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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Jenny has a passion for leadership – inspiring, motivating and encouraging others. She now has the desire to help all women live a vital and successful life.
Hence the new website http://www.vitalizedwomen.com
Target will be women from any background - career women, working mums, full time mums that are good at what they do, yet they seem to feel isolated sometimes, on their own and not knowing how to get out of their cycle.
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1. http://www.savvydivorcedchicks.com/ - love the pink, lime green and turquoise. Don't like the brown!
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3. Like bright orange and deep purple, dont like red or navy blue
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I never knew my mother's mother; she died years before I was born and so I have never been comfortable referring to Florence Williams as my grandmother. My mother adored her mother, whose nickname was Billie, and often told stories about her and one of them was the genesis of this piece.
To design the salon, Rubinstein chose the Hungarian Ladislas Medgyes who had outiftted her New York apartment, with its sensational clear dining suite made out of a new wonder material called lucite. The cosmetics mogul brought her love of all things French with her to New York. The oak and leather stools were designed by Jean-Michel Frank, the rug was inspired by Fernand Leger, who also painted the mural for Nelson Rockefeller's east side townhouse, and there was the flattering portrait of Madame Rubinstein in a yellow shawl by Marie Laurencin. Also like Rockefeller, Rubinstein dotted her apartment with African sculptures and surrealist paintings. The rococo settee seen above in the Salon were a frequent Rubinstein accent.
The Rockefellers, father John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his son Nelson , were prominent Francophiles who had the means leave a mark on the city. Nelson's Fifth Avenue duplex, designed by Jean-Michel Frank, in 1937, was the setting for many events during his long career in the arts and in politics. (Frank, who was made a refugee by the Nazi occupation of his native France, jumped to his death from a tall New York building in 1941.) Meanwhile, John D.'s eponymous Rockefeller Center, under construction throughout the 1930s, was an extravagant love letter to all things French that has become, with time, an icon of American architecture. At its center is Paul Manship's golden Prometheus: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends." Rockefeller's kindred spirit, you could say.
As is often the case with love affairs, one party was more enthusiastic than the other. The French, their patented mixture of admiration laced with disdain, looked askance at the American skyscraper, finding something savage in this obelisk of modern architecture. They tried out a variety of metaphors to contain the heady experience of the vertical building, from mountains to cathedrals. The journalist, Jules Heret, sneered at them as "maisons geantes," redeemed only by the magical aura cast by electricity. One critic even dismissed Cass Gilbert's stately Woolworth Building as "banal and ineffective." When the magazine Je sais tout published its first article about the construction of Rockefeller Center in December, 1931, the tone began to shift toward admiration for America's "composition urbaniste,"
1. Samuel Gottscho - Helena Rubinstein salon in Manhattan, 1936, Museum of the City of New York.
2. Jean Lurcat - for Maison Mybor, hand-knotted wool rug, ca. 1930, Helen Rubenstein Collection, NYC.
3. unidentified photographer for Life Magazine - Helena Rubinstin in bed designed to her dimensions by Ladislas Medgyes, 1941, Museum of the City of New York.
4. Fernand Leger - design for fireplace mural for Nelson Rockefeller's New York townhouse, c. 1938, Davidson gallery, NYC.
5. unidentified photographer - Prometheus, designed by Paul Manship at Rockefeller Center Plaza, 1930s, New York Public Library.
6. Le Corbusier - Metamorphosis of a violin, 1922, Pompidou Center, Paris.

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Sharon Osbourne underwent extensive DNA tests with her husband Ozzy to uncover their genetic propensity for disease.
The 60-year-old television personality and wife of the Black Sabbath rocker is a colon cancer survivor and the malignancy has been in remission for about a decade.
Sharon and Ozzy took comprehensive tests on their genetic code worth $250,000 at the request of researchers.
'The scientist wanted to see how Ozzy had lived so long despite the drink and drugs. I said he would do it and they said: 'We are doing you too',' she revealed on Howard Stern's radio show this week.
'The tests tell you all your genes and what you might get or have got.
'My husband walks away and he is genetically blessed and is perfect, thank God. But I had colon, breast and ovarian cancer genes.'
Sharon had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.
She is happy with the results of her restoration surgery.
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Financing you car should be 'No Hot Air, No Baffling Jargon', just clear information designed to allow you to make an informed decision about what type of finance suits you best - whether it be Jeep i-deal motoring solutions package, or a more traditional finance plan such as Hire Purchase (HP). Its simple, you consider what level of monthly repayment you are comfortable with, the deposit you have available, whether you plan to keep the car long-term, or exchange it after a few years. The choice is yours.
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Contract Hire means that clients:
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VAT is built into the monthly payments, but is not reclaimable by private individuals. Maintenance packages are usually available so that you don't get any nasty surprises.
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- Can include a full maintenance package that takes all the worry out of motoring.
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Ideal for companies who cannot fully reclaim VAT and is particularly suitable for financing the more expensive cars on the fleet, typically those costing more than £25,000.00. The big difference between Contract Purchase and Contract Hire is that there is the opportunity to buy the vehicle at the end of the contract period. You have the option of paying a 'balloon payment' at the end of the contract which makes you the legal owner or alternatively you can return the vehicle to the funder. Contract Purchase offers all the operational, managerial and administrative benefits of Contract Hire, together with the tax-efficient benefits of ownership, such as the ability to claim capital allowances.
Under HP agreements, there's a deposit to pay (typically 10%) followed by fixed monthly payments. The car is owned by the HP company until the final payment (and any 'option to purchase' ownership-transfer fee) has been paid. Up to that point, the person making the payments has no legal right to sell the vehicle.
