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I stand under an aged oak, and the rows of simple white headstones extend in their heart-stopping sweep across the Virginia hills of Arlington National Cemetery. Each stone sentinel is dressed and at attention, calling to mind both the life and the death of the soldier who lies beneath. Solid, steady and unyielding, the markers stand in counterpoint to the soft green earth and capricious light that dances across their faces.Read the rest at Always On Watch.
One weekend in May, each of these white uniforms is decorated with a small American flag, placed there by a living soldier's hand. These flags are brilliant in the afternoon sun, and it is my privilege to walk among these honored ranks to remember those who died in service to me.
But the men and women who sleep in these rolling hills didn't know it was for me that they fought in the forests of the Ardennes or in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. They didn't know it was for me that they left behind wives, husbands and sweethearts, children and parents, friends. I, too, didn't know until life's experience began to teach me how precious my freedom is. Only by examining my life -- taking stock of all the blessings and opportunities that have been mine because of the freedoms I can count on as an American citizen -- could I begin to understand the purpose of their service and the meaning of their sacrifice.
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from The Guardian
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Immediately a polite man in jeans and T-shirt emerged to ask us to stay off the
grass. Though this grass was the curbside city property, we obliged.
Soon, however, he was pacing and talking on a cell phone. He went inside theIt might be assumed that an assurance from the Secret Service would be enough to satisfy any security-minded guardian of Louis Farrakhan. But not in this case. Calmes continues:
mansion's black wrought iron fence, crossed the well-landscaped yard, lifted a
water bucket behind rose bushes and, voila!, a walkie-talkie. He was heard to
refer to "the CIA" once he began speaking into it.
Soon he approached our [Secret Service] agent, asking him to move the van and its occupants, though your pooler could not hear much else he said. But the agent said, "How is this a security breach?" And he asked if the house was a government property.
The man said something else and at that point the agent stuck out his hand to shake hands and introduced himself as a Secret Service agent. He added, "Sir, I can assure you that we will do nothing to interfere with whatever is going on in there."
The man is back to pacing and talking on his cell, walkie-talkie in hand.More time passed. The men in T-shirts were joined by even more men, from the Fruit of Islam, Farrakhan's security force. From Calmes:
A co-pooler searched the Internet for the address and found it listed on a Web site called NotForTourists and another called Taxexemptworld.com. Indeed, another pooler found a county Web site that confirmed this property is tax exempt for being a religious institution.
Reinforcements arrived — three men in T-shirts reading "Wide or Die!" One surly man has been staring daggers at us. Asked if this is Minister Farrakhan's house, he just stared at your pooler. Asked again, he said, "I don't have no comment."
At nearly 8 p.m. local time we are still holding while POTUS and family remain at the Nesbitts.
It's 8:45 and nearly dark; your pool has retreated back inside the van. We'reAt that point, the Secret Service was badly outnumbered by the Fruit of Islam, who apparently believed that some sort of "security breach" had occurred. Were Farrakhan's men armed? Were there more on the way? The Secret Service agent called for backup. From Calmes:
outnumbered now by roughly a dozen Fruit of Islam agents for the Nation of Islam. As each casually dressed man arrives, he exchanges elaborate andshake/hug/double air-kisses with others. Two walked by your pooler chanting "Islam."
Several have filmed and photographed your poolers, the van and its license plates with their cell phones.
One came and stood close to a couple poolers and OUR [Secret Service] agent. He asked if he could help. No answer. He asked again. The man said no. The agent said, "Secret Service — Please move away from this group of people."
He did. Soon the agent asked us to go in the bus. We did.
9:20 local time and our agent got reinforcements from three Secret Service agents. One shook hands with one of the 22 Fruit members we now can count from the van. After a short discussion the three Secret Service agents walked away again.While this was happening, word of the standoff apparently got around as a result of Calmes' pool reports (they were sent out piecemeal by email). Someone who had read the reports got in touch with Farrakhan to let the Nation of Islam leader know that the people waiting outside were just covering Obama. From Calmes:
No word on when we get to leave. We're guessing POTUS is watching the Blackhawks game at the Nesbitts' home.
The power of pool reportage! Standoff ends, apparently with help of intermediaryAnd that was the end of it. Some observers will make light of the whole thing — just a little misunderstanding with those weird Nation of Islam guys — but the fact that Farrakhan's security force is close to the president's home is likely a matter of continuing concern to the Secret Service. And on Saturday night, the two forces ran into each other.
in Detroit:
Your pooler got a call at about 10:15 local time from a pool report reader who identified himself as the Rev. Gary Hunter, a Baptist minister in Motown who writes and blogs for the Detroit Times. He said he had called Minister Farrakhan and his son and asked them to have the Fruit stand down.
"I told him you were good people," Rev. Hunter said. "He said he didn't know you all were just waiting for the president."
As it happens, the Fruit of Islam indeed had mostly gone by then. The Rev. Hunter apparently is remembered by [White House social secretary staffer Samantha] Tubman, and he said he knows our frequent press rustler Ben Finkenbinder from past travels with Obama.
Anyway, at 10:33 we pulled away and we are at the Obama residence. Never saw POTUS at all.
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How did the President of the United States spend his Memorial day weekend? Honoring the glorious dead? Not a chance.
He pow-wowed with race baiter, Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan, a frequent visitor to the White House. Back in March, Farrakhan blamed the Jews for O's woes."The Zionists are in control of Congress," Farrakhan said as he listed off a slew of Jewish economic advisers, adding that the "bloodsuckers of the poor" were rewarded with a bailout.America is in trouble.
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The Department of Homeland Security is trying to deport the son of a Hamas founder who told of his conversion to Christianity and decade of spying for Israel in a New York Times best-seller.
"Son of Hamas" author Mosab Hassan Yousef revealed on a blog hosted by his publisher he is scheduled to appear June 30 before Immigration Judge Rico J. Bartolomei at the DHS Immigration Court in San Diego.
Yousef said the DHS informed him Feb. 23, 2009, he was barred from asylum in the U.S. because there were reasonable grounds for believing he was "a danger to the security of the United States" and "engaged in terrorist activity."
An incredulous Yousef said the U.S. government's belief he is a terrorist is based on a complete misinterpretation of passages of his book in which he describes his work as a counterterrorism agent for the Israeli internal intelligence service Shin Bet.
(NewsCore) - In his fiercest defense yet of the mosque proposed near Ground Zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared that it must be allowed to proceed because the government "shouldn't be in the business of picking" one religion…He's right. They do have the right, according to the Constitution.
"I think it's fair to say if somebody was going to try, on that piece of property, to build a church or a synagogue, nobody would be yelling and screaming," the mayor said.
"And the fact of the matter is that Muslims have a right to do it, too."
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The al-Qaida-Taliban combo plans to use parts of the Middle East as launch padsEarlier this month on May 10, 2010, Stratfor reported on a chemical weapons attack on a girls school in Afghanistan.
for attacks against the west. Not only so, the groups have also developed some
expertise in making bio-chemical weapons, NWFP police chief Malik Navid told a
Pakistan National Assembly's standing committee.
Navid warned that the Pakistan government needed to urgently focus on containing militancy as it spread from its bases. "Taliban's philosophy is to create pockets everywhere," he said, adding that jihadi groups were moving through southern Punjab and eventually aimed to reach the financial hub of Karachi.
Recently, 17 students at a Kabul, Afghanistan, girls high school fell ill and had to be hospitalized, along with several teachers. Doctors at the hospital agreed that it was some kind of poison, but have not been able to identify it yet. All the victims smelled something odd when they got to school, then fell ill, with some of the students losing consciousness. This is the second such incident at this school, and there was a similar attack at a girls high school further north. The Taliban have been known to attack girls schools, including injuring or killing students with gunfire, explosives and, in at least one case, acid thrown into the faces of students. Now it appears that poison gas has been added to the Taliban arsenal.Please keep the families and friends of our brave men and women in your thoughts and prayers.
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What he means is (well I hope he means this; all other suggestions are lunatic) that the majority of the country is Christian, so whenever a murder occurs, it's a "Christian murder."
But see, the thing is, Muslims commit those sorts of "Muslim murders" every day, too, if we're calling any murder (for the typical motives, love, money, etc.) by a member of a religion a Religious Murder.
He kind of forgot that, eh?
What we are talking about is murders committed for the sake of religion -- and no, Tavis, Christians are not killing people every day because Jesus told them they'd get into heaven if they do.
Babu Suseelan, Hindu leader and human rights activist, is a university professor and psychologist. He is also the Director of Indian American Intellectuals Forum,New York.Go read the whole thing.
He is the author of several published articles on jihadi terrorism and cognitive psychology. He has been an invited speaker at both national and international conferences on jihadi terrorism.
Babu Suseelan will be speaking at the protest against the 911 mega mosque.
Dr. BABU SUSEELAN
It has been revealed that now Muslims in the U.S have planned to construct two Mosques for the area around GROUND ZERO. There were only 10 Mosques inNew York City in 1970. There were over 100 in 2001, including 17 in Manhattan. There is no reason to allow construction of a 15-story Mosque at Ground Zero.
