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How to be Rich: It's not What You Have. It's What you do With What You Have by Andy Stanley is not your average financial or giving book.
It makes the point that if you live in America, you are rich. You part of the top 4% earners on the planet. The problem is that our culture has no idea "how to be rich." We don't know what to do with what we have. Stanley writes to a "bunch of have's who live like have not's."
The problem he says is:
Examples we read or hear don't really prove you're rich, they only serve to convince you that you're not poor. My hunch is you're a lot richer than you realize. It just doesn't feel like it. So let me give you a few more scenarios to consider. If I told you I was offering you a job with a salary of $37,000 a year, would you feel rich? Probably not. Chances are, you wouldn't even be interested. A salary of $37,000 would represent a pay cut for most Americans. But for 96 percent of the world's population, $37,000 a year would be a significant increase. Maybe there was a time when that sounded like a lot of money to you. And it should. In fact, if you earn more than $37,000 a year, you are in the top 4 percent of wage earners in the world! Congratulations! You are in the 4 percent club. You are rich! Yet I'm guessing this startling realization didn't cause you to leave the comfort of your couch to dance around the room. But you should have. On the world's scale, you should have no problems at all, other than a handful of rich-person problems. Problems that the majority of folks on this planet would love to have. Bad cell phone coverage? That's a rich-people problem. Can't decide where to go on vacation? Rich-people problem. Computer crashed? Slow Internet? Car trouble? Flight delays? Amazon doesn't have your size? All rich-people problems. Next time there's a watering ban in your neighborhood, just remember that many people, mostly women, carry jugs on their heads for hundreds of yards just so they can have water for cooking and drinking. They can't imagine a place where there's so much extra water that house after house just sprays it all over the ground. Feeling guilty? I hope not. That's not my purpose. On the contrary, I'm hoping our time together leaves you feeling grateful.
This book is a great resource for that.
Here are some things I highlighted:
- We always had enough. But rich is about having more than enough. We had what we needed. But rich is about having more than you need. Rich is about having extra. Isn't it?
- Rich is the other guy. Rich is that other family. Rich isn't just having extra. Rich is having as much extra as the person who has more extra than you do. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that's the case, you can be rich and not know it. You can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not act like it. And that is a problem.
- Most rich people aren't all that good at being rich.
- The richer you get, however, the more your priorities begin to separate from actual needs. When all of our basic requirements are met, our appetites for progress don't turn off. We simply turn from the things we need to the things we want. And that's when we enter the world of the subjective. Wants are harder to define. And easier to confuse.
- We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
- In our Western culture today, we observe a five-day workweek. Think about what that means. Most people have to work only five days in order to have seven days' worth of food and shelter and clothing and health care. We take it for granted. But that's unique to our little window in history. And it's still not the case everywhere. What's more, there are households of three, four, or more people that send only one person out into the workplace to earn money. And with that one person's earnings, the entire family can amass enough money in five days to give them food and shelter for seven days. In many cultures, that's inconceivable. Outside of work, that leaves at least fifty hours per week for nothing but leisure.
- "Rich" is a moving target. No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost their ability to recognize that they're rich.
- People who are good at being rich are the ones who are willing to admit they are, in fact, rich. Until you relax into the reality that you are rich, you will never become intentional about getting good at it.
- Simply possessing wealth doesn't make you good at managing it.
- Being good at being rich is not just a matter of deciding what to do with your money. You must also concern yourself with what your money is doing with you — or, more accurately, to you.
- Money has an effect on its owners. And that effect, in turn, alters the way they see and handle not just money, but everything else as well. Everything. And while we're at it — everybody.
- The key, as the old saying goes, is to possess money without it possessing you.
- Wealth has its own gravitational pull. It will always draw those who have it in the direction of those two things. It is in this way that wealth eventually possesses its possessors.
- The problem with a word like generosity is that it's as hard to define as the word rich. In fact, just as nobody thinks he's rich, everybody thinks he's generous.
- When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so.
- Without a plan, giving is sporadic at best.
I was really challenged by this book and how I look at what I have. Good heart work for me.
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LONDON – The American women fell short in their quests for wheelchair tennis singles medals Monday at Eton Manor in Olympic Park. Emmy Kaiser (Ft. Mitchell, Ky.) and Mackenzie Soldan (Louisville, Ky.) each lost 2-0 in the round of 16 playoffs against ranked players from Great Britain and Netherlands, ending their singles hopes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Soldan, who qualified for the Paralympic Games with a gold medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games, has still enjoyed her Games experience. "It's pretty cool," she said. "All the people here and the fact that it's the Paralympics – that's a big deal. It's just an honor to be here."
The Parapan Am Games gave Soldan major competition experience and drew comparisons between that event and the competition in London.
"They're kind of similar," she said. "There was a large crowd there as well. I feel like there, there was less pressure and here maybe it's the pressure I put on myself. I didn't put any pressure on myself there, because I didn't expect to win. That could have been the key to my success."
This is Soldan's first Paralympic Games, and she went on to say that the event was bigger and better than she expected it to be. "I expected it to be big but not this big," she said. "The Londoners here really seem to get it; that we are athletes, not just disabled athletes. I think that part is really cool and I didn't expect as much support as we've gotten."
At 20, Soldan has been playing tennis for most of her life and sees a long future in the sport. After her singles match, she said she is already looking forward to where her career will take her next. "I definitely see myself being back to the Paralympics in 2016, 2020, and as long as I can go."
Soldan joins Kaiser for a doubles match later on Monday, where they will face Germany.
"Doubles is more about communication and being on the same wavelength, and keeping up the energy throughout the whole match," Soldan said. "I'm excited for the match. I'll be ready."

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Living life is part of my activities now. What interested me today was Aaron Russo's revelations. He said that Nick Rockefeller told him that the Rockefellers and the elite's goal was a microchipped population (includingpopulation control) to allow the bankers (and the elite) to control the world. That's true, because even mainstream news accounts list the advance of Big Brother and microchip technology in animals and human beings. Also, Prince Philip, the United Nations, Ted Turner, and other internationalists promote population control for decades. These proponents endorse the lie that the Earth is housing too many people. They omit the facts that world population growth decrease as a percentage per decade since 1960, that underpopulation epidemics are in Russia and South Korea, and all humans can fit in the state of Texas given 1,000 sq. ft. each. That's much of the elite's plans to enslave us. Nick Rockefeller (according to Aaron Russo) said to Russo that the Rockefellers funded the women's liberation movement. That's true, because even Gloria Steniem admitted that the CIA funded her Ms. Magazine. There is nothing wrong with women's rights or a women recieveing the same pay as a man. Yet, these "feminists" seem to forget that the leadership of their own movement have been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, CFR, and other interests. Russo also said that Rockefeller told him that the women's lib movement was a scheme to tax the 2 genders of male and female more effectively, indoctrinate students, and destroy the traditional family model (that's why you see high divorce rates and record out of wedrock rates in many races in the USA). Radical feminists are more powerful now than back then. Today, their names are Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a Supreme Court Justice, CFR member, and even wrote literature promoting sex child with adults. She was a professor of law at the Jesuits' Georgetown University Law Center), and even Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. Yet, I'm not going to be ignorant of their nefarious devices. We ought to be strong, active, and educate our neigbhors about what's really occuring in the globe.