Nevertheless, some 'owners' do sell 'their' cars before the final payment. The good news for buyers of these 'non-paid-up' HP cars is that the law clearly protects private purchasers who buy without notice of any undischarged HP agreement. No matter what the police or anyone else might tell you, you'll get a good title to the car if you buy an HP car under these circumstances. The finance company can take action against the seller if they wish, but it's not your problem.
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|FINAL Fall Migration News: November 15, 2012
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Step from the original Portuguese street stones onto eighteenth-century Carrara marble stairs leading up to the parquet floors and ornate ceilings of the Palacio Cruz e Souza, now a historic museum (Museu Historico de Santa Catarina) where the Portuguese colonial governors of this Brazilian state once lived. The nearby Mercado Publico is like an Arabian bazaar filled with merchants peddling fish, fruits, vegetables, and sundries. It is about 8 miles south from downtown Florianopolis to Aeroporto Internacional Hercilio Luz (FLN) for flights to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and other destinations.
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Hi everyone since I am ordering supplies for the party I thought I would toss this idea out there for you all to see. I would love feed back if you would be willing to join in this surprise.
She will be 90 on the 29 of June. I would love to see if she could get at least 90 cards by her birthday as a memory of the event. That is asking you all to send her a card to remember her day.
My idea would be to do it for the month of June starting about the 15 or so.
She can read large print easily but a card that can be read to her would do just fine.
She was born and reared in Wyoming, all her children born in California but I. Dad has been gone for more than ten years. I just want to make this a very special day. This I think would fit the bill?
Do you think you could do this if I supplied the address to have you send the card?
It is a PO box so not a house address.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Surprise for MOM's Birthday Need Your Help
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I would love to. Send the address on to me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM
The girls of my Girl Scout Troop would love to send cards if you like. Please send address.ReplyDelete
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What a lovely ideaReplyDelete
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This tip is submitted by reader Zacharie:
switchdesk is the command to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa. This command provides a simple method of choosing between the various desktop environments available under Fedora Core, Cent OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
If X Windows is running, switchdesk will bring up a dialog box which allows the user to choose between the available desktops installed on the system.
Task: To switch from GNOME to KDE, use the command
$ switchdesk kde
Task: To switch from KDE to GNOME, use the command
$ switchdesk gnome
Please note that file ~/.Xclients, ~/.Xclients-default stores the currently selected desktop.
A note about other distros/BSD
switchdesk is RedHat and friends only command. If you are using different Linux distribution or FreeBSD, open ~/.xinitrc file and type full path to your desktop manager. For example, to use xfce4 desktop:
$ vi .xinitrc
Append following line (your path may be different use, which command to get exact path):
Save and close the file. Enjoy new desktop.
While login you will see option for different desktops (provided that all of them are installed). Usually this is located below Username / password box or lower left button. Just select appropriate desktop (KDE/XFC4 etc).
Load KDE while running Gnome
You can load KDE while running Gnome desktop (thanks to sweta for pointing it out):
Just open your gnome terminal and type the command:
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text: Sony Insider is reporting a well-founded rumor that the Vaio team will announce a new notebook tomorrow, a replacement to the super-sweet TZ, now to be called TT. I don't know if that's an Audi reference or a boobie reference, but what I do know is that it will likely have wireless-N, Bluetooth and an EVDO option—no mention of HSDPA—and will be a full-powered Vista notebook with the same 11.1-inch screen as the lightweight TZ. Catchy name or not, this combination of features should make it a pretty hot item, so let's all keep an eye out for the real news. [Sony Insider]


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hi.. tis is really nice i was suffering a lot for 3 days for an error but after reading tis thing i found out thx!!!
hi.. tis is really nice i was suffering a lot for 3 days for an error but after reading tis thing i found out thx!!!
you've saved a few days for me!
I've inherited an interesting project. ST2.0 project built with Architect.
This project was upgraded to 2.1 using the inbuilt functionality of the new Architect.
What this left me with was the original /sdk/resources, /touch/resources, /resources and interestingly another folder ../resources (yes, in parent of app folder) that had another /touch/ folder just for good measure of confusion.
Architect had scattered the working config into a chaotic mess. Found out the old project aliased the styling build from the parent resource folder into the app resources to help with build speeds.
Likewise, I've 15 years in (mostly) front-end development working with majority of frameworks and backends. Untangling this project was becoming a nightmare. This post was a ray of enlightenment and the final piece to solving the gordian knot.
Many thanks.
How you've altered the import pathing for the sencha touch "compass extension" (http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/extensions/)
Firstly, consider this path from the config.rb:Code:@import 'sencha-touch/default/all';
Within this directory one finds a file compass_init.rb.Code:// Points to the Sencha Touch theme load File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes')
The important points:Code:# This file registers the sencha-touch framework with compass # It's a magic name that compass knows how to find. dir = File.dirname(__FILE__) require File.join(dir, 'lib', 'theme_images.rb') # Include compass-recipes require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'vendor', 'compass-recipes', 'config') Compass::BrowserSupport.add_support('repeating-linear-gradient', 'webkit', 'moz', 'o', 'ms') Compass::Frameworks.register 'sencha-touch', dir
@markwyner's original post is very helpful for understanding the development structure of the compass/sass element of touch. One should read the linked page at the top of my message on compass extensions as well as compass configuration (http://compass-style.org/help/tutori...ion-reference/) before making multiple changes to their config.rb file.
- "sencha-touch" becomes a registered framework extension for this project.
- images you've hard referenced via your config.rb file are originally included by this compass_init.rb and its referenced /themes/lib/theme_images.rb file.
- using as a framework extension makes "@import 'sencha-touch/default/all';" also work, and not require modification.
when I use the command compass compile It get the error
Line 23 of _button.scss: Undefined variable: "$base-gradient".
