries goes easier with social networks like Facebook and Vkontakte.
An additional advantage is that with technological gadgets our life became more convenient. Heater, air-conditioner, freezer and microware and many others these gadgets are irreplaceable today for us. These instruments help us to feel comfy even if it is cold outside, or we want food to be fresh for a period of time, or it is too hot at home and we need fresh air.
The most serious drawback of technological influence on people is that they stopped «thinking». All functions that they had to do in the past, nowadays are made by machines. People became indolent and lazy and this is why there are too many people who are fat or have health problems because of the fact that they have inactive way of life.
Another negative aspect of technological inventions is that people spend too much money on different electronic resources. Companies produce new devices rapidly and also new models of gadgets are very expensive, but people still changing old on new ones. For example Iphone 4s and Iphone 5. There is a little difference between these two mobile phones, but people buy iphone 5 instead of iphone 4. Why?- because it is fashionable and cool to have last version of the gadget that is known all over the world as «The best».
To my mind it is very complicated to say exactly what is better: to have life with technological devices or to be independent of them. But certainly I think that because of the fact that technological inventions have a little number of disadvantages, our life is better in all aspects only with these appliances.(398 words)


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Gay Scoutmaster Refuses To Leave His Post Despite Being Banned By Boy Scouts
Backed by his church, Scoutmaster Geoffrey McGrath refuses to step down from his post despite having his membership revoked by the Boy Scouts of America for being gay and over 18 years old.
"I have not tended my resignation," said McGrath, a former Eagle Scout and co-founder of Boy Scout Troop 98. "Until I am relieved of my duty properly, I stand in my post."
After receiving the Boy Scout of America's decision handed down by the BSA's Chief Seattle Council, McGrath decided to stay in his post unless the United Methodist Church in Rainier, Washington, (his troop's charter organization) instructed him otherwise. It doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.
"Geoffrey is our Scoutmaster and Geoffrey will remain our Scoutmaster," says United Methodist's Pastor Monica Corsaro.
The Boy Scouts of America, which currently bans any openly LGBT adult from serving, defended its decision to remove McGrath from the organization. "Our policy is that we do not ask people about their sexual orientation," a BSA spokesman said, "and it's not an issue until they deliberately inject it into Scouting in an inappropriate fashion."
that's all fine a dandy, but what will you tell these boys when BSA takes away the churches charter away?
you going to drive these boys to the next troop ... stop thinking of yourself and do what's right for the kids..... I don't give a rats butt about you being gay, good for you but you are going to to hurt the boys in the end.... just to keep your pride, that's good teaching.
"A Scout is Trustworthy" is the first point of the scout law. Being worthy of someone's trust means being both truthful about who you are and holding the confidence of others.
The post of scoutmaster is a sacred position held by a community leader entrusted with building each scout's leadership skills. It is a tribe of brethren led by a person of strong moral character, acting as an example to everyone under his or her tutelage.
There is no place in the entire boy scout organization for sex - hetero or homo. Even though the scout oath espouses each scout to be "physically strong, mentally awake, or morally straight", there is no allusion to sexuality. Being morally straight means being able to discern right from wrong and always following the former path.
As the boys grow up, they may find a special friend they're attracted to and they need a safe place to discuss their feelings. A trustworthy Scoutmaster helps that boy by guiding him to do what's right, according to the boy's own credo. It really doesn't matter about the Scoutmaster's gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
If any Scout leader is not allowed to be truthful about him or her self, that trust is broken and so is the entire troop for which he or she stands. Kudos to you, Geoffrey for standing up and being You.


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St. Saba the Sanctified + December 5
Sanctified from youth, O righteous Saba, thou wast a summit of righteousness equal to the Angels. Thou didst lead a heavenly life, and guide thy flock to godliness by word and deed. And they cry to thee with faith: Glory to Him who hath strengthened thee; glory to Him who hath crowned thee; glory to Him who through thee worketh healings for all.
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Read about the life of St. Saba
Many years to Metropolitan SABA of our Sister Diocese of Bosra Hauran in southern Syria, who keeps this as his Name's Day!


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WTTW Kids Readers Are Leaders Winter Tour
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Join us at the Chicago Public Library's Archer Branch for a FREE, fun-filled WTTW Kids Readers Are Leaders performance, featuring special guest appearance by members of Miss Lori's CAMPUS. Shows will include singing, fun activities, and free children's books for the first 200 children who attend. Families and school groups are welcome!
These 2013-14 Winter WTTW Kids Readers Are Leaders performances are made possible by our presenting partner Aldi. Additional support provided by Peoples Gas/North Shore Gas, Happy Family, Medieval Times, the Russell & Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust and Carl Buddig & Co. For more information about Miss Lori's CAMPUS, visit missloriscampus.com


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The garden suburb of Bedfordview is one of the closest suburbs of Johannesburg to the OR Tambo Airport (other than Edenvale), so for business people dipping into the city only briefly, Bedfordview is an ideal location. Bedfordview provides easy access to Johannesburg, Sandton and the East Rand. Bedfordview is located in the hub of South Africa's financial, manufacturing, marketing and storage facilities. Colleges, universities and excellent schools are all within easy reach.