Muslims paid $4.85 million in cash for the property. Islamic leaders have not explained to the public where the cash came from. It is reported that the funding came from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Iran, the leading promoters of Islam jihad around the world. Muslims plan to inaugurate the Mosque on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Those officials who have approved construction of the 15-story Mosque at Ground Zero are not in touch with Islamic reality, and are afraid of jihadi terrorists. Out of fear, they made an irrational decision. Citizens should not now sit on the sidelines. They should confront decision makers who make policy decisions that have disastrous consequences. To do that, citizens must learn the past history of Islam and, Muslims' present terrorist activities, and clear away their false assumptions on Islam. Citizens must make informed choices and ask questions to the political leaders.
ASSOCIATED PRESS INFLAMMATORY? This ad, created by Stop Islamization of America, has already been been used on public buses in Miami and New York City. The Detroit-area bus authority has refused to use the ad, but SIOA has filed suit in federal court to force its use.
A bus-ad campaign that seeks to offer resources to those considering leaving Islam already has stirred up controversy in Miami and New York, but its next city may create the most fireworks - Detroit, the U.S. metropolitan area with the heaviest concentration of Middle Easterners.
The Detroit-area bus authority has refused to run the ads from Stop Islamization of America, an organization headed up by conservative activist and anti-jihad blogger Pamela Geller, prompting SIOA to file a federal lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Mrs. Geller said the transport authority's refusal to run her ads violates her First Amendment right of free speech, and she will take the lawsuit to the Supreme Court if necessary.
"It is against the law, and I tell you, those ads will go up whether they like it or not," Mrs. Geller said.
SIOA initially encountered a similar refusal in Miami, but Mrs. Geller said a lawsuit prompted the transport-authority there to relent in less than 24 hours.
Several calls to the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation, which operates the bus system serving Detroit and two surrounding counties, were not returned Thursday.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan, said he expects that even if the ads do run in Detroit, they will not elicit any response besides puzzlement. The Detroit area, centering on Dearborn, is home to a quarter-million Muslims, whom Mr. Walid does not expect to react favorably to the presence of SIOA's ads in their city.
"If she's planning to put those Islamophobic ads in Detroit, she's wasting her time," Mr. Walid said.
The Detroit area also has a large Arab and Middle Eastern Christian population, centering on suburbs north of the city proper.
Mrs. Geller said SIOA began its national city-by-city ad campaign in response to bus ads in Florida inviting people to convert to Islam.
The SIOA ads read, "Fatwah on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? Leaving Islam? Got Questions? Get answers!" and provides a Web address that links to organizations that serve Muslim apostates. The bus ads are running in Miami through June 15 and began running in New York last week and will run through late June, Mrs. Geller said.
Part of the conflict centers on whether Muslims are free to leave Islam without retribution, and whether their families will punish or kill them for conversion.
One such case that has made national headlines in the U.S. involves 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, who fled her parents' Ohio home to stay with a Florida Christian minister after she converted. In the ensuing custody and foster care disputes, her Muslim parents deny that the girl will be harmed if she returns home.
Abdul Rahman, an Afghan citizen, was arrested in 2006 for converting to Christianity there, and members of his family asked prosecutors to seek the death penalty. But the international outcry over Mr. Rahman's case, and the fact that the Afghan government was installed by the U.S. invasion - plus doubts about the case and Mr. Rahman's sanity - combined to prompt the court to release him.
The consensus view among Muslim jurists worldwide is that apostasy, unless mitigated by such factors as mental illness or duress, is punishable by death. Mrs. Geller cited a fatwa, or ruling point on Islamic law, issued by the authoritative Al-Azhar University in 1978, that said: "This man has committed apostasy; he must be given a chance to repent, and if he does not, then he must be killed, according to Shariah [law]."
Mr. Walid denied Mrs. Geller's claims, though he provided no authoritative citations, and attacked Mrs. Geller's character.
"She's a well-known anti-Muslim bigot," he said. "She makes no distinction between extremist Muslims and mainstream Muslims."
Mr. Walid said that although there have been a few cases of violence against Muslims who convert away from the religion, there is no retribution for those who choose to leave Islam.
"People are free to leave Islam or any religion at any time. This is the United States of America," he said.
But a public educator in Dearborn, speaking on the condition of anonymity owing to fear of retribution, said there is a climate of fear in the Detroit area's Muslim community.
"The fear is palpable. I know there are things I am 'not allowed' to say. A discussion of religion with a Muslim person is often prefaced by the statement, 'Dont say anything about the Prophet [Muhammad].' In free society, open and honest conversation is not usually begun by a prohibition. Threats and intimidation are just part of life here."
In a little-noticed passage Friday, the New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton. And indeed a look at the Board's website reveals this restriction:
The Board consists of not more than 16 members appointed by the President from among individuals who are not employed by the Federal Government. Members are distinguished citizens selected from the national security, political, academic, and private sectors.
As a sitting member of Congress, Sestak was not eligible for the job. And since the White House intended for Sestak to remain in his House seat, he would not have been eligible for the board after this November's elections, provided he was re-elected to the House.
The statement from White House counsel Robert Bauer did not specifically mention the intelligence board, but speaking to reporters Friday, Sestak said of his conversation with Clinton, "At the time, I heard the words 'presidential board,' and that's all I heard…I heard 'presidential board,' and I think it was intel." In addition, the Times reported that "people briefed on the matter said one option was an appointment" to the intelligence board. But the White House could not legally have placed Sestak on the board.
Did the White House not know that? The apparent contradiction is sure to create more questions from Republicans who want an independent investigation of the affair. Why would the White House — normally pretty careful in such matters — offer Sestak a job he couldn't take.
from Black Snake Moan -- definitely worth a watch if you can find it
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"We don't write it about Russia, because there we have greater problems with human rights and press freedom than in the US."Anybody else surprised at how the Left only dictate their demands to those who abide by human rights rulings and not those who would have no problem putting them in hospital?
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Last summer, I received a phone call from President Clinton. During the course of the conversation, he expressed concern over my prospects if I were to enter the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and the value of having me stay in the House of Representatives because of my military background. He said that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had spoken with him about my being on a Presidential Board while remaining in the House of Representatives. I said no. I told President Clinton that my only consideration in getting into the Senate race or not was whether it was the right thing to do for Pennsylvania working families and not any offer. The former President said he knew I'd say that, and the conversation moved on to other subjects. There are many important challenges facing Pennsylvania and the rest of the country. I intend to remain focused on those issues and continue my fight on behalf of working families.Either this is pure crap and/or Sestak was overstating the whole thing from the beginning.
|RUSH: I guess now we know why, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton had lunch yesterday. They had to get their stories straight. You know who this is, and you know what this is, so let's go.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
Okay, now we know why Clinton and Obama had lunch yesterday. They had to get their stories straight on this Sestak business. It is... (laughing) Folks, this is just too rich. Isn't it great? Here's what happened. Apparently Rahm Emanuel went to Clinton and said, "Look, would you go talk to Sestak informally? See if he's interested in taking a nonpaid -- an unpaid job -- high position job, unpaid here in the administration." And Clinton, of course, said (impression), "Hey, Mr. President, whatever you want. You know, I said, 'You're going to have to kiss my ass' back during the campaign if you wanted my support 'cause of the way you called me racist and so forth, the way you portrayed me and Hillary. Now you gotta come kiss my ass. So fine you're kissing my ass." I got the story right here. Clinton said that. Sit tight.
"I'm going to kiss your ass, you kiss my ass, and I will make sure that you are all right. You come groveling to me I'll be happy to help you out here." Now, look at what's happened here. They go to Bill Clinton. He's famous for getting people jobs. Monica Lewinsky offered a job at Revlon. She was offered a job at the United Nations. She didn't take any of them. But they've got Bill Clinton. Isn't it great, folks, that they've found a guy who they know will commit perjury to carry the water here? (chuckling)
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On Saturday, I posted about a mini research project that I did about the history of the house where I'm renting. The original owners of the 1880s Victorian mansion were Wilson M. and Elizabeth N. Tylor.
As I detailed, Wilson was the editor of the Easton, Md., newspaper for many years. Both he and his wife had longstanding ties to the region.
Both were Quakers and so were buried on the grounds of the Third Haven Meeting House, here in Easton. Turns out, that cemetery is practically across the street from where the house stands. I took a stroll over there this past Sunday.
Below are photographs of their gravesite:
The Tylors had five children, but I only found two of their graves in the vicinity of the parents at the cemetery.
Sadly, Laurence Claggett, a Tylor relative and historian who wrote the books I found over the weekend about the Tylor family, passed away only last month. The death notice I found online stated his service was to be held at the Third Haven Meeting House. I didn't see his grave there, but I wasn't looking for it at the time.

