text:
Just when cruise lines thought they might be headed for calmer waters …
At least 162 passengers and 11 crew members have reported being ill on board Princess Cruises' Caribbean Princess, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The institute said health officers would board the ship in Houston to investigate the gastrointestinal illness, which is causing vomiting and diarrhea.
The news follows this week reports of sickness on another cruise ship, this one from the Royal Caribbean line.
Nearly 700 crew and passengers fell ill aboard the Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas, the highest number of sick people reported on any cruise ship in two decades, CDC data show.
That ship returned home Wednesday, two days earlier than expected.
To compare the cruises, 5.22% of passengers on the Caribbean Princess reported being ill, versus 20.5% on the Explorer of the Seas.
The outbreak on board the Caribbean Princess has been confirmed as norovirus, according to Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises.
Noroviruses spread easily and are a common cause of gastroenteritis, which produces vomiting and diarrhea.
Norovirus is also suspected on board the Explorer of the Seas, though the cause of the illness there has not been confirmed.
Caribbean Princess is expected in Houston early Friday. The seven-day cruise is being cut short by one day.
Sick passengers are being asked to stay in their cabins, while staff disinfect public areas such as restrooms and elevators.
The decision to cut the trip short was made based on forecasts for heavy fog, not the outbreak, Benson said.
™ & © 2014 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.


text:
Forest City claims "we've been working very hard to make Atlantic Yards a reality," says "there's a certain irony" about protest today (well, only a bit)
In a preview today about the Atlantic Yards protest at 3 pm, Patch offers a quote from Forest City Ratner:
The "certain irony" quote also depends on who's speaking.
We understand fully the need for more jobs and more housing in Brooklyn and throughout the City, which is why we've been working very hard to make Atlantic Yards a reality. But there's a certain irony that people who were opposed to the project, and worked hard to stall the project, now criticize it for not delivering fast enough the benefits.
The arena is scheduled to open this September and we have started an extensive outreach initiative to fill the 2000 arena jobs, including visits with community groups, public housing and churches. We hope as well to begin the housing this year. Fifty percent of the first building will consist of affordable units.
We are hopeful that as Atlantic Yards progresses, that we can all work together to achieve the benefits that we believe Brooklyn needs and that this development will provide.
Looking more closely
Forest City has been "working very hard to make Atlantic Yards a reality" under the timetable and program that makes sense to it as a company that must meet certain profit and revenue goals.
Bruce Ratner admitted in 2010 that the project was never expected to be built in the promised ten years, even though that's the time frame that the developer and governmental officials used to estimate project benefits. And last he said that "existing incentives" don't work for high-rise, union-built affordable housing, which is of course what his firm proposed.
As for the "certain irony that people who were opposed to the project, and worked hard to stall the project, now criticize it," Forest City has a slender point, though not a convincing one. The Coalition for Arena Justice organized by Brown Memorial Baptist Church consists mainly of churches that were not part of the Atlantic Yards battle, though a few pastors were periodic critics.
BrooklynSpeaks, a co-sponsor of the rally, never opposed the project but has tried to improve it, and went to court to seek a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, given that Forest City, while promising a ten-year buildout, negotiated contracts that give the firm 25 years. (It had previously avoided going to court.) Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, which did oppose the project and led several lawsuits, has promoted the protest, but is not an official sponsor.
Has Forest City "started an extensive outreach initiative to fill the 2000 arena jobs"? Nearly, but not quite. The 105 full-time jobs do not require "extensive outreach," while the 1901 other jobs are part-time--but not the equivalent of full-time jobs once promised by the project. That said, Forest City had not previously promoted this number of arena jobs, and they will surely be welcome to those who have them, and tell their friends and associates.
While fifty percent of the first building will consist of affordable units, affordable does not mean low-income, and most of those who rallied for the subsidized housing will not be eligible for many if not most of the affordable units. And Forest City Ratner, as Council Member Letitia James has pointed out, has not lived up to its promise for larger affordable apartments in the first tower.
As for how "we can all work together to achieve the benefits that we believe Brooklyn needs and that this development will provide," consider the passive sentence construction: "this development will provide."
The development won't provide anything without investment, subsidies, pressure, and penalties. That's the argument for oversight.
Who's talking
The "certain irony" quote also depends on who's speaking.
Elected officials expected to speak, according to Patch, include Council Member Letitia James and state Senator Velmanette Montgomery. Given that James and Montgomery are longtime opponents, if they simply talk about the overall project--rather than specific issues of accountability (like the size of the apartment) or general oversight--then they're vulnerable to charges of irony.
The rally would demonstrate broader support, however, if other elected officials, such as state Senator Eric Adams, a candidate for Borough President in 2013, also attend.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Welcome To Goza Gear
We are an apparel decorator that creates custom screen printed t-shirts and embroidered hats, (to name just a few), for people, business and events.
We do this by selling organic cotton and recycled content t-shirts made from plastic bottles and maintain the integrity of these products by using earth-friendlier non-phthtlate inks, non-toxic water-base inks and threads certified non-hazardous.
We are located in Northern California, in the city of Livermore and in business since 1995. We are a Certified Green Business in our county of Alameda since 2004.
Your Green Screen Printing & Embroidery resource. T-shirts that make a difference. » Read more about Goza Gear.
Get Started:
- Step 1: You create a design for screen print and/or embroidery (don't have one? not a problem, our creative art department can help).
- Step 2: Select your item or style (traditional fabric or earth-friendly) or you can supply your own goods to be decorated.
- Step 3: Send us your request for a quote for the items and styles selected including quantities and sizes.
- Step 4: Our friendly customer service person will email your quote within 24 hours of receipt and help answer any questions to finalize your order.
Goza Gear is a Certified Green Business that offers:
Your Green Screen Printing and Embroidery Resource:
There are lots of shops that sell t-shirts. Goza Gear sells peace of mind and t-shirts that make a difference.
» Learn more about our screen printing services.
Goza Gear Certified Green Business.
Browse our online gallery to view a small sample of our screen printing and embroidered work!
Bay Area screen printer, East Bay green business, Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, Tri-Valley, Art and Wine Festivals, Fund Raisers, Relay For Life, small business events, large company promotional items, custom tee shirts, screen printing custom orders. FREE SHIPPING !
480 Preston Court, Unit D
Livermore, CA 94551
Ph: (800) 884-9994
Ph: (925) 371-6732


