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It's a little before midnight, and a matte-green Land Rover pickup with its headlights off and its dashboard darkened creeps along a dirt track beside a 10-foot-high electric fence. At the wheel, driving by moonlight and keeping the engine as silent as possible, is a former Australian Special Forces sniper with years of experience with this kind of mission from having served a dozen tours in Iraq.
Three armed men dressed in camouflage stand in the flatbed, their eyes scanning the fence line and the terrain ahead for the telltale ridge of sand that has been turned by a boot, or a blade of grass slowly springing back to upright, or the faint residue of wood smoke in the still air.
All could point to an invasion.
Fresh footprints are visible from a male lion that passed this way less than an hour ago. A herd of a dozen eland antelope emerge from the bush to the left. Ahead, a startled spring hare bolts for its burrow.
Farther on, something else catches the driver's attention. He stops and unfolds his mountain of a frame from the truck's cramped cabin and raises a night-vision scope to his eye, an infrared light in his hand. He scans the valley below while the other men fan out around the vehicle, establishing a perimeter.
Two electric lights flicker in the far distance. They would be invisible without the extra gear, equipment more apt to be found on a battlefield than here in a Zimbabwean game reserve a short drive from Victoria Falls. The driver, Damien Mander, a no-nonsense Australian who is a former elite soldier and gun for hire, quietly calls over his colleague, Chelepele Phiri, a mild, composed Zimbabwean with a quick smile who nonetheless handles his rifle with meaningful menace. Together, they focus on the pinpricks of light a mile away.
"Inside the reserve, or outside?" Mr. Mander whispers to Mr. Phiri.
"Outside. But close to the fence," the ranger replies.
The interlopers these men are looking for are poachers. Inhabiting the 12,000-acre reserve are a handful of endangered black rhinos as well as a sizable number of elephants, lions, and leopards. They are a trove for desperate men paid by rich people to come to kill and to carry out treasures whose value far away across oceans is rising higher than ever.
The illegal trade in wildlife and its horns, tusks, skins, and body parts has never been more lucrative. Its raw materials have never fetched higher prices, and the lengths to which people will go and the risks they will take to supply expanding markets in Asia have never been greater.
It is an industry now worth close to $20 billion a year, ranking it fourth behind drugs, weapons, and human trafficking as a global criminal activity. President Obama says its proceeds fund terrorism. The issue is serious enough that 50 world leaders gathered in London in mid-February at the invitation of the British Prime Minister and Prince Charles and Prince William for the highest-level summit on poaching in a generation.
On the eve of the gathering, Mr. Obama announced a new "national strategy for combating wildlife trafficking." It is designed to boost law enforcement efforts, reduce demand for illicit products, and strengthen partnerships among those fighting poachers.
But to people like Mander, founder and chief executive officer of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) – registered in Houston, headquartered in Zimbabwe, and training rangers across Southern Africa – the way the world is fighting back against this sophisticated new enemy is failing. What's needed, according to this military man, and to growing numbers siding with him in an acrimonious debate among conservationists, is total war on the poachers. Mander's philosophy, at its core, is simple: You don't want to show up at a gunfight armed only with good intentions.
"Look, I get it that we need to win the hearts and minds of the people living around here so they turn against the poachers," he says, sotto voce, leaning against the Land Rover while still looking through the night scope. "Hearts and minds: It rolls off the tongue so easily, but when has it really worked, shifting an entire population to your side? It didn't work in Iraq against the insurgency. It didn't work in Afghanistan against the Taliban. And it's not yet working in Africa against poachers.
"Meantime," he adds, "while we're trying to win people [over], tens of thousands of animals are being killed every year. We need to do something now, on the ground, to stop the hemorrhaging. Otherwise there won't be anything left by the time we've won all the hearts and minds."
Mander's urgency is not misplaced. Poachers in South Africa killed the equivalent of one rhino every eight hours in 2013. They hacked or sawed off their horns and sold them on the world market for as much as $27,000 per pound – more than the price of gold. That makes the average horn on the average rhino worth close to a quarter-million dollars.
Across Africa, the number of elephants has fallen from 1.3 million 40 years ago to fewer than 400,000 today. Each year, the continent loses somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of those that remain. This has prompted organizations such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to predict that Africa will lose a fifth of its elephants in 10 years.
Other groups warn that the African elephant could be extinct within a generation, consigned to picture books, zoos, and eventually fairy tales, like the unicorn.
Mass killings of Africa's wildlife have happened before, notably in the 1970s and '80s, a period known as the "ivory holocaust." In 1989, an international ban on trade in elephant ivory curtailed the supply of illicit animal parts, and populations of the hardest-hit wildlife began creeping up again.
But so did the demand. Asia's growing middle class increasingly sought out the animal contraband that serves both as ancestral trappings of wealth and a source of traditional medicines.
To supply these expanding markets, poaching has surged again. But this time the sophistication, funding, and malevolence of the poachers and their big-time criminal underwriters have reached new heights.
The few who are caught are often found with their own night-vision goggles, sniper rifles, bandoliers of ammunition, and other specialized gear. Big-money backers equip the gunmen with helicopters to land inside the electric fences that guard wildlife. They bribe veterinarians to supply the poachers with powerful animal tranquilizers, which are used to fell the beasts all the more quickly.
In the face of this onslaught, the world's conservation organizations have significantly increased their efforts despite chronic underfunding. But Mander argues that the conservation "industry," as he calls it, is "dangerously fragmented" and wasting energy pulling in different directions.
"It's a world wildlife war. Don't let anyone tell you it's anything else," he says back at his main encampment in Zimbabwe. "And the way we're heading, we're going to lose."
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Mander is an unlikely poster boy for an environmental conservation movement. Born in the late 1970s and raised in a beachfront suburb of Sydney, Australia, a "teenage hothead full of testosterone," he admits he had "no concern whatsoever" for animals, "besides our German shepherd."
In his youth, he would make pocket money by scuba diving to find lost fishing lures and then sell them back to the fishermen who lost them. At age 19, he joined the Australian Navy and soon transferred into the force's equivalent of the US Navy SEALs. Six years later, he had become a fully trained Special Forces sniper and specialist diver. But his commission ended, and he shifted into private security and protection of VIPs in Iraq.
As he helicoptered into Baghdad in 2005, Creedence Clearwater Revival's Vietnam-era anthem "Fortunate Son" on his iPod, adventure was all that was on his mind. At the time it would have seemed crazy to him that a decade later he would be patrolling the African bush at midnight, earnestly protecting wild animals.