The leafy suburb of Bedfordview is close to a number of shopping malls, including Eastgate with its myriad shops, entertainment venues and excellent restaurants. Bedfordview offers many family recreational activities such as rowing, walking trails and picnic areas. There are numerous sporting facilities and most religious denominations are represented.
In addition Bedfordview still a vibrant café culture, and a quick drive through its leafy streets on a Saturday morning will reveal a health conscious, family-orientated demographic with an appreciation for the high-end fashion, sports cars and entertainment available at the Bedford Centre and the Eastgate mall, which is expanding to cater for the influx of upmarket customers moving in.
History of Bedfordview:
Although the area around Bedfordview had been inhabited by black natives for thousands of years, the written history of the area commenced with the arrival of white settlers in the 19th Century. The site of Bedfordview was largely taken up by the farm Elandsfontein, and was administered as part of the District of Potchefstroom in the South African Republic. The coat-of-arms of Bedfordview features an Eland holding a fountain as a tribute to the early rural history of the town. In 1853, the farm "Elands Vontyn" was inspected and remained the property of the government until it was granted to GPL van der Linden on the 17th June 1867. The farm remained in the family for a number of years although it was subdivided. The Witwatersrand Gold Reef had a huge impact on the area. Elandsfontein was purchased for the mineral rights, and was later divided into smaller farms and small-holdings, many of which were settled by retired miners. The entire area became known as Geldenhuys Estate.
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Australian director John Hillcoat has always made films that explored the profundity of the human condition, whether it's "The Proposition" or his latest film, "The Road", one of many films that deal with a post-Apocalyptic world ravaged by an unnamed disaster. But more importantly it's a powerful father-son story as Viggo Mortensen's The Man travels with his son in the hope of ultimate survival.
As with "The Proposition", Hillcoat's film is another visually expansive film that uses the elements to punctuate the movie's themes. Following the film's world premiere at this year's Toronto Film Festival, Paul Fischer spoke to the director in this exclusive interview.
Question: So apparently, the post-apocalypse is in vogue, because there are about four or five movies set in a future where the world has been destroyed by whatever it has. Why do you think that is?
Hillcoat: Well, I just think it's a zeitgeist thing, probably a lot to do with coming out of a decade of the Bush Administration. I'm sure it has some influence. If ever there was a time that events headed towards an apocalypse, that would be it.
Question: Now we have redemption.
Hillcoat: Yeah. And that's what the film's about, redemption. [LAUGHTER]
Question: So you're saying, the first half of this movie is Bush, and the second half is Obama?
Hillcoat: No, the very end is Obama. But, I think it's much more than that. I think the environment, climate warming – you know, the chickens have come home to roost and we're all actually experiencing it now, how we've had our head in the sand for decades. I think that the awareness, now, is out there and it's worrying. I mean, you look at the weather patterns all around the world. The bush fires in Australia were devastating this year. LA, et cetera, so the environment is one huge one. I think there have been a lot of collapses: The economic collapse, global politics are in trouble and there's a real disenchantment with politics, and an instability out there in the world is kind of, again, very pronounced, and people are very aware of it. So, I think all these anxieties that the general population are experiencing, they're all questioning these things now.
Question: Normally, when things are gloomy, filmmakers are drawn to much more escapist fare and certainly studios seem to be drawn to more escapist fare. You chose a film that is very nihilistic, and is a very emotionally confronting film. But you are drawn to that kind of material. I would have thought after The Proposition, you might have wanted to do something a bit less exterior.
Hillcoat: Well, I'll shock you and I honestly believe this. I'm not saying this just to be provocative, but I honestly believe this is by far the most positive film I've made, because the love story between the father and son – which I think is all the way through is what's crucial about the film. And actually, when you think about father and son relationships in cinema, 90 percent are tyrannical fathers or absent fathers. Rarely do you get to see a genuine love story between a father and son. Cormac says his son wrote half the book and when you see them together, you can see the dialogues, you can see the bond, and as he said, the book is about human goodness. It's actually about what elevates us from the end. Also I am drawn to extreme worlds, I confess, because I think they bring out the best and worse in people.
Question: Well, the thing that struck me about this film is that you deal with a landscape, both physical and emotional. And I'm just wondering, though, having done The Proposition, which was such an exhausting film to make, was there any hesitation at all about tackling a movie that dealt so much with such physical extremities?