text:
A New Form of Civil Society
November 15th, 2007 | Published in Reporting commentary | 1 Comment
In response to discussion of this post on the subject of nuclear targeting Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club is explaining why he is "cautiously optimistic that the War on Terror can be won without recourse to large-scale bloodshed."
On September 12 we were probably not very much weaker in a purely kinetic sense than we are today. But we were far poorer in information. The enemy was a mystery to most Americans. Today the level of discussion in a public blog of moderate quality would probably exceed the sophistication of graduate seminars on the subject in 2000. This is increase in knowledge is even more marked among those who have served multiple tours of duty in contact with the enemy or have worked as contractors in some related field. Experience and knowledge is our most precious resource. That experience now makes us an order of magnitude more effective and paradoxically far less randomly deadly then back then.
Entirely apart from the War on Terror his observation is a daring one about the impact of the Internet. My questions are:
- Has the quality of public discussion in various areas improved?
- Has the amount of high quality information increased?
I think so, but that is a huge discussion beyond the scope of this preliminary post. More narrowly speaking, I can't attest to the relative level of the discussion on terrorism in graduate seminars in 2000, but I can speak with some knowledge about my own specialty, media studies. The current al Durrah trial in Paris is the natural example.
Today was a significant day in media studies because of the screening of controversial footage in a Paris courtroom involving the charge that faked footage of the death of a Palestinian boy – Mohammad al Durrah – had been presented as real in 2000. The footage had enormous impact – inflaming the second intifada and permanently damaging the reputation of Israel. The court demanded the 27 minutes of original footage from which the final story had been edited to see if there was any evidence of staging. Here is an account from The Better Part of Valour:
Charles Enderlin submitted 18 minutes of footage. The judge, without any prompting from Philippe's lawyers, asked what happened to the 27 minutes. Enderlin said on record in court that he had to manipulate some footage that was not relevant to that day. He said he transferred the footage onto DVD for the court. That was amazing.
So she asked if anyone in attendance had seen the full footage. Luc Rosenzweig was there, stood up , and said he saw a tape that was more than 20 minutes long. Richard Landes also stood up. He saw the footage at Enderlin's office. He said the timer he saw was at least 21 minutes long. The judge basically let that issue rest, but there was serious doubt hanging over the room that the footage was tampered or doctored.
As regular readers will recognize one of the people mentioned, Boston University professor Richard Landes, has analyzed the al Durrah incident in great detail on his blog The Augean Stables. He has also provided all the footage available from other news cameras that were recoding at the same time and location at The Second Draft. Here is Landes's post about today's dramatic events entitled Gambling with a lie: Enderlain pulls a Rosemary Woods.
But the thought I want to leave you with is simply this. Without persistent questioning of the story on the Internet it is unlikely that the issue would ever have been joined. Now it will be part of the history of media – perhaps a significant one. Here is Melanie Phillips from her Spectator Blog with the backstory:
After Philippe Karsenty, founder of the French online media watchdog, Media Ratings, accused France 2 of staging the al Durah 'killing' and called for the resignation of both Charles Enderlin and France 2′s News Director, Arlette Chabot, France 2 and Enderlin sued Karsenty for defamation, and won. In a disgraceful piece of judicial cronyism after the gratuitous intervention of the then French President Jacques Chirac, the court decided against Karsenty and in favour of France 2 and Enderlin. Karsenty appealed; the judge ordered France 2 to produce the unscreened footage of this incident; today it did so.
Karsenty clearly raised the issue in France, but not being a denizen of the French blogosphere I don't know to what extent it has become an object of academic interest in France. Richard Landes, as many academics before him, came across something significant in the course of his research when he viewed the original footage. He took the story to the media and they were not interested. (They are still not covering it much.) In the past he might have written a paper for a journal or perhaps a book. Instead he put his work on the web. What is new is that there is now a small worldwide community of people interested in the media who know about and are discussing his analysis of the incident. I think it fair to say that this phenomena is a new form of civil society that simply did not exist in the past. As a media studies teacher In the 70s I assigned my students to create fake footage to inoculate them against being too credulous of TV. Thirty years on I can attest that Messieurs Karsenty and Landes have used the Internet to raise both the level of information and public discussion.
Crossposted at Yankeewombat


text:
Sam Hurd, a wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, was arrested last night in Chicago for trying to buy 10 kilos of cocaine and a half a ton of marijuana (every week).
And now there are reports that many of Hurd's clients were other NFL players.
CBS Chicago is reporting that Hurd was one of the biggest drug dealers in Chicago, and his list of NFL clients "are in the double digits."


text:
Volume discounts
discounts for adding items to your order
Lelo Antibacterial Cleaning Spray 60ml
Lelo Lubricant & Personal Moisturiser
No mention of this website on your credit card
Plain packaging wrap
If it's shown in stock online, it's in stock in our warehouse!
On orders over $200
Australia wide flat-rate express post shipping
Simple put and with little doubt, LELO are the World's number one manufacturer of vibrators for women and men. Their product range is exquisite - made to the highest standard of design, from the best materials and using top quality motors and moving parts to the design of their packaging. All of these features make LELO products not only look stylish, but they function well and last for years.
We stock the entire range of LELO brand sex toys including Soraya, Smart Wand, Ina Wave, Mona Wave, Gigi, Tiani and the new ranges, Hugo, Loki and Bruno + the ground-breaking REMOJI series of vibrators. Their range is diverse, with plenty of toys to please both men and women, personal g-spot, clitoral and dual-stimulation vibrators, also, cock rings, prostate massagers, mens masturbators and butt plugs. Available in at least 3 colours for each sex toy, LELO have thought of everything when it comes to the design of the toys.
LELO vibrators are creating a revolution in personal and couples enjoyment with their range of products. The company started in 2003 with a desire to create better, more beautiful vibrators for people who wanted something more artistic and less focused on simple function. Founded in Sweden by the 3 founding members, an engineer and 2 designers. The thought of the founders had was that vibrators should be functional, but they should also be designed to be aesthetically appealing, and they have succeeded in achieving that goal with a line of vibrators that appeal to even the most discerning tastes.
There is nothing as intimate and pleasing as giving or receiving a LELO vibrator as a gift. LELO is also a brand worth purchasing for yourself when you want something that looks just as good as it feels. LELO perform extensive market and design research, which helps them create innovative and highly functional designs, that even the most discerning of shopper is sure to be captivated by. On top of excellent products, LELO spend time and effort in designing visibly appealing packaging for their products, with a high-quality appeal. If you demand excellence, for yourself, or your partner, then LELO is the brand to purchase.
All LELO toys are made from the highest quality materials, most commonly medical grade silicone for the skin contact areas on the vibrators. LELO toys also incorporate multiple speed motors, which are designed and tested to last several years. All of the LELO range are rechargeable, using a local Australian plug socket to recharge in a couple of hours, and last about double that in vibrating time.
LELO are so confident in their products that they are the only company who offer a 12 months warranty with their products. As an Authorised Retailer of LELO in Australia we sell thousands of LELO toys, and in the last 5 years we've only had a couple of toys returned to us with faults.
Please browse our range of LELO vibrators, and toys on this page.
Available from 8am–5pm Mon–Fri