Raw Story on Tuesday, at January 30, 2007 discussed about something news. It said that the President signed an executive order giving more executive control over federal agencies dealing with public health, safety, etc. Some like it in protecting the interests of small businesses. Critics feel that it will increase the control of the White House and hinder the public agencies' duty in helping the public. It's apparent now that the executive has too much power as it now. Allen Dershowitz is hilarious for calling for a war with Iran. Let's show facts shall we. Iran has yet to develop a nuclear weapon, yet nations like America, Pakistan, Israel (which has a Masonic Supreme Court funded by Rothschild money. There are good Israelis, but the leadership of Israel for a longtime have been pro-socialist communist, pro-evil Labor Zionist, and wicked. Labor Zionist Weizmann intentionally allowed many Jewish folks to die in the Holocaust according to Ben Hecht's research. What's also wicked are the leadership of mostly Arabic nations like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.), North Korea, and many other countries have hundreds of nuclear weapons. Iran hasn't attacked America directly, although many neo cons and some neo-liberals (like Joe Liberman) yearn for a military strike against Iran if neceesary. Barnaby J. Feder from the NY Times at Tuesday on January 30, 2007 described a billboard promoting RFID chips. RFIDS chips are ever present in clothing, trees, cars, and all across the world. There is the issue of smoking. I don't agree with smoking and smoking is bad for one's health. On the other hand, I disagree with dracoanian and fascist legislation banning smoking in private homes and private locations though. Maria L. La Ganga from the LA Times on Tuesday at January 30, 2007 produced information on how San Francisco is proposing legislation in banning smoking in private homes. People have a right to act foolishly as long they don't violate the law or violate the morals of society.
Yesterday, I heard Bill O'Reilly talk about Iraq and the anti-war protestors. I only agree with Bill on this issue that the anti-war crowd in that march must be more foreright in their opinions of Iran. O'Reilly said that the Iraq War was legal because of U.N. Resolutions. This is a faulty argument, because that's the U.N.'s business. The Constitution cites that we don't conduct a war without Congress declares it. Congress didn't declare it, but the President made Congress pass a war Resolution. The U.N. has been anti-self defense, anti-life, and been riled with sex scandals. How are they are reliable agency in conducting warfare or using its words for a justification in wars? Also, what do about Iran? When is firm negiotation cowardice? It isn't. A negiotated, yet firm discussion is much better than warfare among America and Iran. They aren't a direct threat to America and bombing these nations have nothing to do with real American national interests. Also, the outcome of the Iraq War is terrible including thousands dead, the D.U. poisoning, etc.
There is a Climate Change situation talking about "global warming." The truth is that there is an increase in temperature. Yet the solutions made about by the U.N. and others is nothing more than global government, global taxes, and other population control procedures. Legitimate voices have existed that don't agree with man-induced global warming. Also, the Solar system is warming by the Sun without any inteference by mankind. As for Joe Scaraborough, this guy went from a man with a little spin to a p.c. "conservative" that's afraid to not speak his total mind in my judgment. I guess he doesn't want to talk about a female staffer found dead in his office. Scarborough is right on some issues though. There has been an update on the 7/7 bombing. Daniel Obachike, was a witness of the bombing on the lower deck of number 30 bus. Daniel said that 2 cars diverted the Hackney bus. He claimed that after the bombing, men calmly monitored the scence. This is one circumstance out of a whole list questions surrouding the 7/7 bombing.
It's time to get rid of our complanency. Some liberals have been complacent about endorsing the getting rid of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act (that ends habaes corpus and possibly gives enemy combatant status to American citizens), etc. Real patriots who are liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and indepedent will have to continue to fight for liberty. If want to see the dots connected, we will have to realize that the CFR, big money Foundations, and corporate interest control (in a monopoly system) most of the mainstream liberal and conservative organizations. They keep individual citizens distracted so real solutions and real unity isn't realize in Americas plus nations globally. Threats to society are real from the Security and Prosperity
Partnership Of North America, the amero, proposed Mental health screening of all children in some states, Big Brother, and economic corruption. I will keep on writing notes. I forgot about writing about Singularity. From my research and heart of heart, I know that one of the final plans of the pro-new world order crowd is Singularity. What is it? Singularity is about using high technology and merge it with human beings (those who believe in it believe that man can have "god-like" power by inheriting this technology). The Internet is a good thing when used the right way as a tool to get legitimate ideas across.
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Today's digitally savvy Millenials have been termed the A-D-D generation, constantly flipping and flopping between jobs, digital devices, having attention spans the size of ants and being brand flirts. It's not surprising given they're dealing with 60 million Instagram pics being posted daily, 200 hours of YouTube video content uploaded every minute and 30 billion pieces of content shared monthly on Facebook.
Marketers need to understand those born after 1995 have been forced to develop a finely tuned editing and curating skills to process the endless streams of content bombarding their screens. How they absorb information in the networked world has fundamentally changed.
Today's Millenials live on a diet of quick fix information nuggets where their memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by hashtags, Instagram pics and Snapchat one-liners. When it comes to content they take a quick glance, sort it, and tag it for future reference. Forget multi-taskers. They are super-taskers.
So how can marketers engage the A-D-D generation?
In todays networked, post modern world, the biggest influence on youth patterns of thought and behaviour are their everyday experiences and social milieu. Their participation in the world around them is the key guide for marketers.
So the role of brands today is to 'hack' into and become more of an intrinsic and visible participant in the flow of their lifestyles. I call it 'lifestyle hacking.' Here are 5 principles for successful lifestyle hacks:
1. Design distinctive and instinctive interactions
Where milliseconds matter, moving beyond bland consistency, marketers need to focus on visceral, interactive and detailed experiences at every encounter creating distinctive and instinctive interactions.
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Think about turning life's pain points into little moments of pleasure and delightful discovery. More than digital utility it's building in lots of sticky details. The Uber app is a great recent example of this.
3. Tribal identity
Baking in meaningful signs of tribal belonging and affiliation with groups of others to help frame their social identity is key. Our MINI UK #notnormal platform moved beyond the metal to celebrate the inventive relationships MINI owners had with their cars.
4. Social currency beyond WOM
Making your brand a unit of social currency, not just your branded content is the new centre ground for marketing. How do you always stay abreast of the zeitgeist and be part of the emerging shift to the collaboration economy? Online thrift shop ThredUp.com is kicking goals here.
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Millenials crave connectivity and they love 4D immersion. Why else would Facebook buy virtual reality company Oculus Rift? Look for new ways to create brand experiences leveraging accessible virtual reality.


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It has been a few weeks for me in Java. Yesterday I was trying to write a program to check if a given number is palindrome or not. I was able to write a program in which it asks the user to input the number of digits. It ran okay without any errors.
