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I get a sense of dé jà vu when I see the myriad bubble milk tea shops sprouting like … well, bubbles, around Manila. Chatime, Serenitea, Happy Lemon, and Gong Cha – all these trendy teas have their progenitors in Quickly and Milky Way, both popular in the early 2000s.
People have taken the time to explain to me their ardor for a certain brand and why one is better than the other. I'm amused and frankly, quite surprised at how proponents of a particular brand are so devoted – no, zealous over their chosen brand – and beverage – of choice. I listen carefully and note the animated use of their hands and the way their eyes light up as brightly as these tea places are. My tweet about trying Happy Lemon's cult favorite, Green Tea with Rock Salt & Cheese gets a reaction from a friend: "@DessertComes1st: That's a maarte drink. Try the Lemon Yakult instead." Guess she's not a fan. Neither am I. I taste more cream than I do anything else. And really, this may be tea, but with everything that's put in there, it can't be all that healthy. Especially if you get a daily dose of it.
Another day, I'm at Gong Cha on the urging of a recent convert. "It's the best, the BEST!!!" Reads her text. "Better than ChaTime!" When I text her back that I've ordered the Matcha Milk Tea (Regular, 50% sugar), she texts back in all caps: "NO! You should've ordered the Milk Winter Melon Tea!" You see what I mean about the zeal of these people?
A friend of mine and a fan of Serenitea won't even venture trying the other brands because "…I can't have my bubble milk tea without my Chicken Chops. Plus, malapit sa bahay." No wonder he takes his Hokkaido Milk Tea at 100% sugar – poultry and tea can't be perfect partners, especially with pearls in there.
Bubble milk tea places are now THE spots to bang away on one's laptop and while away the time, and sucking (through a straw) now trumps sipping (through a slit in a paper cup). Tea places are also the current places of choice, I observe, where BFFs sip and share their sorrows. They're lucky; in my time, it was at McDonald's over hot fudge sundaes, fries for dipping, optional.
The menu at any of these bubble milk tea shops are all the same to me: expansive and bewildering. With a few variations depending on the brand, there's a section for Milk Tea, Smoothies or Mousses (in my experience, these are the blended beverages), and various specialty drinks labeled Special Mix or Energetic Healthy Juices. Because I like to make informed decisions, I ask for help in decoding the menu.
Three hours and a frazzled staff member later, I've finally decided on my drink and now I've got the easy stuff nailed down. I'm not hot about clogging up my straw or impeding my drink's flow with pearls; no jellies (can't care less if it's grass, coconut, or rainbow); I'll pass on the pudding; and please, I'll keep the aloe vera in my shampoo and out of my drink. Chatime even offers an Ice option – Non, Less, Normal, or Extra, and across the board at all brands, there's the Sugar option: at 0%, 30%, 50%, 80%, Normal (what the heck's normal??!), and Extra Sugar.
Oy. Honey, I have a headache.
Tell me, what's your bubble milk tea brand of choice and which beverage do you order? Come on, be specific, and maybe you can help me become a bubble milk tea convert too.


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Fox's Trotta Defends Remarks On Women In Military, Claims Pentagon Spreads "Dishonest Fairy Tales About Female Heroism"
Last weekend, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta said of reports on increased sexual assaults against women in the military: "Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact." Trotta also said that "we have women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time" and later added that feminists "have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims' advocates, sexual response coordinators. ... You have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much." Trotta's remarks received widespread condemnation.
On the February 19 edition of Fox's America's News HQ, Trotta responded to the criticism. She said that the intent of her remarks was not to say that "all military men are rapists," but to express that "the environment of combat, by definition, sets up a situation where basic instincts rule. The niceities of male-female interaction fade in this arena, and any scientist will tell you that testosterone rules." Trotta claimed that "most" of her critics "have no experience with the subject" of women in the military.
Trotta went on to claim that "the political correctness infecting the Pentagon has resulted in silly and dishonest fairy tales about female heroism," citing the case of Jessica Lynch, an Army private who was captured during the Iraq war. The Pentagon "saw fit to send in the SEALs to rescue" Lynch, even though "by all accounts including her own" she was not being "mistreated," Trotta said, and the rescue was done "in a videotaped operation that seemed headed straight to Hollywood." Trotta added: "There are countless other stories of fake heroism or exaggerated prowess in which women are the stars, many of them tailored for The New York Times and its agenda to promote militant feminism no matter what the truth."
From the February 19 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:
TROTTA: This is a subject that has never gotten a fair and open hearing, either in the national media or in Congress. Starting in 1991 with Rep. Patricia Schroeder, a Democrat from Colorado, the hardline feminists have seen to it that the subject is a fait accompli, a matter already settled, one that must not be aired before the American people. The leftist thinking seems to be that if a subject isn't discussed, then it obviously isn't there. Their main objective is to force the Pentagon to lift the ban on women in combat.
Accordingly, the political correctness infecting the Pentagon has resulted in silly and dishonest fairy tales about female heroism. Has anyone forgotten the Jessica Lynch story? A PFC captured by the Iraqis and by all accounts, including her own, not mistreated. Yet the Pentagon saw fit to send in the SEALs to rescue her from a hospital in a videotaped operation that seemed headed straight to Hollywood. There are countless other stories of fake heroism or exaggerated prowess in which women are the stars, many of them tailored for The New York Times and its agenda to promote militant feminism no matter what the truth.