text:
At Norwood Fireplace - located on Route 1 in Norwood
Massachusetts. We serve all of the
Dedham and
Canton areas. We have crews on stand-by availability
and can immediately schedule a convenient service or
installation at your location in any of those towns.
We have been in business for over 20 years and were
previously located in Canton (as The Stove Depot) for
many years. We are family owned, with many years of experience
helping homeowners choose the best wood, pellet and gas stoves
- also fireplaces, inserts, grills, accessories, and more.
At Norwood Fireplace we carry
full line of wood stoves, pellet stoves, gas stoves, inserts and fireplaces
for winter warmth. We also carry quality gas grills, parts
and accessories for summer fun.
We offer local delivery and installation services for
everything we sell. We're open Tues.-Friday, 10-5; Sat., 9-5;
Closed Sun. & Mon.
We carry Vermont Castings, Majestic, Quadra-Fire,
Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Weber, Harman, Enviro and more.
Our service personnel are certified and trained. We are
experts in biomass fuel alternatives. If you want to heat your
home either fully or in part with alternative fuels, please
call us. Our team of wood stove professionals is here to serve you.
hosted by


text:
Volunteers Celebrate Ethiopian Millennium
On Tuesday the 11th of September 2007, Projects Abroad Volunteers in Ethiopia had the rare opportunity of (re)celebrating the millennium!
Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar, also called the Ge'ez calendar, which consists of twelve months of thirty days each and a thirteenth month of five or six days, which are usually referred to as the 13th Month.
This ancient calendar has its roots in early Egyptian astronomic calculations, but was abandoned by other Christian nations in 1582, when they revised their estimate of the birth date of Christ, leaving Ethiopia as the only country in the world that follows this system.
As a result, the calendar is almost eight years behind the Western (Gregorian) Calendar, hence Wednesday 12th of September 2007 corresponding with 1st January (Meskerem) 2000.
The celebrations began on Tuesday night with the official countdown, and will continue all week, with the 12th-14th of September being declared national holidays. Thousands crammed into squares and sports grounds all over Addis, the largest being the central Meskel Square, and the huge Jan Meda Sports Ground, where police had to hold back the crowds of dancers all dressed in Red, Gold and Green; the countries' national colours.
The official opening ceremony in Addis was held in a purpose built celebration hall sponsored by Ethiopian-Saudi billionaire Sheikh al-Amoudi – owner of the Palatial Sheraton Addis hotel. For the princely sum of $160, Addis' elite, along with leaders from many foreign nations, were treated to a performance by the Hip-Hop group the Black Eyed Peas, and words of encouragement from Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
"A thousand years from now, when Ethiopians gather to welcome the fourth Millennium, they shall say the eve of the third Millennium was the beginning of the end of the dark ages in Ethiopia," he said. He, along with many Ethiopians, has high hopes that the new Millennium will bring peace and prosperity for East Africa, currently so caught up in violence and poverty.
At a recent meeting with a number of other African heads of state, Mr. Zenawi said "The last few centuries of the millennium have not been as glorious. Every generation of Ethiopians during those centuries has paid in blood to maintain our independence…We have come from being one of the most advanced nations on earth to being one of the poorest [however] we have begun to fight back the poverty."
As well as being a chance for a huge celebration, this coming of the Millennium also represents a fresh start for many Ethiopians, echoing Meles' thoughts.
Thousands gathered at churches around Addis as the countdown began in order to be blessed and healed with Holy Waters by Orthodox priests, hoping for a cure to their ailments, and a blessing that the coming years may be prosperous.
Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis also gave nearly 18,000 prisoners a fresh start by pardoning them at the dawn of this new millennium, including around 230 political prisoners who had been sentenced following the contested 2005 elections.
Meles' words mirror the optimism of Ethiopians as they enter this new era, despite the many problems this beautiful country has been wracked by. The images that are conjured in our minds when we hear the word Ethiopia don't reflect the reality of this proud and dignified nation. Ethiopia is the only African nation never to have been colonized, the only country to have written down its own history in it's own script, and the proud home for the last eight years of the headquarters of the African Union.
Throughout the next week, Projects Abroad Director, Samson Workneh, and the volunteers currently in Ethiopia, will be attending a number of parades and religious services along with our partner organizations and some host families.
We wish you all a happy new Millennium!