I have defined the variable "$base-gradient" in scss file.


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Eason Jordan Resigns
Aired February 13, 2005 - 11:30 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): CNN executive Eason Jordan resigns over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Was he too slow to apologize? And did bloggers help seal his fate? Jeff Gannon, who covered the White House for a conservative Web site, quits under fire. Is he a journalist? What about all those talk show hosts and pundits who came from the political world, or still advise politicians? What about a new generation of bloggers? Just who is a journalist anyway? We'll ask David Gergen, Bill Press and blogger Jeff Jarvis. Also, John Dean sparks a media frenzy with a few words about a secret Watergate source. What explains the endless fascination with Deep Throat? (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES, where today we turn our critical lens on two dramatic resignations, in which bloggers, both conservative and liberal, played a critical role. I'm Howard Kurtz. CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan resigned Friday night, two weeks after sparking a furor over comments he made at a conference in Davos, Switzerland, about U.S. soldiers targeting journalists in Iraq. Jordan says he backed off the statement when challenged, and that his mistake was saying that the military intentionally targeted journalists. Jordan says he never stated, believed or suspected that U.S. military forces intended to kill people they knew to be journalists, and that he apologizes to anyone who thought he said otherwise. But there are conflicting accounts of how far he backed off at the conference. The controversy over the remarks raged mostly online, on sites by "National Review" and radio host Hugh Hewitt and others. In the mainstream press, there were a handful of stories, one by me in "The Washington Post," others in "The Boston Globe," "Wall Street Journal" and "Miami Herald," but nothing in "The New York Times," "Los Angeles Times," "Chicago Tribune," "USA Today," and nothing on CNN itself. Although Jordan was criticized on talk shows on FOX, CNBC and MSNBC. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST, SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY: This CNN leader has defamed the honor and integrity of our brave men and women in uniform by reckless charges that were presented in the most cowardly way, behind closed doors in conferences packed by international elites. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Jordan said in a statement he was stepping down from a 23-year career, quote, "to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy." Joining us now here in Washington, the moderator of that controversial discussion in Switzerland, David Gergen, columnist for "U.S. News and World Report," a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, and he was a White House aide in four presidential administrations. In New York, author and commentator Bill Press, a former talk show host at CNN and MSNBC, and one-time chairman of the California Democratic Party. And Jeff Jarvis, journalist and former magazine editor who writes a blog at BuzzMachine.com. David Gergen, you were there. What did Eason Jordan say? And did he deserve to lose his job over it? DAVID GERGEN, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: He made a mistake. I did not think he deserved to lose his job over it. A little context is important. He had just come back from Baghdad, 16th trip. We were on the eve of the elections there. He was extremely tense, because he thought a CNN journalist as well as other journalists were in great danger there, and he was -- he praised U.S. troops for protecting CNN journalists and others, but he said, look, this is a place where we lost 63 journalists on all sides, and journalists on all sides are being -- are getting killed often carelessly -- and he used the word targeting. And certainly left the impression that U.S. troops were targeting journalists on the other side -- Al Jazeera, for example -- just as insurgents were clearly targeting American journalists. And it was a startling charge, and I think everybody in the room sort of, you know, their head swerved. But as soon as he said it, it was clear he knew he had made a mistake. He had gone too far. Used -- he'd been -- his emotions I think just got the better of him. And he tried to walk it back. And he tried to be -- clarify it. But soon it was on the blog, and frankly, the -- it just -- the story just built up. KURTZ: And I want to pick up that point with Jeff Jarvis, if I might. Bloggers, particularly conservatives, but not exclusively, just ripping Jordan over this. But most news organizations didn't touch it. In fact, as far as I know, this is the first time it's being discussed on CNN, which I think is a mistake given Jordan's importance and the air time devoted to Dan Rather's problem. So how did this reach critical mass? JEFF JARVIS, BUZZMACHINE.COM: Witness the news judgment of the people versus the news judgment of the big guys. Bloggers didn't want his head, most of us didn't. We wanted the truth. We wanted to see that transcript from Davos. The issues here are that the gatekeepers are no longer gatekeepers. The second issue is news of -- the speed of news has really changed. You can't wait 12 days, as Dan Rather did, or as Jordan did, to say something substantive. And finally, off the record is dead. Because now, anyone who is a witness to news can be a reporter, because anyone and everyone has access to the press, to the Internet. KURTZ: Right. JARVIS: Everyone is a Wolf Blitzer in sheep's clothing. KURTZ: The conference was supposed to be off the record, obviously. The Internet made that irrelevant. Bill Press, some bloggers -- there is even an EasonGate.com site that sprung up rather quickly -- say these remarks by Jordan were outrageously anti-military, even if he did try to back off, and that the mainstream press here was lazy, incompetent, or simply covering up. BILL PRESS, FORMER TALK SHOW HOST: Well, we certainly see the power of the bloggers here, Howie. But it seems if anybody was targeted -- and by the way, I accept both David Gergen's and Eason Jordan's explanation. Which one of us watching this show or on the show has not said something that he later regretted? But I think Jordan was targeted, because of his connection with CNN. If this had been General James Mattis, who had said this, even inadvertently, nobody would have paid any attention. Eason was targeted, I believe, to get at CNN, and it worked. But I have to tell you, I also think that this would not have been an issue if immediately Eason Jordan had demanded the release of that transcript, got on top of it, and said, this is what I said, I didn't mean it, I apologize. I think you know what it's like? Swift boats and John Kerry. He waited too long to act. KURTZ: And of course it wasn't just the bloggers that criticized Eason Jordan, it was also a couple of liberal Democrats, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who were there, who did not like his remarks. But David