My question is, Is there any other way to do it without asking the user to input the number of digits? Kindly someone point out the logic and I will try out to write the program by myself.public class PalindromeNumberCheck { public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub System.out.println("Enter the number to be checked : "); Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); int num = input.nextInt(); int numOriginal = num; System.out.println("Enter the number of digits : "); int n = input.nextInt(); int reverse = 0; while(n != 0) { reverse = reverse + (num%10) * (int)Math.pow(10,(n-1)); num = num / 10 ; n--; } System.out.println("reverse = "+reverse); if(reverse == numOriginal) System.out.println("The number is a palindrome !"); else System.out.println("The number is not a palindrome !"); } }


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Monday morning round-up and Open Thread
I'm going to have a lot of stuff about the Israel/Hamas showdown (of course) but, for those of you who are interested in other stuff, don't despair. I'll have other stuff too.
** 1 **
I've often mentioned StandWithUs, an organization that was founded to fight the growing antisemitism on American campuses. During the current war, StandWithUs has used social media on Israel's behalf.
One of the things it started was a campaign that sees people mailing pictures of the cover of their passport, along with a message on the palm of their hand: "I stand with Israel." This article describes the campaign, and this link takes you to the page where you can upload your photo.
I dug out my passport yesterday and sent my message. If your passport is handy, perhaps you can too. When a war is fought, not just on the field of battle, but around the world in cyberspace, these things matter.
** 2 **
One of the things Muslims do when they conquer a territory is to erect their prayer towers at a height higher than any other building in the community. Not only does this visually prove their dominance, it also forces everyone around to hear the Muslim call to prayer (which Obama described as "the sweetest sound I know"). Lately, to ensure that everyone hears that "sweetest sound," Muslims have taken to blasting the call to prayer out on loudspeakers. In Israel, some residents finally had enough and blasted out a few prayers of their own.
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The Lancet, founded in 1823, was once one of England's most prestigious medical journals. During the Iraq War, though, it proved that it had become just another hack Leftist mouthpiece when it published an article in 2004 claiming that 68,000 Iraqis had died from U.S. attacks, a number it updated in 2006 to 655,000. All these numbers were resoundingly debunked, but the study still had an impact, inflaming the usual suspects in the Muslim world and on the Left.
Flush with the success of its last disinformation campaign, The Lancet is at it again, with a completely unsourced diatribe against Israel (which I won't dignify with a link). Two Israeli physicians tried to get The Lancet to publish a well-sourced rebuttal but, although a reputable science publication would have willingly published that rebuttal, The Lancet naturally refused. If you, however, would like to learn truth via data, rather than lies via screeds, go here.
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Hamas fighters may be getting demoralized, but its leaders are feeling flush with success. They've got a pile of dead children for photo ops, they got flights to Israel shut down for 24 hours, Jews in Europe are under siege in a way reminiscent of 1938, American streets are filled with thousands of pro-Hamas marchers, and the President and Secretary of State are fully on-board with Hamas's agenda. To the relief of Israel supporters around the world, though, Israel appears to be thumbing its nose at the Obama regime and, instead, is focusing on its own security. This focus means continuing the Gaza operation so as to shut down those tunnels.
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Europeans are, as always, fully supportive of Hamas. Part of this is age-old antisemitism. Part of it is Leftism. Part of it is a way of blaming Jews for Auschwitz and the purges and pogroms in which even conquered countries cheerfully participated.
And part of it, apparently, is the European Union's ongoing battle with the U.S. for world supremacy. Once upon a time the U.S. supported Israel against the Soviet Union, which supported the Arabs. Now, the EU is supporting the Arabs against the U.S.'s long-standing support for Israel.
The only flaw in that plan is that, thanks to Barack Obama, the U.S. is also supporting the Arabs, so that the EU isn't distinguishing itself from the U.S. at all. (See here and here, for articles supporting the conclusion that Obama is no longer bother to hide his pro-Hamas, anti-Israel stance.)
** 6 **
Facebook has gone despicable and deleted pro-Israel pages while allowing genocidal anti-Israel pages to stand.
The problem, of course, is that despite its vileness, Facebook is still the only game in town when it comes to spreading political messages throughout ones community of friends, acquaintances, and followers. For example, I know that many of my "real me" Facebook friends couldn't care less about Israel or, since they're DemProgs, they kind of vaguely support Hamas.
Because I'm inundating my feed, though, with clear, pro-Israel posters, there's a possibility that this information will subliminally seep into their brains and value systems. After all, that's how Hollywood did it in the 1970s through today: they subliminally changed people's values through "entertainment" shows that were really "info-tainment" shows for Leftist ideas.
** 7 **
The Son of Hamas understands both how nihilistic that organization is and that its ultimate goal is world conquest for a caliphate:
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Here's another insight into how Muslims think — and it's not the way people raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition think.
And finally, on to other, non-Israel/Hamas stuff:
** 9 **
I know that there are bad cultures that care for and wouldn't gratuitously hurt animals (witness Hitler's and the Nazi's love for dogs), but are there any good cultures that gratuitously hurt and torture animals? I can't think of any. Anyway, the following video is darling:
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If you've been following the Bakken crude oil debate — which sees critics claiming that it's too volatile to ship, and therefore useless — here are some actual facts explaining that it's perfectly shippable (which, if it isn't a word, ought to be).
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The facts: A gun-toting man enters a gun-free hospital and begins firing, killing one person. He is stopped only because one of the staff doctors, ignoring the hospital's gun-free status, shoots him, saving untold numbers of lives. The logic in Left land: Gun free zones should stay gun free because guns are dangerous.
No matter how many times you point out that the only way to stop a mass shooter is if a good guy with a gun shows up (whether that guy is on site or whether it takes 20 minutes for armed police to arrive), the Left insists that just declaring a zone "gun free" will save lives. It's this kind of stupidity that practically drove me into the arms of conservativism.
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Teacher's unions — not individual teachers, many of whom are devoted and wonderful, but teacher's unions — are harming American schools. This video perfectly describes my public school experiences growing up in San Francisco:
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By leaping on every Leftist politically inspired bandwagon, experts have devalued themselves so much that half the world ignores anything they have to say.
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Remember Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who was for withholding funds from federal Obamacare exchanges before he was against it? Well, there's more….
(And here's something cool: I bet you recognize the website at that link. You should, because Hube, at the Colossus of Rhodey is one of my longtime Watcher's Council friends. It turns out that the man who unearthed the first Gruber video was one of Hube's old classmates. When he needed a forum to take down Gruber and reinforce Halbig, he went calling on his old friend who is now a conservative blogger.)
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been iconic figures since the end of the 19th century. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not write them as gay characters. Indeed, Dr. Watson adores women and eventually marries, leaving Holmes alone in the flat at Baker Street. With the renewed popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Watson thanks to a recent BBC series, the LGBTQ crowd thinks Holmes and Watson need an upgrade: They should become gay lovers.
Hmmm. Thinking. … Thinking. … Thinking. … Nope. I just don't see it. What I do see, though, is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in his grave.