ERIC SHAWN (host): Well, you know, you were the first woman network news reporter in Vietnam. You were fired at, you were out there living with the troops. Did you ever feel threatened?
TROTTA: Well, you know, dragging out credentials is not something I feel comfortable doing, but this situation demands it. I did do three tours of duty in Vietnam back in the 1960s as a correspondent for NBC News. Troops in combat are what I covered, and it is troops that I will always admire and support, because of this experience. I also covered Israeli troops in combat during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the British Army in the Northern Ireland troubles in the 1970s, the India-Pakistan war in 1971, the Grenada invasion in 1983, et cetera, et cetera.
In those days, you see, networks had the money and commitment to send correspondents into wherever a shot was fired. So covering combat was very much on the foreign correspondent's daily menu. There is an enormous difference between covering war as a correspondent and fighting it as a soldier. So my outlook is one of the reporter and writer.
In Indochina, we ate, marched, and lived with the troops from all the U.S. services. They earned my respect and returned it. There was no embedding, no censorship. We virtually roamed free in the areas of operation. As a result, I'm very sensitive to the needs of the forces and the political chicanery of the feminist left. The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Yet male troops are now encumbered with the realities of feminist biology. Women are not as strong as men; their instincts and reactions in crisis are markedly different. It is a reality the left will not face -- biology is destiny.
SHAWN: Then why do you think some people found the remarks offensive?
TROTTA: Well, all I can reason is that, firstly, most have no experience with the subject. Making war is a deadly, unforgiving business. By necessity, the atmosphere of war is amoral and visceral. It's a hothouse of adrenaline and close-up violence.
Secondly, many supporters of women in combat conflate this issue with issues of a woman's right to choose; women's right to control their bodies, et cetera, et cetera, in the feminist creed. There is no such thing as a difference between men and women, the way they see it. Oh, then why do you suppose the physical requirements in basic training are less demanding for women? It's not only unfair, it's dangerous. Underlying all of this argument is the reality that experience in combat is also a must for military promotion. So, careerism is a major factor in the defense of women in combat. If you want to advance in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, you'd better get with the program.
SHAWN: Well, among the criticisms, the Vietnam Veterans of America group says they are, quote, enraged that you would condone criminal acts, they say. A Time magazine blog said that you were, quote, essentially saying all military men are rapists. What's your reaction to these type of comments, and do you feel that you were misunderstood?
TROTTA: Yes, very much so. I certainly did not say all military men are rapists. What I believe and tried to express, apparently not well enough, is that the environment of combat by definition sets up a situation where basic instincts rule. The niceties of male-female interaction fade in this arena, and any scientist will tell you that testosterone rules. If common sense won't be applied to the whole question of women in the forces, consider the escalating incidents of sexual abuse at the three military academies. And if that's not enough, then how about a report released last month by the Pentagon indicating a 64 percent increase in violent sexual assaults in the Army since 2006? Well, the report said there were 3,191 reports of sexual assault last year. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta added that, realistically, the number is probably around 19,000.
His answer to the problem is better training for military lawyers as well as sexual counselors and expansion of the never-enough bureaucracy that exists to support women victims in the Armed Forces. These are facts, not emotions. And while I defend my critics' right to their opinions, they should be informed by facts and nothing less.
SHAWN: Well, there is no question that all men and women who risk their lives to protect us ought to be admired and certainly deserve every protection we can give them.
TROTTA: The best protection would be to pry open this subject for an honest discussion. Why won't the Pentagon release the annual number of pregnancies among women in the forces? Especially those in the field. And why is there not a study on how children react when mommy goes off to war -- and sometimes both mommy and daddy. Everyone talks about the American family shattering, but it will not face what is happening to the forces for fear of, again, political correctness.
Before we start throwing money at new ways to support this feminist idea, let's stop the hypocrisy and see the facts. Something is drastically wrong here, and both men and women are victims of the irrational claims of angry feminists. If the whole subject of women in combat cannot be given an open hearing, then it's left to journalists to do their homework and start discussing it honestly. They might even consider what former Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Barrow told Congress in 1991. He said, women give life, sustain life, nurture life. They don't take it.

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A 16-year-old Morenci Area High School student is in custody after making a bomb threat last week.
The youth left two messages on the high school answering machine during the night of May 15 stating the school would be blown up Wednesday.
By Wednesday afternoon, he was in custody at the Maurice Spears Campus. He was later transferred to the Hillsdale Juvenile Corrections facility due to his Hillsdale County residency.
Tracking down the offender turned out to be a simple matter, said Morenci Chief of Police Larry Weeks.
Two school staff members listened to the recording and agreed that it sounded like a particular student. The school's telephone company was called to obtain the number of the caller.
The cell phone number matched the number provided on the suspect's school information card. One final check with the cell phone service provider confirmed that the phone belonged to the student's family.
The student had the phone with him when contacted by Chief Weeks. He first denied making the calls, the chief said, but was arrested and lodged at the juvenile campus.


