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Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell both said things were looking brighter, and sources said Reid privately made an offer to McConnell that would raise the debt limit and reopen the government, though the details of that offer remain murky.
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American Mothers, Inc. is co-sponsoring the event with Power of Moms.
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I love to feel empowered to put good ideas to work and to be inspired by like-minded mothers.
We will have some really great speakers including some experienced "expert" mothers from American Mothers. We will have some parenting panels and discussions and will be sharing ideas on how to implement specific powerful mothering concepts into daily life. My sister and I will be speaking about family systems and how to become your own kind of best mom. And of course, we'll eat some great food :)
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There will also be a "Mind Organization for Moms" session on Friday the 18th, and it looks like we will be doing that part here at my house. I'm excited to get going on that organization of my mind again because man alive, it keeps getting out of place :) With the holidays coming, I need all the help I can get.
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Ok, you have got to be kidding me. And, yes, I even checked to see if it was a joke.
The Miss America pageant is coming to CMT.
CMT is owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS and UPN networks, all the MTV channels, VH1 channels, Nickeloden, Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land, BET, Showtime, and a ton of other entertainment outlets in radio, and movies through Paramount pictures.
ABC had the rights to the show, but dropped it due to low ratings. So CBS was not the choice for the show. But, why in the heck out of all the different cable outlets they own did they pick CMT. Come on.
This is exactly what happens when big business and individuals that have no respect for country music run a channel. Not that I have respected CMT for a long time in the first place. I think for the most part, they do a dis-service to the country music community and this is just one more thing that allows me to give one more reason at the problems over there.
I don't understand it nor care to. I do know one thing though. When January 2006 comes along, I will not be watching the pageant, not that I watch CMT as it is. GAC is my choice and will continue to be when I am in the mood for country music videos, which personally I don't watch that many anyway, and that's a whole other topic.


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Yes, having DD or other vendors run some events in cooperation with the KCFDC has been discussed in meetings and the conclusion has largely been the club would prefer to have club members run events or even the club run events, but as Jack mentioned, we just do not get enough volunteers from our membership to run as many events as we would like.
About the WO, if we as members really want to bring the "magnitude" up on this event, we need to find sponsors, or just be sponsors. Not big ones, just small ones, 25.00, 50.00, 100.00 multiplied by 20,30 or 50 goes a long way towards providing more for the players. I am really happy to see the discussion go back to this event and players saying more of what they want and after reading the initial plans for the WO, it also seems our voices have been heard.
Why not? The Memorial does it. USDGC does it (unless they change it to make the course tougher), Hambrick, Des Moines, AM NATS, Steady Ed, Beaver State, The Majestic, Almost all of the NT stops are the same course each year, with pin placements in the same place. So why not us? Certainly there is flexibility, but for the most part the courses on the NT stay the same with a tweak here and there from time to time, which is usually always done to make the course harder, so why not? What do we lose by stream lining what we have? If we really want to make the Wide Open the biggest and baddest, why not make it a three or four day tournament and include all the PRO level courses in the area? (WW, Swope, Rose, BV, Cliff, and maybe one or two of the Smithville courses) What would the pros think if they saw the size and scope of this tournament as a monster each and every year? Why not be the toughest yearly tournament to win? A marathon of disc golf on awesome courses. I think that would set us apart.
I don't know the WO course schedule this year or usage. I would much rather see Wyco used before Rosey though. I do think SMP should be used too, mostly because of the historical implications.
Quote from: jack on January 05, 2012, 03:44:52 PMThe Worlds and the Wide Open are not the same thing, please don't confuse them. Yeah, I understood all the up-in-the-airness around some courses for the last worlds here. I didn't state it directly, but I think we should know right now which courses we're going to use next year if not even two years down the road. Even mention of Wyco for this year has me thinking "Oh sh..! So much to do!" But if called on, we'll get it done out there.
The Worlds and the Wide Open are not the same thing, please don't confuse them.
yeah, back on thread... In the US we have a free market economy. If Burger King can set up shop kitty corner to McDonalds, they probably will. They market economy determines which if either or both will survive. The markets play out as they will.
Quote from: Tracy on January 29, 2012, 05:05:18 AMyeah, back on thread... In the US we have a free market economy. If Burger King can set up shop kitty corner to McDonalds, they probably will. They market economy determines which if either or both will survive. The markets play out as they will. Exactly, Just like we can set up smoker right outside the store and sell inexpensive delicious barbq, for people that dont want to wait 53 mins to get a pulled pork sandwich, can get one in a matter of seconds. Have a sign posted that says, "We'll stop selling BBQ, when you quit selling discs"....! God, why does this feel like a Keiser post?


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The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm.
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YOU'VE survived the Mayan apocalypse and Christmas - now it's time to relax.
But, if you're planning to be involved in the property market next year, you might want to check out astrologer Elizabeth Ball's guide to 2013:
THE 2013 property market is dominated by two planets - Jupiter and Saturn.
Jupiter rules expansion, hope, confidence, and optimism while Saturn rules fear, insecurity, disapproval, the elderly, society, responsibility, commitment, and endurance.
A favourable aspect of the two planets will help the market rise at a sustainable rate.
Entertainer properties will be popular, births and pregnancies will boom and so will multi-generational living.
Also expect financial security to be paramount and see a rise in nursing home investment.
Jupiter, which rules expansion, hope, confidence, and optimism, enters Cancer, which rules home and family, on June 27, 2013, through July 17, 2014, making the property market boom again.
People will pay for bigger and/or second homes, holiday houses, extensions and renovations. Look for a boom in births and pregnancies and in multi-generational living.
Jupiter loves having fun, so entertainer-type palaces will appeal.
In the past Jupiter transiting Cancer has coincided with the 2002 US housing bubble and 1998-90 Australian house price boom.