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The aftermath of a poor Olympic showing for Russia may have become even more dire on Wednesday, when the coach of the country's women's volleyball team was found hanged in his hotel room with some blaming the team's poor results at the London Games for his death.
As reported by Eurosport and a handful of other outlets, 43-year-old Russian volleyball coach Sergey Ovchinnikov (also spelled Sergei in some outlets) was found hanged in a hotel room while he and his Dynamo Moscow squad were taking part in preseason training in Croatia. Ovchinnikov had recently finished a turbulent Olympic campaign leading the Russian women's volleyball team, where the national team had entered as favorites but was eventually eliminated by Brazil in the quarterfinals, failing to convert a whopping six match points in the loss.
While there is certainly no proof that Ovchinnikov's death was brought on by the national team's poor results, two of his colleagues insisted that it played a part in the suicide.
"He took the Olympics very personally," Russian men's volleyball coach Vladimir Alekno told RT.com. "I saw what he was going through and how upset he was after the defeat. He didn't talk much. Even after victories he was always thinking about something and smoked a lot."
According to Sovetsky Sports news service, Ovchinnikov had also complained of recurring headaches in recent days, a malady which may or may not be connected to the Olympics and the stress it brought.
Regardless of reason, another of Ovchinnikov's former colleagues was distraught at the news of the coach's death, insisting that his suicide was simply the result of an irrational reaction to a single tournament.
"This is so stupid," former Russian women's volleyball coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin told Russian News Service. "He was my friend, my colleague. No one said a bad word about him. Yes, there was a blunder at the Olympics, well, to hell with it."


