text: As of this post, it would appear that the S-OFF tool, Revolutionary, may not successfully flash clockworkmod recovery for everyone. And once it S-OFFs your HBOOT, it won't run again, so there's no way to get it to retry the recovery flashing. The following is a guide on how to manually flash a recovery. May come in handy some day. Or you may want to wait for Revolutionary to address the issue. But if you're one of the people who has run Revolutionary and is without a recovery image, this is for you. For now, TeamWin has created a brand new recovery called TWRP, and it works great. You can download the image here: [RECOVERY] [EVO3D] TeamWin Recovery Project (twrp) v1.0.2 [7/31/2011] - xda-developers Or you can go with ClockworkMod recovery, which is what you would end up with if the recovery portion of Revolutionary succeeds: http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-126.96.36.199-shooter.img Choose which recovery you want to try, and save that image to your computer. There are two popular methods to flash a recovery. The easiest way is known as the update.zip method. The other way, fastboot, is more technical and requires that your PC is set up with drivers and the and fastboot tool. Both methods require that you boot your phone into HBOOT. If you are unsure how to do this, see this post: http://androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/362270-how-boot-into-bootloader-hboot.html UPDATE.ZIP METHOD: This method can be used to flash to any partition, not just recovery. Essentially you place a file at the top (root) level directory of your SD card and HBOOT will automatically find the file and flash its contents. The filename needs to be named PG86IMG.ZIP for the Evo 3D, and it needs to contain the .img files named the same as the partition name. Most of the time, you don't need to worry about all this; the file you download will already be in the correct format. You just have to rename it to PG86IMG.ZIP. The link to TWRP recovery above is distributed in this update.zip format. All you need to do is rename it and put it in the root of your SD card. Then boot into HBOOT. HBOOT will automatically scan for the file, and if it was named correctly, it will ask you if you want to flash what's in the file. Say yes, and it will do it's thing. That's it. If you only have the .img file, you can make your own update.zip file. For example, if you have a recovery image file, it needs to be named recovery.img. Then, put it in a ZIP file without compression. Name the file PG86IMG.ZIP, and you're all set. FASTBOOT METHOD: This method requires a little more setup and is a bit more manual than the above update.zip method, but in my experience, having a computer set up to run fastboot and adb can come in handy, especially once you've graduated to an advanced power root user. If you ever want to help in the effort to crack bootloaders, having fastboot working is a must fastboot is a little executable tool that comes with the Android SDK. It is right alongside adb. If you have adb working, then fastboot is ready to go. Both adb and fastboot require that you have the HBOOT drivers installed for your phone. You can get the drivers here: public:revolutionary [RootWiki] (go to the part, "are any drivers required?") Once the drivers are installed, you should get the Android SDK here: Android SDK | Android Developers Just get the .zip file and extract it anywhere on your computer. Look for the /tools folder. In there, you'll see the fastboot executable. Ok, these instructions are for Windows users, but the equivalent steps should work for mac and linux: Open up a cmd window and go to your SDK tools folder. Now type Code (Text): fastboot and press enter. You should see a list of fastboot commands available. If you don't get that, you're probably not in the right folder. Check your path and where you installed the SDK and make sure you are in the /tools folder. Once you've verified you can run fastboot, it's time to move the recovery image to the /tools folder (easier not to have to specify a path to the recovery file). I would also rename the recovery file to something short like recovery.img. Once the recovery image is in the same /tools folder as fastboot, you'll need to put your phone in fastboot USB mode. To do this: 1) make sure the Fast Boot option is disabled. Note, this "Fast Boot" has nothing to do with the fastboot executable I've been talking about. This is a setting in Sense to allow the phone to boot up faster. To disable this setting, go to Settings > Power > Fast boot (uncheck the box). 2) Hold down the power button and select Power Off from the menu. Wait 1 minute for the phone to completely power off. 3) Boot into HBOOT. See this post for detailed instructions on how to boot into HBOOT: http://androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/362270-how-boot-into-bootloader-hboot.html 4) Once you're in HBOOT, you'll see it scan for a few files. This is normal. When it is done, you can make selections in the menu. Vol-UP and Vol-DOWN allows you to move up and down the menu list. POWER button acts as ENTER and selects whatever you're highlighted over. By default, FASTBOOT is selected. So just press power. 5) now you should be in the FASTBOOT section of HBOOT. Plug the phone in via the USB cable to the computer where you installed the Android SDK. You should see the red FASTBOOT banner turn into FASTBOOT USB. If that doesn't happen, it means that your HBOOT drivers aren't working. Your phone is now ready to accept commands from the fastboot executable that came with the Android SDK. Go back to that cmd window where we tested the fastboot command earlier. From there, issue the following command: Code (Text): fastboot flash recovery recovery.img Here's a quick explanation of the above command: fastboot: that's the executable tool flash: that's the function we want the fastboot tool to perform recovery: this is the name of the partition we want to flash into. since we are flashing a recovery image, it needs to go to the recovery partition. recovery.img: this is the name of the actual file to flash. Your filename may be different. Just make sure it matches the actual filename. Fastboot will flash the image and give you a success/failure notification. If successful, you're all set. To check out the new recovery image, verify that BOOTLOADER is selected in the HBOOT menu (should be highlighted in blue). Press POWER button to select it. Now you should be back at the main HBOOT menu. Use VOL-DOWN to highlight RECOVERY and press POWER button. The phone will now attempt to boot into the new recovery image. You'll see the htc splash screen briefly and then the recovery image. That's it! ________________________ A note about ROM Manager: Some people have mentioned here and there that the easiest way to flash a recovery image is with the ROM Manager app, which is free on the Market. While this is true, I discourage people from using this app to flash their recovery IF they don't know how to use the two methods detailed above. Why? Because there may come a day when you have a bad flash, or you did something that prevents your phone from booting into Android, and you can't run ROM Manager. If, in this situation, you needed to reflash your recovery, you'll need to do it the manual way. If you are proficient in the manual flash, then by all means, use ROM Manager to change out your recovery image. Just be sure that the image it recommends is the proper one for the Evo 3D. It seems possible to use an old version of ROM Manager and flash a recovery not intended for the Evo 3D, so be careful.


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Greenwood is the County's first and most diverse park. The well-maintained campground offers the entire family a quality camping experience. The lake's spring-fed waters provide refreshing swimming areas at the white sand beach, as well as great opportunities for anglers of all ages, from shore or from a rental boat. Relax in the shade or bask in the sun in the extensive picnic areas, or enjoy the peaceful beauty of the park's nature trail system. In winter, this year-round park offers ice-fishing, and miles of groomed cross-country ski trails and equipment rentals. Organized youth groups may secure a permit to use the Youth Group Camping Area, located on the northwest side of the lake.