Jupiter last transited Cancer from July 14, 2001, to August 1, 2002, coinciding with the housing bubble when the US Reserve lowered the rates 11 times from 6.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent. On the prior transit (August 4, 1989-August 19, 1990), house prices skyrocketed.
Scorpio rules joint assets, taxes, debts and inheritances. Saturn is in Scorpio until December 25, 2014. People may pool their money to pay mortgages; consider nursing home investment, and plan renovations - well-appointed accommodation for ageing parents or grandparents will pay off.
Favourably aspected, Jupiter and Saturn will help the market rise, but at a sustainable rate.
Your boss's demands could make it impossible to juggle home and career commitments on June 12, July 2, 28, and August 8. Expect delays on leases, mortgage and council applications and getting tradies' quotes while Mercury is retrograde from June 27 to July 21. But you may receive mortgage approval, a tax refund, or an inheritance helping you to buy property on June 4, 8, 26, July 18 and 21 and you may also do DIY jobs or discuss caring for an elderly family member on June 7, 27, July 18 and 21. Anticipate a delay on your house purchase, sale or renovation from November 6 until March 7, 2014 while Jupiter is retrograde.
Saturn in your solar seventh house of relationships may see your partner be irritable, pessimistic, cynical, stubborn, and miserly and refuse to move, sell, entertain or let family stay at times in the middle of the year. He or she may refuse to move, sell, lease, decorate, renovate, entertain or let family stay on July 2, 28, August 12 and September 9. But you receive some good news regarding your home or family on July 8, 5, August 15, and September 15. A sealed offer on a house could be made or you could hear of a pregnancy. You may make a career decision on the full moon of July 22, but the new moon of August 6 could bring a new domestic arrangement which impacts your next business decision on the full moon on August 21.
Relocating for a glamorous business opportunity may come to naught while business uncertainty could destabilise your family on July 26, August 27, and October 20. Organise repairs on July 27, August 30, September 3, October 28 and November 10. You may buy a gorgeous designer home, sell your house for a big profit, buy a holiday home or begin an extension on July 29, August 3, 25, September 8 and November 20. While mortgage approval, a tax refund or loan from a wealthy relative is well-starred on July 31, August 28 and October 31. You may buy, sell, relocate, lease, change tenants, landlords or real estate agents, begin renovating or welcome a baby following the new moon of September 5.
This is not a good year for you to invest in property. You and your partner could be at odds regarding your home or family members on August 24, September 15, and December 31. Boredom may make you chuck in your job or start your own business, regardless of mortgage commitments on August 27, September 16, October 4 and December 25. Don't splash out on a huge mortgage, an unsustainable extension, or an investment you cannot afford on August 28, September 20 and October 13. On September 17, organise DIY, buy snazzy new entertaining items or have a big family event. You may move unexpectedly following the new moon of October 5 thanks to a sudden career opportunity.
You could buy a home at a bargain price or make a tidy sum on July 27, August 30, September 3, October 28 and November 10. Your family may help you to buy a home, your mortgage may get approved or you may invest in property on September 14, October 2, 26, and November 11. Negotiate a good price, see your builder, or make a plan for what to do with Gran on September 19, October 9, November 2, 7, 8, and 21. Your family will be enthusiastic about a relocation or renovation on September 27, November 13 and 28. You may successfully sell, rent, invest, open a home office or even sub-let your garage from the new moon of November 3.
Watch out for an unexpected tax bill, massive debt run up by your partner, a sudden reversal on a joint property, stock crash or possibly the loss of an inheritance on August 27, September 16, October 4 and December 25.
On October 10, November 25 and December 7 you may fight with a flatmate, tenant, landlord, real estate agent, council official or tradie. They're someone hard to pin down or who you don't trust for some reason. You may suddenly see the home of your dreams on October 17, December 1 or 11. You may move, sell, renovate, decorate or have a stream of guests coming to stay following the new moon of December 3.
Sharpen your pencil to work out housing payments on January 7, 14, 15, 17 and 27. A move or a new home may be on the cards from the new moon of January 11. When Pluto goes retrograde from April 13 to September 21, you might discover structural issues with your home, or delay house-hunting. You could recognise a bargain under the daggy decor or make a family property investment on September 19, 21, November 2 and 8. Avoid talk of home and family with your partner on November 15 and December 30. Stylish decor could transform a tired property with lucrative results on November 16 and an interstate or overseas career opportunity may come up on November 28.
You may be the sole bidder, given financial help by your family, able to claim your repairs on tax or be left an inheritance on January 4, 23, 26 and February 7. You could be reluctant to make long-term property decisions on January 25, 30, and February 11, when you feel negative, pessimistic and overly cautious yet your risk-aversion may make you miss out on a bargain. You may find an unusual property such as a loft warehouse, or an apartment above a shop or office space on January 25 and February 7. Some of you may create a home office while others find a house through colleagues. A move is quite likely after the new moon of February 10.
Transform your deepest attitudes towards saving, making and investing money on January 7, 16, 18, November 16 and December 29 and you may start growing your nest egg from the new moon of 11 January. Your partner may want an enormous house or have ridiculous extension ideas on February 10, March 5, 10, and 30. Create a welcoming sanctuary for tenants and/or bidders on February 5, 7, 21, March 1, 4, and 7, start a renovation, obtain approval for dual-occupancy, extensions or multi-zone use or invest in property on February 12, 13, 16, 17, March 1, 2, 7, 29, 30, and April 5. Watch out for drips, damp and leaks while Neptune is retrograde from June 8 to November 14.
Uranus in your solar fourth house of home and family may give you approval for a mortgage, an unexpected buyer or a tenant on January 25 and February 7, yet you may also be shocked by a quick sale, building completion or swift council approval on March 23, 27, 29, 31, April 1, 17 and 20nte. Don't give ultimatums, on the full moon of March 27 and 21 May. Do entertain at home on April 7 and you may move, sell, lease, renovate, decorate, or welcome a baby from the new moon of April 10. Anticipate delays with real estate agents, when Uranus goes retrograde from July 18 to December 18 when your adult children could return home. An unpredictable tenant, flatmate or guest could turn your home upside-down then.