Gergen, here's the problem. Using the phrase "targeting journalists," I think we can agree, not a very smart thing to say. But also, Eason Jordan was already a lightning rod, because he wrote in "The New York Times" two years ago that CNN didn't report some of Saddam Hussein's abuses over the years to protect its Iraqi employees in that country, which some people saw as accommodating to the Saddam regime. GERGEN: I think that's right. But to go back to the targeting, one of the reasons the phrases can be deeply offensive, is it's so contrary to what the U.S. military policy has been. You and I are both aware of many instances in which U.S. troops had gone to rescue journalists and they have protected them. They have got a long and I think an honorable history of doing that. So the whole charge struck many of us as, whoa, that's way beyond anything that we think is reality. But I do think he walked it back. And it's only in essence -- for a fellow who's put 23 years in, to -- and built a reputation as a good journalist and building up CNN, I thought that the price he paid far exceeded the crime. And that's why I find this sad. It is true that he got himself embroiled in another dispute over a piece that he wrote in "The New York Times," the one you cite that seems to suggest that CNN had not put certain stories on the air in order to keep their journalists on the ground in Baghdad, that they had not revealed the full savagery of the Hussein regime. KURTZ: Right. GERGEN: And that that got him -- that got him into some controversy, so he should have been even more careful not to leave himself open to this kind of controversy. KURTZ: And Jeff Jarvis, on the reaction. Let's say he misspoke. Could he have diffused the controversy with a quicker reaction, with a quicker apology, or is this a kind of a cyber-McCarthyism, where somebody says something controversial and... (CROSSTALK) JARVIS: We didn't fire him, the bloggers. CNN did. I agree it doesn't fit the crime, because we don't know the crimes that are in CNN's heart here. Something else happened here that we don't know. The story's not over. We have to see that transcript from Davos. There's no reason for that to be hidden still, and CNN has to realize that they have to tell us more of what's going on. The problem here is that by just asking for the truth, knocking at the doors of the news temple and saying, tell us what's go on, we're being portrayed as a lynch mob. We're not. We're citizens wanting to know the truth. It used to be the job of journalists to report that. So let's get to the truth, let's get to the facts. I think if Jordan had come right out and said, I'm sorry, I blew it, I was wrong, I didn't mean to say that, he wouldn't have made any more friends that he has now, but he still would be at his job. KURTZ: Bill Press, let me just briefly touch on the substance. Did Eason Jordan have a point but used the wrong words, in the sense that there have been instances of military overzealousness, for example, the U.S. shelling of the Palestine hotel, a known haven for international journalists where two were killed? There have been incidents like that that have certainly been troubling to the people in the media. PRESS: I believe he simply misspoke. I think what he was trying to say, having come back from Baghdad is, look, this is dangerous territory, there are 63 journalists who have been killed -- either killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they happened to get caught in the crossfire, or they were mistaken for the enemy. I do not believe that the United States military targets or would ever target American or any other journalist. At the same time, I have to admit I didn't think we'd ever torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib either. KURTZ: OK, David Gergen. GERGEN: I just want to say, I agree with Jeff Jarvis on one fundamental point, and that is the bloggers serve an enormously important purpose as citizens in a town square asking for more accountability from people in power. I think that is a valuable role to play in our society. In this case, I have to say, Jeff, while there were bloggers who were simply getting at the truth, I think there was also a quality of vigilante justice building up among some of the bloggers who wanted his head. JARVIS: You got a good point there. There were two issues for this with the bloggers. One is CNN's history with covering this war and the military in general. And the second was Jordan's own history here. And yes, there were some who just don't like him and nothing would make them like him. But those of us who wrote -- I wrote about this on my blog as a media story, because it is. KURTZ: OK. I'm going to... JARVIS: I think today "The New York Times" is very embarrassed that they didn't write about it beforehand. KURTZ: I'm going to let you expand on that when we turn to our next part of the discussion. Another resignation driven by bloggers just this week. Jeff Gannon, an openly conservative reporter writing for two Web sites, TalonNews and the clearly partisan GOPUSA.com, drew fire after asking President Bush this inaccurate and somewhat loaded question. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) J.D. "JEFF GANNON" GUCKERT, TALON NEWS: Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Gannon quit after liberal bloggers revealed his real name and his registration of several sexually provocative online Web addresses that he never turned into Web sites. Gannon, who said he and his family were being harassed, defended his work on CNN's "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS." (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GUCKERT: Talon News is a legitimate conservative online news service. And my questions are things that my readers, 700,000 daily subscribed readers, want the answer to. And those are my questions. I created the questions. Nobody fed questions to me. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Bill Press, should the White House have given day passes to an online reporter for a site like GOPUSA so that he's in a position to ask the president of the United States questions like "Harry Reid is talking about soup lines." Well, Senator Reid never talked about soup lines. That was a characterization, Gannon later admitted to me, he picked up from Rush Limbaugh? PRESS: First of all, let's make a big distinction, all right? I mean, Eason Jordan is a real journalist for 23 years. I think this guy is a phony. And let's call him by his real name, James Dale Guckert. And you know what he was? He was in there for two years, Howie, every day getting a daily pass under a pseudonym by the White House. KURTZ: But there are lots of people that change their names. Woody Allen isn't his real name. What's the big deal about that? PRESS: Big deal? After 9/11, you try to get into the White House not using your real name. I mean, it would not work for anybody else. They let this guy in, clearly, as a lifeline to Scott McClellan, who is -- and so whenever he got in trouble, he'd call on old James Dale Guckert, who would bail him out with a softball question, Howie. Nobody else would be able to get in like