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Talk around the Duke basketball team has involved the potential return of senior forward Ryan Kelly by next week, if not sooner.
But the Blue Devils might have more pressing issues tonight, particularly with a Virginia team on the verge of a 20-win mark.
Duke�s quest to make Saturday night�s game with first-place Miami meaningful at the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference hinges largely on the result of the matchup with Virginia.
Not to mention that forward Joe Harris of Virginia has emerged as one of the most reliable players in the league.
�(Harris) is one of the favorite players that I�ve watched, not just in our conference, but around the country,� Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
Duke won a pair of blowouts last week against Virginia Tech and Boston College � teams at the bottom of the ACC standings.
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Virginia holds a 15-game homecourt winning streak, reflecting its longest stretch of success in its current arena.
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�Ryan is going to be back soon,� Krzyzewski said. �What does �soon� mean, I don�t know.�
Who: No. 3 Duke (24-3, 12-3) at Virginia (19-8, 9-5)
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THURSDAY, June 9, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- The cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin reduced the risk of heart disease among kidney patients by as much as 25 percent, according to the results of the largest kidney disease trial ever conducted.
"People with kidney disease are at a high risk of heart attack and strokes," explained study author Dr. Colin Baigent, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford in the U.K. "But there are very few studies attempting to see how that risk can be reduced. In healthy people we know that lowering LDL, or 'bad,' cholesterol reduces the risk. But now this is the first study to show that lowering LDL among people with kidney disease reduces risk as well."
Baigent and his colleagues report on their research, which was funded in part by Vytorin maker Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, in the June 9 online issue of The Lancet. The findings were to be presented this week at the UK Renal Association and British Renal Society meeting being held this week in Birmingham, England.
Vytorin is a combination of Zetia (ezetimibe) and the statin Zocor (simvastatin). Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called for warning labels on Zocor because of an increased risk of muscle damage that is seen among patients taking the highest dose -- 80 milligrams a day -- of that drug.
Baigent noted that although statins alone are known to be effective at lowering LDL, one of the challenges of treating kidney disease patients is that they do not process such drugs well, rendering high doses of statins potentially toxic. However, by pairing a relatively low dose of the statin Zocor with Zetia, the team hoped to achieve the same LDL-lowering effect while using a much lower dose of a statin.
"This is a rather neat trick," said Baigent, who struggled with kidney disease himself some three decades ago. "This combination produces the same LDL-lowering effect as would triple the dose of statin alone."
In this study, the authors focused on a pool of nearly 9,300 male and female chronic kidney disease patients aged 40 and up (with an average age of 62). All were participants in the "Study of Heart and Renal Protection" (SHARP) study, which was conducted over a seven-year period at 380 hospitals spread across 18 countries.
Beginning in 2003, roughly one-third of the patients were already on dialysis at the study's launch. Nearly two-thirds were men, and none had a prior history of heart attack.
About half of the patients were randomly given Vytorin; the other half was given placebo pills.
Patients were tracked for a minimum of four years. The team recorded all instances of heart attack, stroke, vascular procedures, hospitalizations and side effects.
The results: The Vytorin group experienced 17 percent fewer major cardiovascular events, compared with the placebo group.
What's more, because about a third of the Vytorin group failed to take the drug all the time, the researchers calculated that, with 100 percent compliance, Vytorin would actually have lowered the risk for major cardiovascular events by roughly 25 percent.
"This finding has major implications, both for people who are on kidney dialysis, and also the larger group of people who have some stage of kidney disease but have not yet reached the stage where they need dialysis," Baigent said.
"So, this will have ramifications for many, many millions of people," he added, "given the estimated 10 percent of the population that has some form of kidney disease."
Dr. Robert Provenzano, chief of nephrology at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, echoed Baigent's opinion.
"Chronic kidney disease is an epidemic in the world," he said. "As other countries become 'Westernized,' we find the incidence of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal failure increases. We see this in India, and in China. We see this everywhere. So, this is a huge issue."
"The problem though is that even though we've already identified the basic risk factors, so far most of the data concerning cholesterol and risk has been circumstantial or confounded by a lot of other problems," Provenzano noted. "But now the SHARP study has answered the question, and found that LDL, bad cholesterol, directly impacts acceleration of chronic kidney disease. And they've found a way to get around the high side-effect profile of statins by combining them with another medication."
"Now if you have kidney disease, this won't cure you per se," he cautioned. "But it treats the co-morbidities that can kill these patients. And that makes this finding extremely useful."
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Inability to break dial tone is a common problem encountered in a VoIP network. In this scenario, the calling party is unable to pass the dual tone multifrequency (DTMF) tones or digits to the terminating device. This, in turn, does not let callers dial the desired extension or interact with the device that needs DTMF tones (such as voice mail or interactive voice response [IVR] applications). This problem could be caused by any of these issues:
DTMF tones are not passed.
DTMF tones are not understood.
DTMF tones are passed but are not understood due to distortion.
Other signaling and cabling issues.
This document addresses the most common problems and solutions.
There are no specific requirements for this document.
This document is not restricted to specific software or hardware versions.
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
For more information on document conventions, refer to the Cisco Technical Tips Conventions.
The router puts a seizure on the local PBX, but the dial tone remains while the user is dialing.
Ensure that the dial-type is set as dtmf on both the router and the PBX, as shown in the next sample output. Because the Foreign Exchange Station (FXS) port does not pass on digits, this setting is not available on an FXS port. However, this setting can be changed on Foreign Exchange Office (FXO) ports and on receive and transmit (Ear and Mouth [E & M]) ports.
Router(config-voiceport)# dial-type ? dtmf touch-tone dialer mf mf-tone dialer pulse pulse dialer
In case of E & M, issue a show call active voice brief command to ensure that you are receiving the answer supervision from the PBX. The status of the call should be active, if you have received answer supervision. If the Telephony leg is still in the connecting state, then the router will not completely close the audio path. If this is the case, then you should contact the PBX vendor and ask them to provide answer supervision.
A workaround to this problem is to try to change the signaling on the router to immediate (see the next sample output) and then issue the auto cut-through command under the voice port. The router can then bring the call up to active state and cut through the audio.
Router(config-voiceport)# signal ? delay-dial delay before dialing immediate start immediately wink-start start upon wink Router(config-voiceport)# ? Voice-port configuration commands: auto-cut-through E & M auto cut-through without answer signal
Note: The signaling should match between the router and the PBX. Otherwise, calls in one direction might not work.