text:
Lesson for the Obamamedia: threats you try to cover up will be inevitably be realized
The Obamamedia is acting exactly like the Memorial Project. Both are avoiding and suppressing massive evidence of hostile intent. The willful blindness of the Memorial Project will only give us a humiliating but very survivable terrorist memorial mosque. An Obama victory will give us a president who is committed to rapid retreat from victory in Iraq, to unilateral disarmament, and to making energy prices "skyrocket"; a president whose mentors are the Reverend "God DAMN America" Wright and domestic terrorist William Ayers, who is already engaged in systematic election fraud and who maintains extensive ties to Islamofascists while lying about his Muslim upbringing. All of this is easily documented, and all of it is suppressed or whitewashed by America's mainstream media.
The lesson of the flight 93 memorial is simple. Whatever dangers people try to wish away they are going to get smashed over the head with, for the simple reason that they have closed their eyes to the threat. They are ALLOWING it to proceed and smash them over the head. It is the negative version of the lesson of Flight 93. Heeding information from the ground that their plane was being used as a missile, the heroes of Flight 93 were able to stop the hijackers from reaching the nation's capitol. At the opposite extreme, efforts to hide the truth have turned the Memorial Project and the Obamamedia into enablers of evil.
While the blogosphere is afire with the discovery that Obama accepts false-name and false address credit card donations, allowing foreigners to donate and allowing everyone to evade campaign finance limits, the Obamamedia makes a front page "scandal" over the Republican National Committee buying a campaign wardrobe for Sarah Palin. When the Washington Post can no longer justify ignoring the donation fraud story, they run a blatant white wash, pretending that the McCain website has the same issues. Then they run a second whitewash, pretending that Obama is only accepting false-name and address donations from pre-paid credit cards, which everyone following the story online knows to be false.
Similarly for the massive and systematic ACORN vote fraud, and Obama's years of close association with ACORN. The press desperately tries to cover up extensive evidence that Obama will aggressively try to steal elections so that this information won't keep him from reaching the presidency, where he will have the POWER to steal elections. If this reality would only smash THEM over the heads, it wouldn't be so bad, but it is ALL of us who are going to end up under the thumb of a Hugo Chavez style election stealer if the media keeps suppressing the evidence that Obama IS a Hugo Chavez style election stealer.
They don't MEAN to usher in a usurper. They just want a Democrat to win, and because they refused to report Obama's negatives during the primaries, Hillary Clinton lost and they are now stuck with a Democrat that only Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright would vote for if the facts were known. By the same token, the Memorial Project does not mean to build a terrorist memorial mosque, but because they have decided to avoid and suppress the evidence, that is what they are actually doing.
Memorial Project Chairman John Reynolds dismisses the claim that the Tower of Voices is a year-round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial by claiming that ANY tower with a wall around it can be used as an Islamic sundial. When time for Islamic prayers comes, just mark the spot where the tower's shadow crosses the wall and there you go.
Wrong. Islamic prayer times are determined by shadow length, not shadow angle. Prayer time markers must be placed a particular distance from the sundial's gnomon, and must follow a particular arc. Chairman Reynolds' misconception that Islamic prayer times can be marked by shadow angle proves that he never even looked at the sundial analysis (the subject of our last blogburst), yet here he is assuring the public that he has investigated this evidence of an al Qaeda sympathizing plot and found it to be a false alarm.
Same for the Obamamedia. They are pretending that they have vetted Obama when they have actually been protecting him from scrutiny.
How can it not be front page news that one of Obama's closest political allies, his fellow Luo tribesman Raila Odinga, who rioted his way to the Prime Ministership of Kenya, is known to be lying about being a Christian? It turns out that this man who Obama traveled to Kenya to campaign for in 2006 is actually a secret Islamofascist, signing a secret document with Muslim leaders in which he first declares Islam to be the only true religion, then promises to impose Sharia law.
None of this is in question. The secret agreement became public when the Muslim leaders decided to brag about it. You can read Odinga's admission of the secret agreement on his own website, yet it has never been mentioned in our mainstream media, just as Obama's own lies about his Muslim background do not get reported. Testimony from childhood friends and from his own sister belie his claim to have been raised Christian rather than Muslim.
It's Obama's deceit about his Muslim background that is damning. The Koran allows Muslims to lie about their religion in order to advance Islamic conquest, and Obama knows the Koran. He studied it in Arabic as a child (which is how he was able to sing the Shahada–the Muslim declaration of faith–for Nicholas Kristof in Arabic "with a first rate accent": he was drilled on it). It is the fact that he lies about his past and his associations that gives the clearest indication that Obama actually is a secret Islamofascist.
Just the other day he claimed not to know about his illegal alien aunt, when it turns out his campaign has actually been tracking her.
Obama actually seems to exult in deception. Note the surreptitious fingers he gave to both Hillary and McCain. The obvious explanation is that deception is a virtue in Islam, so long as it is in the service of Islamic conquest. There is nothing wrong with tricking people in Obama's mind because there is nothing wrong with tricking people in his religion.
Obama also has Nation of Islam people on his staff. NOI is our domestic Islamofascist group, specializing in anti-semitism and anti-white racism (al la Obama mentor Jeremiah Wright, who champions NOI leader Louis Farrakhan). One of Obama's best dinner buddies is Palestinian terror supporter Rashid Khalidi. Obama's cousin/buddy Odinga gets most of his funding from Moammar Ghaddafi. The terror ties go on and on, with all of it covered up by the Obamamedia. When Obama slips up and admits "my Muslim faith," they even jump in to correct him.
If McCain possessed a single liability one tenth the magnitude of any of Obama's, he would be gone in a week, yet a recent study shows that the media coverage of McCain has been twice as negative as the Obama coverage, even in the absence of any obvious negatives (beyond being much too far left for any real conservative, which is actually a positive vis a vis the radically leftist Obama).
Suppress evidence of Obama's long and close relationship with domestic terrorist William Ayers and you get hit over the head with a president who has the same idea of "change" that Ayers does. Hide the Obama-ACORN-Fannie-Mae policies that caused the financial meltdown and you'll get whacked with MORE meltdown. Bury Obama's declared intent to use the phony religion of global warming alarmism to cut off our energy supply and destroy the U.S. economy, and we will get a destroyed economy.
Just look at the Memorial Project. In September 2005, when national controversy over the Crescent of Embrace first erupted, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette held a special meeting to discuss the discovery that the giant crescent (now called a broken circle) points almost exactly at Mecca. (That makes it a mihrab, the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built.) Faced with this explosive information, the Post-Gazette made a top editorial decision not to tell the public about the Mecca orientation of the crescent. (Crescent of Betrayal, Part II, Chapter 6, p 108.) As a result, we are still on track, three years later, to have a terrorist memorial mosque planted on the graves of our murdered heroes.
We are supposed to be vigilant now. We learned on 9-11 the nature of our Islamofascist enemies, that they hide amongst us, pretending to be trustworthy friends while perpetrating acts of war. Armed with this knowledge, as the passengers and crew of Flight 93 were, we think we will never sit still for a hijacking again. Yet our media still hopes to gain advantage from truth suppression, and so we find ourselves today on the brink of having a hijacker take over the Oval Office.
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Flight 93, US election | Comments Off on Flight 93: Truth suppression can give us a hijacked presidency as easily as a hijacked memorial