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20 top web design and development trends for 2013
.NET Magazine posted its annual predictions article today. There are some great thoughts here, and if last year's effort is anything to go by, it will be bang on target. So for all you developers and designers out there – go take a look!
As an aside, my own contribution to this years article – thanks to Craig Grannell for asking my thoughts – is discoverability. It's something I may cover in a post, as I believe its going to be a key area for the big content producers this year. As the amount of content increases (apps, videos, etc), finding the right content becomes more and more difficult. The company that cracks this problem is going to really reap the benefits.
Following on from yesterday's article, I was particularly pleased to see the following article on PandoDaily this morning: "Game discovery platform Chartboost is on fire, scores Sequoia in $19 million Series B". Maybe we won't have to wait too long for this prediction to manifest!
Also, for those looking for additional information on 2013 Web Development trends, check out HTMLCut's "Trends, Expectations, and Truth About Web Design 2013" – it's a good overview of all the 2013 trends and tips articles published over the last few weeks.
What do you think will be this year's trends? Do you agree with .NET? I'd love to hear your thoughts.


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2016 Olympic Bid and Racist Governor of Tokyo
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – THE SEOUL TIMES
|Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎), who was on Sept. 30, 1932, is a Japanese author, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999.
The Governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, desires to bring the Olympics to Japan, however, if this happens then what happened to the Olympic ideal? After all, we are talking about a racist and sexist who denies the Rape of Nanking and who blames foreign nationals for crime. Therefore, if Tokyo wins the right to host the 2016 Olympics it means that the "family of nations" is in the hands of a racist and sexist leader.
Therefore, it is up to individuals and organizations to campaign against the Tokyo Olympic bid because of past statements that Ishihara made. I am not talking about mild comments; on the contrary, I am talking about blatant nationalism and sexism.
I always believed that the Olympic ideals were meant to bring people together under one banner and where males and females were respected equally. However, clearly this does not apply to the Governor of Tokyo.
In a past article I mentioned that Ishihara "desires to leave a legacy" and if Tokyo wins then Ishihara and nationalists can gloss over their extreme views. Also, it will embolden other racists and sexists to pin the blame on foreign nationals and to follow the same racist path to power.
However, the real legacy of Ishihara is being anti-Korean, anti-Chinese and anti-foreign by nature. At the same time Ishihara is clearly sexist and how strange it would be for a person who deems females to be inferior and who wants to keep Japan for the Japanese, to be given his glory day!
All nations have a negative past however we expect our major leaders to move on and try to start afresh. However, Ishihara is very dangerous because he is keeping the heart of racial hatred alive and he belittles the history of both China and Korea by making outlandish statements. Given this, it is essential that the Olympic Committee understands the real motives of this unashamed individual who mocks the memory of many people, and who wants to employ revisionism and hatred of others in order to maintain power.
In my last article about Ishihara I stated "….he is a dangerous maverick who installs anti-Korean and anti-Chinese hatred. Not only this, we are talking about a rampant sexist who made an alarming comment about the role of women in society. Ishihara also belittled Africans in another tirade and the only reason he remains so silent recently, is because the nationalist leader of Tokyo understands that he is under the international spotlight. Therefore, it is essential to enlighten people about this individual who stokes up hatred towards others via un-logical outbursts of inhumanity."
In 1990, Ishihara mocked the memory of China and he belittled one of the worse crimes of the 20th century. Not only this, he is mocking the memory of real pain and sorrow and a crime against humanity. After all, vast numbers of people were killed and babies were slaughtered and many members of the Imperial Japanese Army raped tens of thousands of Chinese women.
Despite this, Ishihara stated in a Playboy interview that "People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie." Also, more recently Ishihara gave his blessing to the film called The Truth about Nanjing (Nanking) and in typical nationalist style this film ignores reality and instead panders to the nationalist heart and to people who despise China.
Therefore, it is vital that the Olympic Committee understands the true nature of Ishihara. After all, behind all the smiles in Japan, just like child abduction in this nation of thousands of mixed blood children, you have a sinister motive and this is based on rampant nationalism and extremism amongst certain elites in Japan.
Therefore, would the Olympic Committee award Germany the Olympics if the local mayor stated that the holocaust was a myth? If Japan wins the vote in early October then what would this say about the Olympic dream and ideal?
After all, the Olympics should be based on harmony but Ishihara does not support harmony or sexual equality. He commented about women that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin." Therefore, this person must be exposed and the same applies to the hidden nature of racism and sexism within the logic of the Governor of Tokyo.