In the case of analog E&M, ensure that all cabling is installed correctly as described in Understanding and Troubleshooting Analog E & M Interface Types and Wiring Arrangements. Correct installation ensures that both transmit and receive audio paths are mapped correctly. Incorrect installation can cause audio paths not to establish properly and, therefore, the digits will not pass correctly between the two connected devices. The desired extension is reached, but the terminal device does not understand the tones when they are pressed.
In the case of a VoIP call from an originating gateway (OGW) to a terminating gateway (TGW), terminating the call to a Telephony device might not be understood. When you are passing DTMF tones through a compressed VoIP audio path, some or part of the dual tones could become slightly distorted because digital signal processor (DSP) codecs are designed to interpret human speech, not machine tones. Usually, such distortion does not occur with earlier compression codecs, such as G.723 or G.711, but later compression codecs can cause distortion of in-band tones. Cisco IOS® Software Release 12.0(5)T allows the DTMF tones to be passed out-of-band between VoIP gateways via three different techniques. All of these techniques use the H.245 capabilities exchange (part of H.323v2) to signal to the remote VoIP gateway that a DTMF tone has been received and that the remote VoIP gateway should regenerate it.
Issue the dtmf-relay command under the VoIP dial-peer on both sides. There are three different types of DTMF relays that can be configured:
Router(config)# dial-peer voice xxx voip
Router(config-dial-peer)# dtmf-relay ?
cisco-rtp Cisco Proprietary RTP
h245-alphanumeric DTMF Relay via H245 Alphanumeric IE
h245-signal DTMF Relay via H245 Signal IE
Try a different setting for the dtmf-relay command. The cisco-rtp setting is proprietary to Cisco and is available prior to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0(5)T. The other two settings follow the H.323v2 standards.
For Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) networks, refer to MGCP Based Fax (T.38) and DTMF Relay.
For session initiation protocol (SIP) networks, refer to Dual Tone Multifrequency Relay for SIP Calls Using Named Telephone Events.
The sent in-band tones might be distorted because of the configuration of the voice ports.
The tones sent across the network might have a signal strength that is too low or too high. You can adjust the input gain and output attenuation of the signal to change the signal strength. The configuration is found under the voice ports.
Router(config-voiceport)# input gain ? <-6 - 14> gain in db Router(config-voiceport)# output attenuation ? <-6 - 14> attenuation in db
You can increase or decrease the signal at input. The exact value varies from vendor to vendor (the Telco). Normally this is +7. However, you can always try to increase or decrease by one until it reaches optimum stage. If the values of these parameters are set too low or too high, you might have problems. Adjust the values. The default values are 0 for both settings.
In addition to the previous issues, one-way audio can also contribute to this type of problem. When there is one-way audio, the digits sent across do not reach the intended destination. A common way to establish audio paths in both directions is to issue the voice rtp send-recv command on both routers. For more information to troubleshoot one-way audio, refer to Troubleshooting One Way Voice Issues.
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I am so torn. Part of me wants to hold on to every last bit of summer for as long as I can! I love that I can run out in my bear feet and not get frost bite, I love the feel of the hot sun on my skin, slow evening walks to the ice cream shop. Summer is wonderful. But.... I want to wrap myself up in knits! I can't wait for fall to arrive!
I knit Julie's Stockholm scarf back in June, and it's taken me until now to take FO shots. It's just been way too hot for wool scarves! This is a great pattern and a perfect pairing for this yarn. I used TFA Yellow Label DK Weight yarn in the Sunset colourway. I knit mine in the round. I used all of 2 skeins, I just knit until I ran out of yarn and ended up with a gorgeous, generous scarf. It's warm, cushy, pretty and is sure to become a fall staple. I've been dying to do a proper FO shoot for a while now, and though it's certainly not cool enough for the outfit I'm sporting in these shots, plum coloured corduroys and a jean shirt are exactly what I feel like wearing with this awesome scarf!


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Saturday, 24 January 2015
Say Cheeeese......
Weekend again, hope you all have a good one.
Not much happening here, even the weather doesn't seem to be doing much, mustn't grumble though as I know folk have got snow not so far from here so I'll shut up on that subject.
So onto crafting.....
I made a card a while back using this little lady, but I do like her, so with a new design and fresh papers she's getting another airing.
Do excuse the quality of the photos, I don't know if I need a new camera (quite apt considering the image) or if it's just me and I'd take rubbish pics anyway, even with the best of equipment!!
As usual, card recipe and challenges below....
Sister Act....Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday...Colourful
Scrap & Craft...Anything Goes
Crafters Cafe...Stitching, Real/Faux
Creative Moments...Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination...Anything Goes
Paper Creator...Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore...Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper...Anything Goes With Patterned Paper
My Craft Creations...Anything Goes
Card Recipe....
Papers....Haj Design Papers
Image, pre-coloured....'By Digital Paper'
Faux Stitching....Nitwit Collections (under licence # 69464)
Card Stock, Ribbon....From Stash
56 comments:
- Lorraine said...
A gorgeous card Jacee. The image looks fabulous and I love the colours and pretty papers.
Have a lovely weekend
Lorraine x
- 24 January 2015 at 15:32
- Hazel said...
Thank you so much for joining my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper January challenge with your super creation - hope to see you again soon x
- 24 January 2015 at 16:51
- Rainey's Craft Room said...
This is very sweet Jacee, love the papers and the colour combo too.
Enjoy your weekend.
- 24 January 2015 at 17:12
- coldwaters2 said...
Beautiful card Jacee I love the image and the wonderful summery colours and papers, the pictures look perfect to me the colours look so vibrant, excellent make.
lorraine x
- 24 January 2015 at 19:48
- Lozzy T said...
Love your card Jacee, great fun image and loving the colours. Bright and warming and now im saying roll on summer..Hugs Lozzy xx
- 24 January 2015 at 21:01
- Sandra H said...
So pretty is your card and image and such a stunning layout too with beautiful designer papers xx
- 24 January 2015 at 21:52
- Jan Ltc said...
What a fab card Jacee xx Jan
- 24 January 2015 at 21:56
- Carole said...
Lovely card Jacee...I haven't seen this image before...she is lovely and you have showcased her so well!
- 24 January 2015 at 22:15
- Carol S. said...
Beautiful card. Love the image and gorgeous papers. Hugs, Carol S.xx
- 24 January 2015 at 22:39
- Veerle said...
Gorgeous card Jacee and a perfect finish in and out. HUgs, Veerle
- 24 January 2015 at 22:51
- Jean said...