Hillcoat: Yeah, particularly because I'm not a big fan of the cold and I knew that unlike The Proposition, this is a world that's very cold, so, I wasn't looking forward to that element. But the world in the book was so vivid and I love to enter different worlds. It was a challenge, because also I don't like apocalyptic films, generally, as a sub-genre of science fiction, whereas here, there was a real sort of freshness to it and I thought that was a great challenge, to try and take a genre, and try and find a different angle on it, to make it fresh again somehow. But my main fear, when I read that unpublished manuscript was the boy. I mean, how could I get a kid in every single scene to pull off the film?
Question: And in fact, what's interesting about this movie is that it's as much about the sciences, and the internalization of these characters, than it is about any of the external forces that shape the movie. So casting these two actors must be very difficult. Was Viggo attached at all when you began this?
Hillcoat: No. No.
Question: So, what do you think you saw in him that made you realize that he'd be perfect for this guy?
Hillcoat: Well, when I was trying to visualize this world, it actually reminded me of Grapes of Wrath. I went back to the photos during the Great Depression and there are the faces, Viggo's face somehow fits into some of those classic Dorothea Lange photos. Also There was the emotional range, because we needed to find someone that had a tenderness, and vulnerability, as well as the fear and paranoia. But the key aspect is the physicality, that he needed a physicality that you could one, buy that he could just be an everyman, and yet you believe that he can get through what he actually gets through.
Question: And then you have to find a boy with whom he would be able to bond. I would imagine finding that young actor must have been very difficult.
Hillcoat: Well, I also knew that Viggo had a son, a child, so as a father, I thought, that at least there'd be an understanding there. And then too, when we got the short list of all the kids – we actually looked very long and hard and I got down to four kids, and then got Viggo in,n we actually workshopped scenes with these kids, in order to see what the bond was like, and see the chemistry, and how they fit together.
Question: And after all that, you found a kid from Australia.
Hillcoat: Yeah. Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
Question: How amazing is that?
Hillcoat: That is, because believe me, we looked and we also saw some incredible kids. But there was no doubt. We actually saw kids that were younger, too, because initially in the book the kid's sort of more seven or eight and when we saw those kids next to Viggo, then suddenly the dynamic just seemed almost too obvious, and too much like, " Oh my God, the poor little kid," in every single scene.
Question: And you have to believe, I think at the end of the movie, that this kid will be able to stand on his own and take over from the father.
Hillcoat: Exactly. Exactly. And you wouldn't make that leap with a seven or eight-year-old.
Question: It is a film, a lot of the time, about the silences punctuated with some action, and some violence. But it's not about any of that, so was there any pressure on any part of the studio to decrease the amount of violence and kind of make it more of an action movie?
Hillcoat: Well, it went through the ropes on all sorts of fronts, but at the end of the day, the one saving grace is that we all agreed it had to remain faithful to the book, because the book was at that point, so revered and when I got it, it was an unpublished manuscript. But by the time we came to make it, it had won the Pulitzer, and it had struck a real chord, so, you don't mess with that. And that was what I find that I could always come back to.
Question: Is this your most personal film, do you think?
Hillcoat: It is, actually. How did you know?
Question: I have a knack.
Hillcoat: Your very sharp. Yeah.
Question: Do you want to do something very different, next?
Hillcoat: I do want to do something – I'll tell you what I'll do, quite seriously. I want to do something with more energy , color and light.
Question: I thought the last time we'd spoken, there was something you wanted to do in England. It was a little movie.
Hillcoat: We had that. Nick [Cave] wrote it, and he got so impatient because I went off and did The Road instead, he turned it into a novel, and it's being published this year. And it's called The Death of Bunny Monroe.
Question: And would you adapt it as a screenplay?
Hillcoat: Because it's expanded into this novel, the script has, it's so good I want to actually turn it into a three-part miniseries with HBO, maybe.
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In theory the Forest Gallery is supposed to go up in 2ish weeks, and yet we haven't formally talked about at all... Oops
I sincerely apologize to any people really excited about this potential theme. I didn't mean to kill this gallery with neglect. Hopefully my excuse of moving to Hong Kong at the start of September (with 4 days notice) and jumping into a full time teaching position the day after arriving is sufficient excuse (Peter Bond has an equally valid excuse of acquiring his own full time teaching gig a week later!).
These delays may sadly be the new status quo on ART Evolved. We have been trying to juggle this site with our new heavy duty work loads, but sadly the work takes priority.
Now I don't bring this up to say ART Evolved is finished (far from it). Nor are we planning to pack in the galleries anytime soon.
I just see this as a great chance to discuss people's thoughts on how we've been running the galleries the past 3 years, and whether we wanted to shift the timing or frequency of them. (I note for example at least two of our previous November galleries had severe delays and schedule disruptions).
Do you think ART Evolved should stick to the six galleries every two months. Or should we make it four galleries every three months? Should we simply reschedule a few galleries to less busy times of the year?
In the immediate future we have two options. One we could carry on with a forest themed gallery, and simply push the due date to later. OR we could drop it, and go for the special end of year gallery Bond and myself came up with in the spring (your only hint is Dinosaurs and feathers... :P)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
ART Evolved's Galleries...