If you plan to have guests to stay, renovate your home, move, house-hunt, do repairs or re-lease your property, avoid doing so on April 22, 28, May 1 and 6 when you'll be under the pump from your boss, overtime, a major project or company commitments professionally. You'll spend freely on glamorous decor, soft furnishings or a music system (or the home of your dreams) on April 19, 25, 27, and May 4. Do repairs and weekend renovating jobs to spruce up your home on May 2, 7, 8 and 12. You may begin a renovation, go house-hunting, sell, move, lease, renovate, decorate, or invest in property or have family members move in from the new moon of May 10.
Jupiter in your solar fourth house of home and family expands your domestic options until June 27. But you may feel unsure, confused or disillusioned about moving, selling or leasing your home, renovation, decoration or property investment on May 14, 26, and June 8. Snap up unexpected rebates, refunds and bonuses, special offers, mates' rates, eBay bargains or job lots of furniture, electronic items or other home goodies on May 18, 21, 25, 27, 29, June 2, 18 and 20. An amazing home could fall into your lap then or you may receive mortgage approval or a generous deposit from a family member. You may move, sell, renovate, welcome a family member or a series of guests following the new moon of June 8.
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Fatal traffic crashes involving drugs or alcohol are down 18 percent statewide this year, and central Ohio law-enforcement agencies plan to hit impaired and reckless drivers hard as 2012 ends.
Fatal traffic crashes involving drugs or alcohol are down 18 percent statewide this year, and central Ohio law-enforcement agencies plan to hit impaired and reckless drivers hard as 2012 ends.
The local blitz, which began before Christmas, continues at 9 p.m. Friday in Franklin Township, where the Franklin County DUI Task Force will prowl the roads until 5 a.m. Saturday.
Five people have died in four fatal crashes on Franklin Township roads this year, said Cpl. Thad Lookabaugh of the Franklin County sheriff's office.
"That is quite a bit" for a township of only 8 square miles, said Lookabaugh, co-coordinator of the task force. "Of those four, three involved pedestrians." At least three also were thought to involve impaired drivers.
Lookabaugh said law-enforcement officers throughout Franklin County have made more than 7,000 impaired-driving arrests so far this year. He expects the 2012 total to exceed last year's total of 7,078, which was up 13 percent from 2010.
Though they can't say for sure, officials think the drop in fatalities can be somewhat attributed to the increase in arrests. And part of that increase might stem from a stronger focus on identifying drivers who are impaired by drugs other than alcohol, he said. Eight officers in Franklin County are now certified as Drug Recognition Experts through a nationwide program that is supported by the National Highway Safety Administration.
Scattered throughout the county, they can be called to assist when an officer encounters a person who appears to be under the influence but doesn't test high for alcohol.
The tests they administer are similar to field-sobriety tests but take into account the possible side effects of an array of drugs.
Lt. Anne Ralston of the State Highway Patrol said additional troopers will be out on New Year's Eve and Jan. 1, looking for aggressive, reckless and impaired drivers.
As of Wednesday, troopers statewide made 944 more arrests this year for driving a vehicle while impaired than they did during the same period in 2011.
"Preliminary data show OVI-related fatal crashes are down 18 percent," Ralston said.
"We are seeing positive results from the hard work of our troopers on the road every day, removing impaired and dangerous drivers from the roadways," said Col. John Born, patrol superintendent.
Five people died on Ohio roads on Christmas Eve and Christmas this year, according to the patrol's early numbers. Three of the deaths were attributed to impaired driving.
Last year, eight people died in Ohio in OVI-related crashes between Dec. 23 through Dec. 26.
Overall, traffic fatalities are expected to be up slightly over 2011, when 1,015 people died in crashes.
"That was the lowest number we'd ever seen in Ohio," Ralston said.


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Your level of self esteem affects everything you think, say or do - and the way you treat others. High self esteem increases your chances of success and happiness. Personal Ecology is designed to make you feel better about yourself.
Four programs (Self Respect, Confidence, Assertiveness, Relationships) in a 2 CD Set.
Sales Mastery
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If you are in sales, and you are if you are alive, then these tapes are a must. The processes of listening, influencing, competing and closing are vital whether setting appointments, making a sales call, following up, delivering or signing future business. Every aspect of the sales process from prospecting to follow on business will find these elements brilliantly covered and exquisitely installed in your mind. Whether you think about the money you're currently loosing or the money you'll be making is OK. It's up to you to find your own reasons to order NOW.
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Inside / Outside
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This program is designed to make permanent changes in what you eat, how much you eat, coping with difficult emotions, exercising, and keeping the weight off. It will help you attain the weight you desire and maintain it for the rest of your life.
Four programs (Motivation, Discipline, Life-Style Changes, Exercises) in 2 CD Set.
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Maximizing Performance For Business, Sports, & the Arts
On this CD, you'll visit the hall of excellence. You're joined by others who are also ready to take one successful step at a time, making improvements in some area that is important. Your mind's eye will create blueprints for positive change and program your future performance levels Soon, you'll see this improved performance become generalized in other areas of your life.
Four programs (Goal Setting, Confidence, Self Esteem, Handling Pressure) in a 2 CD Set.
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Getting things done makes positive changes occur and feels a lot better than putting things off. On this CD, a rhythmic shaman guides you through a magical forest filled with new thoughts and ideas about moving forward with your life. He introduces you to a world of rhythm, of getting organized, and of keeping good time.
Four programs (Getting Started, Setting Priorities, Problem Solving, Personal Power) in 2 CD Set.