Nice card design, I love the pretty papers and sweet image.
Jean x
- 24 January 2015 at 22:51
- jimlynn said...
Jacee, your photo looks fine to me! Love that gorgeous, gorgeous paper with that cute image too. Looks like Spring is right around the corner!
- 24 January 2015 at 23:08
- KT Fit Kitty said...
Beautiful card! The inside is so pretty too! And the envelope!
- 24 January 2015 at 23:45
- JD/ Jill said...
I really like this image...and the happy colors that go with her. You have such a gift for putting together dp and doing such neat layouts...
- 25 January 2015 at 00:12
- Marie-Louise said...
Gorgeous card Jacee. Love the background papers.
- 25 January 2015 at 00:18
- Wendy Nicola Jackson said...
Ooh I love this Jacee! Gorgeous Summery colours and fab image. Just gorgeous. Hugs, Wends x
- 25 January 2015 at 04:24
- Shireen Boddapati said...
wow! this a card that I would like to receive so pretty! Thank you for taking part in challenge # 100 of Crafter's Cafe Blog. All the best!
- 25 January 2015 at 05:37
- Chrissy said...
Lovely papers and colours Jacee and I love this funky cool image.Hope your weekend is going well...mine is nearly at the end and very hot and sticky..
luv CHRISSYxx
- 25 January 2015 at 06:29
- Jackie said...
Very pretty card, a lovely reminder of Summer :o)
Jackie xx
- 25 January 2015 at 07:23
- Shirley said...
Great image Jacee, looks lovely with the pretty papers.
- 25 January 2015 at 07:59
- Diane said...
A fab girly chic card Jacee !!
We have sunnt, but very very COLD weather here....but no actual snow !!
hugs Diane xx
- 25 January 2015 at 08:58
- Craftin Suzie (Susan Flynn) said...
A wonderful card Jacee and I can't see anything wrong with the picture! Susan x
- 25 January 2015 at 09:29
- meg said...
Love the summery colours and the roses
great card
- 25 January 2015 at 10:01
- Crafting Queen said...
Beautiful card.
- 25 January 2015 at 10:39
- aussie aNNie said...
Love your creation, it's gorgeous and the beauties added....thanks for always popping into my blog...♥ aNNie
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- 25 January 2015 at 12:00
- Pamellia Johnson said...
Beautiful card Jacee, love the pink and yellow together, my favourite combo!! My camera is worth about a bajillion dollars and I still want to throw it off the balcony! Silly equipment! lol, hugs until next time :)
- 25 January 2015 at 12:08
- Christine L said...
Fabbie card and the photos looks good to me hon.... Believe it or not, I take most of my photos on my phone as I found it took better pics than my camera!! LOL! I also use an OTTlite (just the small one) for good lighting... that helps a lot... and it also helps me when I'm colouring.
Big hugs
Christine x
- 25 January 2015 at 13:01
- Kamila R. said...
Very pretty card, with lots of details. Thank you for joining us at Sister Act card challenge!! Good luck!
- 25 January 2015 at 14:10
- Pat said...
Beautiful card Jacee, love the image and the gorgeous papers.
Pat xx
- 25 January 2015 at 14:55
- Pat K said...
Beautiful card Jacee and I agree...she is fabulous. Pat K xxx
- 25 January 2015 at 15:10
- Marieke Slaats said...
Oh i like the semi vintage look on it!
- 25 January 2015 at 17:19
- Natalia Smith said...
Gorgeous card and fab image x
- 25 January 2015 at 18:01
- McCrafty's Cards said...
Gorgeous Jacee, I like the image and the colours.
Kevin xx
- 25 January 2015 at 19:00
- chrissy xx said...
GOrgeous! I Love your image and these delicious papers..You photo looks fine to me Jacee.
We've had a lot of rain and the snow is going thank goodness!
- 25 January 2015 at 19:01
- Trish said...
A very pretty card and wow to the matching envelope!
- 25 January 2015 at 20:56
- Sue B said...
Oh this is a fab image Jacee and I LOVE the pretty papers and embellies… an absolutely stunning card! :-)
Hope you've had a great weekend
Big hugs, Sue B xx
- 25 January 2015 at 21:36
- pam said...
Beautiful card Jacee, love the image and colours.
- 25 January 2015 at 22:10
- MaryH said...
Great image, and well worth a 2nd outing. Love the luscious background dp, very spring like colors. Great stitching too. (My photography skills are not great either, but your photo looks very nice on my monitor). TFS & Hugs. Hope you had a super wkend.
- 26 January 2015 at 00:48
- Becky said...
OH MY! Your card is just fabulous. Love the design paper and that image is so cute. And what a beautiful envelope to match.
- 26 January 2015 at 18:45
- Pia S said...
This is a beautiful pre colored image, I could use more of those, I'm not always in mood for coloring. I like its colors and the design of it is perfect for a teenaged girl or more mature women. A really love card, with papers that suit the image so well.
- 26 January 2015 at 20:31
- Tracey said...
WOW! This is absolutely stunning Jacee, I love how everything matches :o)
- 26 January 2015 at 20:38
- cotnob said...
This is a fabulous card Jacee, such a beautiful image and gorgeous papers, everything works so well together.
- 26 January 2015 at 23:01
- nwilliams6 said...
I think your pictures look great1 Your image is fabulous - so well done. Your have the best images and papers. Hugz
- 27 January 2015 at 02:20
- Dee's Craft Room said...
Beautiful card and envelope, I love how it all matches.
- 27 January 2015 at 03:34
- Lau W said...
Wonderful card, love the fresh colors and the image is very pretty !
Thanks for your participation at the Paper Creator challenge ! xx
- 27 January 2015 at 14:37
- Faith A said...
I LOVE the image, the papers and the gorgeous card.
- 27 January 2015 at 20:25
- Faith A said...
PS - Thanks for the lovely comments on my card. As for being a follower I thought I was AGES ago, I've corrected it now though :)
- 27 January 2015 at 21:03
- Dora said...
Jacee this is stunning. Love the beautiful flowery papers and the gorgeous image xx
- 27 January 2015 at 21:04
- kanda said...
Hi Jacee just popping by to return your visit and thank you for the lovely comment you left.
I've loved having a look at all your wonderful creations xx
- 27 January 2015 at 21:41
- MaryH said...
Thanks for all your visits & sweet comments. So much appreciated! Hugs
- 28 January 2015 at 00:06
- Samantha A. said...
Beautiful card! I love the colors. Thanks for popping on over to my blog earlier! I'm now your newest follower!