Twelve tours and three years later, he'd become a wealthy man but decided to quit. He'd taken fire regularly, worked with good guys and guys not so good. He'd set up a base in a former Iraqi national intelligence building, where the trappings of Saddam Hussein's autocratic rule were still visible, including the "huge date palm stumps out back where they executed detainees." He'd spent time training the Iraqi police, a job he says meant he "maybe had a positive contribution in an otherwise bad situation."
Feeling uneasy about the ethics of the war, he left Iraq and spent 2008 partying his way across South America, eventually, he says, "hitting rock bottom."
Mander returned to Australia. He recalls a barroom chat he had with someone about a man who had gone to Mozambique and was running around with a sniper rifle protecting wildlife against poachers. "I don't remember how the conversation came up, but he said it as a kind of a joke – as the ultimate boy's adventure," he says. The idea appealed to Mander's sense of derring-do, and despite knowing no one in Africa, he bought a one-way ticket to Johannesburg, South Africa, and began contacting wildlife reserves offering to help.
"I can imagine how I looked back then, a white foreigner, a Special Forces background, wanting to run around in Africa and have some fun," he says. He admits he just wanted to live in the wild for a while and post some "cool" pictures on Facebook for his buddies back home.
In Zimbabwe, a wildlife reserve manager with a team of rangers out in the bush decided that hiring Mander was worth a try. At least he thought it could do no harm. So Mander lived with the rangers for six months. Slowly, he came to the realization that here, fighting poachers amid the teak forests and grasslands of the Bushveld, his military skills coupled with his enduring quest for adventure really could have the kind of "positive contribution in a bad situation" that he had hoped for when he was training the police in Iraq.
"I had a personal transformation. I realized out there in the bush that there was something much bigger than myself, and it needed protecting," he says. "I was living out with the guys, teaching them what I knew about military tactics, and they were teaching me about the bush and how to deal with the wildlife. We might be in the African bush here but the principles are no different to the techniques of working around downtown Baghdad."
Seeing the need to teach rangers about military tactics, and using money from investments he had made during his high-paying days in Iraq, Mander set up the IAPF in 2009. To date, it has trained rangers from 10 separate wilderness areas in Zimbabwe and is expanding into Mozambique. IAPF is also leading efforts from South Africa to create an international standard for wildlife rangers around Africa and beyond.
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Down one of the sandy tracks that crisscross the Stanley and Livingstone Private Game Reserve, Mander's men gather one morning for advanced tracker training. The sanctuary sits on largely flat land covered with dense, low bushes that radiate the heat back into the air.
Areas of ancient cedar forest, long ago hacked down for firewood, are starting to sprout again. Bugs the size of hummingbirds buzz past. A storm builds far away to the south, but above is only expansive blue sky.
Walking slowly forward in a line, the rangers point out footprints (laid earlier by their trainer) that are so faint as to be barely visible. One of the men, Benzine Sibanda, spots where the "poacher" had rested. The imprint of his rifle butt is clear in the dirt. Victor Mumpande, a former mechanic who's now been a ranger for 17 years, finds where the man had walked backward, trying to throw off any pursuers. Broken twigs on branches and still bleeding sap mean that he had passed this way less than 30 minutes before.
Such training sessions are part of Mander's strategy to treat the rangers as warriors, which he sees as essential to thwarting the poachers. He teaches intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as overt and covert patrolling. He shows them how to set up observation posts, how to use force properly, and how to deal with battlefield casualties.
Mander deploys the gear he used when he was in Iraq, the night scopes and the infrared lights. He's working on a new gas-driven drone that can spend five hours in the air scouring the landscape for poachers. His rangers go through physical training drills every morning. Their uniforms are new and spotless.
"People will try to package it up in a softer way – I don't know why – but antipoaching is a paramilitary operation," he says. "Law enforcement should be a ranger's No. 1 job, but it's been turned into a minor role."
Mander is not the only one militarizing ranger training. In Kenya, the British Army is helping teach similar battlefield techniques. In South Africa, former special forces soldiers are doing the same. Drones are undergoing trials in a dozen wildlife reserves across Africa.
The key ingredient in Mander's approach is a perpetual show of force, which he believes acts as a deterrent. Any poacher living near a reserve where IAPF-trained rangers patrol will likely think it's not worth the risk and go somewhere less well protected instead.
If Mander's rangers do encounter poachers, the aim is to arrest them, not cut them down in a hail of bullets. Mander is proud to say that no poacher has been shot at in anger by any ranger he's trained.
Many have been arrested, however.
The last poachers to try to breach the Stanley and Livingstone Private Game Reserve, where the IAPF has its headquarters, were arrested and eventually sentenced to stiff jail terms. That was more than three years ago.
Since then, not a single poaching incident has occurred in the reserve. Meanwhile, the number of critically endangered black rhinos that were here when Mander arrived has more than doubled, thanks to a successful breeding program. Another calf is on the way.
"I'm not saying I have all the answers – far from it," Mander says. "But I'll tell you this: What we're doing is working."
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As successful as Mander has been, not all conservation groups embrace the militarization ethos. The majority, in fact, favor the more traditional approach of winning the war against the poachers – what Mander terms "hearts and minds."
This entails persuading people living alongside wildlife across Africa that the animals are worth more to those populations alive, and bringing in prodigious tourist dollars, than they are killed and exploited for their tusks or horns. In places of generational poverty, as in many communities near large populations of wildlife, that can be a hard argument to win.
"I'm proud of my job, but when I go home to my village, some people see me as the enemy," says Mike Dube, one of Mander's rangers at the reserve here. "Animals are something they [get] money from, even if just for meat. It is hard teaching people the value of protecting these animals."
Yet the softer, educational approach is working in some places. The Khama Rhino Sanctuary, a three-hour drive north of Botswana's capital, Gaborone, began with just four donated white rhinos 24 years ago. Today, it has more than 30 and has already bred and relocated another 28 rhinos to wilderness areas across Southern Africa. Not one of the animals has been poached.
Most of the 50-odd people who work at the reserve are from nearby villages. Artisans sell crafts to visitors. The money trickles down to local residents. Here, says Moremi Tjibae, the sanctuary's chief warden, the "hearts and minds" strategy has been successful.
"Our No. 1 focus has been to make local people aware that these animals are worth more alive than dead," he says. "If you poach a rhino, maybe you will benefit for today, and maybe tomorrow. If you protect it, everyone benefits – and their children and their children's children. All our schools and clinics, they are paid in part by money from tourists who come to see the animals."
Critics in the conservation community worry that militarizing the antipoaching movement raises the risk of innocent people getting caught in the crossfire. They think it sidesteps the judicial process at a time when courts are beginning to impose harsher sentences on poachers.
Max Graham, the founder and CEO of Space for Giants, a Kenya-based charity focused on saving habitats for elephants, says that educating local communities about the value of conservation, even though arduous, is "the only way logically we're going to win."