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M. Güthschmidt was the founder of studio Güthschmidt, in 1909 - Holland's oldest commercial advertising studio. He made several sports cartoons for De Sportkroniek in 1916-17 and did commercial posters for products as various as tea, soap, bread, airplane companies and the first electrical appliances. In the 1920s, he drew hundreds of colored pictures for Dutch toast factory Haust, which, along with a strip of text, were packaged with their products Of course, the Haust products were always featured as the main characters in these stories, usually saving the day. In later stories, Güthschmidt even had rabbits eating Haust toast, to which the competition replied: "We don't make animal food."
Another commercial Haust comic, by an unknown artist


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On one hand we have the Department of Truth about to tell tomorrow that NFP based on various seasonal and birth death adjustments increased by 250,000. On the other hand, we have Gallup which actually does real time polling without a procyclical propaganda bias. And Gallup does't have any good news: "Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010." And the one indicator that nobody in the mainstream media will touch with a ten foot pole: "Underemployment, a measure that combines part-time workers wanting full-time work with those who are unemployed, surged in February to 19.9%. This resulted from the combination of a sharp 0.5-point increase since the end of January in the percentage unemployed and a 0.5-point increase in the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work. Underemployment is now higher than it was at this point a year ago (19.7%)."
Unemployment rate:
And Underemployment:
A summary of Gallup's view on February jobs data which likely will be diamterically opposite to what the propaganda machine will spout tomorrow:
Jobs Situation Deteriorates in February
There is essentially no difference between the unemployment rate now and the one at this time a year ago; January's rate, in contrast, showed a 1.1-percentage-point year-over-year improvement. This suggests that the real U.S. jobs situation worsened in February. That is, jobs are relatively less available now than in January.
In the broader underemployment picture, the situation is much the same. January's year-over-year improvement of 1.0 points became -0.2 points in February. In turn, this suggests job market conditions in terms of underemployment also worsened during February.
This deterioration in the jobs situation combined with surging gas prices, budget battles at the federal and state level, and declines on Wall Street tend to explain the recent plunge Gallup recorded in consumer confidence. They also align with the continued "new normal" spending patterns of early 2011. Although Gallup's Job Creation Index has improved over the past year and showed modest improvement in February, the improvement has not been significant enough to positively affect underemployment and unemployment.
Warren Buffet said Wednesday on CNBC that the U.S. unemployment rate should be in the low 7% range by late 2012. If that is going to be the case, the job creation environment must change dramatically from what it is today.


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My sister-in-law is Jana is the fabulous fabric designer behind this beautiful fabric. This is the free quilt pattern offered through Henry Glass Fabrics with the fabric collection. When she got her fabric in October, it was days before she left for Quilt Market in Houston. Between the two of us we busted out a TON of stuff for her to take to Quilt Market for her Schoolhouse.
I tried to quilt each block like they were candy. I outline quilted the fussy cut pieces and quilted loops in the border around them.
I whipped up this fun birthday banner while Jana pieced the quilt. It turned out so stinking cute in her fabric!
I echo quilted the cake with some details in the layers and embellishments.
Here's a slightly awkward angle of the whole banner. Cute, right?!
And here's a quick pic of the top of the banner. I bought the cutest - well, I'm not sure what it is....ribbon? It isn't ric-rac. It's kind of lacy on one edge. Anyway, I thought it would look great as the embellishment on the cupcakes. I quilted back and forth lines in the cupcake wrappers to make them look more like wrappers.
I used a neutral colored thread - either a light yellow or a white (I can't remember).
We also whipped up a darling ruffled pillow and Jana made some metal frame purses and a little outfit for my baby girl to wear on her first birthday (I should've taken pictures of the outfit on the baby, but I completely forgot. But I did get some video with the video camera, so that covers me, right?)
Anyway, Delicious Wishes is available now! Go to your local quilt shop and see if they have it in stock, I know mine does!


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(CBS News) WASHINGTON, D.C. - Brownells, the company that calls itself the world's largest arms supplier, reports it sold three-and-a-half years' worth of AR-15 ammunition magazine in just three days. The company apologized online for delays in shipping new orders.
The AR-15 is the nation's most popular semi-automatic rifle, similar to the one used in the Newtown shootings.
At the same time, in Washington, the debate over gun control ramped up Sunday.
NRA: We will oppose semi-automatic weapons ban
After NRA speaks out, gun debate heats u
On "Face the Nation," CBS News' Bob Schieffer questioned NRA President David Keene about his statement during Friday's news conference in light of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn (see video at the left). Schieffer said Keene seemed to blame the mentally ill, Hollywood, the media and video game manufacturers - without laying any responsibilities on NRA's policies.
Kenne responded, "We're living in a country, a free country, in which people have a right to exercise their second amendment rights. We're living in a country where in the last few decades as gun ownership has increased, violent crime has fallen. What we have though in this country -- and in any country -- is a percentage of people who are frankly either evil or crazy."
The NRA is countering calls for tougher gun controls with proposals of its own.
One of those proposals is for the creation of a national database of the mentally ill to prevent them from buying weapons. It is also lobbying to put armed guards or police in schools.
"If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children then call me crazy... I think American people think it's crazy not to do it," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on NBC's "Meet the Press."
But the American public is showing a new willingness to tighten gun control laws.
In a CBS News poll conducted after the fatal Newtown shooting, 57 percent of Americans said that gun control laws should be stricter.
Watch: Obama to the people: I hear you on gun control
Obama coalesces support for gun control
Newtown parents reject NRA plan
That's the highest level of support in a decade and may provide renewed support for politicians willing to challenge the powerful NRA lobby.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer criticized the NRA vice president's argument that any attempt at gun restrictions is bound to fail.
"I think he's so extreme and so tone deaf that he actually helps the cause of us passing sensible gun legislation in the Congress," Schumer said.
A number of Democrat congressmen have pledged to consider reintroducing an assault weapons ban on sales of semi-automatic rifles and restrictions on certain ammunition.
Many firearm enthusiasts fear new restrictions and are voting with their pocketbooks.
At a Denver gun show this weekend, ammunition for the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle -- the style of weapon used in the Newtown attack -- sold out within an hour.
"We're worried we're not going to be able our guns for our safety and we're not doing anything wrong," said one attendee, Crystalin Benedetto.
It isn't clear yet whether the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history may actually drives Washington to change any laws on who can buy guns, but schools are considering the NRA's proposal. At least a dozen states are reviewing existing school safety plans that include arming officers or to allow teachers or officers to carry weapons.