text:
For those occasions when your face needs to be protected from the dashing winds and extreme cold, we offer you this reversible, Neoprene Full Face Mask. With ample eye opening, shaped nose with open tip, and holes at the mouth, the thick yet flexible neoprene will form to your face to provide you with a comfortable fit. The mask is secured with a wide adjustable strap at the back, with a print of traditional camouflage on one side, and solid black when reversed, for 2 different looks. Ideal for snow sports, the cushiony featherweight material is weather tested and engineered to keep the harmful elements of cold weather at bay.
Made of 70% Neoprene and 30% Polyester.
Face measures 9" high.
Hand Washable. Available for export.
ONE SIZE fits most.


text:
Kids' Books
May 2018
Recent Releases
Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol
nine-year-old misfit Vera, who's hoping that she'll finally fit in among the other Russian kids at a Russian American summer camp.
What happens:
From mean girls to a terrifying outhouse, camp is nothing like Vera expected -- can she make even one friend before it's finally time to go home?
About the author:
his funny, relatable graphic novel is based on the real-life summer camp woes of author Vera Brosgol.
The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines
Adam Gidwitz, Jesse Casey, and Chris Lenox Smith; illustrated by Hatem Aly
What it's about:
After a mischievous Jersey Devil follows Elliott and Uchenna home from a field trip, the two new friends team up with their eccentric teacher, Professor Fauna, to keep the not-so-mythical creature safe.
Series alert:
This zany illustrated chapter book kicks off the Unicorn Rescue Society series.
For fans of:
the Imaginary Veterinary series by Suzanne Selfors or the Pip Bartlett books by Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater.
You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly
What it's about:
Charlotte and Ben live far apart, yet over the course of one week, their online Scrabble rivalry turns into a friendship that helps each of them deal with painful situations at home and at school.
Why you might like it:
You get the inside scoop on the thoughts and feelings of both smart, awkward characters as they fumble their way towards friendship.
About the author:
Erin Entrada Kelly won the 2018 Newbery Medal for her book
Hello, Universe
Following Baxter
Barbara Kerley
eleven-year-old Jordie and her new neighbors, Professor Reese (a physicist) and Baxter (a shaggy, possibly magical dog).
What happens:
After Professor Reese disappears in a teleportation experiment, Jordie and her brother TJ join forces with Baxter to search for the missing scientist.
Try this next:
Jennifer Holm's
The Fourteenth Goldfish
, another amusing, offbeat read about the unexpected results of a cutting-edge science experiment.
Big Foot and Little Foot
Ellen Potter; illustrated by Felicita Sala
What it's about:
One day during hide-and-go-sneak class, young sasquatch Hugo accidentally reveals his existence to a human boy named Boone, and a curious, cross-cultural friendship begins.
Series alert:
If you like the good-natured humor and cartoon art in this easy-to-read chapter book, you're in luck -- it's the 1st in a series about Hugo and Boone's adventures.
You might also like:
Kevin Sherry's Yeti Files series, which also explores the hidden world of cryptids.
Music Makers
When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Laban Carrick Hill; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
What it is:
a biography of Kool Herc, the DJ who jump-started hip-hop in the 1970s and inspired generations of DJs, rappers, and break-dancers.
What's inside:
From his childhood in Jamaica to the explosion of his dance parties in the Bronx, Herc's story unfolds through rhythm-infused writing and art with touches of street-art style.
Look for:
superfans can turn to the end of the book to read more about the history of hip-hop.
Fly Away
Patricia MacLachlan
Lucy, who's good with words but can't sing like the rest of her family, and her brother Teddy, who can't speak in words yet secretly sings to Lucy every night.
What happens:
When Teddy goes missing during a flood, Lucy realizes that her song might be the only way to find him.
Who it's for:
If you're just getting into longer chapter books, this simple, heartfelt story might be right for you.
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Linda Urban
What it's about:
a baby grand piano, so she can fulfill her dreams of becoming a child prodigy. But after her dad panics at the music store, Zoe
an electric organ, along with a songbook of oldies and a teacher who encourages her to compete in the Perform-O-Rama organ contest.
Who it's for:
anyone looking for a quirky, feel-good story about chasing your dreams, however imperfectly.
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Rita Williams-Garcia
What it's about:
Heartbroken over the death of this grandfather, Cool Papa, harmonica player Clayton runs away to join Cool Papa's blues band...only to discover a different kind of music in the underground world of the New York subway.
Why you might like it:
No matter what kind of music you like, you can relate to authentic characters and emotions in this moving story by the author of
One Crazy Summer
The Sweetest Sound
Sherri Winston
en-year-old Cadence, who's been hiding her amazing singing voice through years of extreme shyness. This year, however, she's determined to share her musical gift with her church...or at least that was the plan, before a leaked secret recording changed things.
Why you might like it:
With her cozy hometown, uncertain friendships, and complicated family, Cadence is a down-to-earth character you'll root for even as she struggles to find her voice.
Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 8-11!
303 Laura St. N.
Jacksonville, Florida 32202


text:
Nursing Professor Uses Yoga for Stress Reduction in Students
While many university professors are busy with study groups and student meetings in preparation for final exams, Sandi Tenfelde, PhD, RN, ANP, CYI, has turned to sun salutations and savasanas.
Dr. Tenfelde, who is an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, recently became a certified yoga instructor. She will offer a yoga class for nursing, health sciences management and exercise science students during final exams week. Her goal is to help her students reduce their stress levels, enhance their immune system and improve their emotional wellness, flexibility, strength, balance and posture.
"Yoga can provide college students with many emotional and physical benefits," Dr. Tenfelde said. "Regular yoga practice during finals week also can improve mental clarity and concentration making students more likely to excel under pressure."
Dr. Tenfelde also recognizes the long-term benefits of yoga for her students.
"Part of preparing my students to be good health-care professionals involves educating them on how to take care of themselves," Dr. Tenfelde said. "It is easy to lose sight of self-care when you are concerned with caring for others on a daily basis. I hope to instill in my students the ability to reduce their own stress levels to better care for their patients."
The class will take place at noon on Thursday, December 13, in the Halas Group Fitness Studio in the lower level of the Halas Recreation Center. Post-yoga refreshments will be available for Loyola students in the School of Nursing Student Lounge in the Granada Center, Room 360. Admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"My hope is that yoga will give students a healthier alternative to the caffeine, sugar and adrenaline that often carry them through finals week," Dr. Tenfelde added.