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- Trish said...
I wouldn't mind four galleries every three months. It'd give us more time to work on each piece after all.
- October 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- Albertonykus said...
Yes, I'll second four galleries every three months from now on idea. Up to now I've been able to contribute to every gallery that I've wanted to contribute to, but even I haven't gotten started on this latest one. Granted, this is an unusually busy time for me, but it's saying something.
I could go either way for the forest gallery. Maybe it depends on how many potential submitters are actually nearing completion (or have completed) their pieces. And now that "dinosaurs and feathers" have been mentioned, I'm naturally now far more excited for that one. XD
- October 21, 2011 at 1:37 AM
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
"Jesus Loves Me" at the Nursing Home
The Mitchell girls and their friends were swooningly adorable as they sang "Jesus Loves Me" for the residents.
The worship service was in a medium-sized community room, and there was no place for us to sit, so we stood in front, facing the residents the whole time. I would like to tell you that my kids behaved beautifully, standing there in front of everyone. I would like to tell you that.
Yes, that sure would be nice.
I managed not to snap at my four-year-old as she was squirming and whining and almost-shrieking. Instead, I got a glimmer of an idea. "Y'know, honey," I whispered as I bent down to her. "You can hug these people."
That was all she needed to hear. My four year old is an extravert, trapped in a family of library-lovers and solitude-seekers. But here! Here was a whole room full of strangers to be charmed.
She began making the rounds. I stayed close to make sure she did not bump anyone's oxygen tube, but she was so gentle and careful, I was unnecessary. Every waking person in that room got a hug. Most of them got a kiss. And almost every resident looked down in surprise, drew back a little at first, and then hugged back, smiling like a woman getting her first love letter.
I have often heard young-ish people insulting nursing homes, speaking as though they were warehouses for stacking the elderly. That may say more about how the young person sees the elderly than how the nursing home does. I don't automatically assume a nursing home is a bad place to be. My grandfather entered a nursing home in his nineties, and he liked it, because it offered so much more social activity than my parents' home. There was always someone to talk to and something going on. But any nursing home - good or bad (and there are bad ones out there) - suffers from the same absence of children.
Our worship service was part of our congregation's "Service Week." Service Week is like a charity sampler; the congregation is strongly encouraged to volunteer during this week at one of the many ministries our church supports. The hope is that members will find a ministry they are well-suited for, one in which they will become more regularly involved.
This has been a difficult month for our family, facing the economic realities of our life and acknowledging our need for help from others. But I am still wealthy in one precious resource.
Maybe it's time to share.
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This is so sweet, I can barely stand it. Your little muffin hugging and kissing everyone... I am all teary. Just love it.ReplyDelete
About nursing homes, I have quite a bit of experience in this area with elderly family members AND I was a candy-striper when I was a teenager. So. I think that actually, they can be great. Really great. My great-aunt lived her whole life on a farm, and when my great-uncle died she was quite isolated - no one around for miles, and she was fairly frail herself. So her family moved her to a home (independent living, sort of) in the nearby small city. Guess what? It was the greatest thing ever. Turns out she was a social butterfly who never had opportunity to be social. She took up shuffleboard, became incredibly involved in the church across the street, and just generally was so happy. Also she didn't have to rely on anyone to come and drive her to get groceries in the next town over, didn't have to worry about being snowed in and all alone...fantastic.
I also have a neighbour who died because he was alone in his house, fell down a flight of steps, had a complex broken leg, was found three days later and died in hospital of gangrene. I wish he had heeded his children and moved into a home.
Nicole, my grandfather's experience was similar. He perked up when he entered the nursing home. And he was still walking distance from my parents' home, so he got the best of both worlds, I think.ReplyDelete
I think preschools should be held in nursing homes - in a separate wing where the kids can be assisted by the sturdier folk, and briefly visited by the others.ReplyDelete
That's awesome! Redirecting a squirmy child to become a minister of hugs and kisses, and matching up your resource with their lack.ReplyDelete
- Jennifer3/21/2012
"Ministers of cuteness"--love it! My grandfather also did very well at an assisted living/nursing home. After my grandmother died, he was all alone in a house at the top of a steep-ish gravel road. My parents and aunt were close and they all visited back and forth, but he didn't eat right on his own and narrowly escaped a sad end when he broke his hip in his yard...laid there for several hours until his neighbor (half-acre or so away) spotted him. He always seemed happy in the (very good) nursing home...being a rather dapper older gentleman, he was very popular with the other (predomately female)residents. :)ReplyDelete


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If you're going to search, why not Search Kindly? http://SearchKindly.org
Search Kindly is an Illinois-based Not-for-Profit corporation. Our goal is to allow everyone to, in some way, help us make a difference. And one of the easiest ways to help is by visiting this website on a regular basis. Because thousands of micro-volunteers chose to support Search Kindly over the past two years, we have been able to donate thousands of dollars to dozens of deserving charitable organizations and hope to soon begin work on our own chariable projects.