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Although official anti-press harassment continued a gradual decline from its peak after the disputed 2008 elections, a highly restrictive legal framework kept domestic, independent news sources to a mere handful. The fractious coalition between Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC failed to implement the media reforms they had pledged to undertake in their 2008 power-sharing deal, leaving in place repressive laws such as the Access to Information and Privacy Protection Act. At least six journalists faced criminal defamation charges, including two staffers from the weekly Standard who were detained after covering a politician's arrest. Assailants broke into the offices of NewsDay and Masvingo Mirror, stealing computer hard drives and storage discs. Both break-ins followed critical coverage; no suspects were arrested in either case. Fearing the influence of revolutions in North Africa, authorities detained dozens of civil society members for watching footage of the Egyptian revolution at a public gathering. The European Union named six state media journalists among 200 Zimbabweans subject to sanctions for allegedly promoting violence during the 2008 polling.
Official repression drove at least 49 journalists into exile over the past decade, the fifth highest number in the world, according to a CPJ study. Most of the exodus occurred in the first half of the decade.
Although the power-sharing agreement of September 2008 allowed private broadcasting, it was only in 2011 that the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe began calling for applications. Of the applications received, the authority granted licenses to only two radio station applicants, Zimpapers Talk Radio and AB Communications, both closely linked to the ruling ZANU-PF party.
Arrests under the repressive accreditation law declined since the post-election crackdown of 2008, when police detained more than a dozen journalists, CPJ research shows. Still, one AIPPA-related arrest was reported in 2011. Police arrested photographer Blessed Mhlanga in July for taking images without accreditation. Mhlanga was soon released after producing accreditation documents.
In January 2011, authorities significantly raised the accreditation fees for international news media outlets and their local correspondents.
Steep jumps:
300 percent: Increase in fee to open an international news media bureau. International news outlets must pay US$6,000, up from US$2,000. Renewals went from being free to costing US$5,000.
400 percent: Increase in accreditation fee for Zimbabwean journalists working for foreign media. The fee quadrupled from US$100 to US$400. The renewal of accreditation went from being free to costing US$300.
100 percent: Increase in fee for southern African media outlets operating in Zimbabwe. The fee increased from US$1,000 to US$2,000.
Several cases of obstruction were reported during the year, according to CPJ research. Officials blocked reporters from covering news events in some instances. In others, authorities and ruling party supporters prevented newspaper vendors from selling critical publications.


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The 2011 World Humanist Congress in Oslo, reduced to a 4-minute highlight clip:
The 2011 World Humanist Congress in Oslo, reduced to a 4-minute highlight clip:
Paulo Matos says
You gotta love Google ads:
(The above link is a screenshot of what I get as google ads on this webpage)
Foliage says
Hmm, there seems to be something subtly weird going on with audio for this.
Igakusei says
"It doesn't matter how good you are at slaughtering antelopes, if you never get laid."
Someone should make a bumper sticker out of that!
Glen Davidson says
I'd be inclined to listen to anyone named Roar Jensen.
pHred says
Are you kidding me ? You are complaining about spending time in Norway ??? Really?
Fair enough, next time I will go. They will get the humanist perspective of an Associate Professor in Earth Sciences rather than Biology, but that should be novel – however at the moment I can't think of any pithy lines like yours. Rocks getting laid means a whole different thing.
As a Scandinavian, I would be livid with jealousy if I wasn't going to Rome next week for a conference. :)
ChasCPeterson says
dude, 'Harvard'?
That's what you told them?
'Tis Himself, OM says
dude, 'Harvard'?
That's what you told them?
Has anybody told Harvard?
nopeter says
PZ Myers, professor at Harvard University!
It says so on the video clip!
Some one got some thing wrong?
Species8472 says
Congrats with a new job at Harvard! :P
Also, I'm in there too at 1:12 on the front row!
ChasCPeterson says
I think your visitors would definitely want far more writing such as this
I absolutely agree, ground floor opportunity (if that is your real name): Far more posts consisting of a single sentence fragment and a vid!


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Annoyed NY Mayor Attacks Court Decision On Stop And Frisk With Condescension And Hyperbole
from the I,-for-one,-hope-the-door-hits-him-in-the-ass-SEVERAL-TIMES-on-his-way-out dept
New York's Mayor Bloomberg and Police Chief Ray Kelly held a press conference to register their dismay at the court decision declaring the city's controversial "stop and frisk" program to be unconstitutional. As is to be expected, the decision will be challenged and, as is also to be expected, the Mayor and police chief wasted little time deploying their talking points in its defense. (Note on the embed: Video quality is terrible but this is only version of the entire press conference. Both the Mayor's Youtube account and NYC.gov website contain only a 12-minute, heavily-edited video of the press conference, one that ONLY shows the prepared statements and removes all of the Mayor's annoyed "interaction" with the press.)
Bloomberg's statement went long on crime reduction statistics (something he says the presiding judge [Shira Scheindlin] ignored) claiming the 8,000 guns seized over the past decade have "saved countless lives of blacks and Hispanics." He also claimed the stop and frisk program (or "stop, question and frisk," as he and Kelly refer to it) has made New York City the "poster child everyone wants to follow."