** 16 **
One of the things conservatives constantly need to re-learn is that the culture wars are never won. When one side gains temporary dominance, the other side than begins a renewed charge to end that dominance. We're currently in a period of Leftist dominance that has (finally) started a nascent conservative comeback. Should we win, we'll naturally, and stupidly, rest on our laurels, creating a vacuum that the Left will aggressively rush to fill.
I mention all this because America may have won WWII in 1945, but the war is still being fought at the academic level. When the Smithsonian first mounted a Hiroshima exhibit 15 years ago, the Left seemed to have won, making the exhibit all about American imperialist aggression. Five men successfully fought back, but even they caution that the fight is never over.
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I love Harry Stein's writing. He's warm and funny and mirrors my own journey from Left to Right (although I didn't begin as far Left as he did). His crossing the Rubicon book, How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace), is most definitely worth a read.
What I didn't realize (or didn't remember) about Stein, is that his father, Joseph Stein, wrote the book for Fiddler on the Roof, a show that simultaneously helped pro-Jewish and pro-Israel feeling around the world, even while offending religious Jews with its message favoring assimilation. Joseph Stein was the kind of Jew I knew growing up: educated, funny, creative, and very, very Left.
Harry has written a lovely homage to his father (who died in 2010, aged 98 years), managing to maintain his love and respect for the man whose political and social values Harry so definitively rejected.
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(Thanks to Earl and Sadie, who contribute to every post I write by sending me wonderful articles and images. Caped Crusader is also one of my main sources for images and anecdotes, although I don't think any of his contributions made it to this particular post.)


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As one of the architects of left-of-center hip-hop for the last 20 years, El-P has done it all as an MC, producer and record-label head (including his excellent production work on the recent Killer Mike album, "R.A.P. Music," reviewed HERE). His infrequent solo albums are invariably carefully plotted, meticulously crafted, and yet brutally visceral. You want kick drums that sound like howitzers? Vocals that suggest the desperation of a POW who's been kept awake against his will for 72 straight hours? You've come to the right place.
"Cancer 4 Cure," only El-P's third solo album in 11 years, is packed with music that doesn't so much invite the listener into the room as barge through the door, guns blazing. "Request Denied" blows in like an ominous cloud, followed by stampeding drums. In the lexicon of hip-hop, the 808 kick drum and its variations are as sacred as the electric guitar is to rock. El-P's drums pummel all opposition, then leave space for growling keyboards to roam like wolves.
"Cancer 4 Cure" is not the after-party of hip-hop fantasy, but a desolate afterworld populated by killers and thieves. "The Full Retard" is interrupted by a female voice that reassures, "Where harmony and love reign, no longer do we live in a society bent on its own destruction." No such luck. Some may read "Cancer 4 Cure" as science-fiction fantasy, but the settings in these songs feel awfully familiar and true to life, a world in which violent crime is on the uptick, Occupy protests fill the streets, and dictatorships around the world are being toppled.
"Don't make me suffer this dimension straight," El-P pleads on "Works Every Time." "I'd give anything, anything, anything to go home." But home is under siege. In "Drones Over Bklyn," a ghostly air-raid siren sounds a warning. Deception, paranoia and fear cloak nearly every track. Chaos invites vigilantism in "For My Upstairs Neighbor (Mums the Word)."
As a lyricist, El-P swings hard between abstract images and more concrete snapshots, indelible scenes from a movie that can haunt for years. "To the mother of my enemy, I just killed your son/He died with his face to the sky and it cannot be undone," a "Tougher Colder Killer" announces. Few artists create a tougher, colder world as convincingly.


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Policy wonks from Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry faced MPs on the Home Affairs committee today who were carrying out a postmortem of the disorder across England last month.
Each company reiterated earlier statements that they operated within UK law when providing their communication services to their customers.
BlackBerry's UK managing director Stephen Bates repeatedly said that the company's messenger service (BBM) was "mostly used as a force for good".
He added that such a social media tool could be used by law-abiding citizens and thugs who want to incite violence, much like any other communications tool.
Bates said there was "no dispute" that BBM – an instant messaging service that can be used, following an individual user's consent, to send out information to a group of up to 30 individuals – "was used for malicious purposes".
He pointed out that the mobile phone outfit's 7 million customers in the UK represented a wide-ranging demographic of people.
"We do see within the Communications Act 2003 that the government has the power to suspend comms networks," he said.
BlackBerry complies with the laws of the land in which it operates, said Bates.
"We work freely within requirements of law as required under RIPA [Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000]," he said, and added it was important for politicians to fully engage with social media.
"Use it, don't be scared of it," said Bates.
Facebook's director of policy, Richard Allan, compared the slowness of authorities' responses to the rise of social networks to the slow pace at which police adapted to the early technology of cars.
"Police took a while to catch up with the motorised villain," he said, because the "ability to catch burglars was quite different to those caught on foot".
Allan was keen to dissuade Facebookers from using the platform to incite violence, as had been the case with a number of foolish individuals who used the site to urge people to riot in their local high streets in early August.
"Facebook is not a good platform for that kind of behaviour, it's too visible," he said.
"We've seen cases where people are prosecuted, and so they should be," added Allan.
Facebook has several hundred employees based in Ireland, India and the US who constantly respond to users of the site who report abuse of the service including, for example, racist or homophobic remarks.
He described the 30 million people in the UK who use Facebook as being akin to a "Neighbourhood Watch" – a scheme where curtain-twitchers sign up to keep a lookout in their local residential area in an effort to keep their neighbourhood better alerted against criminal activity.
The Facebook policy man claimed that the network "increased the feeling of well-being" among its users because the service allows an individual to notify their friends and family that they are OK with "one click" of the update button.
Allan said that, like BlackBerry, his company responded to "generally received" RIPA requests from the police about the riots. He declined to provide a breakdown of that figure, however.
"People normally stick to rules," he added, citing Facebook's terms of service. "Where individuals step outside of that, we understand that we need to act."
Allan said that politicos needed to work with a society that was "permanently connected" to the online world.
"We should assume this is going to be a reality henceforth".
Twitter general counsel Alexander Macgillivray dismissed the idea that the micro-blogging service was good for organising criminal activity, and claimed the company had no evidence to show it was used for that purpose during the recent disorder in England.
"We often get lumped in with other media out there... we think of ourselves as quite distinct. People come to Twitter to say things publicly," he said.
Twitter has 100 million users worldwide, however Macgillivray was unable to provide a breakdown for its UK market share.
He said that the idea of shutting down networks during social unrest, as recently mulled over and almost immediately rejected by Home Secretary Theresa May, "would be an absolutely horrible idea".
However, Twitter – in contrast with Facebook and BlackBerry – appears to have a non-existent relationship with UK police.
Instead Macgillivray simply stated that data about who tweeted what when was publicly available to any organisation wishing to scrutinise the information. That would help them draw their own conclusions about the site's role in the disorder that broke out in London, before moving to other cities within England for four days last month, he noted.
Home Affairs committee chair Keith Vaz MP asked for the companies' views on the government's power to close down networks during emergency situations.
"Our view is social media is a force for good. Legislation is there... If enacted we would meet our obligations," said Bates.