"I get very nervous when I hear about guys with military backgrounds running around the bush with weapons selling themselves as the answer to beating the poachers," says Mr. Graham.
He stresses that he has not met Mander, nor specifically come across the IAPF. He is talking instead about "mavericks" who "think shooting anyone who looks like a poacher is a way to win this thing."
"Training guys on the front line is really, really important," he says. "It's been the cornerstone of our success in Laikipia [in central Kenya], where we've managed a 60 percent reduction in the illegal killing of elephants in one year. But it is imperative that the people offering that training are properly vetted, and the standard of training offered should be the best available."
He and others believe that it is important to strengthen and clarify the laws surrounding poaching, too. Space for Giants distributes a handbook to judicial officials that lays out all the laws under which poachers can be prosecuted: trespassing, illegal possession of a firearm, threatening behavior, even driving offenses. This "holistic" approach could put a surprising number more of these guys behind bars, Graham says.
Other conservation organizations are focusing their efforts thousands of miles away, in Asia, trying to get people to stop buying the horns and tusks to begin with. WildAid, a group based in San Francisco, enlists Hollywood actors, British royals, Chinese Olympic stars, and other celebrities to spread the message that buying banned wildlife products is simply not cool. Peter Knights, the group's executive director, is exasperated that so much money goes into trying to curb the poachers.
"We need to shift focus a bit towards cutting the demand," he says. "Then there's no need for supply."
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Mander understands all this. He's emphatic that he does not oppose the other antipoaching approaches, even those less aggressive than his. He concedes that international donors who fund conservation charities often shy away from sponsoring the more paramilitary outfits like IAPF, indicating that the get-tough argument has yet to be won.
But all this talk about the right way and the wrong way frustrates him. It points to a sharp divide in the conservation community at a time when he believes the most urgent need is unity. To his mind, the field is overloaded with emotion and flawed logic. He cautiously backs the idea of a licensed trade in rhino horn, for example.
"I don't like it, mate, I'm a vegan after all, but we need to be logical about this: Harvesting horn could save the species." With proper regulation – a major hurdle, Mander admits – he argues there's no reason why selling limited amounts of horn taken from animals that have died naturally and from existing stockpiles couldn't help satisfy the demand in Asia and raise money to protect remaining animals.
He rails against those who "get fueled up on Facebook petitions against hunting or Asians buying rhino horn or one-off sales to help countries pay for conservation."
"A lot of people jump up and down and point fingers at Asians, saying they're bad, they're evil, taking all the wildlife, when it was actually white Europeans and Americans who came out here and shot these animals," he says. "I think it's a little misleading that we spent a hundred years killing as many of these animals as we could find, and now we are putting them behind fences and saying to everyone that we have to protect them."
Ultimately, he thinks the only way to stop poaching is to face up to a more fundamental problem: population growth. "My argument is that Africa's population is going to double to 2 billion between now and 2040," he says. "How do you convince a continent that has a common mind-set of immediacy, often born of poverty, that the long-term preservation of wildlife is more important than food on the table tonight?"
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Mander and his rangers are out on foot patrol as the sun starts to dip toward the horizon and the afternoon begins to lose its heat. At first, the only noise is the swish of khaki pants through tall grass and the creak of well-polished boot leather. Then, suddenly, a bird chirps. It's a Grey Louie, informally known as the "go-away bird." It's the official lookout of the African bush, and its chatter signals something is amiss.
Phiri, the head ranger, brings the men, who are walking single file, to an abrupt halt. At first there is only dense bush. But then there is the flick of an ear, the shift of a gray-brown shoulder, a step or two of fire-hydrant legs. This is Shungu, the reserve's dominant male black rhino, one of only 5,000 left in the world.
"The rhino to me represents Mother Nature and what we're doing to the planet," Mander says. "You have an animal that's hardly evolved for millions of years and now all of a sudden it's being pushed to the brink of extinction not through any fault of its own evolution but just because humans want to use its horns. Are we going to be the generation that allows that to happen?"
Mander pauses. The go-away bird is silent. The bugs have stopped their symphony. Distant thunder rumbles. The rhino watches the men, close enough to kill it, but in fact here only to protect. Then it trots into the undergrowth.
"A lot of people will argue that we need to be focused less on the military approach I'm trying here and more on community work and hearts and minds and sustainable alternatives for communities," Mander goes on. "Look, I'm all for that. Let's have people out there working on that. But while they're at it, I'm going to be here on the ground trying to stop the bleeding and hold on to what we've got left before everything's dead."


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Chancellor George Osborne said next month's Budget will continue to confront Britain's problems as he cautioned the recovery was "not yet secure" despite a recent surge in growth.
In a speech to business leaders in Hong Kong ahead of this weekend's G20 Finance ministers meeting in Australia, Mr Osborne said it would be a "huge mistake" to consider the job done in repairing the UK's battered finances.
While he cheered a marked improvement in the economy and jobs market, he said plans must remain in place to slash the deficit and national debt.
He said: "Some in Britain might be tempted to say: job done, let's avoid more hard decisions.
"That would be a huge mistake. Abandon the plan and we abandon the progress we've made and go back to square one."
"I said that we have to go on dealing with our debt and our deficit - and we have no choice but to do so," he added.
His comments follow a sharp upgrade to UK growth forecasts from the Bank of England last week, which predicts growth of 3.4% this year, up from 2.8% previously.
Gross domestic product grew by 0.8% in the third quarter of 2013 and by 0.7% in the final three months of the year, although Bank experts believe fourth quarter growth will be revised up to around 0.9%.
But Bank governor Mark Carney stressed the recovery had been ''neither balanced nor sustainable'' and required continued support.
Mr Osborne echoed the Bank's comments as he said "as well as reasons to be cheerful, there are also reasons to be careful".
Exports continue to lag behind imports and much of the economic growth has so far been spurred on by consumer spending.
He said: "The recovery is not yet secure and our economy is still too unbalanced.
"We cannot rely on consumers alone for our economic growth, as we did in previous decades. And we cannot put all our chips on the success of the City of London, as my predecessors did. Britain is not investing enough. Britain is not exporting enough."
He said the Budget on March 19 will support business investment and exports to lay foundations for "long-term economic security".
He added it will be a Budget that "ensures that around the world, wherever you are, you can't help but see 'Made in Britain'".
"That's the Budget I'm going to deliver."
Responding to extracts from Mr Osborne's speech in Hong Kong, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "George Osborne is finally recognising that the recovery, which he choked off in 2010, is still not secure or balanced. But he has not yet admitted that working people are facing a cost-of-living crisis and are £1,600 a year worse off since he became Chancellor.