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Our remaining grey seal patient, Eyegore, is doing great! Eyegore came to us for long-term rehabilitation about two months ago. He was initially admitted for a respiratory infection, an eye infection of the left eye and alopecia (hair loss).
Eyegore's respiratory and eye infections have cleared and his hair is regrowing in the areas around his neck and abdomen that were affected by the hair loss.
While his eye infection has cleared, he has permanent corneal scarring of the left eye that is a result of the previous infection. A consult with a veterinary ophthalmologist revealed that Eyegore is likely blind in his left eye. Despite blindness in his left eye, Eyegore has a strong personality and appetite, which are great traits for a wild seal! He enjoys interacting with enrichment items, and his favorite is an orange sled that we fill with fish and ice.
Eyegore has been cleared for release, which our staff is now in the process of planning. We'll be sure to keep everyone update as details for his release come together.
Be sure to wish Eyegore well on our Facebook page and follow Jenn on Twitter for real-time updates!


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I was shopping for a few items the other day and I saw a package of the Kings Hawaiian Rolls my kids love so much on the shelf. But, then I saw hot dog and hamburger rolls next to them! Did you hear the heavens open up and start singing? We love these rolls and now we have the hot dog and hamburger rolls here, amazing! I can't wait until they get the loaves of bread too! I am already brainstorming what to make with them.
About a three weeks or ago I made these sliders with the traditional ham and cheese that everyone does. (Click for link to original recipe.) At that time I was already thinking ahead to ways to change up these sandwiches. Around St. Patrick's Day corned beef is on sale and I stock up on them because that tends to be the only time of year that they go on sale here. So, I pulled one of my stash out the other day and cooked it in my slow cooker with the intent of making a few different dishes with the meat. First on my list was these sliders!
If you like corned beef these sliders were soooo much better than the ham & cheese ones. Even without the sauerkraut which we added after the sandwiches were cooked so they didn't get too soggy they were by far tastier than the ham sandwiches. My daughter was the one who came up with adding the sauerkraut to them. I of course always have a jar on hand.
The Swiss cheese, corned beef and sauerkraut with the hint of sweetness from the rolls was amazing! The kids wanted me to make another pan the next night but I told them we would put it on the menu next time I make corned beef.
Reuben Style Hawaiian Slider Sandwiches
- 1 dozen King's Hawaiian Dinner Rolls
- Corned beef – I used brisket but you can use deli meat too
- 6-8 oz. liced Swiss cheese, enough to cover entire sandwich
- 2/3 cup melted butter
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard (I used a whole seed version of mustard)
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 teaspoon dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 2 tablespoons dried minced onion
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 13 x 9 casserole dish with non-stick spray.
- Split the rolls in half. Place the bottom half of the rolls in the prepared baking dish.
- Top the roll bottoms with corned beef. Place the sliced cheese over the top of the ham to completely cover.
- Place tops of rolls on top of the cheese.
- Mix together the melted butter, mustard, Worcestershire Sauce, brown sugar, poppy seeds and dried onion until the sugar is dissolved.
- Spoon mixture over rolls.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the rolls are lightly browned and the cheese has melted.
- Cut into individual sandwiches to serve.


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Sixteen-year-old Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada at the Champs-Elysees when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. They are part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Elite and they need Avery as a pawn--or want her dead.
To decipher the ancient mystery that's putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the crypts of
Though it can stand alone, my 93,000 word YA Thriller THE ELITE is meant as the first in a trilogy. I am currently a freelance writer and recently spent time as a bookstore events and marketing coordinator, where I learned everything from the importance of co-op to the futility of wearing heels for three days straight at BEA.
Thank you for your consideration.
"It's not flattering, it's stalking. Jack Basil is totally stalking you." My best friend Lara ripped open a handful of sugar packets and dumped them in her coffee.
"Could you say it a little louder?" I felt my face flush and looked around. It was pouring outside, so half the school was crowded into the cafe where I worked instead of lounging on the patio at Burt's like usual. "And it is not. He--"
"He knew your name. And he asked me how long you've lived here, and where your dad is, and why you're homeschooled." Lara took a sip of her coffee and made a face. "It's not like he asked me if you have a date to prom or something. That would be normal. This was not normal."
It wasn't normal, but Lara was wrong--Jack Basil asking about me was definitely flattering. EmmaBeth Porter, the leader of the self-proclaimed Sexy Seven, had dumped her boyfriend to ask Jack to prom, only a few days after Jack had moved here. He'd turned her down. No one turned down EmmaBeth.
And now, he was asking Lara about me.
Just then, the door jingled, a gust of cool, rain-scented breeze blew inside, and Jack Basil himself walked into the cafe. A shiver ran down my spine that I tried to tell myself was just from the cold.
Jack shook the rain out of his hair, which was the color of espresso and slightly too long, and made wavy by the storm.