"As a service provider you never would advocate for your service to be made unavailable," said Allan.
Allan said it was "more acceptable" to respond to such a request where frameworks such as the one in the UK were in place.
Macgillivray batted the question aside.
"It's clear from any communications device ever invented that some people will break the law," he said, perhaps stating the most obvious point of the entire debate. ®


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Jordanians hurled stones at riot police and chanted unprecedented slogans against the monarchy for a second day Wednesday as growing anger over price hikes threatened to plunge the U.S.-allied kingdom into a wave of unrest.
So far, King Abdullah II has steered his nation clear of the Arab Spring that has swept across the region, toppling the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen along the way. But Jordan's massive budget deficit and other economic woes could increasingly push the population into the opposition's camp.
Tensions rose late Tuesday after the government raised prices for cooking and heating gas by 54 percent to rein in a bulging budget deficit and secure a $2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Minutes after state television announced the hike, several thousand Jordanians poured into the streets across the country, pelting police with stones, torching government offices and private cars and chanting slogans against the king.
"I like the king, but so what?" asked 29-yead-old civil servant Daoud Shorfat, one of some 300 protesters in central Amman on Wednesday who police dispersed with tear gas and water cannons. "He can't feel our pain. ... He is watching the government raising the prices, while the people are barely able to feed their hungry children."
Violent demonstrations broke out across the rest of the country Wednesday as well, hitting all 12 of Jordan's governorates, police said. Protesters burned tires to block traffic, torched police and private cars and at least 20 government offices, including court buildings. Police said at least 120 people were arrested nationwide.
In the northwestern city of Salt, tens of protesters unsuccessfully tried storm the residence of the Jordanian prime minister, while in the southern city of Maan, demonstrators fired in the air to force riot police out of town, wounding one officer, police said in a statement.
Some 2,000 protesters in the city of Karak shouted "Down, down with you, Abullah," and "Get out and leave us alone" as they marched through the town, shattering shop windows, eyewitnesses and police said.
Jordan has been hit by frequent, but small, anti-government protests over the past 23 months, but these demonstrations have shifted the focus from the government squarely to the king.
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most powerful opposition group, called the protests "a wakeup call to the king to avoid a replica of the violence in Egypt and Tunisia."
"The street is seething with anger and an explosion is coming," Zaki Bani Irsheid said. "We want to create a Jordanian Spring with a local flavor — meaning reforms in the system while keeping our protests peaceful."
The Brotherhood, which has spearheaded the protest movement in the past, has harnessed anger over the price hikes to form a loose — and temporary — alliance with Arab nationalists, Marxist and Communist groups. The umbrella recently has expanded to include the militant Salafis and the largely secular protest movement, known as Hirak composed primarily of young people.
The riots are reminiscent of those in 1988 and 1996 over similar hikes on the price of bread and other food commodities under Abdullah's late father, King Hussein. At the time, Hussein was forced to introduce swift reforms that ushered in Jordan's first parliamentary elections after a 22-year gap, an end to martial law and the renewal of a multiparty system that had been banned for decades.
Jordanian political commentator Osama al-Sharif said the new wave of protests pose a "serious challenge, probably the most crucial since he (Abdullah) became king" in 1999.
The 50-year-old king has been fighting to fend off a host of domestic challenges, including a Muslim Brotherhood boycott of parliamentary elections, increasing opposition from his traditional Bedouin allies and an inability to keep the Syrian civil war from spilling over the border.
So far, Abdullah has largely maintained control, partly by relinquishing some of his powers to parliament and amending the country's 60-year-old constitution. His Western-trained security forces have been able to keep protests from getting out of hand. And most in the opposition remain loyal to the king, pressing for reforms but not his removal.
But as the pressure has mounted, Abdullah has been forced to make more concessions. He has surrendered some of his absolute powers to an elected parliament, and renounced his right to appoint the prime minister, saying lawmakers will select the premier following Jan. 23 national elections.
The country's economic woes have added to the crush of challenges, and they show no sign of easing.
Jordan's budget deficit is expected to reach a year end record of $3 billion, while foreign debt is expected to jump 27 percent to $27 billion this year as the country grapples with rising poverty, unemployment and inflation.
Donations promised by Saudi Arabia and other oil producing Arab nations — a badly needed cash infusion for resource-barren Jordan — have failed to materialize, while the cost of sheltering some 265,000 Syrian refugees who have fled the civil war at home has put further strain on Jordan's already meager water, fuel and electricity resources and health care system.
On top of that, disruptions in cheap Egyptian gas shipments cost Jordan an extra $7 million a day, the government said. The pipeline that transports the natural gas has been blown up more than a dozen times over the past year by militants in Egypt's Sinai desert, halting shipments. Jordan has switched to the more expensive fuel oil to generate electricity.
Despite the challenges, Abdullah is expected to ride the latest wave of protests, which are confined to certain areas in the country and have attracted relatively small numbers so far.
The stakes are high: Abdullah is a close friend of the United States and has been at the forefront of its global war on terrorism, including in Afghanistan. Jordan serves as a buffer zone to Saudi Arabia, another Sunni Muslim country, and to Israel, a friend under a peace treaty signed in 1994, and Iraq. The kingdom hosts the largest Palestinian population outside the West Bank.
"Washington's goal is to preserve the status quo, whereby Jordan is a "safe zone" in a sea of unrest," said a report by the Washington-based Middle East Research and Information project.


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(CBS News) An enthusiastic crowd greeted presidential candidate Mitt Romney in High Point, N.C., on Sunday - the last leg of Gov. Romney's North Carolina bus tour and the first stop for Congressman Paul Ryan, who just yesterday was announced as Mr. Romney's vice presidential running mate.
Before the two headed off for another event in Wisconsin, they sat down with CBS News' chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer for their first interview as running mates. Asked to explain his choice of Rep. Ryan, Gov. Romney said: "This guy's a real leader . . . . He's reached across the aisle. He's worked with Democrats, Republicans. Tried to take on the toughest issues America faces."
The following script is from "Romney-Ryan" which aired on Aug. 12, 2012. Bob Schieffer is the correspondent. Robert Anderson and Mary Hager, producers.
In choosing Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has instantly remade his presidential campaign. Congressman Ryan, the energetic chairman of the House Budget committee, is the Republican master of all aspects of federal spending. And he comes complete with his own detailed conservative fiscal plan to remake the role of the federal government in everything from Medicare and Medicaid to tax policy and agriculture subsidies.
In naming Congressman Ryan, Gov. Romney has transformed the presidential campaign into an ideological battle. Earlier this afternoon, the candidates joined Bob Schieffer for their very first interview together at a furniture factory in High Point, N.C., where they'd been campaigning.
Bob Schieffer: Governor, I want to start with this, you have been going through this process of deciding who you wanted as your running mate for about three months, very methodical, all of it conducted in secret. What I would like to know was there one point where there was one moment when you said, "This is the guy. This is my guy."