I have no doubt that there are many law enforcement agencies who view the stop and frisk program as desirable, but this says a lot more about law enforcement's mindset than it does about the program itself. Law enforcement agencies tend to believe Americans have too many rights, as is evidenced by years of rights abuse. Any program that curtails rights and gives officers free rein to stop and frisk citizens would largely believed to be a "good thing."
Kelly's defense of the program wasn't much different. His prepared remarks cited crime statistics and claimed the program was proactive in preventing criminal behavior, again stressing the 8,000 guns taken off the street over the past decade. Bizarrely, Kelly chose to illustrate the importance of the stop and frisk program by relating an anecdote having nothing to do with stop and frisk.
On Saturday a man threw a duffle bag into the trunk of a double-parked car in Washington Heights. When officers approached the man, he ran. That's suspicious behavior. They found $750,000 worth of heroin in the trunk. They arrested the suspects and spared the untold misery that three-quarters of a million dollars worth of drug addiction can cause to families who can least afford it.Yes, running from the cops is often suspicious behavior, but the problems with stop and frisk is that it's deployed without any form of reasonable suspicion to back up the impromptu pat downs and searches. A big drug bust resulting from observed suspicious behavior isn't nearly the same thing as grabbing a few random minorities and pressing them up against the nearest wall for no apparent reason.
While Kelly's response was a bit more measured, Bloomberg made it clear that he wasn't interested in implementing some of the recommendations the judge made in her decision -- including additional oversight. Bloomberg (and Kelly) have been against third-party monitoring since day one, with the mayor notably arguing that his prized "army" would be less efficient with independent oversight because it introduces "confusion into the command structure."
Bloomberg also cited Scott Greenfield's First Rule of Policing* when criticizing the additional oversight, including the city council's recent bill to appoint an Inspector General over the NYPD.
*Make it home for dinner.
So, now we'll have another layer of monitors... You're a police officer. You have to know what orders to follow. If somebody pulls a gun and you WANT TO GET HOME, you don't have time to say, "Well, now wait a second, the commissioner said one thing, the monitor said another and the IG said another." By that time, you're dead.In Bloomberg's world, police are unnecessarily constrained by rules and regulations that prevent them from placing self-preservation above all other considerations. It should be noted that many unarmed citizens have been shot for precisely this Rule, like the recent shooting death of an unarmed teen by a police officer who reassured the homeowners' whose yard he cut through in pursuit that the teen was not a threat. The teen continued to be "no threat" until the door of the shed he was hiding in flew open and the First Rule of Policing took over.
Bloomberg went on with his answer/diatribe, directing anger at the assembled press, implicating them in this rhetorical officer's death.
And I'd like to see you go to the funeral and explain to the family why their son or husband or father is not coming home that night.Bloomberg also addressed the court's order that officers wear body cameras at all times. According to Bloomberg, the idea is unworkable. He vividly imagined the criticism that would fly once these were implemented.
A camera on the lapel or hat of a police officer... He didn't turn the right way. My god, he DELIBERATELY did it. It's a solution that's not a solution...There is no doubt always-on cameras can be abused by the officers wearing them. Many departments fight this sort of thing because it creates a layer of accountability, something few police departments welcome. If law enforcement agencies had worked harder over the years to maintain a solid reputation for trustworthiness and rooting out abusive officers from within their own ranks, they wouldn't be in the position of having mandatory cameras deployed.
Bloomberg's attitude throughout the press conference varied between confrontational and condescending -- a nanny-statist annoyed that his subjects were restless.
A reporter, who questioned his statement that stop and frisk was only opposed by a "handful" of critics and activists by pointing out that he'd come across "hundreds, if not thousands" of critics, received this reply.
Some of these people come from a culture where police are the enemy. Here, police are friends.What? The American culture has its fair share of people who believe police are the enemy, or at the very least have a long way to go to be considered "friends." Bloomberg's been in power so long he's forgotten (if he ever knew) that an imbalance of power tends to make those with less much more distrustful of those with more. Cops have a lot of power and under Bloomberg this imbalance has only increased.
Bloomberg went even further with this train of thought, first insulting the public and continuing on to disparage the press (again.)
The public are not experts on policing... But if you want to find someone to put on your TV show that says they don't like this, you can find them.Bloomberg cut loose with more condescension when fielding a question from Russia Television International about the administration's fervent defense of the unpopular (and unconstitutional program).
We, unlike many countries, want to keep all of our citizens safe, and keep the crime rate down and make sure that they get home and go to court and protect themselves -- unlike other countries in the world.And again, when asked if the appeals process would allow stop and frisk to continue until Bloomberg is out of office, his response this time was coupled with his usual scare tactics.
Boy, I hope so. I wouldn't want to be responsible for a lot of people dying.Yes. Every homicide investigation starts with the mayor being questioned about his involvement.
All in all, the mayor appeared to be completely irritated that his pet program had been questioned (and overruled) by a court decision. In contrast, Chief Kelly's responses were handled much more gracefully. He didn't address many questions (and those he did were swiftly taken over by Mayor
For instance, his response to the appointment of independent oversight was simply to state that the appointee would find what he sees every day: good cops doing a good job. The rest he handled by stating the NYPD deploys a "wide variety" of tactics in areas of high crime or by deferring to the city's legal representative.