Designs by Sammy
- 28 January 2015 at 04:14
- Sue's Crafty Corner said...
What a beautiful card Jacee. Thank you for your recent visit to my blg and your lovely comment. I've been for a stroll around your blog and love what I've seen. I'm having problems with a new PC and it allowing me to add myself to followers lists, however I am adding you to my sidebar so I will see when you update your blog.
Sue xx
- 28 January 2015 at 09:50
- Rebecca Bradshaw said...
This is gorgeous! The image is fab and I love your beautiful papers too.
- 28 January 2015 at 19:42
- Del said...
What a beautiful card. Love those papers, think if they were mine I'd have kept them just to look at but so glad you used them. Fabulous layout. Thank you for joining us at the Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge January 2015 and Good Luck! Del xx
- 29 January 2015 at 12:50
- cotnob said...
Hi Jacee, I just popped back to say thank you for joining us at Paper Creator's Crafts.
- 1 February 2015 at 15:52
- Mrs A. said...
Another fab card. Fab colours, Fab design. hugs mrs A.
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Saul Rodriguez, 35, was arrested Monday after allegedly swiping two pallets of the classic flowers from Monterey Bay Boquet on San Andreas Road in Watsonville, deputy April Skalland said.
Rodriguez stole the flowers on the night of Jan. 31, Skalland said.
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Excerpt from 'The 19th Wife'
The 19th Wife
Preface to the First Edition
In the one year since I renounced my Mormon faith, and set out to tell the nation the truth about American polygamy, many people have wondered why I ever agreed to become a plural wife. Everyone I meet, whether farmer, miner, railman, professor, cleric, or the long-faced Senator, and most especially the wives of these-everyone wants to know why I would submit to a marital practice so filled with subjugation and sorrow. When I tell them my father has five wives, and I was raised to believe plural marriage is the will of God, these sincere people often ask, But Mrs. Young-how could you believe such a claim?
Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
Now, with the publication of this autobiography, my enemies will no doubt suspect my motives. Having survived attempts on both my life and character, however, I stand unconcerned by their assaults. I have chosen to commit my memories to the page neither for fame, the trough from which I have drunk and would be happy never to return to, nor fortune, although it is true I am without home and have two small boys to care for. Simply, I wish to expose the tragic state of polygamy's women, who must live in a bondage not seen in this country since the abolishment of slavery a decade ago; and to reveal the lamentable situation of its children, lonely as they are.
I promise my Dear Reader I shall recount my story truthfully, even when it distresses me to do so. In these pages you will come to know my mother, who by religious duty welcomed four wives into her husband's bed. You will encounter the old woman forced to share her husband with a girl one-fifth her age. And you shall meet the gentleman with so many wives that when one approaches him on the street, he answers, "Madame, do I know you?"
I can, and will, go on.
Under what circumstances does such outrage thrive? The Territory of Utah, glorious as it may be, spiked by granite peaks and red jasper rocks, cut by echoing canyons and ravines, spread upon a wide basin of gamma grass and wandering streams, this land of blowing snow and sand, of iron, copper, and the great salten sea-Utah, whose scarlet-golden beauty marks the best of God's handiwork-the Territory of Utah stands defiant as a Theocracy within the borders of our beloved Democracy, imperium in imperio.
I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgment to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere. I am but one, yet to this day countless others lead lives even more destitute and enslaved than mine ever was. Perhaps my story is the exception because I escaped, at great risk, polygamy's conjugal chains; and that my husband is the Mormon Church's Prophet and Leader, Brigham Young, and I am his 19th, and final, wife.
Sincerely Yours,
Ann Eliza Young
Summer 1874
Wife #19: A Desert Mystery
By Jordan Scott
Her Golden Boy
According to the St. George Register, on a clear night last June, at some time between eleven and half-past, my mom-who isn't anything like this-tiptoed down to the basement of the house I grew up in with a Golden Boy .22 in her hands. At the foot of the stairs she knocked on the door to my dad's den. From inside he called who is it? She answered me, BeckyLyn. He said-or must've said-come in. What happened next? Nearly everyone in southwest Utah can tell you. She nailed an ace shot and blew his heart clean from his chest. The paper says he was in his computer chair, and from the way the blood splattered the drywall they're pretty sure the blast spun him three times around.
At the time of his death my dad was online playing Texas hold em and chatting with three people, including someone named DesertMissy. He spent the final seconds of his life in this exchange:
Manofthehouse2004: hang on
DesertMissy: phone?
Manofthehouse2004: no my wife
DesertMissy: which one?
Manofthehouse2004: #19
Sometime later-a few seconds? minutes?-DesertMissy wrote: u there??
Later she tried again: u there????
Eventually she gave up. They always do.
When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand.
I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right. After my dad was shot the blood seeped across his gunsandammo.com t-shirt in a heavy stain. He was sixty-seven, his face pre-cancerously red. Everything about him was thick and worn from a life boiled by the sun. When I was a kid I used to dream he was a cowboy. I would imagine him out in the barn saddling his roan with the white socks, readying himself for a ride of justice. But my dad never rode anywhere for justice. He was a religious con man, a higher-up in a church of lies, the kind of schemer who goes around saying God meant for man to have many women and children and they shall be judged on how they obey. I know people don't really talk like that, but he did and so do a lot of the men where I come from, which is-let's just say-way the fuck out in the desert. You might've heard of us. The First Latter-day Saints, but everyone knows us as the Firsts. I should tell you right off we weren't Mormons. We were something else-a cult, a cowboy theocracy, a little slice of Saudi America. We've been called everything. I know all that because I left six years ago. That was the last time I saw my dad. My mom too. I know you know this but just in case: she was wife #19.
His first wife was more than willing to put the rap on my mom. For someone who wasn't supposed to talk to nonbelievers, Sister Rita had no trouble telling the Register everything. "I was up in the keeping room with the girls' hose," she blabbed to the paper. "That's when I saw her come upstairs. She had one of those faces-it looked funny, all squished up and red, like she'd seen something. I thought about asking but I didn't, I don't know why. I found him about twenty minutes after that when I went down myself. I should've gone down the minute I saw that face of hers, but how was I supposed to know? When I saw him in his chair like that, with his head, you know, just hanging in his chest like that, and all that blood-it was everywhere, I mean all over him, everything so, so wet, and red-well I started calling, just calling out to anyone for help. That's when they came running down, all of them, the women I mean, one after the next, the kids too, they kept coming. The house shook, there were so many running down the stairs. The first to get there was Sister Sherry, I think. When I told her what happened, and then she saw for herself, she started crying, screaming really, and the next one, she started crying too, and then the next after her, and so on. I never heard anything like it. The shrieks spread up the line, like fire, catching and spreading, one after the next and pretty soon it seemed the whole house was on fire with screams, if you know what I mean. You see, we all loved him just the same."