Mitt Romney: Well, actually, you know, we've been working together for a while and, over the last year, Paul and I have come together on some policy issues and sat down and discussed those things. I was impressed with his understanding of the issues that we were facing and also his political acumen. But then we spent some time on the campaign trail. I got to meet his wife and three children and was very impressed. But the final decision, Bob, was not until really August 1st when I kept my mind open, but I was intrigued and inclined towards Paul for some time, but I kept my mind open, and then on August 1st it was time to make that final decision. I called Paul and said, "I'd like to meet you on Sunday." And, we sat down and made it happen.
Bob Schieffer: Well, what was it that did it?
Mitt Romney: Well, you know, this is a guy who's a real leader. There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind. Paul had a very different course laid out for his life. And became convinced that he was needed to try and get the country back on track. And he has gone to Washington with a passion for making a difference.
Bob Schieffer: Has this sunk in on you yet?
Paul Ryan: It has. Because I've felt for a while now that our country is in a very perilous position. And I've done everything I could in my career as chairman of the Budget Committee to try and make a difference to tackle this economic and fiscal challenge before it tackles us. Sunday is when we had this conversation and it took a little while to sink in after that, but to see all Americans coming out to these rallies, hungry for solutions, hungry for people that provide leadership to get this country on the right track, I'm very excited about this.
Bob Schieffer: What do you--
Paul Ryan: And I really think we can turn this thing around.
Bob Schieffer: And what did the governor say when he offered you--
Paul Ryan: He essentially said--
Bob Schieffer: --the job?
Paul Ryan: --that we share the same values and that I have the kinds of experiences that complement his skills. That complement his experience. To help him govern. To execute a vision to get this country back on the right track. You know, to create jobs. To help people get back on the path in life.
Bob Schieffer: What did you say?
Paul Ryan: I said, "Yes."


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Barack, Michelle Obama get book deals
The former president and first lady have signed with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced Tuesday.
Penguin Random House announced Tuesday that it has signed both Barack and Michelle Obama to book deals.
The publishing giant, in a news release, said it will publish "forthcoming books" by the former president and first lady, but gave very few details.
According to a report in the Financial Times, bidding for the two books topped $60 million and multiple publishers were in the hunt. The former president made no secret of the fact that he planned to write a book when he left office, admitting as much to David Axelrod on CNN.
Imprints of Penguin Random have published other books by the Obamas, including Michelle Obama's best-selling cookbook, American Grown.
The former president, of course, has written previous best sellers, including the memoir Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope, both top 10 USA TODAY best sellers.
Most recent presidents have written memoirs when they leave office, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Bush's Decision Points and Clinton's My Life were No. 1 USA TODAY best sellers.
In a statement, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle said: "We are absolutely thrilled to continue our publishing partnership with President and Mrs. Obama. With their words and their leadership, they changed the world, and every day, with the books we publish at Penguin Random House, we strive to do the same. Now, we are very much looking forward to working together with President and Mrs. Obama to make each of their books global publishing events of unprecedented scope and significance."
The publishing company also said it would donate 1 million books in the Obama family's name to First Book, a Penguin Random House non-profit partner and the Washington-based partner for the 2016 White House digital education initiative, Open eBooks.
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Morning Five: 06.05.13 EditionPosted by rtmsf on June 5th, 2013
- In what turned out to be a rough Tuesday in terms of college basketball-related news, a federal grand jury in Alabama unsealed an indictment that alleges former Auburn guard Varez Ward of attempting to throw a game against Arkansas in the 2011-12 season. Ward, a junior at the time, is accused of two counts of sports bribery (or more commonly known as point-shaving) where he allegedly conspired with gamblers and tried to solicit other players to throw the game. (full indictment here) Ward only played 19 seconds in that contest against the Hawgs, suffering a thigh bruise very early that kept him on the bench for the rest of the game in an eventual three-point loss. Last year the FBI said that it was also looking into a February 2012 game against Alabama where Ward scored three points and committed six turnovers, but that game was not referred to in yesterday's indictment. According to this report from last year, Ward was suspended by Auburn assistant coaches in late February after another player blew the whistle on him; another teammate originally under suspicion was later cleared. Ward never suited up for Auburn again, but he may very well be wearing the orange (jumpsuit) full-time if these charges stick. He faces five years in prison on each count. We're not going to get preachy on this issue, but we will refer back to one of the first articles we ever wrote on this here website: This sort of thing happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.
- Meanwhile, more discouraging news from the great state of Alabama came out on Tuesday as Crimson Tide forward Devonta Pollard was charged by local authorities with conspiracy to commit kidnapping related to an April 30 abduction of a six-year old girl named Jashayla Hopson. The details are somewhat murky at this point, but it appears that Pollard may have been assisting his mother, Jessie Mae Pollard, in antagonizing the youngster's mother who was caught up in a land dispute with her. But this is no trumped-up charge where someone was held against their will for a minute or two — if the allegations are true, Hopson was picked up at her elementary school and held for a full day before being dropped off on the side of a road unharmed. Pollard, his mother, and four others have been charged so far in this crime, with at least one other still pending. What a crazy world we live in.
- Ohio State president Gordon Gee has had himself quite a week, as reports of his insensitive comments made in December about Catholics, SEC schools, and Louisville have been making the rounds. The "pompous ass," according to Cardinals' head coach Rick Pitino, announced Tuesday that he is taking his volatile opinions into the sunset, choosing to retire from his post effective July 1. Gee says that he made his decision last week during a vacation, feeling that he needed time to "re-energize and re-focus." Whether he was encouraged to retire or came to the decision on his own volition, the 69-year old president certainly has a fund-raising and bottom line resume that is unmatched within the industry, so if he chooses to continue his work elsewhere, we doubt he'll have much trouble finding a place to land. He may not want to send any resumes out to Notre Dame, Louisville or any of those SEC schools, though.
- How about some better news? One of the problems with the John R. Wooden Classic played every December in Anaheim was that the stature of the lineup often didn't seem to fit the stature of the name headlining the event. Naturally, UCLA was almost always involved, but usually the three other teams invited were a mixture of solid mid-majors (i.e., St. Mary's, San Diego State) and some other mid-level programs (i.e., USC, Washington, Texas A&M). It was also just for one day, and it often fell during a period in the college basketball calendar in early to mid-December when viewers were getting much better match-ups during the same period (think: UNC-Kentucky or Kansas-Ohio State). The decision announced Tuesday to rebrand the event as the John Wooden Legacy and merge it with the Anaheim Classic during Thanksgiving weekend is a good one. Although the 2013 field is not great, featuring Marquette, Creighton, San Diego State and Miami (FL) as its marquee names, the four-year cycle of exempted events and ESPN's coverage will no doubt encourage bigger-name programs to take the trip to SoCal in future years. We'd expect this to become one of the better such events during Feast Week starting in 2014 and beyond.
- Finally today, Andy Glockner at SI.com digs deeply through the KenPom statistical buffet and gives us what he calls "the extremists" — those returning players who are the best of the best in each of a number of key statistical categories. If you can name the top returnee in the nation in shot percentage at 40 percent, more power to you (answer: Wofford's Karl Cochran), but certainly a couple of these names are on the short list for breakout seasons next year: Oregon State's Eric Moreland (tops in defensive rebounding percentage at 28 percent); St. John's Chris Obepka (tops in block percentage at 16 percent); and, VCU's Briante Weber (tops in steal percentage at 7 percent). There's more to the article than this, of course, so check it out on a lazy summer Wednesday.