"We need action to secure a stronger recovery and earn our way to higher living standards for all. That's why we have called for action to boost housing supply, reform of our banks and energy markets, an expansion of free childcare to make work pay and a compulsory jobs guarantee for young people and the long-term unemployed."

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Catholic Night at the Ballpark took place Thursday, September 3, 2015 at Lake Olmstead Stadium. Bishop Hartmayer threw out the first pitch of the game for the Augusta GreenJackets. Food donations benefited Catholic Social Services of Augusta. Photos by Sarah E. Dixon.Read More


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Ed Alonzo, with his wonderful Groucho Marx eyebrows, Harold Lloyd Glasses, topped by his signature explosive hairstyle, is easily recognized as one of the country's foremost comedy magicians. Don't be deceived by his retro-style costuming, because for Ed, the tux and the magic is simply a vehicle for his intelligent and sidesplitting comedy. Perched on the precipice of international fame, Ed Alonzo already has a phenomenal track record! Not only Command Performances in London, multiyear headline contracts in Ls Vegas, and countless US and International Television appearances, but Ed also has a wealth of experience in the art of funny From comedian, to actor, to Vaudevillian Entertainer, Ed Alonzo's performances grab the audience's funny bones and tickle relentlessly, leaving crowds rolling in the aisles gasping for air. While most magicians use a dramatic flair to build to a crescendo, Ed raises his audience's anticipation with laughter. Comedy energy has been bursting from Ed all his life. By the time he was seven, Ed was already performing in his own puppet and magic shows for friends and family. While in his teens, he became one of the youngest comedy/magicians ever to perform at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood. Ed Alonzo won the coveted STAGE MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR for two consecutive years, and COMEDY MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR for another two consecutive years from the internationally recognized Academy of Magical Arts. Ed is also the recipient of two WORLD MAGIC AWARDS presented on MY-network TV and two MERLIN AWARDS from the International Magicians Society. In a word, "Ed Alonzo is Brilliant!" He is often recognized as the series regular, Max – the owner of the diner, from the hit sit-com "Saved by the Bell", and the costar on "XUXA", the CBS Saturday Morning program. His numerous television appearances include NBC's Las Vegas, ABC's Full House, the CBS comedy Murphy Brown where he became one of the infamous secretaries in a guest-star role. In addition, Ed has appeared on over 100 major television variety and talk shows like The Ellen Degeneres show, Top Chef Masters, The Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, Animal Planet, E true Hollywood Story and Americas Next Top Model and more. Ed Alonzo, the Misfit of Magic, is in demand around the world. He headlined in Athens Greece at the Gilano Music Theater for a three month run. While there, he appeared and disappeared on all the major European TV talk and variety shows, magazine covers and city billboards. For the next three months Ed did the same in Brazil starring in the International Magic Festival held in both Rio and Sao Paulo then off to Malaysia starring in the Genting magic festival. On New year's eve 2008 Ed was the opening act for comedian Jay Leno of tonight show fame for two sold out shows. From March to November 2009 Ed toured around the world with pop star Britney Spears, performing in a magic production number with Miss Spears playing the role of magicians assistant. Ed was also hired by and met with Michael Jackson to create the illusions for his O2 London concert in 2009 "This Is It". Ed continues to create effects for pop artists, most recently for Usher on his OMG music video. "MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR" was presented to Ed at the Academy of Magical Arts awards show in Hollywood, April 2010. The same year Ed's first Grand Illusion Magic set is available to the public at Costco stores US, Mexico and Canada.
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So the opening match of the year is always one filled with surprises, both good and bad. Such was the case for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons who opened the 2010 season Friday night with a 3-1 loss to Kansas in the first round of the Bluejay Invitational at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.
"You wonder how they are going to react to playing a different team," Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "We didn't execute as well as I would have hoped, but we are going to address that.
"When you don't do the little things they are going to eventually catch up to you. And they did in the Kansas match."
Saturday the Lady Bisons will play host Creighton at noon at the D.J. Sokol Arena. At 5:30 the Lady Bisons close out the tournament against San Francisco.
The Lady Bisons beat Creighton 3-1 last season in the Jayhawks Invitational hosted by Kansas. This will be the first meeting with San Francisco in volleyball. Rosenthal scouted both teams, but he is more concerned with his own team.
"I like our chances against both of them," Rosenthal said. "But right now it is not so much what everybody else is doing, but what we need to do.
"We have to step up our defensive game. We have to clean up our transition game. We have to take care of our own house."
Eliminating errors was the emphasis of team talks after the Kansas match. The players ate dinner and watched video in preparation for Saturday. Rosenthal and assistant coach Samantha Sullivan were also planning to break down game film late into the night.
"We had hitting errors, service errors and ball handling errors," Rosenthal said. "Wins are going to be determined by the team that makes the least errors.
"It is hard in the first couple of matches because there is so much to take in. I was pleased with the overall performance of the girls. I liked the fact we fought back quite a bit."
The Lady Bisons lost 32-30 in set one and tied the match with a 27-25 win in set two. Kansas, from the Big 12 Conference, won set three 25-22 and also won set four 25-16 to seal the win.
"We were down in that first set by five or six points," Rosenthal said. "We fought back. We had two or three opportunities to win that set.
"It was one of the problems of it being our first match. We were really not being the aggressor. We sat back a little too much."
Senior middle hitter Alex Kelly led the Lady Bisons with 20 kills, tying for the match high, and a .326 hitting percentage. Junior Katie Rose made a successful transition from libero to middle hitter with 14 kills and .385 hitting percentage.
"Katie Rose did a fantastic job offensively for us," Rosenthal said. "Alex had a pretty good match statistically.
"But we had opportunities for points that we didn't finish. It is a matter of playing a couple of more matches. I think then we will be right there. We are still trying to figure out a couple of things."
Also in double figures in kills was senior outside hitter Meghan Hinemeyer with 11.
Kelly and Hinemeyer also finished in double figures in digs. Kelly recorded a match-high 21. Hinemeyer added 12.
As expected senior outside hitter Karina Garlington led Kansas with 20 kills and a .340 hitting percentage. Outside hitter Allison Mayfield added 17 kills.
Freshman Stephanie Rex made her collegiate debut as the libero.
"I thought overall Stephanie played a very solid game," Rosenthal said. "I was impressed."
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I found this street the other day here in Sydney which might be the greenest and most cat friendly one I have seen so far (how great is this cat image).
A street which was filled with pot plants, fairy lights hanging from one house to the next, with open doors and you could hear laughters or conversations coming out of the houses, cats lying on the street warming themselves on the warm asphalt, birds sitting up heigh watching the scene and neighbors chatting to each other...I think the pictures can't really capture the great vibe of this street.