text:
white horn scrapping plate 243
It is made of well-selected ox or sheep horn and can help removing rheumatism,dehumidifying and promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis.It is good for the health while used according to Chinese traditional scrape therapy.Many women like to use the scrapping plate for sliming and
beauty.Since it includes the idea of health and beauty,it will certainly become the favorite of people.
beauty.Since it includes the idea of health and beauty,it will certainly become the favorite of people.
Package Size 15.5*7.8cm
Product Size length:8.6-8.9cm?width:1.6-3.2cm
As long as you maintain the comb carefully,
It will use for many years!
1)The products is made of natural material with refined traditional craftsmanship.
It fells rather comfortable as a result of smooth teeth.
2)Please hold the back of the comb when using.Clean it with a fine hair brush.
3)Do not bend or pull it with force and dip it in water or place it in a moistened
place.In case the product is found deformed.
4)If it is found deformed:
For the wood comb,soak it in water for a while and dry it in the air;
For the horn comb,heat it with a hair dryer and flatten it with heavy object.
5)Do not place horn comb in a temperature exceeds 40 .


text: I'm in the process of buying new kites, currently on Nirvana 9 and 13, 80kgs and boots. Gonna keep my 9 since its still in very good shape but need something bigger for freestyle/wakestyle. Thinking 12+14,5 Vegas would do it or would someone rather recommend other sizes? to big of a gap with 11+14,5? Often ride "low-wind" and want something to fill upp well down to the 9 which I mostly use for looping in stronger winds.


text:
Defines a method for measuring image-uniformity performance of diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging systems using single channel volume coils and performing proton imaging. This document does not address the use of surface coils, chemical shift imaging, or spectroscopy.
Terms & ConditionsTo display, copy and/or download a copy of the document you have requested, NEMA's permission is subject to the following terms and conditions, which you must agree to by clicking on the "I Accept" button below:
If you choose not to accept these terms and conditions, please exit this page.


text:
Just five months after reaching the round of 16 in the 2010 World Cup held in South Africa, the US National Team will be returning to the country that hosted their thrilling, heart-stopping displays.
Bob Bradley & Co. will play South Africa's national team on Nov. 17 at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town as part of the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and Galavisión at a time yet to be announced.
"We are honored to once again be invited to participate in the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup," said Bradley in a statement. "The experiences in South Africa the past three years were a critical component of our team preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and we will use this opportunity as part of the process of building for the next four year cycle."
Fans will recall Green Point Stadium as the venue that housed Germany's 4-0 bashing of Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinals, and the exciting semifinal match that saw the Netherlands top Uruguay.
The match, the US' 11th on South African soil, will mark the Yanks' second participation in the Nelson Mandela Challenge. The Americans defeated Bafana Bafana three years ago with a goal from Steve Cherundolo.
The two sides also met in Washington on June 3, 2000, with Cobi Jones leading the US' 4-0 victory with a brace.
The game against South Africa follows a pair of friendlies the US will play in October. First, the Red, White and Blue take on Poland on Oct. 9 at Chicago's Soldier Field. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET and the match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and Galavisión. [Click here for tickets]
On Oct. 12, the US will face Colombia at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. Kickoff for that match will be at 8 p.m. ET and will be carried live on ESPN2 and Galavisión. [Click here for tickets]
Fans can also follow those matches on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and through twitter.com/ussoccer.


text:
Posts Tagged 'new creation'
Olympics and the New Creation
Posted by: Joel on August 28, 2008
Posted by: Joel on August 28, 2008
He comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found.
- Isaac Watts
All that is gold does not glitter.
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither.
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
- J.R.R. Tolkein
Behold, I am making all things new
- Jesus the Christ, from Revelation 21.5
Augustine recognized that something drives the human toward God and religious expression and he identified that something as God's very own presence. We inevitably ask theological questions because God created us to do so and ever calls us to relationship. Thus, the foundation and possibility of theology derive from the reality that God has already sought and called us into relationship. Being engaged in theology, therefore, is something for which God created us. Christian theology in particular fulfills its purpose when it finds and proclaims the redemptive message of the Gospel in a way that speaks to the present church and world. Theology is a question of discipleship because it asks and seeks to answer questions such as: (1) What does it mean to follow Jesus Christ in the cultural circumstances in which we/I live? (2) What is the Spirit of God saying to the Church of Jesus Christ today? and (3) How do we bring to authentic and credible expression the redemption revealed in Jesus Christ? Theology is a discipline of thought that seeks to discern appropriate answers to such concerns. When we engage in theology we are responding to God's call to enter into relationship and live out the implications of that relationship in our world.
- Steve Studebaker