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Four programs (Coping with Anger, Lifting Depression. Alleviating Anxiety, and Building Self-Esteem) in 2 CD Set.
Hidden Wisdom
Breaking Through Creative Blocks
There is a creativity in every aspect of life. Whether your work is writing, music, accounting or raising a family creative thinking is the basis of new and positive changes. Nurturing the creativity within all of us is what this program is about. Have you ever been in a situation where you were lost with the appropriate words.
This is two programs on 1 CD.
Creating A Presence
Power Communication: Confident Public Speaking
Public Speaking carries with it fear of acceptance and insecurity. This program is designed to relieve the anxiety associated with public speaking and to turn many of your fears into a positive, creative experience. If you are shy or reluctant to approach certain people like the opposite sex, consider this special trip around the world as a shyness cure.
This is two programs on 1 CD.
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An HPP audio program designed to maximize your ability to become prosperous on every level.
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Four programs (Boosting the Immune System, Healing / Deep Relaxation, Taking Charge of Your Life, Staying Healthy) in a 2 CD Set.
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This is the first in the HPP Plus Series. Generates a deeply relaxed state that is ideal for absorption of messages and suggestions which are subtly embedded in the stories.
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This is a 4 CD set.
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HPP Hypno-Peripheral Processing
Dr. Glauberman is a Manhattan psychotherapist and expert in the fields of stress management and behavior change. HPP is an advanced psycho-technology which combines the powerful techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson the father of Modern hypnotherapy) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a Complex system of subconscious communication techniques) in a series of audio CD's that can affect lasting, dramatic changes in anyone's life. Best of all, they can do this in a relative short period of time. Dr. Glauberman and HPP are cited in "Megabrain", a ground breaking work in the study of the mind/brain technology.
For years, conventional wisdom has held that insight and understanding were the necessary prerequisites for change. Thanks to Hypno-Peripheral Processing (HPP), this is no longer the case.
Each 30-minute program is designed to gently overload a listener's conscious mind by simultaneously feeding a different parable-like story into each ear. This leads to a deep state of relaxation that is ideal for absorbing the positive suggestions contained on the tapes. As a result, stumbling blocks to personal growth can be swept away and problems like obesity, stress, and creative blocks can be effectively eliminated.
Each story (one on the left, a different one on the right) incorporates delightful images of things like dream machines, floating holograms, mystical cities, cloud chambers and intergalactic zoos. They describe a person who temporarily leaves the mainstream of everyday life for a fantastic adventure and returns changed for the better. They are rich in imagery and metaphors, each of which contains a solution to a problem. While these messages seem to be part of the story, they carry powerful suggestions (process instructions) to the subconscious. No subliminal messages are used in the process. Rather, at strategic points on each tape, the two stories interact. From the apparent overload of the dual metaphors, complete thoughts and positive suggestions emerge. This creates a synergistic effect that unleashes the combined power of both hemispheres of the brain.
Hypno-Peripheral Processing has been acclaimed by psychiatrists and psychotherapists as the most advanced and productive psychotechnology available today.


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The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, founded (1965) as the country's national museum, comprises several main sections: the collection of the Bezalel Museum of Fine Arts, Judaica and Ethnography, exhibits of items typical of various Diaspora Jewish communities, art galleries, period rooms and a comprehensive selection of art objects from Africa, North and South America, Oceania and the Far East; an archeological wing containing artifacts from prehistoric times to the 15th century; a sculpture garden with over 60 works; the Shrine of the Book which houses rare biblical manuscripts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls; a youth wing comprising galleries, classrooms and workshops, with an extensive educational program; the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem, housing a collection of regional archeology; the Paley Art Center in East Jerusalem which runs programs for Arab children; and the Ticho House, an art gallery and popular cafe in a century-old mansion in the center of Jerusalem. A wide range of impressive temporary exhibitions are presented regularly, as well as activities ranging from lectures, workshops and films to chamber concerts and art classes.
In honor of its 45th anniversary, the Israel Museum recently completed a major renovation, which doubled the museum's gallery space. The new design of the galleries takes the visitor on a journey through time, starting with archeology and pre-history, a billion and a half years ago, and moving all the way to contemporary art.
Drawings by Noam Nadav
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (est. 1932), which opened its present building in 1971, consists of central galleries housing a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially Israeli art; a youth wing; an auditorium where recitals, chamber concerts, and art films are presented regularly; and numerous halls which feature temporary exhibits. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Modern Art is also under its aegis.
GovXParagraph4Mishkan LeOmanut ("Home of Art,"est. 1934), in northern Kibbutz Ein Harod, the first rural museum in the country and the first art museum of the kibbutz movement, houses an extensive collection of Jewish painting, sculpture, and folk art from all over the world, features special temporary exhibitions and carries out various educational projects and art research. GovXParagraph5
The Haifa Museum (est. 1949) houses the Museum of Ancient Art, which specializes in archeological finds discovered in Israel and the Mediterranean basin and the Museum of Modern Art (est. 1951), with exhibits of art from all over the world (mid-18th century to the present). Also under the museum's aegis are the Museum of Prehistory, the National Maritime Museum and the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, a small but well-formed space that offers both temporary and permanent exhibitions.
The Eretz Israel Museum (est. 1953) in Ramat Aviv, a comprehensive storehouse of archeological, anthropological, and historical findings in the region, comprises pavilions for glassware, ceramics, coins, copper, and more, as well as a planetarium. The 'Man and His Work' section features live demonstrations of ancient methods of weaving, jewelry and pottery making, grain grinding and bread baking. Tel Quasile, an excavation in which 12 distinct layers of civilization have been uncovered, is on the site.
Also under the museum's aegis are the Museum of the History of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Independence Hall, where the State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, both of which are in central Tel Aviv.
The L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art (est. 1974) in Jerusalem houses extensive permanent exhibitions of pottery, textiles, jewelry, ceremonial objects, and the like, covering a thousand years of Islamic art, from Spain to India, and features temporary exhibits on special themes.