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An actor and a guesthouse owner will make up one of the first same-sex couples to be married in the UK when the new law comes into force.
Andrew Wale and Neil Allard will be married in the music room of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, just after midnight on March 29 as soon as the law allows.
The couple, who live in Brighton and have been together for seven years, told Brighton and Hove City Council it would be a "privilege" to be the first same-sex couple to be married at a place which features in their daily lives and was the backdrop to their early dates.
Mr Wale, 49, said: "I feel so lucky to live in a country where human rights and equality are moving in the right direction, and in a city with such an impressive history of tolerance and inclusion.
"To be the first same-sex couple to have the opportunity to be married here is a great privilege. We are very excited to be a small part of this huge step forward."
Mr Allard, 48, said: "As well as being the most iconic building in Sussex, the Royal Pavilion has become part of our personal iconography.
"This city will always be a special place for us because it's where we met and fell in love and the Pavilion is the heart of the city."
When the Home Office announced the law would come into effect in March 2014, Brighton and Hove City Council was able to finalise plans to commemorate the date.
The register office invited same-sex couples to apply to be the first to be married in the city and asked them to explain why the Royal Pavilion is special to them and what it would mean to be married in Brighton and Hove's first gay wedding ceremony.
Senior ceremonies registrar Trevor Love said:" This will be a momentous and historic day for the registration service in England and Wales, and for all of those couples making their marriage vows together.
"Brighton and Hove is a popular location for ceremonies and we have been busy keeping people up-to-date with the latest news about the introduction of same-sex marriage.
"It is wonderful to see this law change being welcomed so enthusiastically in the city."
Brighton and Hove is the second most popular location in the UK for civil partnerships, with Westminster coming first.
Figures release by the Office for National Statistics showed 220 same-sex couples took part in civil partnerships in the city in 2012.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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Jackie Theoharis '14 has been nominated for the Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
The nomination comes for her performance in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at the Turtle Lane Playhouse. There are six actresses nominated for the award.
A Massachusetts native, Theoharis is majoring in theater arts and psychology, with a minor in education.
The Independent Reviewers of New England Awards were founded by Beverly Creasey of the Journal Newspapers and Larry Stark of the TheaterMirror in 1997. They recognize extraordinary talent in the Boston theatre community.
Theoharis performing in New York City last summer.
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Trying setup MythTV without luck. First I tried to set up the Media Director as follows. Pluto login> Wizard >Devices >Media Directors>The "PVR Capture Card" drop-down list offered the following options: "none, Generic Blackbird Card, IVTV Capture Card, or TechnoTrend." How do I configure the Media Director to work with a common Conextant/Brooktree 878 base card? This particular card (TV Wonder VE) worked in my Debian Distribution -- prior to intallation into a newly built Pluto box. I selected the Blackbird Card because that was the closest to my needs but no go.Thanks all!
I think that mythtv still has to be setup by hand.... Setup on web page you talk about is I guess more about adding ivtv or other drivers to the MD. And I think you don't need any of that for bttv card. You just set it up in mythsetup as you used to do in mythtv...I'm not 100% on this (I own pvr350 card)...HTH,Regards,Rob.


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Time for ski racer Julia Mancuso and teammates to step up
At the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Julia Mancuso resented all the publicity being showered on teammate Lindsey Vonn, and she made her feelings about it very clear, even though her record paled when compared to Vonn's.
Well, Mancuso won't have that problem in Sochi. Vonn won't be there because of a knee injury. Now would be a good time for Mancuso to step up and be a star.
Problem is, she hasn't had a top-10 finish this season and failed to finish two of her 12 races. She is a three-time Olympic medalist, but she hasn't skied like it this year.
Going into Vancouver four years ago, Vonn was far and away the most accomplished racer on the U.S. women's team. She had 31 World Cup victories compared to Mancuso's four. She had 60 World Cup podiums compared to Mancuso's 19. She had four World Cup discipline titles compared to Mancuso's zero. She had four world championships medals compared to Mancuso's three.
That didn't stop Mancuso for complaining about Vonn, a rival since they were junior racers. She told Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla, "The interesting thing about the attention is … it's really more about those who are paying the attention. So if you're not paying attention to me, you're just missing out. I've got a great story."
Then she complained about the "popularity contest" to Sports Illustrated, saying: "Our team is struggling, as a group. People are having a hard time reaching their potential because it's such a struggle for attention. You come to meetings after races and it's like it's a bad day if Lindsey didn't do well."
Well, Vonn will be rehabbing another knee surgery when Mancuso and her teammates go to Sochi. Mancuso has the talent to shine in Sochi, but will she? And how will she handle it if Eagle-Vail teen Mikaela Shiffrin gets more attention there than she does? Shiffrin is certainly the hottest U.S. skier on the tour this year, with two wins and three podiums in slalom, plus two podiums in giant slalom. Shiffrin has had four top-10 finishes in five GS races this season. Mancuso's best finish in that discipline is 12th. Her best finish in downhill is 20th, and her best finish in super-G is 17th.
Mancuso claimed two medals in Vancouver — silver in downhill and combined. She won the giant slalom at the 2006 Torino Olympics. She won't have to deal with Vonn's shadow in Sochi. Will she take advantage of it?


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The University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect offer a three-year post-residency fellowship in child abuse pediatrics. The goal of the fellowship is to provide physicians who are board eligible or board certified in pediatrics with in-depth and intensive training in child abuse pediatrics that will prepare them for a clinical or academic career dedicated to the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics, which is now a recognized ABP subspecialty. More ABP information can be found at www.abp.org. In addition, the Kempe Center offers the Berger Fellowship, a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship.
The Kempe Center was founded in 1972 by C. Henry Kempe, MD, a former University of Colorado School of Medicine Chairman of Pediatrics. His 1962 publication of the landmark paper The Battered Child, establishing one of the nation's first Child Protection Teams in 1958 and founding of the national center in Denver, are both legacy and foundation for the current University of Colorado School of Medicine child advocacy and protection system of care.
The faculty at The Kempe Center consists of pediatricians, social workers, a pediatric lawyer, epidemiologists, child welfare services researchers, and psychology and psychiatry staff. Children's Hospital Colorado clinical staff have many faculty colleagues in the Departments of General Pediatrics, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, and Surgery who provide excellent interdisciplinary care with the team for suspected child abuse victims and their families. For more information, please visit www.thekempecenter.org.
Past trainees continue very active involvement in the field of child abuse pediatrics and have become nationally recognized for their work with abused children as academic faculty, clinicians, and educators.