text:
(CNN) -- At long last, Maria Toorpakai Wazir can indulge her life's greatest love without fear of persecution.
Hounded out of the notoriously dangerous tribal region that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan -- once referred to as "Hell's door knocker" -- salvation has been found thousands of miles away on a different continent.
She survived death threats, spent countless hours alone in her room and masqueraded as a boy for years.
And all for her love of squash.
Now Pakistan's number one female player, who is ranked 53rd in the world, is homing in on her quest to become the best female player in the world, under the tutelage of Jonathon Power, the Canadian star whose name was inscribed on the first racket she ever owned.
It is a fairytale story that has taken the 22-year-old a world away from a treacherous existence in the mountains of Pakistan, to Power's academy in Toronto, and morphed her into an agent for social change in her native country.
"I think positive and I do positive so I think people in Pakistan need to be educated, need to take part in sports and skills so they have high integrity, high self-esteem and so they use energy in a positive way," she told CNN's Human to Hero series.
"They will start holding rackets and bats rather than holding guns and grenades. I don't want militancy or Talibanisation -- I just want a brighter future for all the kids. I don't want them to end up as suicide bombers."
Growing up in South Waziristan provided Wazir with a crash course in conservatism, a prevalent theme in a territory with a reputation for fierce tribalism.
Read: Kite rider: The girl who fought back from the brink
"It was an area in between mountains and mud houses and as it was 100 or 200 years ago," she explained. "The girls are deprived of all those basic rights. They stay inside the home and get married off at a young age.
"My whole family was different to the rest of the people in the area -- you could see the progress, the different mindset -- but they were still living in the Stone Age.
"They had no awareness about education or any health or exercise, or women's rights or child's rights. They didn't know how any education can be important for one person as a human."
Exasperated at the barriers placed in front of her, Wazir took drastic action aged just four, burning all her dresses, putting on her brother's clothes and shearing off her long, dark hair.
"My dad believes that it is your choice and your right to live the way you want," she said. "He laughed and he gave me a boyish name Genghis Khan, the greatest warrior in the history of the world. He said 'So, we have a fifth son, and his name is Genghis Khan.'"
However for Wazir and her family, domestic tolerance came at a price.
In a society cloaked by repression and inequality, even being seen unaccompanied in public could be perceived as a betrayal of her culture and Muslim religion.
And the liberal attitude of her father, Shamsul Qayyum Wazir, who encouraged his wife to continue her education and allowed their daughter to play outside with her brothers, was contradictory to the prevailing attitude of ultra-conservatism.
So much so that he family decided they'd had enough after a campaign of intimidation that included the stoning of the family house, attempts on their lives and an imposed spell in an asylum for the father.
The family moved to the city of Peshawar -- another Taliban stronghold -- where Wazir's scrapes intensified, with one scuffle leading to a head injury that required 12 stitches.
Realizing she needed to channel this aggression, her father enrolled her in weightlifting classes at a local sports club, keeping up the pretense she was a boy.
Wazir went on to win a junior weightlifting championship, but she also grew fixated on squash, having seen it played on her breaks from training.
She earned a place at a squash academy run by the Pakistan Air Force, though she had to reveal her true identity to the director.
Such was his delight at seeing a girl enraptured by squash he donated a racket to Maria bearing the name of Jonathon Power -- who won 36 top level events during his 15-year career at the top of the sport.
But as word spread of her emerging talent, the anonymity Wazir had reveled in for so long evaporated.
"Attitudes changed, they started bullying but I used to find a way," she explained. "I used to go early in the morning when there was no-one in my way.
"I used to repair those balls that were bad and torn in the squash court that guys used to throw away with tape and glue."
Taliban's unwanted attention
A steady improvement in her game led to appearances in high profile tournaments and prominence in the Pakistani media.
Awards from then president Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Shaukat Aziz were a mark of her pioneering spirit, but they also attracted the Taliban's unwanted attention.
"It was exhausting at every step," she said. "It was hard to let people know all I want is to play squash. That's how I can live happy but I had to change my life with time.
"For the last eight years I've been trying hard to come through to the common people and today I'm getting threats from Taliban. I was totally exhausted. I didn't know what to do.
"I stopped going to the academy because it's the biggest dishonor if a daughter is kidnapped. That's (why) I locked myself in my room and started hitting from evening to morning."
Her absence was noted and when she relayed the threats she'd received the issue was debated in parliament, who reacted by beefing up security around her.
"They put so many attack posts on the way to the squash court and around the squash court too," she said. "Above the squash court they put snipers.
"I was going once a week or twice a month but at that time I completely stopped because if a bomb happened -- there is so much glass in the squash court itself -- it would kill the innocent kids.
"I didn't want it to be the reason so I stopped going and started playing in my room for three-and-a-half years."
It was during this time Wazir says she knew she had to leave Pakistan to follow her dream.
"My dad said 'If a baby bird wants to learn flying, he has to leave the nest' and at that time I realized I cannot learn flying while am here.
"For three-and-a-half years I didn't get any email from anyone and one day I got an email back from Jonathan Power saying that he's going to help me, support me, teach me how to play squash so I can play at tournaments and become a world champion for Pakistan."
Power himself was sent to London as a 12-year-old to train with former Pakistani world champion and all-time squash great Jahangir Khan, and was immersed in the culture of Khan's country, traveling to play there on many occasions during his career.
Wazir's plea struck a chord with Power, who flew her to Toronto and has since been working on building her strength and stamina, and molding the rawness of her technique into a formidable weapon.
"I recognized right away this girl is special, she's very courageous girl and I wanted to help," said Power.
"She'll run through that wall 10 times until she finally breaks it. She thinks working hard just means killing your body and you'll get better, but sometimes you have to work smart.
"It's so rare to find somebody who has so much drive and so much passion, who is just dying to absorb knowledge. I think she's going to make it to number one in the world.
"She knows it's going to take a lot and she's prepared to sacrifice whatever it takes. I think she has the skills and the mental ability to make it all the way."
Building bridges
As for Wazir, her ambition to be the finest player on the world is now allied to a desire to campaign for other young girls in Pakistan to have the freedom to explore sport.
"I feel the luckiest person and I think whether my hard work turned me into being lucky or if I am the chosen one to bring change to the world," she said.
"I learned it's more about humanity. It's not about religion, it's not about culture or caste or tribe or where you're from or the value of the background of the person.
"It's all about being a human. I learned a lot and squash taught me. Through squash I made it and learned otherwise I'd be stuck in those tribal regions.
"I want to create bridges between east and west, friendship between country and country, family to family and people to people. It's all about brotherhood -- sharing knowledge, skills, helping each other and sharing love and care for each other."