that. And you know what I really want to know? Is not only why did the White House let him in, but why didn't the other so-called mainstream press, who knew this guy was a phony all those years, why didn't they do something about it? KURTZ: On the other hand, David Gergen, there are a lot of colorful characters in the White House briefing room. You've worked there. Lester Kinsolving comes to mind. And some people there are just out-and-out liberals. Liberal columnists and others. So why shouldn't Jeff Gannon or James Guckert be able to ask his question as well? GERGEN: I am sorry, I really have a hard time getting excited about this story. I think it's trivial compared to paying off journalists like Armstrong Williams or others and giving them money to go out and support you. In this case, the White House has had a lot of wild cards in there over the years, and you well know that. And various presidents -- President Kennedy made no bones of the fact that there was a woman from Texas who was sort of -- who was a liberal, and she was out there in the audience, and when he got in trouble on a question, he'd always find her. He knew where she sat. And he turned to her in press conferences because she'd get him off the took. This has been going on for a long, long time. KURTZ: But Jeff Jarvis, liberal bloggers like DailyKos and Atrios, among others, went after Gannon on some personal stuff. Some of them say he's anti-gay; he denies that. Did they go too far in using these kinds of online tactics against somebody whose politics they clearly didn't like? JARVIS: Well, online or off-line tactics, yes, I believe so. The story here is did the White House stack the press deck and then pull out a friendly card, as Mr. Gergen puts it? That's the real story. The story of Gannon, he may be a little, well, hard to take, but to go beyond the main story here and go after his personal life does make you look like a bit of a lynch mob. And as we in blogs who are opinionated -- Kos calls himself an advocate -- get press passes for things like conventions, we have to, you know, be concerned about saying that someone else shouldn't because they're not a legitimate journalist. Well, we're all legitimate journalists today, and that's a line that's very fuzzy now. KURTZ: But how do you... PRESS: Howie? KURTZ: Go ahead, just briefly. PRESS: Yeah, if I may, just to make a point here. I think that Media Matters for America, which is a blog where I found out about this Jeff Gannon thing, they weren't going after his personal life. The point they were making is a point we were talking about earlier, how did this ringer get in the White House so often and called on so many times by Scott McClellan and President Bush, and I think that does get down to the credibility of the media. When you have somebody there who's not under his real, who's representing a site that links you to GOPUSA, it's really questionable... (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: That's a very legitimate question, Bill. But it was the personal stuff I think that drove Gannon or Guckert to resign. We need to take a break. Ahead, we'll ask, just who is a journalist? And later, Watergate's Deep Throat and the media still looking to solve that mystery. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Welcome back to RELIABLE SOURCES. Bill Press, you were a California Democratic chairman before coming to CNN. Are you a journalist? By which I mean also, do you have an obligation to be fair? PRESS: I stopped beating my wife, too. Howie, let me just say this, when I was California Democratic chairman, I auditioned for "CROSSFIRE" at CNN. I got the job. The first thing Rick Davis told me was, you must quit your job, which was a volunteer position, by the way. I was never paid a dime when I was California Democratic chair. Rick Davis said, you must quit your job. You can have no other source of income but CNN. That's your job now. You take it or leave it. And I took it. For 30 years, I have made a living doing radio and television commentary. I think that qualifies me as a journalist. KURTZ: All right. Jeff Jarvis, you've helped found "Entertainment Weekly," you've worked for "TV Guide." Now, you pop off on your blog, among other professional pursuits. Are you a journalist or are you somebody who holds journalists accountable? JARVIS: We're all journalists. We all hold journalists accountable. That's the new world here. Anyone who witnesses news now can report it. Everybody has a press. The only thing that made journalists journalists before was access to the guy who owned the press, or the guy who owned the broadcast tower. Now we all have that. We're also all pundits now. We have opinions and views, and we have the Internet, and we can get those across. And as a journalist, I think that's great news. More information, more diverse viewpoints make for a better democracy. KURTZ: I also think it's a healthy development. David Gergen, you write for "U.S. News," you also teach at Harvard and you've also worked for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton. So I could say, well, you're a recovering political operative. GERGEN: Yeah, you'd be right, too. And I'm not sure I've recovered. The -- I, look, I think the lines have become so blurred that it's very -- between entertainment and the press, between politics and the press... KURTZ: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Armstrong Williams going on, he's a talk show host, he also owned a PR firm, even before we knew he took $240,000 from the Bush administration. Is he a journalist, a talking head? Do people confuse him with other kinds of political analysts? GERGEN: I think people now wear multiple hats, but if they're going to be journalists, then they -- if they pretend to be journalists, then they ought to observe some codes of ethics. One of them is you don't take money from the government. But secondly, I disagree with Jeff. I think it's wonderful that citizens are armed with all of this information through the blogs, but it does seem to say that to say, well, there's no such thing as off the record anymore, that we no longer are going to observe that creed of journalism, there is no such thing in effect as background or anything else, I think that that's a real setback for the craft of journalism. JARVIS: I think it was shocking that a journalist, the head of a journalistic organization, agreed in a public forum to be off the record. I think that, you know, when I left "Entertainment Weekly," I refused to sign a contract that had a shut-up clause in it from this very company, because I think we as journalists must be transparent. That's the ethic of the age online. That's what the online expects. If you're not transparent, we've got a problem. KURTZ: I want to get Bill Press back in. I want to rattle off some names of people you see on television. George Stephanopoulos, Tony Snow, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, your old sparring partner Pat Buchanan. All came out of the world of politics. And you have people like Bill Kristol, who's a "Weekly Standard" editor; he still provides some advice to the Bush administration, and Carville and Begala on CNN advised John Kerry while being on "CROSSFIRE." So what do we make of whether these people are journalists, talking heads, pundits, you name it? PRESS: Well, David Gergen is right. I mean, the lines have blurred. But you certainly can come out of politics and go into the media and make that your new profession and your new life, and thereby, if you will, I guess, convert yourself into a journalist. I think the ones you mentioned are all journalists today. But the rule I think what David said is correct, but the rule is if you're in this business, you don't take money from the government to espouse a particular point of view. That is wrong, whether you're a journalist or not a journalist. KURTZ: I think we can agree on that. There's more to debate here, but again, we're out of time. But up next, it's still the biggest guessing game in Washington. Just who is Deep Throat? More than 30 years later, why does anyone still care? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Welcome back. David Gergen, you worked in the Nixon administration. Are you willing to deny right here on national television that you were Deep Throat? GERGEN: I've been denying it for years. But I, listen, this fellow, whoever he was, was a central player in bringing down the president of the United States. The only time in history we had anybody resign. A major scandal. And it's one of the last great mysteries of Washington. Everything is transparent today. KURTZ: Could you have been shallow throat? Had you ever leaked to Bob Woodward? GERGEN: I knew Bob Woodward. I had a relationship with Bob Woodward, and that's in the public record. But I still don't know who it is. KURTZ: All right. Bill Press, John Dean started all this by saying that his own source, his own Deep Throat had told him that Bob Woodward had told "Washington Post" editor Len Downie that Throat was ill. Downie has denied such a conversation to me. Isn't this an awfully thin read on which to build all this speculation? PRESS: I think it's very, very thin indeed, and David Gergen looks like he's in good health, and so did Pat Buchanan the last time I saw him. (CROSSTALK) PRESS: Howie, I don't know who Deep Throat is, but I have to tell you, I don't want to know. This has been one of great mysteries of my life. I don't know what we will talk about at Washington dinner parties if we ever find out who Deep Throat is. KURTZ: Why spoil it. PRESS: Don't destroy the fun. KURTZ: All right. Jeff Jarvis, it is fun, it's not fattening. Anybody can play this game. But why do people who weren't even born during Watergate seem to find this so fascinating? JARVIS: I think those under 40 probably don't care as much as those of us with white beards. You know, I wonder today if Deep Throat would, pardon me, but start a blog. I think the tradition of revealing the secrets of government is important to maintain. And I hope it continues. And so when Deep Throat does reveal himself, I think we should have a big salute. 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Next Up — Chapter 13: "If It's The Last Thing We Ever Do…"
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Thank you for writing this. I learned in AG it will be a book and think that is important. Susief
You have done a very good job of capturing what really happened. Being from New Orleans, it is nice to see someone depict this monumental event in such a classy way.
Thank you
Hi Josh,
This is the chapter I've been dreading/waiting for the most. I have to find some quiet time away from the office to read it.
Congrats on the book deal. You and Sari and Phoebe all deserve it.
I LOVE the shifty, quintessential politician look on the cop
This was phenomenal…as an historian, I am grateful that this will be published, so it can serve as an accurate record amidst all of the hype and garbage. Thank you…
Thanks, everyone, for the comments. I'm thrilled that the book publication will enable "A.D." to reach a wider audience. With these Convention Center sequences, I hope to bring Denise's experiences to the fore, especially since she witnessed things which directly contradict many people's impressions of what went on there.
And VFerreira, glad you caught the smarmy expression on that cop's face. Definitely intentional on my part.
The true apocalypse isn't going to be zombies rising from graves and storming the earth eating survivors, it's going to be people fighting over a bottle of water and a decent place to piss. This episode made me feel claustrophobic and lucky. Lucky that I haven't had to face mankind at its worst and I hope I never have to.
Another stellar episode, Josh. Congratulations on the book deal, gang.
This is powerful. Keep it going.
That last panel is pretty devastating.
Congratulations on the book deal!
wow on the last panel….
I'm curious about the color of Ch. 12. The content is intense enough, but the color really made me … uncomfortable, which increased the intensity of the story. Is it "gold" or some sort of "burnt-orange"? I find it very unnerving … an excellent compliment to the story.
Congrats on the book deal. Is it gonna have dust cover?
Jake, the colors I chose are blood red and sickness green. I wanted to convey the horror of the scene, if not directly through my linework than through the vibratory tension of those clashing colors.
And… no word yet on a dust cover. Will that be the make-or-break decision for you? ;->
I just reread the entire story from the beginning, this is going to be a fantastic book. Congratulations!
Well, if your goal was to "convey the horror of the scene" then I would say that you succeeded mightily.
I always take the dust covers off books when I'm reading them, but they do look pretty on the shelf.
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or never returned
the grocery store hasn't reopened
nor the pharmacy
the library is in a tin can and don't got no internet
post office only opened this week
and my neighbor got shot over his FEMA tin can
now I gotta be reminded how this crap all started?!
keep reminding me, josh
keep reminding me
don't let me ever forget
sinn fein
Mary in the C/Sinn Fein,
What can I say, but "Wow"
Thank you for this… I wasn't there but this seems to reflect for me a truth and dignity from those that were.
That last panel is heartwrenching. I have two little girls and the thought of them having to suffer that way…
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Never realized how bad things were so many years later.
Great job, great success in giving the reader a vivid picture of those who survived Hurricane Katrina.
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Man City striker Mario Balotelli finally scored his first league goal this week against Wigan, and the wacky Clown Prince of the EPL decided to celebrate with a new tattoo. This alone wouldn't be noteworthy, except that the tattoo is on his chest and reads:
I am the punishment of God.
If you had not committed great sins,
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Like me upon you.
That's a Genghis Khan quotation about revenge, and we have no idea what Wigan did to deserve this other than be a perennial Premiership also-ran.