Clinical training during the fellowship includes extensive experience with the Child Protection Team, a shared multidisciplinary program of Children's Hospital Colorado and The Kempe Center. The team is the only hospital based multidisciplinary child abuse team in the state. The team evaluates and provides treatment annually for children who are suspected child abuse victims. Physicians, healthcare professionals, families, human services, law enforcement, and others in the Rocky Mountain Region refer to the team for consultation, treatment services, and support. Children's Hospital Colorado is the only Level One Pediatric Trauma Center in Colorado with very active Emergency Medicine, Trauma, General Surgery and Neurosurgery, and Burn Unit services.
Fellows participate in the medical diagnosis, consultation, and treatment of children who are admitted to Children's Hospital Colorado for serious injuries resulting from suspected physical abuse or neglect and sexual assault. The team also consults on factitious illness, nonorganic failure to thrive, neglect, child deaths, and sexual abuse cases. A weekly clinic evaluates cases of child abuse in an interdisciplinary team approach. Fellows learn how to obtain a detailed child abuse history, how to recognize and diagnose abusive injuries, how to analyze the mechanics of inflicted injury, how to interview families and children in the hospital setting, and how to use diagnostic tests to document abuse. Fellows will attend and participate in forensic autopsies of children who die from child abuse or other injuries and can participate in local child fatality review teams.
Clinical call is shared with attending faculty who are based at Children's Hospital Colorado and our teaching affiliate Denver Health Medical Center. Rotations at the Denver County Family Crisis Center and local child advocacy centers are part of training.
Fellows will interact with the staff psychologist of the behavioral health clinic for exposure to the mental health outcomes of child abuse and neglect. Fellows can also interact with and participate in other programs of the Kempe Center.
Integral to medical evaluation is learning how to work with social service and law enforcement agencies to protect children at risk for abuse, death, or serious disability from abuse and neglect. Fellows learn about the legal systems involved in child protection and child abuse prosecution through didactic lectures, weekly child protection team interdisciplinary review, and direct court experience.
The fellows learn state child abuse laws, how to be an effective witness, and how to document and present cases for the legal system. Court testimony by fellows is an expected part of training.
Fellows are required to complete the Department of Pediatrics fellow education series, which includes didactic courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design. These courses include examinations and projects with pass / fail grades. The cost of the course is covered by the program. Additional training in the CCTSI Clinical Science Graduate Training Program is optional. Fellows are required to design and complete an independent study that can result in national abstract presentation and publication. Ample opportunity exists for presentation of abstracts and lectures at local and national child abuse conferences. Formal courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design offered by the Colorado School of Public Health can be taken by fellows.
Fellows have a wealth of opportunities to enhance their knowledge and professional growth through many activities. Provision of clinical supervision to medical students, residents, and other trainees is expected. Lectures, hospital seminars, and clinical care conferences within the residency program and in the community are among these teaching opportunities. Through active participation in weekly Child Protection Team meetings, the fellow will gain the ability to function within a multidisciplinary team and interact with many different child welfare colleagues. Fellows will also have the opportunity to learn how a hospital or community based child protection team or child advocacy center operates. Close observation of and participation in the program's operation will allow the fellow to gain an understanding of budget development, clinic management and quality assurance and improvement issues.
All application material should be submitted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). We participate in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). Required application materials include a completed ERAS common application form, curriculum vitae, a USMLE (or COMLEX/ECFMG) transcript, a personal statement addressing your interest in Child Abuse Pediatrics, and 3 letters of recommendation.
We hope to attract applicants who are motivated and self-directed learners who want to develop academic careers based on excellence in research, scholarship, education and clinical care in Child Abuse Pediatrics. To be considered for admission to our program, applicants must have successfully completed training in an ACGME-accredited residency program in Pediatrics. Application for medical license in the State of Colorado must be completed before initiation of training.
Competitive applicants are offered on-site interviews on several days during August, September, and October. On the interview day, candidates will be provided an overview of the program and will meet individually with members of the faculty during the morning including the Fellowship Director, Kempe Center Director , and will tour Children's Hospital Colorado. Candidates will also have lunch with faculty and current fellow.
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Raijin Thunderkeg, the Storm Spirit Guide by cam_miles2003Monday, March 9th, 2009
cam_miles2003 created this guide, thanks a lot pal!
ideas regarding storm spirit as such it contains a lot more detail than the average guide.
Table of Contents
Hero Description
Hero Stats
Hero Story Line/ Role in Game Play
Hero Skills
Static Remnant
Electric Vortex
Ball Lightning
Damage Calculation
Facts about Ball Lightning
Abilities which counter Ball lightning
Disables that Storm Spirit can escape from
Leveling up Ball Lightning
Extension Items
Fail Items
Creep wave destroying Combo
Laning and Pushing
Preventing pushes
Use on invisible heroes
Facts about electric vortex
Interesting facts about Storms Ultimate.
Distance to mana calculation and mana expended.
Raijin Thunderkeg
A celestial being summoned to aid the Sentinel in their darkest hour; the Storm Spirit chose to manifest itself in the life essence of a humble elementalist, Raijin Thunderkeg. Though the Pandaren's soul perished during the profound surge of pure electrical essence, the divine entity even now seeks refuge in Raijin's body, unable to thrive on its own. However, despite its mortal imprisonment, the Storm Spirit is far from being limited of its tremendous powers. Able of manipulating vast, inexhaustible sources of energy in mysterious ways, it swiftly hails destructive sparks of lightning upon the Sentinel's adversaries, eradicating all that dared to cross its path.
Damage: 45 – 55
Armor: 5.1
Hp: 473
Mp: 299
Strength: 17 + 1.5
Agility: 22 + 1.8
Intelligence: 23 + 2.6
Range: 600 (ranged)
Attack Time: 1.45 (+17%)
The new storm is a jack of all trades. He's an anti early game pusher since static remnant + overload can own spiderites, wolves, zombies and creep waves. He's a pusher as well since he can take out an entire creep wave before your allied creeps arrive. He's a ganker by virtue of his ultimate which can place you right beside the enemy hero. He's a semi disabler since he can prevent heroes from escaping via electric vortex. He's a chaser since his ultimate can out pace even slardar and he's an escape artist since with good map awareness he's nigh impossible to gank.


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What should you watch next? This helpful chart of all the scifi and fantasy series available on Netflix will save you from the summer's endless loop of reality TV dancing shows. Horror, space operas, UK, anthologies — it's all here!
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I just think this photo of an unnamed Spitalfields street in the 1870s is fantastic. It has a ghost-like quality to it.
I agree, pretty much. Interesting to see a street and a kid as they were so long ago.
I just think this photo of an unnamed Spitalfields street in the 1870s is fantastic. It has a ghost-like quality to it.