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Over the course of the last few years, we've been been able to raise and donate over $15,000. This may not seem like a lot, but that's where the redesign of the websites comes into play. We'd like some help in making the user experience better. All ideas will be welcomes with open arms.
We are targeting anyone who would rather access Google (and possibly Bing and Yahoo) from our page rather than going to those search engines directly. Basically, our target market is anyone who uses the internet and is also interested in doing a bit of good at the same time.
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After going through the site, we'd like you to design *two pages* for us. One will be the initial search-only page. This can be as simple as Google's or as busy as Yahoo's. The only requirement of the search-only page is that it have space for three (3) big-box advertisements (300 x 250 pixels). Examples of these can be found if you scroll down a bit on the current site. You are welcome to include more than three ads on the search-only page, but I'm guessing that our users will only tolerate so much (but if it's well-designed, maybe they will tolerate more). These ads are how Search Kindly raises the money that it donates and uses for its own charitable projects.
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This page describes the build-in ALSA driver tool to debug PCM ring buffer positions.
Replace '#' with your card number (usually 0). This proc file can enable various debugging tools. The CONFIG_SND_PCM_XRUN_DEBUG option must be enabled in your kernel (if xrun_debug proc file is present - this feature is enabled).
1 Basic debugging - show xruns in ksyslog interface 2 Dump stack - dump stack for basic debugging 4 Jiffies check - compare the position with kernel jiffies (a sort of in-kernel monotonic clock), show what's changed when basic debugging is enabled 8 Dump positions on each period update call 16 Dump positions on each hardware pointer update call 32 Enable logging of last 10 ring buffer positions 64 Show the last 10 ring buffer position only once (when first error situation occured)
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# Enable basic debugging and dump stack # Usefull to just see, if PCM stream is stopped for a reason (usually wrong audio process timing from scheduler) echo 3 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/xrun_debug
# Enable basic debugging, do jiffies check and enable one shot dump of last 10 ring buffer positions # Usefull, when the position is broken only after some of time (to reduce ksyslog messages) echo 101 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/xrun_debug
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heavier but much more comfortable
i'm 5'9 and weigh 165-lbs, and i rarely have issues with seat comfort, yet i found this saddle to be a noticeable improvement over my prior SI's. i bought this saddle for a new build due to extremely attractive pricing (found on sale) and i am incredibly happy with it.
pros - comfort is amazing, gel padding really works. thickness takes a little getting used to, but streamlined shape helps avoid a bulky feel.
cons - the only thing i can think of is that it adds 50-100g in weight vs. most other selle italias, but that's more than offset by the increased riding comfort in my opinion, especially if you can find it for just over $100.
Great value in an incredibly comfortable saddle when you can find it on sale.
i've ridden it several times, but not enough to be able to comment on wear/tear, so will update later if needed.
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¿Have you tried the SLR Max Flow? and if you have, ¿which do you prefer and why? Thanks a lot
I haven't tried the SLR max flow, so can't compare/contrast. sorry.
I'm concerned about the side strength and...
I'm concerned about the side strength and possible sagging. I weigh about 300lb.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Is private property natural?
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Hmm...Wha ever happend to "Thou shalt not steal?" Or to "bear the fruits of thy labour?"
- September 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Reginaldus said...
@Anonymous (Sept 26, 7:25am),
Thank you for reminding us of these two very important truths!
Indeed, the rich are stealing from the poor when they do not give alms. Stealing form the poor is always a sin and it is always mortal. The rich man went to hell, simply because he stole from Lazarus (i.e. he did not give alms).
"Bear the fruits of thy labour" -- you are quite right, one of the fruits of labor is the ability to give alms to the poor.
That is what you meant, isn't it?
- September 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Private property is part of the Natural Law, this is what the Church has taught in the face of Communism.
But it doesn't even have to be taught by the Church to be known. Reason is sufficient.
The poor man, by Natural Law, has a right to his own property just as the rich man does. If he did not, he could not receive alms, nor could the rich man give alms.
Do not forget the good of the person for the good of the community, nor vica-versa.
- February 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM
- Reginaldus said...
Nick, I think you may be a bit confused about what St. Thomas (and the Church) teaches about private property.
The simple fact that people may own goods privately is certainly compatible with Natural Law -- but it is not demanded by it.
For example, it is not contrary to Natural Law that monks and nuns should renounce private property.
Moreover, there is nothing in the nature of a piece of land itself which makes it to belong to a particular person.
In this sense, private property IS NOT part of the Natural Law (contrary to what you wrote in your comment).
At the same time, as I state quite clearly, neither is private property un-natural or contrary to the Natural Law. Rather, private property is part of human law -- and it is the obligation of the State to provide for and safeguard the legitimate possession of private property.