It will be some time before the court-ordered changes appear, if they do at all. As stated above, the city will be challenging the ruling and Bloomberg is still hard at work attempting to veto the two bills aimed at stop and frisk that recently passed the city council.
New Yorkers can at least be happy Daddy Bloomberg is on his way out, although the crop of replacement candidates doesn't seem all that promising. Americans, on the other hand, have to be concerned that the man who headed up the stop and frisk program could soon be heading the Department of Homeland Security, a position that will allow dubious tactics to be deployed at a national level.
In any event, it's obvious the court's decisions has pissed off Bloomberg and his "private army" and that can't be a bad thing.
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My friend Steve Mc Henry – who comments regularly on this BLOG – wrote me yesterday saying, "that everything was just way to calm, what's up?" As with any major conflict the aggressor waits until he believes he has attained the upper hand, the military advantage that will make his nations campaign a success. The current situation that I believe is brewing in the Middle East is no different. Kings go to war in the spring and what we see is a jockeying for position, in the Middle East. We hear of SCUD II missiles being shipped to Hezbollah. We hear the vitriol and saber-rattling between Syria and Israel, Iran and Israel, Turkey and Israel. The we have the Jordanian King Abdullah warning that unless a two state solution is reached there will be a regional war. The Israeli's have stepped up their program of issuing gas-masks to all 6 million citizens, a task that was initially slated to happen in a years time. The winds of war are blowing. Now there is talk, coming from The Quartet, that Israel may be forced into going back to its pre 1967 borders. Of course this is dividing the land, and I would draw your attention to the fact that this pre 67 border deal would include Jerusalem. This week on Acceleration Radio my guest was David Brennan who discussed the catastrophes that followed in the wake of the quartet's meddling with Israel's borders. Is this happenstance? We will continue to watch and see what develops in regard to these startling "coincidences." There is no doubt that the vitriol against Israel is reaching a fever pitch. Iran continues her march toward becoming a nuclear power and the so-called free world does nothing to stop her from reaching her goal. The reason I bring this up is because Iran poses an existential threat to Israel. There is no denying the caustic remarks from Iranian president Ahmadinejad. He has repeatedly remarked that Israel should be wiped off the map. Now, he has threatened to detonate what I assume are dirty nukes, embedded in US cities, if Iran is attacked. As I have mentioned before, this is right out of P.P.&S. There is a calm at the moment. No one really want to go to war, despite all the blustering and posturing on both sides. However, it would appear that the region is headed toward that day when something tips the scales and the war begins. There some of you who say that modern Israel is the Synagogue of Satan. This position is what I believe, a ploy from the enemy himself. I have asked Dr. Stephen Yulish to write an article addressing this. It is posted in this months News Magazine, but I have reposted it here as I think it nails down the rising anti-Semitism and wrong theology that is creeping into the church. Unless we understand that Israel and the church are two different entities, we will never begin to make sense out of the prophetic word….
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"…the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan' Revelation 2:9
"I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not but lie" Revelation 3:9
I was asked by the editor of this newsletter, Mr. Marzulli to write about this concept of the synagogue of Satan as it relates to issues of anti-Semitism. A lot of people, some of them Christians, believe from these passages that all Jews are the synagogue of Satan and thus they are evil fueling much of modern anti-Semitism. The bottom line is that these Biblical passages clearly state that the synagogue of Satan are not Jews and to say so is a blasphemy and those who say so are liars. This lie of Satan has caused much harm to Jews over the centuries. Jerry Golden, a Messianic Jew who lives in Israel agrees with me and sees how these Scriptures are often misused to persecute Jews. They result in anti-Semitism. At the least, these scriptures have erroneously been used to explain that modern day Jews including modern Israelites are not the same as Biblical Israelites.
Who misuses these scriptures in this way? Hitler and the Arabs used them as do some Christians like Texe Mars. Satan hates God and His chosen people the Jews. They gave us the Temple service and the Torah and the Prophets and even the Messiah and His Apostles. Satan tried for millennium to destroy the Messianic birth line to prevent the birth of Christ. When he failed, he still has tried to destroy the Jews and Israel because this is where Jesus will return to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem to rule and reign for 1000 years from a rebuilt Temple. He is not returning to Rome or New York or Salt Lake City but to Jerusalem. How then could Jews be the synagogue of Satan? They are God's people. This misreading is a great lie of Satan's anti-Semitism and it continues to this day.
I looked up Synagogue of Satan on the internet and it was described as "the secret history of evil conspirators responsible for all wars and financial debacles". They were called the Jewish Illuminati and were the source of the world's problems. This is why most Jews including me shun conspiracy theories because they usually blame us. One source even stated that "the media continues to prop up stories of alleged Jewish suffering (holocaust) to divert attention away from their own oppressive activities." That is horrible.
Texe Mars, the supposed Christian author made a big deal about the synagogue of Satan motif and he even called the Star of David a star of Moloch and of Satan and said that modern day Jews are not Biblical Israelites.