Beit Hatefutsoth (Museum of the Jewish People, est. 1978), located on the Tel Aviv University campus, uses modern techniques and audio-visual displays to trace the history of Diaspora Jewish communities through the ages and throughout the world. In this non-artifact museum, exhibitions are arranged thematically, and each floor has a study area. Temporary exhibits on Jewish subjects, a chronosphere presenting an audio-visual overview of Jewish history and a full range of educational and cultural programs and travelling exhibitions are also regularly featured. The Web site also offers advice and guidance in all matters related to Jewish life and heritage.
The Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem (est. 1988) is located in the Citadel compound, an important historical and archeological site containing finds from the First Temple Period (960-586 BCE), parts of a tower and the city wall from Hasmonean times (first century BCE), and the base of a huge tower built by Herod (37-4 BCE).
The non-artifact museum covers 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history, from its beginnings as a Canaanite city to modern times. Exhibits are divided according to periods, with a 'time line' in each room depicting main events, as well as displays making use of maps, videotapes, holograms, drawings, and models. Temporary exhibitions, not necessarily on related subjects, take advantage of the beautiful setting to display sculpture, installation art, and other works.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, is dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Renovated and enlarged in 2005, it includes the New Holocaust History Museum (within it the Hall of Names of victims of the Holocaust), the Museum of Holocaust Art, the exhibitions pavilion, the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles, an archive, the Shrine of Remembrance with names of the extermination camps on the floor, the Children's Memorial Pavilion, and the Valley of the Destroyed Communities. Designed by Moshe Safdie, the museum aims to transport the visitor into an all-encompassing sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience.


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About peopleagainstheft
I think cars are too expensive, so i'm just going to take one. Seriously - if you think GoT is too expensive - don't watch! It's not one of the basic necessities of life. If the HBO bundle is too expensive - people won't take it - and HBO goes out of business or drops its price. But the whole premise here is that stealing is ok if you don't like the price. How can a market work like that?
Mike you are missing the point about "property" - which to lawyers does not involve "tangibility" (you have a property right in your bank account - it's not tangible). Indeed, money itself is "artificially scarce". In copyright you can own the copy, but not the right to make new copies. A book is a good example - so the right to make copies is "scarce" and therefore has value. The market decides that value - if a million people will pay $1.00 for an ebook version, that's worth a lot of money.
For those confused about innovation - remember that ONLY the innovation is compensated. The Beatles sang Buddy Holly songs - but if you want Buddy Holly, instead of their version, they don't have a right to get paid. The value is in the addition only. Lord Kames would have benefit from over 200 years of development in practical development by economists and lawyers.
Mike, have you ever studied logic? Just because total box office went up doesn't mean box office (and home video) wouldn't be higher without piracy. Studio revenues are affected by a lot of things - you're only isolating one input. The GDP of the united states is growing even though there are burglaries . . . does that mean burglaries are not a problem that should be addressed? Dumb argument.
And the studios did not stand in the way of home entertainment - that's another piece of the mythology. The studios objected to the inclusion of a time-operated recorder in conjunction with a playback device. Turned out no one bothered to program their VCRs anyway because the technology was awful, and they were used as playback devices, which is what the studios wanted anyway.
Why don't people on this site check your facts or your logic?
A majority of people surveyed believe you can increase government spending and cut taxes at the same time. A majority also probably believe in santa claus. Free stuff is always popular - right until it disappears because no one makes it anymore. What happens when ad blockers eliminate the economics of google and facebook?
So True
Typical argument - state a premise that the other side actually wouldn't make, and then attack your own premise as stupid. In fact, artists are saying "if you want to make movies at home, great! If you want to start your own restaurant, great! Just don't ask me to do all the work for you and then claim you have a right to what I did! You didn't slave away in the kitchen - you're just stealing food and telling me i should be happy."
The movie industry is saying don't take food from restaurants without paying for it.
Should chefs work for free? (you aren't saying that chefs are only in it for the money are you??) Or do you just have the superceding "right" to have someone make your dinner for you? If you don't like the terms to watch movies, then go out and make one of your own.
Typical argument - state a premise that the other side actually wouldn't make, and then attack your own premise as stupid. In fact, artists are saying "if you want to make movies at home, great! If you want to start your own restaurant, great! Just don't ask me to do all the work for you and then claim you have a right to what I did! You didn't slave away in the kitchen - you're just stealing food and telling me i should be happy."
The movie industry is saying don't take food from restaurants without paying for it.
Should chefs work for free? (you aren't saying that chefs are only in it for the money are you??) Or do you just have the superceding "right" to have someone make your dinner for you? If you don't like the terms to watch movies, then go out and make one of your own.
That's the best you can do? by that standard GM is bigger than you so let them have all your money. "Rights" are about protecting everyone - powerful or not. Balance is about having respect for individuals as well as the bigger picture. The slave trade was bigger than any one individual - so it should trump the rights of individuals? Yikes!
And the more movies/less movies item is equally absurd. It's fantastic that low cost movies are being distributed that could never be economically distributed before. But people spent $50 million to see wreck-it Ralph notwithstanding. The internet should allow BOTH - big and low budget - and let people invest in content if people want to see it. Lack of IP protection prevents that investment and ONLY the low budget survives. Artists want an internet that encourages both - not ONLY free, but also supports commerce between willing ticket-buyers and willing producers that's not destroyed by the everything MUST be free folks. That's a stronger network, not a weaker one, and one that's more powerful for everyone, not one that grows by sucking the lifeblood out of creators for the sole benefit of consumers.
Most of these "insightful" comments miss the point entirely. In order to sculpt the moon, for example, you need to find people who want to pay you for that. Copyright doesn't give you money - the desires of people to pay you for your work give you money. All copyright does is let you license it to willing buyers. So, as to the $100 million movie, if no one wanted to go, copyright doesn't make them. And lots of movies fail. But if people do want to see, say James Bond, failure of copyright will keep that from happening.