Nevertheless, when grave need arises, all things are common -- hence, the abjectly poor man has a right to the "private property" of the rich. [this is the clear teaching of Gaudium et Spes, and St. Thomas Aquinas]
- February 26, 2011 at 11:31 AM
"The simple fact that people may own goods privately is certainly compatible with Natural Law -- but it is not demanded by it.
For example, it is not contrary to Natural Law that monks and nuns should renounce private property.
Moreover, there is nothing in the nature of a piece of land itself which makes it to belong to a particular person.
In this sense, private property IS NOT part of the Natural Law (contrary to what you wrote in your comment)."
Private property is part of the Natural Law because it is good to own what God has given to us, and the primary principal of the Natural Law is "do good, avoid evil." Moreover, man, by nature, has dominion over creation, which was created for man, so each person has a natural right to own goods.
The Evangelical Counsel of poverty is not proof that private property is not demanded of each person, because private property is simply not demanded of each person. What is more, the Counsels are not the same as the Commandments: the distinction is one of love.
Ergo God can call Mother Teresa to abandon her goods to serve the poor, yet at the same time supply her with some food to eat even when she is in the midst of the poor.
- February 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Reginaldus said...
Nick, That is a very interesting interpretation you have of God's gift to man of dominion over creation and that the world was created for man...you have concluded from the Genesis account that "each person has a natural right to own goods" ... meaning, to own goods privately.
Again, it is an interesting interpretation...one which I have never found in the writings of the Fathers of the Church...one which is actually quite radically different from that given by Papal Magisterium and Ecumenical Councils (especially Vat II)...
The "dominion" which God gives to man in Genesis 1 and 2 has, by Church Fathers and by Popes, been understood to imply the "universal destination of all goods" -- that is, these verses have traditionally been used to prove that all property, by nature, belongs to the human race as a whole and not to anyone individually...
In other words, the very passage which you are using to claim that private property is demanded by the Natural Law has been used by the Church to emphasize that private property is not an absolute right, but that all goods are naturally the property of all people...
- February 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM
"Again, it is an interesting interpretation...one which I have never found in the writings of the Fathers of the Church...one which is actually quite radically different from that given by Papal Magisterium and Ecumenical Councils (especially Vat II)..."
Well, I do find it interesting that the Church should say every person has a natural right to own property when she denounced Communism.
"In other words, the very passage which you are using to claim that private property is demanded by the Natural Law has been used by the Church to emphasize that private property is not an absolute right, but that all goods are naturally the property of all people..."
I did not claim absolute right, only natural right: I know the difference between "I don't have to give money to the poor!" and "I have to give money to the poor."
- February 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, "Defile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty."(2) They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is "the root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,"(3) they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one's mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.
- Quod Apostolici Muneris
19. Secondly, private ownership of property, including that of productive goods, is a natural right which the State cannot suppress. But it naturally entails a social obligation as well. It is a right which must be exercised not only for one's own personal benefit but also for the benefit of others.
- Mater Et Magistra
- February 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Reginaldus said...
Nick, What troubles me is that you are giving your comments as though they are contradicting the doctrine I have expounded in this article (which is founded on St. Thomas and Vatican II)...
Of course, the State cannot suppress private property...I have said as much above.
Obviously, all men have a right to own goods (I expressed this very clearly in my earlier article "Stealing from the poor").
The main issue I have with your comments is:
1) Your way of interpreting Scripture is not based on the commentaries of the Fathers of the Church or the references made by the Magisterium...rather, you are interpreting the Sacred Text in the bubble of your own mind.
2) You seem to think that your comments prove that St. Thomas (or at least my interpretation of him) is wrong -- as though there is something in the very nature of a piece of land which dictates that it belongs to a particular person or family [it is in this sense that I say private property is not natural, nor dictated by nature].
If all you are claiming is that men have a natural right to own material goods...I agree, and I have said as much my articles.
If, on the other hand, you are claiming that St. Thomas is wrong...then I think you have either misunderstood St. Thomas, or you have misunderstood the Natural Law.
- February 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM
I have made myself clear, and since now you see that the Church does teach that private property is a natural right, part of the Natural Law, you wish to accuse me of personal interpretation of the Scriptures and attack on Saint Thomas? Assuredly I know that saints can be wrong, but the Church cannot, and she has spoken.
- February 26, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Reginaldus said...
Nick...you say "I have made myself clear"...Yet, I do not think you are at all clear...
You continue to speak about a natural right to private property, insinuating that I have somehow denied Church teaching in my article, but you have yet to explain what you think this "natural right" is or how I have rejected it...
I have pointed to very specific things: Your interpretation of Genesis 1-2; the sense in which the nature of any particular plot land does not dictate that it should be owned privately; the obligation of the State to secure the private property of individuals...
Are you claiming that there is something in the very nature of things that dictates that property must be owned privately?