The next morning the Lincoln County sheriff handcuffed my mom: "You'll have to come with me, Sister." I don't know who called him in, he usually didn't get out to Mesadale. There's a picture of her being guided into the backseat of the cruiser-the rope of her braid flat against her back as she ducks in. The paper says she didn't resist. Tell me about it. She didn't resist when her husband married her fifteen-year-old niece. She didn't resist when the Prophet told her to throw me out. "No point in making a fuss"-she used to say that all the time. For years she was obedient, believing it part of her salvation. Then one day I guess she went pop! That's how these things go, you hear about it all the time. Except because of the suppressor it was probably more like a phump! than a pop!
Did Sister Rita do her in? Actually, it was the chat session. The Register loved the irony: VICTIM NAMES HIS MURDERER BEFORE SHE PULLS THE TRIGGER. Technically he didn't name her, he numbered her. But really, Rita's statement didn't help either. It gave the sheriff enough. The next day my mom was booked and that picture was up on the Register's home page, my mom sliding into the cruiser, her hair a heavy chain.
That's how I found out. I was at the library with my friend Roland. We were tooling around the web, checking out nothing in particular, then all of a sudden there it was, the story about my mom:
Sign of Strife in Renegade Sect?
In the picture she's shackled at the wrists. Her forehead is white and glossy, reflecting a camera's flash in the dawn, and she has a look in her eyes. How to describe it? Should I say her eyes were dark and damp, the eyes of a small snouted animal? Or will you know what I mean if I say she had the scared-shitless look of a woman busted for murder and about to spend the rest of her life in the can?
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Between 10,000 and 2 million years ago, during an earlier global warming, glaciers moved through a mountain of granite nearly 9,000 feet above sea level, carving wonders through what is now Yosemite Valley in central California. Among the glaciers' wondrous work is the Half Dome, which rises nearly one mile above the Yosemite Valley floor.
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When visitors get out of the car and start walking toward Half Dome, they typically have two reactions: they grow afraid and awestruck. Or awestruck and afraid—it's hard to tell which comes first. It's a combination of the sheer size of the dome face combined with the dramatic drop to the valley below. They start walking more carefully as they approach the edge. Parents grab their children's hands; friends grasp each other's arms.
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STEWART AIRPORT — Stewart International Airport appears to be in the sweet spot when it comes to avoiding pain from the sequestration cuts.
It has more than enough flight activity to avoid having its control tower closed, unlike 238 other airports nationwide.
None of the air traffic workers at Stewart will face furloughs because they're employed by a contract agency rather than the Federal Aviation Administration. And even staffing cuts at the regional air traffic facilities — which impact all flights once they're more than 1,000 feet above the airport — won't cause trouble at Stewart.
"It probably won't impact the traffic at Stewart, because unfortunately, there's so little of it," said Howard Kave, a recreational pilot who has flown out of Stewart weekly since 1996.
An FAA workforce reduction is expected to cause the lag time between departing or arriving flights to double. That will dramatically slow operations at the New York City airports but not at Stewart, where flights rarely leave or land in succession.
The vast majority of the FAA's 47,000 employees will be forced to take one day off every two weeks starting in April. But Stewart's tower workers are employed by the private Midwest Air Traffic Control and thus won't be furloughed. Their work schedules could be modified, though, if the federal government decides to modify the terms of their contract.
The pact with Midwest ATC runs until September 2014.
All general aviation airports with fewer than 150,000 flights — such as Dutchess County Airport in the Town of Wappinger — and commercial airports with fewer than 10,000 flights could have their control towers closed. That won't impact Stewart, which served nearly 365,000 passengers and more than 42,000 flights in 2012.
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I saw The Hobbit movie and . . . [spoilers within]
I was going to reply to this in Spotlight but then I thought it deserved a thread all by itself:
Thorin was always fairly haughty in the book, in my opinion, and I think they did an excellent job with him. And it was also nice to see the dwarves being hardy adventurers - Dwalin is excellent as a badass.
And actually, I hear that it will be a Trilogy, so we've two more installments. Personally, I think it would have been better in a single movie but I suppose that I'll be seeing all three so from a financial perspective it's easy to see why they are milking it.
But no, I didn't feel it dragged even if I wasn't entirely thrilled with the added material. My list of disappointments is rather small, and they did not kill my enjoyment of the film as a whole:
But anyway, as I said, none of that ruined my enjoyment of the film and I'll definitely go see the others.
Did you see it in 3D and HFR?
I only saw it in 2D (despite having a choice between 2D, 3D and 3D and HFR). Although I did read the book, I honestly don't remember much. I'm amazed at what some people remember about the books they've read. But sometimes it simply might have to do with them not having read them that long ago.
Overall I enjoyed the movie and was entertained. My expectations - which hadn't been that high - were surpassed. I did believe it was rather slow-ish at the start. PJ's reasoning that he wanted to fully develop the different characters and therefore needed to make three films out of one thin-ish book doesn't get my absolute approval.
Interesting what you're saying about the action scenes actually. Agreed that the fact that they win against overwhelming odds time and again and zero party members die is a little crazy - but how is it in the book?
... I was confused by the diversion as well. But I guess Gandalf used Radagast's diversion to find the hidden entrance and possibly it was just ill luck that it lay in the direction the other wizard headed? Uh... whatever. ;-)
Alas, I'll most likely have to wait until it comes out on DVD. Les Miserables, too, though I think I'm more excited for that than The Hobbit. I'd say "strangely," but I'm too big a fan of Broadway musicals to find it truly odd.
I didn't like Les Miserables much Merc, sorry to say, but honestly, Russel Crowe and Hugh Jackman can't sing, and that ruined it for me.
On remembering stuff . . . well, I have read the Hobbit more times than I can count (although I haven't read it in a long while). There were indeed some pretty steep odds against the dwarves in the book, and they do have their share of luck. Still, the goblin scenes in the book tend to use darkness and the confusion caused by a little of Gandalf's magic as the primary means of their escape (along with the judicious use of Orchist and Glamdring). The film cranks that up several notches, what with the bright lights, massive amounts of goblins, and crazy careening wooden platforms.
To me, the book comes across as improbable but plausible for an adventure tale. The film comes across as impossible action hero fare. But as I said, for me it accomplishes the same thing at the end of the day - it gives you the impression of a tale rather than something real. I just would have preferred the less heavy handed approach that the book takes.