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These fried are served as an accompaniment to Naomi Duguid's Coconut Sauce Noodles in Burma: Rivers of Flavor. They can also be used as a topping for salads.
Reprinted with permission from Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid. Copyright 2012. Published by Artisan. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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- Active time: 5 minutes
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- 1 cup dried egg noodles
- Peanut oil, for frying
Break or cut egg noodles into approximately 3-inch lengths. Heat 1 inch of peanut oil over medium-high heat in a stable wok or a wide shallow pot. When the oil is hot, toss in the noodles. If they start to brown immediately, lower the heat slightly. Fry, moving them around to prevent scorching, until they crisp and curl and just start to change color. Use tongs or a spider to lift them out of the hot oil, pausing to let excess oil drain off, then transfer to a plate. Pour off the oil; it can be used for another purpose. Fried noodles will keep for a week if stored, once completely cooled, in a well-sealed glass jar.
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WASHINGTON — The Rev. Lennox Yearwood punched his fist in the air as he rhythmically boomed into the microphone: "This is a moment for great leadership. This is a moment for our country to stand up. This is our moment."
But Mr. Yearwood's audience was not a church. It was the Environmental Protection Agency.
The E.P.A. on Wednesday ended two days of public hearings on its proposed regulation to cut carbon pollution from power plants, and mixed in with the coal lobbyists and business executives were conservative religious leaders reasserting their support for President Obama's environmental policies — at a time when Republican Party orthodoxy continues to question the science of climate change.
More than two dozen faith leaders, including evangelicals and conservative Christians, spoke at the E.P.A. headquarters in Washington by the time the hearings ended.
"The science is clear," said Lisa Sharon Harper, the senior director of mobilizing for Sojourners, an evangelical organization with a social justice focus. "The calls of city governments — who are trying to create sustainable environments for 25, 50 years — that's clear."
Ms. Harper was one of about 20 interfaith activists who quietly sang "Hallelujah" and Jewish spirituals in a prayer circle outside the environmental agency's 12th Street entrance here on Tuesday. Mr. Yearwood and three other faith leaders spoke at the hearings on Tuesday, and about 20 others did on Wednesday.
Although many of the faith leaders came from traditionally progressive congregations, like black churches, synagogues and mainstream Protestant denominations, others were more conservative Christians who reflect a growing embrace of environmentalism by parts of the religious right. This week's hearings on the new E.P.A. rule gave them an opportunity to make their argument that climate change hurts the world's poor through natural disasters, droughts and rising sea levels, and that it is part of their faith to protect the planet.
"I have been called by God to speak out on these issues and believe it is my conviction as an evangelical Christian that we must be stewards of God's creation," the Rev. Richard Cizik, a former top lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals and now president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, said in prepared remarks on Wednesday.
The agency is also holding hearings this week in Atlanta, Denver and Pittsburgh.
Five years ago, only 34 percent of white evangelical Protestants agreed that solid evidence existed that the earth was warming because of human activity, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. An additional 31 percent said that no evidence existed proving global warming whatsoever. Recent polling shows that many evangelicals are still skeptics.
"For the most part, people in the climate advocacy movement are ignoring a number of various biblical texts that are more specifically relevant to the issue," said E. Calvin Beisner, spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance, an evangelical organization opposed to the E.P.A. rule. "They're quoting broad general texts that everyone would agree with."
But in recent years a number of conservative religious groups have embraced global warming as a serious concern. The National Association of Evangelicals began pushing for an assertive climate change policy during the George W. Bush administration. The Christian Coalition, founded by Pat Robertson, unsuccessfully lobbied in 2009 and 2010 for a climate change bill.
"Rather than letting our faith dictate our politics, we've gotten to the point for many of us where we're letting our politics — typically what the Republican Party says — dictate our faith," Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian and a climate scientist at Texas Tech, said in a phone interview. "Caring about God's creation and caring about God's people is entirely consistent with caring for your neighbor."
In addition, groups like the Evangelical Environmental Network have grown over the past five years, said the network's president, Mitch Hescox, by making a different argument than typical environmentalists make.
"This is not about polar bears; it's not about future life; it's about current reality and children's health," Mr. Hescox, a Republican who was scheduled to speak at the E.P.A. hearing in Pittsburgh on Thursday, said in a telephone interview. "We're not going to get anywhere if it remains a liberal issue."


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There is a distinction to be made between the Jet Lagged and the Jet Stressed. It is the same difference between the chronic and the acute. One is acute and the other is chronic. Jet stress is in fact chronically acute. The value of this distinction alone is what separates those who fly well and those who don't. A second valuable observation to our cause is that any time Man has conquered or thrived in an environment he has done so by taking his own environment with him. To beat jet lag in all it's forms you and I must do the same, frequent fliers more so than others. The current conversation on the subject of flying well repeat the buzz words like body clock and melatonin too often without a change in results or progress. The conversation is long in the tooth with the same tired advice – get plenty of sleep, drink plenty of water and keep your mind active. Old wives tales and a pastiche of personal remedies exist alongside rigid scientific data. The masses of frequent fliers and business travellers are confounded and struggle to make sense of disjointed and often confusing information. Productivity, personal health, relationships and global business's bottom line suffers.
The Most Intensive Frequent Fliers Hold The Key
I once read some good business advice which preached the value of catering to the extremes of a target audience. The notion was that if they were catered for all other demographics within that target market would be well taken care of. Frequent business fliers are representative of this extreme. An article in Wired magazine* charted the travel paths of business fliers over a year demonstrating the intensity of travel schedules of frequent fliers. The goals of business travellers to maximise productivity on the road, make the right impressions, close the deal and stay healthy bring home the urgency of the conversation at hand.
Unhealthy Flying Doesn't Pay, What Are The Costs
The price we pay for not dealing with frequent flying challenges and it's associated woes outweighs the benefits. The costs are measured on a personal and global business scale. You can measure it on the personal scale with the tendency towards weight gain, insomnia, tiredness, fatigue, adrenal stress, hormone irregularities, trouble conceiving and the list goes on and on. The cost to global business is measured in millions of dollars in lost productivity. A 2003 New York Times survey* estimated that heavy-duty business travellers lost about 20 per cent productivity due to trans-meridian travel. A recent AirPlus Traveller Productivity White Paper* also highlights the link between business travel and productivity.
Solutions Need An Upgrade
Over the short ascent of global business travel and globalisation many advances and efficiencies have been made in the area of civil aviation. The hardware of the trade, the planes have seen many modifications including fly by wire technology and a new generation of fuel-efficient planes to take us into the 21st century. Contrast that with the plight of the frequent business flier, healthy flying advice has remained static. There has been no respite in terms of the pressure and demands in the workplace. Global mobile working is on the increase see the Worldwide ERC website* for confirmation.