As to Leibowitz's comments - again you are disregarding all the important distinctions. Copyright is not all about "stronger" vs. "weaker" except in slogans. Leibowitz might say, for example, that fair use ought to be broader in some areas, or copyright term should be shorter. But he also believes, strongly, in enforcing the core right of creators to control copying and distribution of their works, because that is how the free market decides whether their works are valuable.
David - they are and that's why your example doesn't make any sense. If you copy something that you don't have the right to copy, you are interfering with the exclusive right of someone else - just as if you wrongfully entered your neighbor's house and watched television for a week, or borrowed their car. All of them are "trespass" or "theft" under the law - interference with property.
abc - actually copyright protects limited rights, such as the right to make a copy or first distribution. It generally doesn't make the act of distributing a copy illegal if no copies are made and therefore there is no theft. However, "file sharing" is often about making lots of copies and so isn't secondary distribution. People do talk about "digital first sale" - where the original disappears when the copy is sold, and there are a lot of people who like the idea. If the technology could be made to work so that only the original is shared (or online, a new copy is made and the old one deleted) - it might well be consistent with the rights conferred by copyright. By the way, all property has limits. You can't build a munitions plan in your house, for example, and in some neighborhoods, you even have to build something the neighbors think attractive. That's not unique to copyright.
That's a giant leap, Michael. The MPAA and RIAA (and the directors guild, the songwriters association, the AFL-CIO, etc) start from wanting an internet where obvious and eggregious theft is not allowed. I don't know if they want to control the internet - but no one would ever let them - but how do you defend, say, kim dot com or the pirate bay in kim's case trying to download all of YouTube so he can sell ads, telling people that he is taking stuff down when he isn't? The pirate bay just ignores (or thumbs its private parts) at takedowns. So we just need a way to get rid of dirtbags while protecting reasonable privacy - just like we do offline where a court can order a wiretap on the mafia but can't do it without reasonable cause? As you say, the problem is not copyright, it's finding its reasonable limits so it's not abused, but still works.
Real Michael - actually, um, we do put policemen on the street to protect your house, your car. We have courts to protect your private property and your bank account and your right to get paid on payday. It's called the rule of law and it's why the United States is not, say, Somalia. It also works because most people are respectful of others rights, so you don't have to have a policemen in everyone's house. Why do you rail against copyright maximalists - maybe some exist but I haven't seen any. Let's see what you have to say about "copyright middle of the roaders" who just think copyright of reasonable extent ought to be respected?
Geez . .. by that logic, Mike everything should be free so there is more money for everything else. Mercantilism is the OPPOSITE of copyright, sir. The point is that private property creates the underlying rights needed for investment and competition - and then the marketplace does its ruthless work. creators (not the creative industries . . . think movie makers, writers, journalists, etc etc) invest their time, and in some cases their lives, to making things without any knowledge of how they will be received . . . and then normal people decide if they are good or not or whether they are worth the money. It's telling that the solution proferred to life without copyrighted is a compulsory license or government funding and THAT is mercantilism. I want to know how this professor - who apparently never read an economics 100 text - decides that music now is better, or ignores film, television, newsgathering, and all the other arts that depend on both (a) functioning free markets and (b) the natural right of a human being, even an artist, to decide how his or her work should be exploited by the world.
On the question of "theft" - you misunderstand the concept. Theft of a car has to do with taking your exclusive right to use and sell your car . . . not the physical thing. So, too, illegal copying interferes with a persons exclusive right and is entitled to be called theft.
This is nuts. Remember that copyright is how artists and journalists and artists and writers get paid. Censorship is when you cut off how artists and writers get paid - somehow thinking that someone's desire to hit "forward" or avoid paying $0.99 for a track trumps someone's 10,000 hours of practice and years of hard work to create something for all of us to enjoy. But if you actually understand that, then you say "ok, nothing's perfect, but let's try some stuff that's reasonable and deters piracy." The slippery slope argument has been so overused it's akin to saying we should ban matches because someone might light a house on fire. How about saying that making piracy just a little more difficult is not a bad step, but we should guard against it going too far.
it's hard to imagine lawmakers stepping in - the rule is in a good place (although there will probably be litigation interpreting the opinion). The point is that under the rule YouTube tried to push - a site operator could say "we need someone to post the following six movies to fill our our portfolio" and still claim the safe harbor. Now the court is allowed to see if a site operator's conduct went beyond just operating a site to actively encouraging infringement. It's the same line that a hardware store crosses when it gives hammers to a customer to go break the windows of a competitor - not every sale of a hammer is a neutral act, you have to look a little further to see what else was done.
it's hard to imagine lawmakers stepping in - the rule is in a good place (although there will probably be litigation interpreting the opinion). The point is that under the rule YouTube tried to push - a site operator could say "we need someone to post the following six movies to fill our our portfolio" and still claim the safe harbor. Now the court is allowed to see if a site operator's conduct went beyond just operating a site to actively encouraging infringement. It's the same line that a hardware store crosses when it gives hammers to a customer to go break the windows of a competitor - not every sale of a hammer is a neutral act, you have to look a little further to see what else was done.
Actually, Viacom arguement that if you can prove that a site operator is intentionally inducing content (so called Grokster inducement) you must have "knowledge" was adopted with three variations - none of which should matter in practice. First the knowledge requirement now has an objective component (what someone reasonably should know), willful blindness has been expressly incorporated into the law (you can have knowledge if you intentionally try to avoide knowing about copyrigth infringement) , and the requirement that there be no financial benefit/right and ability to control can be satisfied by grokster inducement (Google and the judge argued that specific knowledge of specific infringement was required). These are not "copyright maximalist" kinds of arguments - the law has now moved sensibly to the middle (which is all Viacom wanted) - neutral service providers are safe, but if there is strong evidence of a business model built on infringement (say, MegaVideo or early YouTube), then there is liability. If you believe the creators are entitled to any practical protection at all under copyright, that's a pretty reasonable test.