I agree, pretty much. Interesting to see a street and a kid as they were so long ago.
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As we continue our trek through these ever-more interesting times, perhaps the most significant public discussion about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the June 1982 Amelia Earhart Symposium at the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum, continues to fade from sight and memory. Only the most well-informed even recall this event, or that it […]
On the heels of our March 6 post, "Amaron's death certificate sparks new questions" and the issues raised by Bilimon Amaron's listed birth date in what appeared to be an official Republic of the Marshall Islands document, and, to a lesser extent, his date of death, I thought some might be interested in a letter […]
Even casual serious students of the truth in the Earhart disappearance have heard and read about the photos of Amelia and Fred Noonan that were allegedly found on Saipan during and after the June 1-July 9, 1944 Battle of Saipan. I've heard the wistful regrets that none of these photos have ever publicly surfaced, and […]
A stunning revelation in the form of an official Republic of the Marshall Islands death certificate for Bilimon Amaron has inspired, at least for now, new questions about the document's birth date accuracy and how it would reflect upon the story so often told by the Marshall Islands legendary Earhart eyewitness. (Boldface emphasis mine throughout, […]
Today we conclude our two-part look at Bill Prymak's 1997 investigative foray to the Marshall Islands, as seen in the May 1997 issue of his Amelia Earhart Society Newsletters. (Boldface and italic emphases are both Prymak's and mine; capitalization emphasis is Prymak's.) We begin with an interview with Teresa Amaron, the little-known daughter of […]
During the course of more than 30 years of Earhart research, Bill Prymak made three investigative visits to the Marshall Islands, in 1989, '91 and '97, locating and interviewing many previously unknown witnesses, including the famous Bilimon Amaron in 1989, though Prymak wasn't the first to record Bilimon's remarkable account. Today we begin a two-part look […]
We rejoin the saga of Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye's attempt to release the secret Earhart files by drafting Congressional legislation in 1993. Longtime Earhart researcher and author Col. Rollin Reineck (U.S. Air Force, retired) was far from a single-minded devotee of the truth, as we've already seen in several posts, but we also must give […]
Super Bowl Sunday morning dawned with the sad news of the passing of Jimm Crowder on Jan. 29. Below is Jimm's obituary, as published in Feb. 2 Star Tribune of Minneapolis. No cause of death was given, but his health had been failing in recent years. Crowder, Jimm age 72 of St. Paul passed away January […]
Today, we'll look at the first of two letters written in 1992 by Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye to Earhart researcher and retired Air Force Col. Rollin Reineck. This letter appeared, with much fanfare, as a "Special Newsletter" and comprised the entire November 1992 issue of Bill Prymak's Amelia Earhart Society Newsletter. (Boldface and italic emphases […]
Today we present the alleged last words of Fred Goerner, as recorded for posterity by his wife of 26 years, Merla Zellerbach. I don't put much stock in this document, as it has little relationship to Goerner's many outstanding contributions to Earhart research. Ravaged by cancer in 1994 at age 69, he had made several less-than-wise […]
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WASHINGTON – Defining "hipster" is much like the Supreme Court defining pornography: You know it when you see it.
However, Forbes and Nextdoor.com have attempted not only to define the term, but to rank the top hipster neighborhoods in the country.
And don't worry, one D.C. neighborhood made the list: the H Street corridor.
In choosing the most hipster neighborhoods across the nation, Forbes and Nextdoor.com looked at several factors:
- An area's walkability, according to Walkscore.com
- Neighborhood coffee shops per capita
- Assortment of local food trucks, and their rankings according to Zagat
- Number and frequency of farmers markets
- Number of locally owned bars and restaurants
- Percentage of residents who work in artistic occupations
So if you identify with the hipster lifestyle (don't ask us what that means), here are the "Top 10 Hipster Neighborhoods":
- Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Mission district, San Francisco, Calif.
- Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Wicker Park, Chicago, Ill.
- Pearl District, Portland, Ore.
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Roberto Suro holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. He is also director of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, an interdisicplinary university research center exploring the challenges and opportunities of demographic diversity in the 21st century global city. Suro's latest book is Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue (U of CA Press, 2011) co-edited with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Vivian Louie. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, where his most recent publication is "Immigration and Poverty in America's Suburbs" (2011) with Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson.
Suro also holds two major service positions outside the university: as a member of the board of directors of Independent Sector, the nation's largest association of philanthropies and charities, and as a trustee of the Haynes Foundation, a leading supporter of social science research in Los Angeles.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in August 2007, he was director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington D.C. that he founded in 2001, and in 2004 he was part of the management team that launched the Pew Research Center. Suro supervised the production of more than 100 publications that offered non-partisan statistical analysis and public opinion surveys chronicling the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implications for the nation as a whole. Under his leadership, the Center also organized numerous research and policy conferences with a variety of collaborators including the Inter-American Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Suro's journalistic career began in 1974 at the City News Bureau of Chicago as a police reporter, and after tours at the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune he joined TIME Magazine, where he worked as a correspondent in the Chicago, Washington, Beirut and Rome bureaus. In 1985 he started at The New York Times with postings as bureau chief in Rome and Houston. After a year as an Alicia Patterson Fellow, Suro was hired at The Washington Post as a staff writer on the national desk, eventually covering a variety of beats including the Justice Department and the Pentagon and serving as deputy national editor.
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It's a mad, mad, mad homophobic, antisemitic, anti-Christian, Leftist, Islamist world
In today's news, we learned that Muslims in Libya kidnapped twelve men that they claimed were homosexuals in order to execute them:
Extremists say they will execute a dozen men they allege are homosexuals, whom they abducted last Thursday at a private party in Tripoli's Ain Zara district.
A body calling itself the 'Private Deterrent Force', which is believed to be part of the extremist Nawasi militia group, has posted images of the men on their Facebook page. One picture (above) shows them, heads covered, standing with their hands against a wall.
At the time of writing, the picture had received 315 'likes' and had received comments such as "flog them hard", "lets see the bullets", and "ride them like camels".
Accompanying text describes the men as "the third sex" and says that they are to be mutilated and executed.
I posted this on my Facebook page, along with a comment saying that, lately, nothing good has come out of Libya. Within a few minutes, a high school classmate, very gay, commented on this post. Interestingly, he didn't comment on the post to excoriate a culture that brutally murders his fellow homosexuals. Instead, he said that the Middle East isn't very gay friendly, but neither are any Christian countries, including the U.S. Before I could take him to task for that manifest idiocy, another friend of mine — a Democrat gay man who is a closet conservative — chimed in to say that this was the stupidest comment he'd ever heard, and that it was impossible to conflate the Muslim's murderous approach towards gays with any attitude towards gays displayed in a Western, majority-Christian country.