These Jews were also linked to the Jesuits, the Bilderbergers and the Council of Foreign Relations. Remember these are not Jews as Jesus said to the churches at Smyrna and Philadelphia above. Thus the Synagogue of Satan is not made up of Jews a normal reading of the above scriptures shows.
Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam also erroneously speaks of Jews as the Synagogue of Satan. The Southern Poverty Law Center speaks of this concept as the root of much modern anti-Semitism especially among "radical traditionalists". Ashamed Mohammed and his radical group TEI also speaks of Jews as the synagogue of Satan. This concept is compared by Jews to the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" anti Semitic propaganda of a century before.
Many people call themselves Jews today and are not including so called Lost Tribes of Israel and some Messianics. I would not call them the synagogue of Satan but they are misled. Some call themselves British Israelites after Herbert Armstrong and others who claim that the kings of England were Jews. I have known some people who claim to be Jews and were not and often spread lies about Jews. At the least they profited from classes on Jews that they knew little about. Others call themselves rabbis who never went to rabbinical school and are just Christians but want to be called rabbis like Jesus. This really turns Jews off as it did me at one time.
The people who really bother me are the racists and bigots and anti-Semites who continue to blame the Jews for all wars and financial debacles in the guise that they are not Biblical Jews and are instead the synagogue of Satan even though Jesus clearly said that there not Jews. You could see why Jesus called them liars and blasphemers who attack Jews erroneously as the "synagogue of Satan. God have mercy on their souls.


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Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams named the new board of managers in December, saying the replacements were needed to regain the public trust. Williams said he plans to attend the official swearing-in ceremony and the board's first meeting next Tuesday.
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division told the Texas Education Agency on Monday that it would not oppose the temporary transfer of powers from the district's elected board of trustees to an appointed board of managers, which could serve for up to two years. The Texas agency needed federal clearance under the voting rights law.
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The decision to remove the El Paso school board - one of the most severe sanctions a district can receive - came after former Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia pleaded guilty in June to devising a scheme to keep hundreds of low-performing sophomores from taking the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test. Some students were held back in the ninth grade, while others were told to drop out before the 10th grade accountability tests. Before the removal of the board, the district had already been put on probation by the state.
The district thus gave the appearance of improving academic performance, meaning it was able to qualify for more federal funds. Garcia received at least $56,000 in performance bonuses. He was sentenced to more than three years in prison in October.
Isela Castanon-Williams, the ousted president of the board of trustees, said the board is looking into its legal options to fight the TEA's decision. She called the Department of Justice's approval a "huge violation of the voting rights of the people" and "a very dangerous precedent for school districts."
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Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh Steelers running backs Le'Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount told police they "pitched in" to buy a bag of marijuana with a female friend shortly before they were pulled over — and Bell acknowledged smoking some, though he told the officer who pulled them over he felt OK to drive, police said in court papers.
The criminal complaints against Bell, 22, and Blount, 27, were made public Friday morning. The complaints charge Bell, Blount and 21-year-old Mercedes Dollson, of Elk Grove, California, with possessing a small amount — or less than 30 grams — of marijuana. Bell (Michigan State) was also charged with driving under the influence.
A motorcycle officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Ross Township pulled over Bell's Chevrolet Camaro when he smelled marijuana coming from it around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the complaints said.
At first, Officer Sean Stafiej wrote, "Bell told me that he did not have any marijuana in the vehicle."
The officer said he then asked Bell, whose "eyes were red and glassy," and the others whether they had smoked pot that day.
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When the officer asked what he meant, Bell said, "We smoked within the last two hours," and shortly thereafter all three occupants told the officer "they just picked up the marijuana and that they each pitched in to buy it."
Advised that he would be charged with driving under the influence, Bell said, "I didn't know that you could get a DUI for being high. I smoked two hours ago. I am not high anymore. I am perfectly fine."
Bell continued, explaining, "Why would I be getting high if I had to get on a plane to make it to my game?" the officer wrote. After that, Bell told the officer he played for the Steelers and had to catch a 3:00 flight to Philadelphia. The Steelers played the Eagles on Thursday night in Philadelphia.
The officer said Bell did not appear capable of safely operating the vehicle, so he had him taken to the hospital for a blood test. The suspected marijuana and Bell's blood were to be submitted to the Allegheny County crime lab.
Police said they seized about 20 grams — or three-fourths of an ounce — of marijuana in a plastic bag found in the car's console.
Online court records don't list attorneys for the Steelers or their friend. A district judge mailed out the complaints Friday and scheduled a preliminary hearing for all three on Oct. 15.
Team spokesman Burt Lauten said Friday that the team had no comment on the charges.
Coach Mike Tomlin's called the incident "detrimental to our efforts" after Thursday's 31-21 exhibition loss to Philadelphia.
Bell and Blount both played, but Tomlin said he can't say what will happen now.
"Obviously, we have some things to do regarding the matter moving forward, but not a lot to say regarding it at this point in time," Tomlin said.