Or are you simply claiming (as I have) that the nature and dignity of man is such that he has a right to sustenance?
Why have you started this debate? And what do you hope to gain from it?
And, yes, I know "that saints can be wrong"...but the relevant passage from St. Thomas has been explicitly quoted and endorsed by Gaudium et Spes (as cited in my article, "Stealing from the Poor")...so, as you put it, "she [the Church] has spoken."
- February 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM
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Mayor Chris Beutler today said the City's new Development Services Center (DSC) is expected to open at City Hall in March of 2010. Fred Hoke, the Director of the City Building and Safety Department, will begin his new position of DSC Manager, effective October 1. The DSC will be a "one-stop shop" for the review, permitting and inspection of development projects
The Development Service Center is a profound change in the way we do business at City Hall. It is critical to Lincoln's future," Beutler said. "Having a single point of entry into the system is key, so builders can get to work rather than navigating through departments located all over the City. The DSC also will help develop the teamwork and cultural change we need to make City Hall even more responsive to the people who create jobs.
Hoke has been Building and Safety Director since December 2008. He had been the Government Affairs Director for the Home Builders Association of Lincoln since 2006. He previously managed accounts for major banks as part of two companies dealing with information technology security and risk assessment. In the late 1990s, he created Manpower Technical-Professional office in Omaha.. He also has experience in education in several states, and served as Executive Director of the Nebraska Council of School Administrators from 1986 through 1992. Hoke has a master's degree in educational administration from West Virginia University.
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The Mayor also announced that Chuck Zimmerman, the current Manager of Building Services for Building and Safety, will become the department's Interim Director, also effective October 1st.
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Government Can Keep Key Emails With Hollywood Lobbyists About 'Six Strikes' Secret
from the can't-interfere-with-that-'commercial'-relationship deptWhile we keep hearing folks in the entertainment industry and their supporters in DC talk about how great it is that the "six strikes" "Copyright Alert System" (CAS) was a "voluntary" agreement between industry players, one of the worst kept secrets in the world was that the White House was heavily involved. They basically helped Hollywood out and at least hinted strongly at the fact that if no "voluntary" agreement came through, legislation might have to be put in place (creating a novel definition of "voluntary"). Specifically, it came out that Victoria Espinel, the White House's IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), had been emailing with people about the program.
That news came out because Chris Soghoian had submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, seeking details of all communications between Espinel and her staff and the various players in six strikes, both the entertainment industry and the various ISPs (no need to seek communications with the real stakeholders, the public, since they weren't even invited to the table). However, Soghoian felt that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in which Espinel works, kept key documents from being revealed, and appealed. Following that, OMB released a few more documents, but still kept many secret. Soghoain then went to court over the issue -- arguing specifically that exemptions claimed for "trade secrets, commercial or financial interesets" and "privileged intra-agency memoranda and letters" were inappropriate. Unfortunately, the court has now rejected that case, siding with OMB.
At issue are some details of the draft "memorandum of understanding" that created the six strikes CAS program. Apparently, entertainment industry lobbyists shared those drafts with Espinel, but OMB won't release them, claiming that they're commercial, confidential information. OMB also argued that the documents were provided voluntarily and that the drafts "were not compelled or obligated." In response, Soghoian argued that the documents were clearly provided to OMB for the sake of having Espinel "press ISPs for additional steps to combat copyright infringement (steps they are not legally obligated to take)." The court rejects this, saying that the info was provided confidentially, and voluntarily, and it represents commercial information. So... they remain secret.
The court also rejected an attempt to see internal discussions within the government about the six strike plans (as well as discussions on foreign laws like the Hadopi six strikes plan in France). Espinel's office argued that these are protected because they're a part of the "deliberative process privilege" that lets them withhold internal deliberative discussions about policy (so that government employees can discuss stuff openly before coming to an official policy position). However, here, Soghoian argued that Espinel and the IPEC have almost no policy setting role under the law, and thus this exemption makes little sense. Once again, the court disagreed. Here, they argued that since the government may make policy decisions based on whether or not six strikes formed (or how well it works) that these communications were properly classified as privileged and not open to FOIA requests.
The court goes into a bit more detail on a few specific withheld documents, but the conclusion is all the same: OMB can keep these documents secret because they involve internal deliberative discussions. This isn't too surprising, but it also means that we don't get to learn the full extent of the government's involvement in this "voluntary" process.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — President Barack Obama has given progressives plenty to be angry at him for lately: The liberal wish list he laid out at his second inaugural remains just that. Then came revelations of sweeping domestic surveillance programs that triggered flashbacks to the ultimate villains of the left, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Yet despite all of that, Democratic activists on hand here for the largest annual gathering of progressives cut the president a surprising amount of slack. Yes, they're unhappy about Obama embracing Bush-era snooping. And they think he hasn't done nearly enough on climate change or other issues they had high hopes for when they helped propel Obama past Hillary Clinton in 2008.