Since my closeted conservative friend had dealt more than adequately with this gay Leftist idiocy, I opted for a different line of thinking. Assuming that, as a Leftist, he's fairly pro-Israel, even as he supports the same countries that murder gays, I decided to put in a plug for Israel. I therefore pointed out that there's a sad, funny irony in the fact that the safest place for gay Palestinians is Israel, with accords full civil rights to the LGBT crowd. Since I always like to back up my statements with evidence, I went trolling on Google for news stories about how Palestinian gays find sanctuary in Israel.
What I found, to my surprise, were savage attacks from the Left about the fact that Israel is hospitable to gays. The previous sentence is not the result of a typographical error. The Left finds it absolutely infuriating that Israel treats gays like people (just as it does women and its Arab citizens). As far as the Left is concerned, this is all a despicable trick aimed at hiding the fact that it is an Imperialist Nazi-like nation bound and determined to commit genocide against its Palestinian neighbors. (The Left conveniently ignores the soaring Palestinian population, something inconsistent with decades of alleged genocide, just as it ignores the genocidal, antisemitic rantings emanating from all parts of the Muslim world, rantings that have no anti-Arab corollary in Israel.)
This is not fringe stuff. Perhaps because I was busy with Thanksgiving travel last November (2011), I missed completely a Jewish lesbian's nasty opinion piece in the New York Times accusing Israel of "pinkwashing":
After generations of sacrifice and organization, gay people in parts of the world have won protection from discrimination and relationship recognition. But these changes have given rise to a nefarious phenomenon: the co-opting of white gay people by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim political forces in Western Europe and Israel.
In the Netherlands, some Dutch gay people have been drawn to the messages of Geert Wilders, who inherited many followers of the assassinated anti-immigration gay leader Pim Fortuyn, and whose Party for Freedom is now the country's third largest political party. In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, the extremist who massacred 77 people in July, cited Bruce Bawer, a gay American writer critical of Muslim immigration, as an influence. The Guardian reported last year that the racist English Defense League had 115 members in its gay wing. The German Lesbian and Gay Federation has issued statements citing Muslim immigrants as enemies of gay people.
These depictions of immigrants — usually Muslims of Arab, South Asian, Turkish or African origin — as "homophobic fanatics" opportunistically ignore the existence of Muslim gays and their allies within their communities. They also render invisible the role that fundamentalist Christians, the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Jews play in perpetuating fear and even hatred of gays. And that cynical message has now spread from its roots in European xenophobia to become a potent tool in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The growing global gay movement against the Israeli occupation has named these tactics "pinkwashing": a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians' human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that "gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool," even though "conservative and especially religious politicians remain fiercely homophobic."
Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel's gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.
Sarah Schulman, who wrote that putrid little piece, should be given a one-way ticket to Iran or Saudi Arabia or Libya or Gaza to see what kind of "gay rights" exist in those parts of the world. The "rights" usually boil down to "Do you want to be hanged, stoned, flayed, or beheaded for the crime of being a homosexual or lesbian?" Of course, that's not what would happen if she went to those backwards countries. Backwards they may be, but they know a useful idiot when they see one. Schulman would be feted and stuffed full of propaganda about the love Muslims feel for gays.
What's just as bad as Schulman's willful obtuseness is the fact that she's got a nice platform from which to indoctrinate equally stupid, blind gays here at home. (I'm not saying all gays are stupid and blind. I am saying that those who believe Leftism is more important than human rights are willing vessels for this kind of propaganda.) You see, Schulman is a "Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University." Not just a professor, but a "distinguished" professor. To my mind, she is distinguished only by being either evil, or stupid to the point of being evil.


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Stefan jL wrote:It looks like it was packaged good enough by the pictures... DHL have probably run over it with a truck.
Stefan jL wrote:I know it is not perfect but should be good enough,
joska wrote:When shipping something fragile like retro computers there is only two real options - original box (with inserts!) or a crate.
mikro wrote:... that being said, I'm shipping my Aussie Falcon, STE, SC1435 and SC1224 in crates.
Rustynutt wrote:However, the lesson learned, no matter how bad you want to look, is to refuse the package.
farvardin wrote:Rustynutt wrote:However, the lesson learned, no matter how bad you want to look, is to refuse the package.
that's pretty relevant. So now we have a responsibility of more like 40% sender, 40% DHL and 20 % receiver. But I understand how temping it could be to open the package instead of refusing it.
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Like this i ship this computer to a guy in the US, it was in its original box including original inserts and the original box was inside another sturdy box + padding. And he got this:
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When investors open up their brokerage mid-year account statements, they're now seeing something they haven't seen in a while: lower bond values.
Over the past three months, the yield in 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds has shot up 34% to 2.48%.
Besides causing bond portfolios with long-term maturities a world of hurt, mortgage rates have shot up too. According to Freddie Mac, the average rate for a 30-year fixed rate home loan is near 4.5%, a two-year high.
Advisors can help shield their clients from the fierce attack of higher rates by sticking with bonds and bond funds that have shorter maturities. The iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Fund (IEF) holds a portfolio of U.S. Treasuries with 7-10 year maturities. The Vanguard Short-Term Bond Fund (BSV) sticks with Treasuries and investment grade debt with 1-5 year maturities.
Another strategy is to limit exposure to rate sensitive industry sectors like real estate investment trusts (REITs). U.S. REITs have seen their sizzling performance cool off. After recording double digit gains earlier in the year, the Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) is now ahead by just 3.15% compared to a 17% year-to-date gain it had through May 21.
A more aggressive strategy for capitalizing on the theme of higher interest rates is to use ETFs like the Direxion Daily 20+ Yr. Treasury Bear 3x Shares (TMV) and the ProShares UltraShort 2x 20+ Yr. Treasury ETF (TBT). Both funds use daily leverage of 300% and 200% and are designed to increase in value when bond prices fall.
One other important thing, advisors shouldn't overlook: Although Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) are designed to hedge against higher inflation, they will not protect an investor against higher interest rates. That means as rates rise, TIPS will lose value. Since the start of the year, the largest TIPS ETF, the iShares TIPS Bond ETF (TIP), has fallen 7.69%.


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Diane von Furstenberg's designs on Denver
Diane von Furstenberg is used to seeing women wearing versions of the wrap dress that she first designed in the 1970s. And there were plenty for her to look at at the benefit fashion show she attended at the Exdo Center Friday night in Denver.
Many Denver women wore versions of her print dress as they gathered for a showing of her spring "goddess" collection to celebrate the 25th anniversary of MAX and raise funds for Children's Hospital .


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