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text: Who We Are Company History Contact Us News & Events Consultants Richard W. Holloway, FIA, FSAS, FIAI, FASMManaging Director, South East Asia & India, LifeSingapore, SGTel: +65 6327 2301E-Mail | Download bio | VCardBiographyPublicationsProfessional DesignationsFellow, Institute of ActuariesFellow, Singapore Actuarial SocietyFellow, Institute of Actuaries IndiaFellow, Actuarial Society of MalaysiaEducationMathematics (First-class honours degree), Oxford University, United KingdomCurrent ResponsibilityRichard is the managing director of Milliman's South East Asia and India life consulting businesses, based in Singapore. Richard is well known across the region, having been working as a consultant in the region since 1995. He joined the firm in 2010.ExperiencePrior to Milliman, Richard spent 23 years with Watson Wyatt the last 16 of which were in Asia Pacific. He took on the management role for the regional insurance consulting business early in 2008 and also sat on the firm's Global Management Team. Prior to that, Richard assumed the role of 'Country Head' for Watson Wyatt's businesses in India from 2006 to 2008 and was responsible for insurance consulting in South East Asia from 1997. Richard has worked on most of the mergers and acquisitions in South East Asia over the past 18 years and has undertaken several Appointed Actuary roles for direct insurers and reinsurers in Singapore and in Sri Lanka. Richard is well known for his role in pioneering the insurance consulting market in India working on over 350 assignments in that market since 1997. Particular assignments include: Advice on the merger of Great Eastern Life and Overseas Assurance Corporation Working for CIMB in Malaysia and Bank Mandiri in Indonesia to help them source insurance partners Working for Fortis on its transactions with Mayban and MNI in Malaysia Working on the sell-side valuation work for AIG's 13 Asian businesses excluding Japan and the Philippines during 2008 and 2009, with a particular focus on markets in South East Asia, India and Australia Advising a client on the first and only public acquisition in the life insurance sector in India. Working on numerous market entry strategies and business planning projects in India dating back to 1997. Has supported many companies seeking new licenses in Singapore. Currently, Richard is Appointed Actuary to three international insurers with life insurance operations in Singapore: Zurich International Life, Royal Skandia and Standard Life and has previously advised other companies (Zurich International Life, Transamerica Bermuda) and several reinsurance companies. His clients have included many multi-national insurance groups, domestic insurance companies, private equity funds and regulators. In addition to the Appointed Actuary roles, Richard's technical expertise includes financial reporting, independent actuary high court certifications (including the John Hancock and Manulife merger in Singapore), expert witness opinions and risk management. Work at Milliman "I was offered a chance to come in, shake things up, create something." Work at Milliman


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Plazma Burst 2 is the hotly anticipated sequel to the confusingly named Plazma Burst: Forward to the Past! We'll spare you the finer details of the token plot, and instead tell you that it's an awesome sideways scrolling shooter with dozens of customisation options, achievements and most importantly: weapons! Best of all, it's completely free to play.
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Use the W, S, A and D or arrow keys to move around, and your mouse to aim and shoot.
The number keys switch directly between weapons, while the mouse wheel cycles through them.
Push Q to swap back to the last weapon used.
V drops your current weapon, while G selects grenades and E lets you use items.


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No. 3
|No. 3
Brucie Kibbutz punches his brother Mori Kibbutz.
|The Ballad of Gay Tony
|Mori Kibbutz
Bullet GT
No. 3 is the third and final mission for Mori Kibbutz in the DLC The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Mori gives headsets for communication for the 'run', and says nothing further about what's about to happen. Luis must go to a garage north of Middle Park where 3 cars are kept - a Turismo (Mori's car), an F620 (Brucie's car) and a Bullet GT (the player's car). Each are lined up and Mori takes the lead. The player must follow Mori and weave in and out between streets and police cars (as you gain a 3-star wanted level, due to Mori tipping off the cops to make things 'interesting').
Mori leads you through a narrow passage which takes skilled and alert driving. A chopper will fly between Luis and Brucie which shouldn't damage the cars. After this, Mori will lead the player to use ramps to jump between a few barges, finally losing the heat.
In the aftermath, Luis, now finally free to speak his mind to Mori, berates him over his arrogance, stupidity, lack of empathy and his constant cruelty towards Brucie. Mori at first blows him off, chiding Brucie in the process, only for his younger brother to finally snap and lash out, (apparently) breaking Mori's nose. Apologizing, Brucie leads his now sobbing, whimpering brother away.
After the mission, Henrique Bardas texts Luis informing him that two new vehicles, the F620 and the Bullet GT are now available from him.
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- Midway through the chase along the promenade, the camera will briefly change to a third-person cinema view. Be very careful with steering and acceleration while this plays as when the original view restores, it's easy to find yourself off course or heading for an obstacle.
- Watch out for trash and other obstacles that either appear in your way, or get thrown at you by the other cars. Even the smallest bit of garbage is enough to make Luis' car flip.
- One way to get through the barge jumps without landing in the water is to stop dead on the first barge after you land on it, then take a run up to the ramp, then stop on the next barge, and so on. This doesn't help with the time requirement for 100%, but until one gets used to the timing of the jumps, it's a good way to get through the level on the first try.
- All traffic is scripted during the chase.
- It's suggested in the end-game credits that this event somewhat equalises Mori and Brucie's relationship, as they are seen sparring with one-another in the Fight Club.