This is the problem when copyright gets reduced to soundbites. Ask any jazz musician whether they can play the work of Jelly Roll Morton - and of course the answer is "of course". Performance rights are generally subject to blanket licenses in the US and virtually every performance hall and jukebox has an ASCAP & BMI license; recording licenses are similarly easily available as "mechanicals" - also by compulsory license. The only thing NOT easily available in music would be the actual recording - but of course, those are easy to find for low rates, too (no incremental cost if you have Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody, or pay to own on itunes, amazon). So exactly HOW is the culture being harmed? Why shouldn't the heirs of the founder of jazz receive their royalties when we enjoy his masterful work?
Moral panic is a polemical screed. Patry was a good scholar until then. Read piracy by Adrian johns or free ride by Robert Levine.
It is true that metaphors matter, but the nonrivalrous good concept (you still have it when I take it) and the "monopoly" concept are both uses that discriminate against creators. Take "monopoly" which brings up images of AT&T and google. The right term is "exclusive right". You have an exclusive right to your post under copyright law, but I don't think ou are a "monopolist". Similarly with the "nonrivalrous good" concept Larsson misuses. It simply is beside the point. For example, if i take your car tonight and return it tomorrow, you still have it, but I've violated your exclusive right to drive your car. The point is that all property rights are about a bundle of rights (the right to sell your car, to drive it, to modify it, and so on) not about the physical object. So it is with expression -- the person who creates it is given the right to decide what to do with it, and interference is a violation of that exclusive right. If that interference is the meaning of "theft" than an unauthorized transmission of your work is just as much theft as interference with your right to decide what to do with your stuff.


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The LGBT community has been celebrating since Tuesday after Barack Obama was re-elected as president. For LGBT Americans, the election marked a watershed moment: For the first time, a popular vote enshrined marriage equality. No, make that three votes: Maryland, Maine and Washington State. In Minnesota, voters refused to enshrine a gay marriage ban in the state's constitution. And in Iowa, voters did an about-face and rejected judicial interference by refusing to recall the judge responsible for marriage equality in the Hawkeye State.
While union members, Latinos, blacks, liberals, women, LGBT voters and their supporters were all dancing in the streets, ultra-conservatives across the country have been busy throwing hissy fits after being decimated on Election Day. Their constant mantra that, when put to voters, marriage equality would always go down in flames, well, went down in flames.
"Our opponents and some in the media will attempt to portray the election results as a changing point in how Americans view gay marriage, but that is not the case," a statement from the National Organization for Marriage, a group determent to ban same-sex marriage, read. "Americans remain strongly in favor of marriage as the union of one man and one woman."
That so? Then what about these four states (five counting Iowa)? It all comes down money, Brown complained: "The election results reflect the political and funding advantages our opponents enjoyed in these very liberal states."
This was not a complaint when NOM, which received heavy support from the Roman Catholic Church and other organizations, was far outspending its opponents. NOM also showed selective memory in its having trumpeted heavy support in the black community, especially in Maryland, where blacks make up nearly one-third of the electorate. The group also ignored the fact that Maine and Minnesota, while hardly red, are certainly far from solid blue.
in elections, a victory is a victory. A narrow loss is about as meaningful as a near-pregnancy. But no one told NOM's leader, Brian Brown, who, in an interview with the Washington Post, tried to paint a rosy picture of the Maryland vote. Marriage equality "barely won" in the Free State, he said.
Frank Schubert, who is responsible for creating the group's devious ads and is responsible for its ground game in the contested states, expressed his disappointment as well. "It appears that we have lost by a point or two in each state. It's important to consider that these battles occurred in a very difficult political landscape," he said in a statement. "We were contesting in four deep blue states and were outspent very badly in all of them - at least four-to-one, and greater in some states. I have to accept that losing in this very difficult political environment was always a real possibility."
He went on to say that be doesn't believe "the spin" that America is "in support of gay marriage" and insists that anti-gay marriage activists in Maine, Maryland, Washington Sate and Minnesota, "narrowly lost four difficult contests in four very deep blue states after being badly outspent."
Vowing to 'Fight On' in These States
The head of Preserve Marriage remarked on Washington State legalizing gay marriage and echoed NOM's sentiments in saying that Referendum 74 was "narrowly approved."
"We are disappointed in losing a tough election battle on marriage by a narrow margin. But while we are disappointed, we are not defeated," Joseph Backholm told the Seattle Times.
Leaders from the Christian Civic League of Maine, an organization that campaigned to keep same-sex marriages illegal in the Pine Tree State, threatened after Tuesday's outcome and to take the pro-gay marriage measure back to the ballot yet again. That would make it a third time at the electoral rodeo.
According to a statement from the group's website, they are trying to work with other anti-gay groups, including Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council and Citizen Link "to provide resources for churches, pastors and Christians who will need legal protections for our religious liberties."
"We want to discern the possible impact of redefining marriage as well as the remedies," the statement reads. "Our priority is to help ensure your opportunity to live out your faith and ministry without interference."
For sheer train-wreck value, few can match ultra-conservative politician Eugene Delgaudio, who serves as a member of a county executive board in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., in his spare time. Otherwise, he occupies himself as head, and sole member, of the grandiloquently named Public Advocate of the United States organization. His one-man band has managed to receive the far right's equivalent of an Oscar: being deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
On his website, he complained that the "gay lobby overwhelmingly outspent pro-family forces" in the four states that approved gay marriage.
"Overwhelming majorities still support marriage in most states and if you add up the numbers, it's a winning issue 100 per cent of the time until now," he wrote. "But with anti-marriage forces stopping us in four liberal states it is not time for the end game and it is not time for the fat transvestite to sing yet." (Whatever that means.)