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Day off to shop for Halloween stuff and work on props.
Picked up some cool things at Target.
Bought this simply because it was a glass pumpkin bottle, and the ghouly martini sounded fun.
Cheap string of pumpkin lights.
And Bean put this guy on the stove.
Going to go build some props. : )
Friday, September 25, 2009
Day Out
Day off to shop for Halloween stuff and work on props.
5 comments:
- Sara said...
mmmm, mulled cider! yum!
- September 25, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I am about to blow up our Target...seems like people in this county wait till the last moment to put out their halloween stuff. At least I have Spirit's Halloween store to got to.
(Maybe I should open my own shop...)
- September 25, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Rot said...
: )
Sara, that's actually just water in there... we warm it up for the scent.
Though I SHOULD pour apple cider in there.
- September 25, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- All Together Dead said...
so have you tried the Mojito or Martini yet????
- September 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Rot said...
We tried the blood orange one and it's really good. Even without vodka.
But I'm a dirty martini kind of guy, so the sweetness of it is something to get used to.
- September 27, 2009 at 8:52 AM


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Dema Daiga, 29, College Park, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marvin C. Garbislate to 65 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for defrauding a mortgage lending company in connection with six Baltimore, Maryland, properties. Daiga's sentence also included two counts of aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme. Judge Garbis also ordered Daiga to pay a special assessment of $1,200 and restitution of $664,493.
According to testimony offered during the two week trial, Daiga worked as a mortgage loan broker and assisted with property appraisals. Campbell also worked in the mortgage lending field. Witnesses testified that from August to December 16, 2008, Daiga and Campbell recruited two straw purchasers and used the names and identifying information of four other individuals, without their knowledge, to apply for mortgages on six properties. Because the straw purchasers lacked the income and assets to qualify as borrowers or make the monthly mortgage payments, the defendants: filled out mortgage loan applications on behalf of the straw purchasers and other unwitting individuals with false employment histories, earnings and assets; provided telephone numbers that the defendants controlled to any person calling to confirm the false employment and earnings; and generated fake monthly bank account statements to make it appear that the individuals had sufficient assets to make the down payments. In fact, Daiga or Campbell paid the down payments; caused appraisals to be performed that inflated the property values; and instructed the title companies to send a substantial part of the loan proceeds to the defendants, or to businesses that they controlled.
According to trial evidence, five of the six Baltimore, Maryland, properties purchased under this scheme swiftly went into default resulting in a loss to a Beltsville mortgage lending company of approximately $664,493. The mortgage lending company was subsequently forced to lay off at least 20 employees and is no longer doing business as a result of the losses it suffered from the scheme.
Judge Garbis previously sentenced Olu Campbell, formerly known as Oluseun Oshosanya, 30, Laurel, Maryland, on December 3, 2010 to 54 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his participation in the fraud scheme. Judge Garbis also found that Campbell had obstructed justice during the post-trial proceedings on his motion for a new trial.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Special Agent in Charge Barbara Golden of the U.S. Secret Service – Baltimore Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Ken Taylor of the Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General – Office of Investigations and Commissioner of Financial Regulation Mark Kaufman of the Maryland State Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
The Maryland Mortgage Fraud Task Force was established to unify the agencies that regulate and investigate mortgage fraud and promote the early detection, identification, prevention and prosecution of mortgage fraud schemes. This case, which was referred to the Task Force by the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, as well as other cases brought by members of the Task Force, demonstrates the commitment of law enforcement agencies to protect consumers from fraud and promote the integrity of the credit markets. Information about mortgage fraud prosecutions is available http://www.justice.gov/usao/md/Mortgage-Fraud/index.html.
This law enforcement action is part of President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, the HUD Office of Inspector General and the Maryland DLLR for their investigative work. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Jefferson M. Gray and Sujit Raman, who prosecuted the case.


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Gloves for Two, Sandie Yi Crip Couture (2001)
Sara Hendren is an artist, researcher, and writer who explores how design and art practices can inform techno-scientific research and knowledge-building. She is the writer-editor of Abler, an online 'think space' where art and design are linked together with high and low-tech prosthetics, both practical and speculative, to explore questions about ability, disability, the normalized and medicalized body, and more. Abler juxtaposes posts featuring assistive technologies normally relegated to the field of rehabilitative medicine with questions concerning smart cities, cyborg transhumanism, and the future of democratic communities.
I Skyped with Sara about the politics of abled and disabled bodies, the artist as amateur, and our hopes for a cyborgian future.
Ana Avarez: You've written that Abler is one big umbrella project for your work. Can you talk about the ideas driving the site?
Sara Hendren: Abler brings together four streams of interest: First, an interest in the innovations of the high-tech prosthetic fields. Second, I'm interested in tracking the tradition of artists who have been working on prosthetics very broadly defined—a more metaphorical notion of the "prosthetic" as an extended tool that becomes a proxy, or a substitute for experience. For artists, the prosthetic becomes very subtle and associative, pointing to tools for needs we don't even know we have. Third, I'm looking at ideas about the cyborg and the future of bodies: how we negotiate our dance with machine parts of all kinds, and whether the enhancement and augmentation they promise is tempered enough by good critical conversations. And then fourthly, I'm pointing to what are commonly called "assistive technologies"—the very medicalized devices that lots of people use but that don't get much analysis as design or culture. Everything from crutches, to wheelchairs, walkers, ankle braces.
Those four fields tend to exist in more or less separate worlds. But all these things have much to say to one another. Abler puts them in adjacency online, along with critical writing, in a form that juxtaposes these ideas against one another and creates cross commentary to try to mix those categories. And ultimately to ask: Who is being assisted by what kinds of technologies? And what kinds of assistance do we want in the future?
The whole project has been to create a blog that's not just a story-chaser, a popularizer of technology; neither did I want it to become an academic exercise, denouncing the politics of technology development as inherently oppressive. I wanted to take some of the really interesting questions about normalcy and abnormalcy, dependence and independence and look at artworks, design, and engineering work that all address these issues. I wanted all those conversations to exist in one place, to be rich and generative and ultimately really exciting because of what they provoke in the imagination and also the critical conversations they spark about abled and disabled bodies.
It seems like we are going to be using the words "disabled" and "abled-bodied" quite a bit. I want to first ask you, not necessarily for a definition but more of a complication of these terms: what does it mean to be able or disabled and how is that tension addressed in your work?
People who work in disability try to keep raising the idea that being "disabled" is not a fixed and assigned identity. It is not about a body status or a capacity level, but much more about this very complex, changing, evolving, and perhaps temporary, perhaps longer term, political state—in some ways, similar to how we've come to understand the slippery designations of race and gender. The built environment and socio-political institutions all make allowances and disallowances for certain kinds of bodies and capacities, and those affordances have ripple effects in cultures, creating abled-ness and disabled-ness. And disability is a status that is always in flux: you enter into different seasons in your life where you are more or less bodily and cognitively able to access those institutions, avenues of social mobility, and so on...