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I'm a big fan of the US nerd fest that is Big Bang Theory. Very much late to the party, I only discovered the show last year and have been happily catching up on it ever since. Last week I saw an episode featuring Summer Glau who played Cameron Phillips in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles about four years ago – again a series I enjoyed but I did struggle with Glau's casting. Don't get me wrong, she's an excellent actress and played the role of the emotion-free Phillips very well. But – and it's a big but(t) if you'll excuse the pun – how can a woman as slim as Summer Glau accomplish all the physical feats carried out by her Terminator character? She has to beat up/subdue/kill all sorts of baddies, something which she manages to do with relative ease but with little muscle to help her.
I must ask – how?
This honestly isn't the case of curvy women good, slim ones bad (regular readers of this blog will be aware of what I think about the 'real women' tag; all women are real, for God's sake) but a question of believability.
I know Cameron Phillips is a cyborg – part machine – which lets the show off the hook but it got me thinking – female heroes (super or cyborg) in the present day border on catwalk model slim, when the ones from my childhood and teenage years were full figured. My heroines were more than capable of taking the bad guys on and showing them who was boss.
Take Wonder Woman, my own personal favourite. In 1975-79 she was played by Lynda Carter in the American TV show.
Of course Wonder Woman had wonderful aids in the form of bullet proof bracelets, Lasso of Truth (I always hankered after one of those) and a tiara she could throw at people but the character is physically strong, highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and based on the Amazons from Greek mythology.
Someone small boned with slender muscles couldn't play the role realistically – which is why Lynda Carter was just the right person with her statuesque build, curvy hips and full figure.
Would someone similar to Carter be cast as Wonder Woman now?
Would she wear those magnificent big knickers? That tremendous basque?
Probably not, sadly. We'd probably be looking at someone younger, thinner and unrealistic.
I wanted to be like Wonder Woman when I was growing up. She wasn't girlish, never needed rescuing and could handle herself. Above all, she was curvy – and as sexy as hell. Who wouldn't want to be like that?
I'd really love to see more lead female action roles on the telly, but above all played by women who look like they can do the job.
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The line between sexual banter and harassment can sometimes be indistinct, even blurred. But crossing it is costly.
As general manager of the Brad Marsh Blue Line Grill in Ottawa, Quinton Taylor was in charge of scheduling the waitstaff. His managerial role did not deter him from socializing with the staff both in and outside of work. Not uncharacteristically for such establishments, the work environment was sexually charged. Staff flirted and routinely engaged in sexual banter and off-colour jokes.
One evening, Taylor was participating in an after hour card game with the staff and directed lewd comments toward a female staff member, S.S. Exhibiting no discomfort, S.S. continued to play cards and brushed off the remarks. Months later, Taylor sent a salacious text message to S.S which she ignored. She hoped it would blow over and assumed, if she did not respond, Taylor would understand that his comments were unwelcome.
But 10 days later, he left her a sexually explicit voicemail — the voices of other male staff chiming in and laughter punctuated the background.
Humiliated and angry, S.S quit and filed an application with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal against Taylor alleging sexual harassment.
The tribunal's vice-chairwoman, Michelle Flaherty, found that Taylor was in a position of power over S.S. As her boss, he could decide who worked the more lucrative shifts. As result, his communicating a desire to have sexual contact with her amounted to sexual solicitation in violation of the Human Rights Code.
S.S. readily acknowledged she participated in general sexual banter. Flaherty said, however, that Taylor ought to have reasonably known that because his comments were meant as a sexual advance directed at S.S personally, they were unwelcome. As a result, hefty general damages were awarded against him.
This case conveys a warning to employers and managers:
Individual liability Managers need to be concerned about individual liability and cannot automatically assume their employer will take care of them. Although S.S originally filed her application against her restaurant employer and settled with them, she still moved ahead with a hearing against Taylor personally. The tribunal had no problem awarding damages against him.
Banter is not consent Just because an employee shows no offence to a general sexual joke does not connote her agreement to a specific sexual advance.
Power imbalance Managers and supervisors are presumed to wield authority over staff. The mere fact that employees don't object or even laugh at a manager's sexual comments does not mean they find it welcome. The tribunals presume that subordinates are too intimidated to protest.
Location and timing is irrelevant The comments and messages S.S. received were made after hours or off-site but sexual harassment does not have to occur during the workday or inside the workplace to create liability. The test is whether the employee reasonably perceives the manager's behaviour as adversely affecting her conditions of employment.
Words are important Although Taylor never touched or physically threatened S.S, she produced medical evidence of emotional trauma triggered by his communications. That was enough for the tribunal to award significant damages.
Educate staff Invest in training and raising employee awareness as to the boundaries of acceptable conduct. The dividend is preventing a costly human rights proceeding with the deck stacked against the employer in most provinces.


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A teenage schoolboy has been excluded after organising a mass walkout of pupils over a lack of homework.
Aaron Parfitt, 14, led the "100-strong" protest at Bispham High School in Blackpool, Lancs, because he was concerned about teaching standards.
He contacted Blackpool council and Ofsted about the matter but said he had lost patience with them and organised the walkout on Wednesday.
However, his teachers excluded him for two days on Thursday and Friday last week.
Aaron's mother, Janet Monkman, a waitress, 52, said: "I'm absolutely fuming they've excluded him because he's doing the best he can to get a good education.
He was only trying to stick up for himself and his mates and then he gets told to stay away from the school for two days."
She added that the local council and Ofsted left her son frustrated as they "kept passing him other numbers" when he emailed them.
Aaron claimed he felt forced into organising the protest after speaking to the school's head of maths, his head of year and the head teacher to explain his concerns.
He said: "I failed my maths exam in school and I was really worried because I just wanted to make sure I was able to do the work properly.