Look to Hollywood as an example of what I mean by this. A script is produced, a film is cast, locations are scouted out and the cast goes on location to shoot. Travelling to locations are incidental to the outcomes sought be it a film or a business meeting. Yet the quality of the end product can depend so much on the well-being of the participants. As globalisation makes the world smaller and calls for collaborative groups to come together in the name of a common goal over a short period of time, the need to be fully functional and productive is a conditional necessity for success.


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The UMGC Library supports the educational mission of UMGC by:
- Educating students, faculty, and staff in the use of library and information resources and services, emphasizing the critical importance of information literacy knowledge and skills for success in today's information-rich world,
- Partnering with the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Cybersecurity and Information Technology, and UMGC faculty worldwide to promote and embed information literacy within the curriculum, and
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Library instruction is one of the ways that the UMGC Library meets these goals. As a UMGC faculty member, you can arrange a visit by a librarian for face-to-face library instruction sessions in the MD/DC area and/or your online classroom (stateside/Asia/Europe).
Librarians provide:
- A modeling of the research process including locating, evaluating, and properly citing resources.
- Content tailored to the research needs of the class including an understanding of subject-relevant library resources and services.
- Reinforcement of the learning via an active learning exercise.
- Opportunities for student/librarian interaction to answer questions and provide individualized feedback on the active learning exercise.
- Online library instruction sessions that are usually scheduled for a week, although a longer time can be scheduled based on your class needs.
Instructor's role:
- Updating your course syllabus to include the library instruction session in your course schedule.
- Posting an announcement on the first day of the session expressing your expectations of the value of the session to your students, identifying the skills and information that they will gain from it, and introducing the librarian by name.
- Requiring an active learning exercise and, if possible, assigning grade points (e.g., as part of the participation or project grade) to reinforce what is being learned. This exercise can be a partnership with the librarian providing the exercise and feedback to each student who completes the exercise and you tracking student participation and assigning the grades.
- Reading the student postings and the librarian's responses, including the exercise, and comment as you see fit for the duration of the session. This demonstrates that you are also present and that the session's activities are important.
When to Schedule a Class Visit
- The best time for a library session is after a research assignment has been assigned and students have chosen their topics. Students are more likely to be motivated to learn about research resources at the point of need.
- Please request a session early in the semester to reserve your preferred date(s) using the instruction request form. It may not be possible, depending on scheduling, to meet requests submitted less than two weeks before the class session.
- A face-to-face library instruction session should be held in a computer lab so that students can actively reinforce their learning through hands-on practice (searching databases, etc.). If your class cannot meet in a computer lab, please request an online instruction session instead. The instruction will take place in your online classroom and will be facilitated by a librarian.
- For face-to-face classes please talk to your Program Director first to ensure that the use of a computer lab has been included in the department's budget.
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Amid political storm, Obama to view Sandy recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the midst of a political tempest that has engulfed his former CIA director and his top military commander in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is traveling to New York City to view recovery efforts from the massive East Coast storm Sandy.
While there Thursday, Obama will meet with affected families, local officials and first responders who have been dealing with the deadly storm, which slammed into New York, New Jersey and other East Coast states late month, killing more than 100 people and leaving millions without power.
Obama's visit will include an aerial tour of storm damage, during which he will be joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. Obama also will visit a Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery center and take a walking tour of a neighborhood affected by the storm. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, will travel with the president aboard Air Force One.
Obama traveled to New Jersey on Oct. 31 to meet with Gov. Chris Christie and view recovery efforts in coastal communities. The president viewed flattened houses, flooded neighborhoods, sand-strewn streets and a still-burning fire along the state's battered coastline. Parts of the New Jersey shore's famed boardwalks were missing.
Obama pledged to those affected by the storm that "we are here for you and we will not forget."
Obama also traveled to Louisiana in early September after the Gulf Coast was hit by Hurricane Isaac.
Thousands of people in the New York region remain without power 2 1/2 weeks after Sandy hit, including customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, just east of New York City, and in parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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Earthquakes Academy alumnus Jimmy Callinan suited up for San Jose last season and is now eight games into his college career at Stanford University.
Callinan has appeared in all eight games for a Cardinal team that is 3-4-1 that opens Pac-12 play on Friday, Sept. 30 at San Diego State. The true freshman has fired five shots, two on goal, while coming off the bench in each of his appearances. He is one of just three freshmen on the squad to suit up in all of Stanford's games this season.
While with the Earthquakes Academy, Callinan was a key component for San Jose's U-18s. He also played in three Reserve League games for the Earthquakes, including a 2-1 win against Vancouver Whitecaps FC on March 22, a 1-0 loss against Seattle Sounders FC on April 3 and a 3-1 win against Chivas USA on April 23.
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Part of the Nevern Estuary, Newport Parrog beach is sandy at low water but rather stony when the tide is in. It is safe for bathing in calm weather at high water but dangerous currents make it treacherous around the ebb tide.
With easy access, a large carpark above the beach and a slipway for launching boats, the Parrog is a popular boating area, and in summer the colourful sails of yachts are seen racing in the Bay where there is often a brisk breeze blowing. Nowadays the pleasure craft flotilla is swelled by wind surfers, kite boarders and surf boarders, for the bay is open to the Irish Sea offering good combers for the surfing fraternity.
Newport welcomes hundreds of tourists and has geared itself up to meet their needs, with good shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs.
Some of the boats moored at the Parrog are working boats, for there are a few local fishermen here who catch lobsters and crabs for their own consumption and for the restaurants which cater for the many tourists. At the southern entrance to the Parrog is the site of the former Lifeboat station, for Newport had its own sea rescue service for 11 years, during which time it was only launched three or four times before Fishguard took over the role in 1895. The reason for this was that the Newport boat could only be launched at high tide and when the wind was easterly or southerly.
As early as 1566 Newport was trading with Bristol and other ports, the vessels sailing from the quay near the Boat Club with their cargoes of wool and slates outward bound and imports mainly including limestone and coal from the quarries and mines round the coast to the south at Porthgain, Abereiddi, St Bride's Bay and the Daucleddau Estuary.
The extent of the trade in the days of the sailing ships and small coastal steamers is reflected in Newport and nearby Dinas where the wealthy sea captains built their retirement homes.
Old photographs show that some of the sailing schooners and ketches that brought cargoes in and out of Newport were too big to tie up at the quays, and were beached off the Parrog for loading or unloading by means of carts and wagons drawn by teams of horses.
The Welsh Port Books reveal the variety and sizes of the cargoes, with such exotic goods as hops, alum, fardel linen, Poldavi cloth, pitch, tar, black and white soap, salt and teasels for the fulling mills.
The prices of those commodities were also interesting, a consignment of 11,000 slates deivered in 1567 working out at 1s 8d to 2s 8d per 1,000.
The ships names were equally exotic - Le Saviour and Le Jesus among them. Up to the First World War ships beached off the Parrog, including one small coastal steamer, the Harperees, which belonged to a Cardiganshire owner and usually carried small coal or culm.