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Bill Chappell is a producer who works with Morning Edition and NPR.org, coordinating with radio and digital media staff to create Web features that complement stories heard on-air. He also frequently writes original Web pieces.
Chappell's work at NPR has ranged from being the site's first full-time homepage editor to writing for its World Cup 2010 blog. Chappell's assignments have included being the lead Web producer on NPR's trip to Asia's Grand Trunk Road, as well as being the Web liaison and producer of the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps project.
Chappell was an integral part of the team that executed a comprehensive redesign of NPR's Web site in 2009. One year later, the site won its first Peabody and the National Press Foundation's Excellence in Online Journalism award, among others.
Drawing from his experience in improving NPR's storytelling ability, he trains both digital media and radio staff in using NPR's digital tools.
Other shows he has worked with include Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Piano Jazz with Marilyn McPartland.
Prior to joining NPR in 2003, Chappell worked on the Assignment Desk at CNN International, handling regions from Asia and Africa to Europe and Latin America.
During the intensive early months of the Iraq War, he coordinated packages and live shots out of Qatar, Israel and Australia. During the war, he set up live interviews and brought in packages to supply content to CNN's global networks.
From 2002-2003, Chappell served as Editor-in-Chief of the Trans-Atlantic Journal, a business and lifestyle monthly geared for expatriate Europeans working and living in the United States.
Chappell's prior work included producing Web pages and editing digital video for CNNSI.com, as well as editing and producing news and features at CNN.com. His entry to CNN came via the network's central library, where he often manned the reference desk.
Chappell's entry into national journalism came after years of writing about movies, restaurants and music for alternative weeklies. A holder of bachelor's degrees in English and History from the University of Georgia, he attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of South Carolina.


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Reformed Church Marketing
If you're looking for a church where you'll feel comfortable? This ain't it!
Consider attending a church where you won't feel judged by other people. God, on the other hand...
Ever feel like you just can't do ANYTHING right? Come find out why.
What's wrong with tithing? It's a 90% off sale!
We can show you how to achieve incomparable health, wealth, and happiness. You'll just have to die first.
At our church, God-willing, executions performed weekly.
Now, effectiveness aside, is there anything theologically or even ecumenically wrong with any of these statements about the church? And, note, I'm actually asking. There may be. It's quite often that my wit out-runs my senses.
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As G4 finalizes plans for a channel makeover in 2013, the young male-skewing network will conclude the runs of its two signature series, Attack of the Show and X-Play. Both long-running shows will wrap up production at the end of this year.
Attack of the Show and X-Play will continue to roll out new episodes through December. Leading up to their finales, a rotating lineup of guest co-hosts will join Attack of the Show hosts Candace Bailey and Sara Underwood, including John Barrowman, Michael Ian Black, Josh Myers, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz. Various stars are also expected to join X-Play hosts Morgan Webb and Blair Herter on their show.
Both shows will take the next two months to wind down with a series of farewell episodes, inviting back favorite guests and former hosts, as well as airing audience favorite segments, such as Attack of the Show's 2007 iPhone coverage and their first Comic-Con show that aired live from the convention floor in 2006. X-Play will recap some of its past coverage from the floor of the E3 convention. Both Attack and X-Play pioneered such live convention-floor coverage.
"Attack of the Show and X-Play have been important for G4, and we want to acknowledge the creative people who have helped inspire and showcase the phenomenon of gamer culture," says G4 Media general manager Adam Stotsky. "With more than 3,000 episodes aired between them, we have more than enough great material to honor these innovators and their amazing contributions as we bring both shows to a close."
Attack of the Show (which has aired more than 1,700 episodes) served as a launch pad for personalities including former hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn, and as it earned geek cred, attracted major stars like James Cameron, Ryan Reynolds, Jimmy Fallon and William Shatner. The show debuted in March 2005, while X-Play (which clocks in at around 1,300 episodes) launched in April 2003 on G4 predecessor TechTV.
Meanwhile, as speculation continues over the evolution of G4, sources say the channel may be looking to partner with Esquire magazine (or another men's periodical, like GQ) as it moves into a more upscale, sophisticated guy TV space. Among the possible new names for the channel: "G4Men." Some programming is expected to remain, including Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan, while acquired fare from the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Aziz Ansari could be in the mix. Nothing has yet been confirmed.
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As G4 finalizes plans for a channel makeover in 2013, the young male-skewing network will conclude the runs of its two signature series, Attack of the Show and X-Play. Both long-running shows will wrap up production at the end of this year.
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Halloween Decorating Ideas and Recipes From Interior Designer Sandra Espinet
8 Halloween Tricks and Treats From Sandra Espinet
8 Halloween Tricks and Treats From Sandra Espinet
For its upcoming Halloween Block Party special on Oct. 16, HGTV has asked interior designer Sandra Espinet, designer Kenneth Wingard, and event planner Michelle Buckley to transform the homes of three families to create the spookiest neighborhood in America! The show will give us dozens of ideas for a Halloween menu, décor, floral arrangements, tablescapes, and more. Sandra Espinet has been kind enough to put together a series of Halloween décor tricks and treats for us as a sneak peek of the special. From front-yard graveyards to skeleton sugar cookies, I know you'll want to try all of these tricks and treats.