Statements from complaining right wingers continued to pour out from conservative organizations and anti-gay marriage activists as they suddenly discovered that they were on the wrong side of history and that Americans have woken up to basic fairness.
"Tuesday was a devastating day for pro-family advocates concerned about the advance of same-sex 'marriage' and homosexual activism. While politics does not decide moral and spiritual Truth, it is an indicator of the heart of our nation," Peter LaBarbera, the president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, another organization labeled as a hate group by the SPLC, said in a press release. "No longer can pro-family advocates say that homosexual 'marriage' has never been voted in by the people. Thanks to a never-ending bombardment of media-, educational- and pop-culture propaganda in favor of All Things Gay, homosexual 'marriage' is now semi-popular, at least in Blue States."
Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Counsel, also made sure to get his two cents in about how he felt about the results of Election Day.
"Among the more demoralizing losses yesterday were the outcomes in Maryland, Minnesota, Washington, and Maine, where natural marriage lost for the first time in America by popular vote," he said in a press release. "It was a significant moment for the radical Left, which was helped to victory by the most pro-gay President in American history. While homosexuals may be celebrating an end to our movement's perfect record, they still have a long way to go to match the 32 states where Americans voted overwhelmingly to protect the union of a man and woman."
Leaders of anti-gay groups weren't the only ones whining about the LGBT community's triumphant win on Tuesday. Conservative religious leaders echoed similar sentiments of disappointment.
San Francisco Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was a strong supporter of Proposition 8, which forbade marriage in California. It is now making its way through the court system, which so far has been siding with marriage equality.
Cordileone echoed the chorus that insisted four-out-of-four was meaningless because his side "lost only by a narrow margin in four states." He reiterated his the church's position that "marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children born of their union," according to CatholicCulture.org.
Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham and also an evangelist, warned that America is walking down a "path of destruction," the Charlotte Observer reported.
Like so many of his ilk, Graham was speaking for God, whom he apparently on the spiritual equivalent of speed dial.
Unless we're willing to repent for our sins, we will stand in his judgment," Graham said. "I want to warn America: God is coming around. He will judge sin, and it won't be pretty."
Grieving for the Soul of America
Matt Staver, a lawyer and a former pastor who is the founding member of Liberty Counsel, said in a statement that the election results were a "referendum on the soul of America" and that many citizens around the country will "grieve today like we lost a friend or a close relative. Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it."
"Abortion, same-sex marriage, and immorality carried the day. The great values on which America was founded were set aside because of selfishness unbalanced by biblical truth and commitment to Jesus Christ," he added.
The most virulent and dangerous anti-gay activist in the country is probably Scott Lively, who is responsible for the "kill the gays" bill in Uganda. Lively called Tuesday's results "the progressive's Godless Utopian fantasy" in a statement.
Several conservative websites reiterated the "America is doomed" meme.
Town Hall, in an article entitled "What This Election Means," attempted to explain why Republican Party Senate and presidential candidates went down on Tuesday. It wasn't because they were out of step with an increasingly progressive, multi-racial America. It was because they were not conservative enough.
"Few Republicans were willing to speak for marriage, while the whole Democratic establishment and Hollywood campaigned for gay marriage. Last night really is a big loss -- no way to spin it," according to the article.
In Life Site New's coverage of the election defeat, an article called "Aftermath: lessons from the 2012 Election" stated that 'after 33 victories, Tuesday night brought multiple defeats."
Predictably, right wingnuts expressed their outrage on Free Republic article. "And to think this nation was founded by Pilgrims who dedicated it in covenant to God and for the gospel of Jesus Christ only to degenerate into these abominations," one wrote. "I'm only in my mid fifties but destination Heaven is looking better all the time."
Another reader at least recognized that "It's an issue of demographics. Young people are overwhelmingly in favor of gay marriage, and have been for some time. As they age a small proportion of them will change their mind, but the majority will still support it. We just saw this play out, and frankly there's no stopping it. I think it likely that the Republican party will officially endorse gay marriage within 20 years, perhaps as little as 10."
One can only hope.
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WHITTIER – A man who lost his cell phone used computer tracking software Tuesday to help police find and recover it, along with other allegedly stolen items, from a Santa Fe Springs man's pocket, officials said.
Jared Morentin, 27, of Santa Fe Springs, was booked on suspicion of possession of stolen property following his arrest shortly after 10 a.m. in the 7600 block of Painter Avenue in Whittier, according to Whittier police and Los Angeles County booking records.
A 31-year-old man could not find his phone late Monday and believed he had lost it while at Food 4 Less, 7810 Norwalk Boulevard in Santa Fe Springs, Whittier police Lt. Steve Dean said.
He used a computer program to track the location of his phone the following morning and realized it was sitting in the 7600 block of Painter Avenue in Whittier, the lieutenant said.
Police responded to the area Tuesday morning as the man relayed the position of the phone, which was moving slowly south in the 7600 block of Painter Avenue, to a police dispatcher, Dean said.
Officers found Morentin walking in the area and detained him.
In addition to the missing cell phone, other allegedly stolen cell phones and GPS devices were found on Morentin's person, Dean said.
Morentin told investigators he had been buying the devices for $10 each in order to make a profit, Dean said, adding that police believed the suspect knew they were stolen.
The suspect already has two previous theft-related convictions, Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
He was convicted of second-degree burglary in September of 2012 and sentenced to two years behind bars, which was suspended, and probation, Robison said.
In another case, Morentin pleaded no contest to charges of petty theft and burglary Dec. 20, Robison said.
He was sentenced to 373 days in jail and formal probation, however he applied to have his case evaluated by the county's drug court, she said. An update on his case was not available.
According to county booking records, Morentin was being held without bail pending his initial court appearance.


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