I truly enjoyed The Hobbit, though I did only see it in 2D, and I've been told by many that the 3D with HFR took away from the experience.
Full confession, I did NOT like the LOTR movies. I did make it through the first one, but fell asleep watching the 2nd and never went back. I have not seen the 3rd and don't find I have any urge to.
I find that I agree with Gralhruk concerning Radagast and concerning Bilbo. There was no need to reduce Radagast to such a state, IMO. As for Bilbo, I see a glimmer of development near the end of the movie, so I'm hoping that the character will be better in the next two.
I really enjoyed the portrayal of the dwarves, as others have mentioned.
Other than a few key characters (Fantine, Eponine in particular) a lot of the performances felt a little flat. Amanda Seyfried (older Cosette) in particular was quite boring to watch.
Other little things I noted to myself:
- While Javert is supposed to be a bit stiff, it seems overly exaggerated in Crowe's portrayal. Unlike a lot of reviews and other people I've talked to, I actually enjoyed Crowe's Javert, but I can definitely understand whyhe's getting slammed for it.
- Hugh Jackman did a good job. Not great, but not bad. I think he wanted to make the role his own so he wouldn't be compared to previous performers (like Alfie Boe) and he only partially succeeded.
Anyways, just my 2 cents.
I've yet to see either Hobbit or Les Mis--my cousin keeps talking about seeing Hobbit, and then forgetting to respond to me, and my brother was broke when we wanted to see Les Mis--but really, I don't expect much from Cosette as a young woman. The love story plotline is shoehorned in to give her a reason to still be there with Valjean and make Eponine more tragic (and yes, it existed in the novel, but really, in the musical....ergh). I almost feel sorry for anyone cast as older Cosette (and in my crack-fan view of the musical, the Thenardiers swapped girls on Valjean; how would he know, really?!).
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Suffice to say that I disagree.
How do you envision him?
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Well, he's really a bit player in The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings so I don't have a terribly detailed picture in my head. However, I found the film version to be simply too goofy, frantic, and scatterbrained to be at all convincing as one of the Istari (former or otherwise).
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Some people think that "bisexual" emphasizes too much on gender polarity (meanwhile, some who are attracted strictly to masculine men and feminine women say it is appropriate for them). Pansexual and omnisexual I think mean the same thing: attracted to any type of person, or gender not mattering in who they love. "Queer" has also become a catch-all phrase, too. And I think there are even more descriptive words: I have heard "pomosexual" which might mean "post-sexual orientation" and other words.
I feel a little presumptuous calling myself queer, and with pansexual I don't know if some people will interpret that as "will sleep with anyone". I just stick with bisexual. I am attracted to both men and women, and people in between and at all levels of masculine and feminine, but I do want both males and females in my life.
On "will sleep with anyone" / "will sleep with anything that moves"...
There was a bisexual magazine, Anything That Moves, whose editors explained its name as turning the old stereotype on its head, into a benign tautology: we're attracted to anything that moves us.
What do people think about all the different labels? Are they divisive at all or contributing to "bisexual invisibility"? I mean some people actually will say "I'm not bisexual, I'm--" But then, some words are more descriptive for some people and people should use whatever description they like. Not like I would argue passionately either way, though--it's about like "should bisexuals try to be part of the gay community or form their own separate community?"
I'd say yes and yes. We have our own specific concerns, and we share the wider LGBTQI* community's concern about being able to live and love as who we are, without being forced into "straight and narrow" boxes.
The difference is primarily in the age of the person who uses the label. There is no technical difference between bi/pan/omni, we'll all still fuck anyone we want to no matter what their gender or gender identity may be. When I came out as bi, the words "pan" and "omni" had not yet been created, and like most bisexuals, mine is an "anything that moves" style of affectional and sexual orientation. Being bi NEVER meant "excluding transgender" until the 21st century when young people tried to carve out a new bi identity, calling it "pansexual" and "omnisexual" which in many cases has included fabricating hateful biphobic and transphobic concepts behind their new words.
Bisexuality is defined as an attraction to both the same and other genders. So is pansexuality, so is omnisexuality. Some people refuse all of these labels and stick with "fluid" or just "queer."
But really, the only difference is the age of the person. Bis over age 40 usually call themselves bi, bis in the mid20s-late30s may go with bi or pan, and very young people may use omni. But all three words mean the exact same thing and have the exact same results: the person who id's as bi/pan/omni is open to romantic and/or sexual partners of any gender.
My own data point would agree: I'm over 40, call myself bi, and see my orientation as "anyone that moves me"
"Labels make useful servants but terrible masters."
And I get that "pan" and "omni" can be assertions that "we're not about a gender binary" as some interpretations of "bisexual" have suggested. (Michael Page, discussing his bi pride flag design, referred to sexual attraction to "the same" / "opposite" / "both sexes".) Many of us who identify as bisexual think of the "two" as, rather, one's own gender and other genders, as you mentioned.
I wonder how people who identify specifically as pan/omni/fluid/etc. relate to usage such as the Bisexual Resource Center's talking about the "Bi+ community", in an attempt to be inclusive.
(And then people can use "polysexual" to mean attracted to "multiple, but not all, genders.")
It's important for me to identify as bisexual. I feel that we as bisexuals have been looked down upon and marginalized enough, and it's time to be loud and proud!
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+ A key to the early success of the Phoenix Coyotes (10-3-2) is the production they are getting from their defense. Oliver Ekman-Larsson (three goals, 11 points), Keith Yandle (1-10—11) and Derek Morris (4-6—10) ranked 4-5-6 in defensemen scoring through Sunday's games.
+ Welcome back Manny Malhotra, who returned to the NHL last Friday with the Carolina Hurricanes. The classy forward suffered a devastating eye injury in 2011 while with the Vancouver Canucks; fearing his impaired vision jeopardized his safety, they played him in only nine games last season and didn't re-sign him. He won 15 of 20 faceoffs in his first game back and 10 of 14 in his second.
+ Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 29 Montreal shots Saturday to help the Colorado Avalanche improve to 12-1-0, matching the franchise-best start by the 1994-95 Quebec Nordiques. Goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who spent Wednesday night in jail after his girlfriend accused him of kidnapping and assault, was allowed to travel to Dallas and earned a 3-2 win Friday. According to the Denver Post, the Denver district attorney is expected to decide within a week or so whether to file charges against Varlamov.