"We've had loads of different teachers and we weren't getting enough homework so I decided to call the council and Ofsted to see if they would help me but they couldn't.
"We walked out on to the field, then loads more people started to follow me. There must have been around 100 people with me in the end and everyone sent me messages afterwards saying well done for sticking up for my friends."
The school was placed under special measures last year by Ofsted inspectors who said standards were low and that there was too much "mediocre teaching".
A further report, conducted in September, concluded that the school was making "reasonable progress", but the acting head teacher, Deborah Hanlon-Catlow, said it was going through a "challenging" period.
She said: "This is undoubtedly a challenging time for the school. However, with support from Blackpool council, we will continue to work to try to improve teaching standards, attendance, behaviour and punctuality.
"This will not happen overnight but we will continue to work with Ofsted, parents, staff and pupils towards gradual improvement.
"The school has a proactive policy in dealing with complaints from both parents and pupils. We are also passionate about ensuring that pupils and parents have a voice and are listened to."
Ivan Taylor, Blackpool council's cabinet member for children's services, said: "The school is going through a transitional period and this is a undoubtedly a challenging time for everyone concerned.
"However, this is not an excuse for poor standards and we have given additional support to the school to try to help it to improve. The welfare and education of the pupils is our number one priority."


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Jim Eshelman wrote:I'm certain I've never used that particular visualization in 30+ years of doing Liber Resh FWIW.
You "only" facing the quarter, greet the Sun, give the sign and assume the god-form, right?
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Jim Eshelman wrote:I'm certain I've never used that particular visualization in 30+ years of doing Liber Resh FWIW.
MMe wrote:Jim Eshelman wrote:I'm certain I've never used that particular visualization in 30+ years of doing Liber Resh FWIW.
You "only" facing the quarter, greet the Sun, give the sign and assume the god-form, right?
Jim Eshelman wrote:Going literally out of Liber Resh:
Face the direction of the Sun.
Assume "the God-form of Whom thou adorest."
Give the sign of my grade.
Recite the verse specified.
Give the Sign of Silence.
Recite the adoration handed "taught [me] by [my] Superior," which is Unity etc. while standing in the Sign of Osiris Risen, and concluding again with the Sign of Silence.
[...] who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Uprising of the Sun.
Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. [...]
__THE_HERMIT__ wrote:Liber Resh is a very significant ritual to me because it is directly related to the geometry of the cosmos, in this case the rotation of the earth on its axis, while other seasonal rituals are related to the orbit of the earth round the Sun i.e especially the equinoxes and the solstices, this culmulatively implies that being aware of one´s position in relation to the cosmos at all times is important. I postulate ultimately mutable things may be understood/categorized in terms of position and relative accelaration, and hence Liber Resh is one point of intersection possibly between a more secular and geometric perspective and Magick.
Jim Eshelman wrote:I repeat to my standard recommendation: Get one or two great full-color coffee table books on Egyptian gods, and find a picture that speaks to you. These are not standardized at all, and everybody should find their own.
Welcome, O Bast, thou Left Eye of Ra
Flexing thy claws to awake from the night
Welcome, O Sekhmet, thou Right eye of Ra
Yawning and stretching to bring in the light
We greet thee, Bright Ones, from the abodes of night.
Bright Eye of Ra, burning above
Bast stares down relentlessly
Fierce Eye of Ra, destroyer of shadows
Sekhmet watches patiently
We greet thee, Burning Ones, from the abodes of morning.
Magnificent Bast, Left Eye of Ra
Purring into softening light
Majestic Sekhmet, Right Eye of Ra
Relaxing into golden motion
We greet thee, Beautiful Ones, from the abodes of day.
The Left Eye of Ra is closed.
Bast hunts.
The Right Eye of Ra is closed.
Sekhmet prowls.
We greet thee, Fierce Ones, from the abodes of evening
No opinion per se, except that it isn't Liber Resh
Quaestor Lucis wrote:And I always thought that when I physically stand in the Sign of Grade (with eyes closed), I should imagine the God in it's characteristic posture.
If I'm wrong then what happens with the God-form when I change my physical posture? When should I release it?
Quaestor Lucis wrote:God-form assumed throughout the whole ritual? And the God-form is the only thing that I need to visualize in Liber Resh, right?
Frater Sabaechit wrote:As humans evolve I think we will stop seperating ourselves from the Cosmos. We are each fractals of the whole, we are the Gods, Aliens and Demons of our past.
Quaestor Lucis wrote:93!
I have problem with assumption of the Khephra god-form (Yea, man with the beetle head is really "CREEEEEEEPY", but it is not the case ) I can't understand, how speaks this god? I mean, from what hole?)
Mr. Eshelman, сould you tell, how do you assume this god-form?
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Ghee, or clarified butter, is butterfat that has been separated from the water, proteins, and salt in butter. Ghee is used heavily in Indian cuisine. It is considered an extremely pure food in South Asia, and may be used to anoint representations of the deities, both in home worship, performed by laity, and in Temple worship, performed by Brahmin priests.
- Unsalted butter (depends on how much Ghee you want to make)
- Using a medium saucepan, heat butter on medium heat.
- Allow butter to melt and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. You will notice that the oil will separate itself. The top will begin to froth; remove froth.
- Allow the oil to become clear. Once clear, remove from heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
- After cooling, strain ghee through a very fine strainer into container or jar, or through 3-5 layers of cheesecloth.
- Put lid on container and store on shelf.
- Many people refrigerate the Ghee to separate it from solids. The lactose remains with the watery portions and this form can be used by people who are Lactose intolerant.
- Ghee also requires a very high temperature before it smokes, and will keep longer than unclarified butter, as bacteria cannot digest a pure oil.
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