- The title is a reference to the GTA IV mission No. 1 given to Niko Bellic by Brucie.
- The title of the mission most likely comes from the three of them hanging out, or that its Mori's third and final mission he gives you. It could also be a reference to the fact that Luis is the third protagonist in the GTA IV series, referencing Niko's mission with Brucie.
- Mori's Turismo has a horn that beeps the song Dixieland. It is similar to that of the General Lee, the famed 1969 Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazzard.
- Some players are experiencing a problem in this mission, which is an infinite loading after the final cutscene (PC version). This can be solved by turning all settings to the lowest possible.
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|Target score
|Time taken to complete the mission.
|Car damage
|Damage attained by the car.
|Top speed
|The top speed of the car used by the player.
|140 mph
|Followed close
|Stayed close to the Kibbutz brothers through the pursuit.


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Just in time for holiday gift-giving, my book, Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden, which I both wrote and illustrated, is on sale for only 15.00 on my publisher's website. The price is unbeatable as the list cost is 35.00. Oh Garden! makes an ideal gift for the garden-maker and nature lover on your holiday list and at this price, I recommend you buy one for yourself and one for a friend!
Anyone who gardens along the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to South Carolina will appreciate Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! (David R. Godine, 2009, $35). This book is filled with design ideas and plants that work well in this coastal region, as author and garden designer Kim Smith relates her experiences with her garden in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The first part of the book, "Creating the Framework," delves into trees, shrubs, and other elements for creating structure in the garden, while the second section addresses how to fill out the framework to create a harmonious living tapestry in your garden. —Viveka Neveln, The American Gardener
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DensityScout sniffs out malware in compressed files
You think your PC is infected by something dangerous, but your regular antivirus package hasn't raised any alerts. So what now?
This is a question we cover fairly often here. Only last week we reported on the latest version of Mandiant Redline, which will scan your system's executables and highlight those most likely to be malware. Now, CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Austria has come up with another small contribution in DensityScout; it's not for PC novices, but if you're an expert computer user then you could find the program very helpful indeed.
What DensityScout essentially tries to do is identify files in a given folder path that have been packed. This is a technique commonly used by malware to obfuscate or encrypt its contents, making it more difficult for regular scanners to identify the threat (although it's also used by many legitimate programs, so you need to be cautious how you interpret its results).
And the program uses a simple mathematical idea to figure this out. Standard unpacked executable files will have an uneven spread of bytes; that is, some byte patterns will occur more often than others due to structures in the file. But the packing process means you'll have a much more even distribution of byte usage throughout the file, and so by calculating and reporting on a file's density (which the author says is similar to entropy, though we're still awaiting the precise details), you can more easily find possible malware.
So what does this mean? The author recommends launching the program with a line like this:
densityscout -s cpl,exe,dll,ocx,sys,scr -p 0.1 -o results.txt c:\Windows\System32
(Be sure to read his SANS blog post on DensityScout for the full details.)
Which essentially means scan all the executable files in the Windows System32 folder, saving the data to results.txt. Those results are then placed in order, with the lowest and most suspect values at the top. Which, on our test Windows 7 system, started like this:
(0.02417) | c:\Windows\System32\FlashPlayerInstaller.exe
(0.16460) | c:\Windows\System32\DivX.dll
(0.22350) | c:\Windows\System32\iglhsip32.dll
(0.28759) | c:\Windows\System32\AuthFWGP.dll
That's not bad at all. The program has immediately highlighted a couple of non-system files within the \Windows\System32 folder (and there were other examples further down the list).
But it also illustrates the problem with DensityScout: legitimate files may be packed, too, so you need to interpret these results with care. And you certainly can't scan an entire system and expect useful results (if nothing else it'll take too long; the program must count every byte in the scanned file types so isn't too speedy).
Still, we were impressed by DensityScout's ability to highlight packed files in our Windows folders. And they're a common target area for malware, so even if you never use the program for anything else, then its ability to check those locations could be very useful. Just be sure to very carefully research any files it throws up, because being packed does not necessarily mean a program has any malicious intent.
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My battle with Steam should be posted some time next week.
Alright. I'll keep asking around then.
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Marshall Branstool necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Branstool Orchards
We are a husband and wife team. We pride ourselves on growing sweet mouth watering peaches and apples through a high maintenance and detailed process. Many of our European/Asian gourmet varieties are not available in grocery stores so the customers get a bit of a foreign experience when they visit. Our repeat customers drive for hours to get our produce. Our orchard is located in small town Central Ohio but a short 45 minute drive from Columbus .
We cater to the more urban customers who appreciate locally grown food. They drive out from the city with their kids to linger in our market and roam the rolling hills of our orchards. All of our fruit is sold directly to customers at the orchard market or several local farmer's markets. Also many families drive out to spend the day picking their own apples, peaches. and cherries.
The logo that would best represent us should appeal to discerning gourmet food lovers. An elegant design is what we prefer rather than a cartoon. Here are some things to consider. Rolling tree covered hills, picturesque, fresh, airy, gourmet. We would like our logo to include our brand name and some warm colors or combinations of orange, red, green, and yellow. We are open to creative designs.
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