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But two dozen people interviewed by POLITICO at the Netroots Nation conference this week agreed, in broad strokes, that a broken Congress and leftover Bush-era policies deserve at least as much blame as the president. The National Security Agency controversy may be headline news — on Friday night, news broke that federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against NSA contractor Edward Snowden for allegedly leaking classified information — but it was barely mentioned in a series of speeches kicking off the conference.
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"When we're talking about these things in regards to the president, we can't leave out Congress," said Gina Cooper, founder of Netroots Nation. "People are definitely looking toward the administration for answers … what they're not hearing about is checks and balances."
Said Jonathan Dale, a 42-year-old Planned Parenthood activist from San Diego: "The NSA stuff that came out was disappointing but not surprising." But "it's a legacy from the Bush era."
His colleague, Rachel Dixon, 35, agreed: "I always kind of assumed that our emails weren't private," she said.
The idea that Bush, not Obama, was responsible for putting these programs in place came up time and again.
"Everything that Obama's going through, Bush started," said Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean. "So we're not trying to parse between whose fault it is or who gets the blame or who the hero is."
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The progressive movement has had a complicated relationship with Obama since he took office: it backed him wholeheartedly in the 2008 election but has consistently criticized what they see as Obama's too-conciliatory approach.
Progressives have struggled to figure out whether Obama is the liberal icon they supported in 2008 or a centrist deal-maker all too willing to make concessions to the GOP. Some conservatives like to call Obama as a socialist; progressives wish he was a lot farther to the left.
Before Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage last year, for example, progressives argued he wasn't going far enough on gay rights. And despite the grief Obama has taken over Obamacare, activists here say that the president gave too much away to make it "moderate" enough to get through Congress.
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Since then, the progressive movement has praised Obama on some things — his gun control efforts, for example, even though they were ultimately stifled in the Senate — but continued to push him further on many other issues.
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This week's artifact is a peanut- shaped pill container. (1999.29.1) Story has it that Mrs. Johnson served tea to Betty Ford in the LBJ Library Presidential Suite during a campaign stop Mrs. Ford made during the 1976 Carter/Ford election. Without realizing the faux pas, guest Martha Tiller offered Mrs. Ford saccharin tablets in this little peanut (remembering too late that the peanut was the symbol for the Carter campaign!)
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian ex-Prime Minister Janez Jansa was granted a brief prison furlough on Friday to attend the country's first parliamentary session after he won a seat in last month's election.
Jansa, leader of the opposition Slovene Democratic Party, has been serving a two-year sentence for bribery since June. He arrived unescorted to the parliamentary session as several hundred supporters gathered outside the building. He was expected to return to prison once the session ends.
Slovenia's laws don't formally ban a prisoner from running for the 90-member parliament, but there have been calls that Jansa be stripped of his seat based on a separate legal provision that envisages any lawmaker lose his seat if convicted to more than six months in prison during his term.
It wasn't immediately clear when parliament could take up the issue.
Jansa has insisted that his trial was political. In a brief speech to supporters, Jansa urged the crowd to keep up the protests, telling them that "when we know we are right, we must persist."
Jansa's last government fell in 2013 after the state corruption watchdog accused him of failing to declare assets.


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Our View: A solemn tribute on Memorial Day
This intangible thing we call freedom is interpreted differently by just about every individual, but one aspect that's not open for debate is that we enjoy freedom because of the sacrifices made by countless men and women of our armed forces. We must never question that freedom is worth fighting for, and dying for. That very concept was the genesis of the United States of America.
This Memorial Day—in between the cookouts and big sales events—take the time to remember the men and women of this country's military and the fact that they have always exemplified valor, courage and bravery. The sacrifices they've made down through the years allow us all to revel in the freedom we have today; the forfeiture of one's own life for the cause of freedom is the quintessence of all that is good, right and noble about this country.
The greatness of America's armed forces has liberated countries, freed the oppressed, toppled tyrants and dethroned dictators. But not without sacrifice; there's virtually no corner of this globe where American soldiers and sailors have not spilled blood.
Thus, we may often speak of freedom yet we rarely speak of those to whom we owe it.
Many of this country's veterans have experienced first hand the inexplicable terror of battle, and the sheer horror of war and they understand, perhaps better than most of us, just how valuable this thing freedom really is to our way of life. More acutely than most of us, they remember… the comrades who never made it back.
America's veterans have bravely carried the torch of liberty in battles on beaches, mountains, deserts, jungles, islands, oceans, farms, fields, and forests; oftentimes enduring extreme conditions of heat, cold, rain, snow—all while doing battle; and there are so many that have made the ultimate sacrifice. That's courage, and those brave men and women should never be forgotten.
Tomorrow, Memorial Day, it's our turn to salute them all. We owe you a debt that can never be repaid. Thank you for your service to this great country. God bless you.
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