- It's difficult to avoid giving the Edmonton Oilers a minus every week, but they're deserving. They're 0-4-1 in their last five, 3-10-2 overall and have been shut out twice in a row at home. Goalie Richard Bachman, who started Saturday because Devan Dubnyk had a sore foot, couldn't finish after he injured his groin.
- The Hurricanes, who lost goalies Cam Ward and Anton Khudobin to injuries, have dropped five straight games. Desperate for help, their American Hockey League affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, signed former New York Islander Rick DiPietro to a pro tryout. DiPietro, who was bought out by the Islanders and will get $1.5 million a year from them through 2028-29, was 0-2 with a 4.53 goals-against average and .875 save percentage in his first two appearances.
- Florida Panthers Coach Kevin Dineen took a bold step by making a healthy scratch of veteran forward Kris Versteeg against Washington on Saturday. But that didn't stop a slide that's now at 0-2-3.


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I thought you understood what is going on with this threatened lockout. The owners want a ROLLBACK collectively, they want MORE of the players CURRENT salaries placed in escrow from their monthly pay cheques until the final accounting at the end of the year at which time the league would divide the HRR on a 53% /47% (to be negotiated) split. which will mean on average EVERY player in the league will receive LESS than the amount they agreed to and signed for on their existing contracts ...Fred wrote:dbr wrote:Players are pushing to keep things the way they are (ie. the same % of HRR, the same contract rules, etc) because they have done really well under this CBA, it's the owners pushing to keep players away from unrestricted free agency and to cut salaries (even on deals they agreed ! to and signed ! ).Fred wrote:What is strange is the players actually sign personal contract that they negoiate & agree to willingly with each team. They agree ! they sign ! what's to complain about. The complaint is Weber wants more?, Lapierre wants more ? even after they have agreed to their salary.
Do you seriously believe what you posted or am I badly misreading you?
I think you're reading more into it. Individuallythe players work out their own deal and sign on the dotted line. Collectively they want a bigger piece of the pie, but I can't see Weber as an example actually benefitting further than his own contract has brought to him. It'll be no more than the cherry on the pie
In plain english, the owners want to get out of the contracts they legally and morally are responsible for...What I want to know is in what universe is a contract not a contract when you or I sign one, and why the FUCK should it be any different for a welfare recipient, a millionaire, a billionaire, a corporation, an athlete or a goddam brain surgeon!


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BEIJING — Even as the Communist Party Congress concludes its sweeping leadership transition later this week, the question of whether the departing president, Hu Jintao, will keep his powerful post as head of the military looms as a major unresolved issue, and one of deepest intrigue.
Mr. Hu is scheduled to cede the chairmanship of the ruling party to Vice President Xi Jinping at the end of the congress. But will he cling to a position of considerable influence as the civilian military chief for two more years, and delay the ascension of Mr. Xi to that post? Or will Mr. Hu depart the scene completely?
Competing possibilities have been floated in recent days, with the preponderant view being that Mr. Hu, unlike his two predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping, will completely retire rather than stay on as the top overseer of military affairs. That would give Mr. Xi greater influence over the military and a firmer grip on power from the start.
But some insiders still suggest that Mr. Hu, who appears to have lost out to Mr. Jiang, 86, in shaping the new lineup for the top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, will nonetheless still hold on to the military post for two more years.
Whatever the outcome, the position, known as chairman of the Central Military Commission, is likely to be the last piece of leverage for Mr. Hu as top party officials tussle down to the wire over promotions of protégés and protection of long-held interests. The bargaining over whether Mr. Hu stays or goes is almost certainly fierce, party insiders said Monday.
Mr. Hu could be arguing that if he is to leave the military post then one of his protégés should be added to the Standing Committee, where five of the projected seven seats are believed to have been allotted to Mr. Jiang's allies. Though considered unlikely, that suggests that the makeup of the Standing Committee could change at the last minute, before the formal announcement expected Thursday.Continue reading the main story
Some political insiders also point out that Mr. Hu has promoted some of his military allies to senior posts recently, so he can leave confident that he can exercise his influence through them.
A political commentator in Beijing, Chen Ziming, who is following the congress closely, said he believed that Mr. Hu would retire from the commission, although he had not heard a definitive decision.
"I don't think that Hu Jintao is so full of ambition that he wants to stay on and exert control over Xi Jinping," Mr. Chen said, "and I don't think he will have the power to do that."
Last week, a former Chinese official and businessman agreed that Mr. Hu was likely to step down from the commission, and that he would do so in the interests of modernization of the military in a new era of competition with the United States.
For Mr. Hu to hand the reins of the military to Mr. Xi "accords with Hu's and other leaders' interest in institutional progress," the former official said. "The former practice of waiting for a period before stepping down was a bad habit that created problems."
There are also conflicting notions of how the competition for influence between Mr. Hu and Mr. Jiang could affect Mr. Hu's role after the congress. One supporter of Mr. Hu's said Mr. Jiang, despite what appears to be his antipathy to Mr. Hu, was leaning heavily on his successor to stay on as military chairman, even though Mr. Hu did not want to.
According to this version, proffered by a prominent Chinese businessman with strong ties to Mr. Hu, Mr. Jiang was suggesting that Mr. Hu stay in the top military post so that Mr. Jiang would "look good in the history books."
Mr. Jiang retired as party secretary in November 2002 and stepped down as state president the next March. But he remained the chief of the military until late 2004, causing undercurrents of grumbling, until Mr. Hu finally took over the commission.
Earlier, Deng Xiaoping stayed on as military chief for two more years after giving up his remaining civilian titles in 1987, a position that allowed him to order the army to crack down on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But unlike Mr. Jiang or Mr. Hu, Mr. Deng had long exercised sweeping authority without holding official titles like party chief or president, so his decision to keep the military post was not as much of a conspicuous effort to retain power in retirement.
"Hu as a person has high integrity, and he doesn't want to stay on," the Hu supporter said.
Others have said Mr. Hu will stay on because he wants to. The former Hong Kong chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, who remains close to the inner leadership in Beijing, said last month in a CNN interview that Mr. Hu would remain as chairman of the commission "for some time."
But a senior diplomat in Beijing said he understood that Mr. Hu would probably leave, giving Mr. Xi, who has the strong backing of Mr. Jiang, more maneuvering room to set the nation's agenda as the first among equals in China's collective leadership. "I'm hearing the Shanghai crowd has won a decisive victory," the diplomat said about Mr. Jiang and his supporters. "And that includes Hu out of the C.M.C." Shanghai was Mr. Jiang's power base before he ascended to the country's top leadership posts.Continue reading the main story


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