text:
$100M NY Damage in cancellations
$100M NY Damage in cancellations
I watched the interview and he specifically stated that the losses are not just from cancellations. He specifically mentions the drop in stock price being included in those estimates.
Either way its not good. But can't go back. Car is great so hopefully sales will continue to increase. He does mention that at least 2-3 sales are generated by word of mouth from every delivered vehicle. So that is very promising news.
Elon has no idea why people are canceling, unless he has perfected mind reading. I wish he would keep speculation out of the press. Now if elon said they will have trouble selling 20,000 cars this year due to cancellations, that would be news. But right now it is reporters trumping up a probably stupid and inadvisable remark from elon. As is their prerogative. Elon needs to be more careful about what he says.
He really should have just kept his mouth shut and let the whole NYT thing pass. Personally, I thought the outcome was about the best possible -- lots of publicity about it attracting eyeballs, and then all the other media outlets reproduced the trip with zero trouble.
The numbers don't add up blaming NYT, except for possibly the stock hit which will come back if Tesla executes well, and as long as there are more reservations than production capacity cancelled orders don't matter.
Just keep building awesome cars and get the gross margin up, and everything else will take care of itself. Looking for excuses doesn't get the job done, and is actually worries me more than anything that could have come out of the NYT article or Q1 financials.
The Bloomburg guy is wrong, and it's kind pathetic considering this is his job. It sounds like he didn't even listed to the earnings call last week.
Number of cars:
I picked up VIN5448 this past weekend. Tesla shipped 2300 cars in 2012. Do the math and that's 7.87 weeks at 400 cars/week, and these numbers are not even precise. I don't see the significance of 196 cars/week last year when Elon already said exactly how many cars they produced. They are producing at the 20,000/year rate at this point.
He thinks they had trouble *selling* 5000 cars last year. Their issue was production, not sales. And he overlooks the fact that the Model S fills a new market segment, saying that they'll need to takes sales from the Volt, etc... I don't know how he calculates his cancellation numbers, but it wouldn't be surprising if he messed that up as well.
The vast majority of the "$100m loss" from the NYT article was the hit to the stock. There were 1500 cancellations last quarter, and one would assume that Q1 would be the last quarter with major cancellations (as the last of the long-time deposits came due for finalizing). If you're Elon Musk, why not blame an external factor, then show in Q2 how much things have improved since then. :-) Honestly I feel like the outcome of the NYT thing was probably net positive, with the positive CNN and CNBC coverage that followed.
If sales really is a problem (which I doubt...) ELON should ship a few hundred cars to Norway immediately, their 2. largest market. That would guarantee 3-5,000 out of the total 20,000 annual production this year.
Seeing is believing and this market is so ready for this luxury car at huge discount comparable to comparable cars.
If anyone else at, either inside or outside of Tesla, made that comment, it would barely have have been noticed. Unfortunately, as the face of the company, Elon's voice is heard more clearly so he needs to be extra careful in what he says.
Personally, I still think the whole NYT thing is just a blip. Ultimately, the car and its support will decide the company's future.
I would love to know the number of cancellations from people who reserved a car after Dec 1. I had my reservation for years and desparately wanted my car, but putting up 5000 was a lot easier than finalizing something you began years ago. Most thought the economy would be stronger by now, we struggled with possibly cancelling purely for financial resaons. The car has been everything promised and more. I convinced my wife it was a win win by buying a chunk of stock as well. We will either continue to drive a very special limited car or make good money when it becomes a Tesla world.
Doesn't it really matter that they ramped up production to their goal of 400/wk (and more) since the end of last quarter?
Also, I really think the refundable deposit for reservation pumps up the cancellation rate significantly. It's better now that you get the invitation to configure a day after you reserve so they can figure out who is actually serious sooner. Otherwise, a lot of people will reserve just for the heck of it and know that they can cancel and get a refund at any point (until they finalize). I would guess that half the people who reserve don't have spouse approval or the funds to actually do so. Basically, the cancellation rate is over-inflated whereas the real baseline of serious buyers/reservation holders remains the same either way...
DonS +1. What Elon says is very important now. My opinion is he must remember this game is about selling at all times. Get buts in seats doing test drives. When he speaks, Got to give people a reason to love the company. At the end of the day, the car will speak for itself. Have to be its biggest cheerleader when ever you hit the media circuit. This is the time people are becoming aware of Tesla. Give them a reason to fall in love and the rest will sort itself out.
Don't be Elon the defensive billionaire out to shutdown the media. Be Elon, the tireless champion of a better future, that gave an entire fortune to meet the challenges of the 21st century when no one else had the courage.
Tesla, SpaceX, and solarcity. American capitalism at its best.
I'm in your corner, Elon. Just take responsibility and move forward... The only person that cost tesla 100m is you. Not going to help by pushing more coal on the fire...This only brings more readers to NYT and future investors away from Tesla. See how negative statements work in the media?
Transparency at times like this wins out... TM should disclose all of the sales numbers, orders, cancellations, backlog etc, by model and price.
There is no question that all the noise is making many people think twice about whether an EV is right for them. To some extent TM has no one to blame but itself. If they had advertized the 85 kw Model S as having a normal expected range of 200, and the 40 with 100, etc., then the expecation would have been exceeded and no one could claim dissapointment (as I have, given that we can't use our 85 for a weekly 193-mile one-way trip, so whine about it not doing what it was sold to do...
I believe that IF TM can get through the current cash burn crunch, it will regain sales as word of mounth prevails. I am doing my part to sell the car, giving rides all the time, and have generated at least two orders so far for TM.
My fear is that Elon is out there with these kinds of statements to lower expectations and provide legal maneuvering wiggle room. If TM runs out of cash soon or has any other hiccup - he is essentially setting up the NYT article as a scapegoat. All smart executives anticipate the worst and try to establish the whipping boy somewhere else.
Not that NYT is blameless by any means, but TM did bring some of this down on itself. And don't bother repeating me all the BS about, "if you did your due diligence" or "it says on page XX that range is reduced in cold weather, driving highway speeds, yadda yadda...". The fact is that Elon goes around and gives a ton of interviews where he leads with 0-60 times and 300 mile/265 mile range numbers, no caveats, concluding it is just like any other car in teh iomportant elements, only better. I agree that it is better, but in a mutually exclusive way - Want range? Forget using the power. Want full range? Forget using the power or the cabin HVAC or driving at normal highway speeds.
No one wants to hear "you can drive 265 miles IF (1) you never go over 55, (2) you rarely stop, (3) the outside temperature is 65-70, (4) you don't worry about having any remaining range when you finish, (5) you never pass any other cars. I would not want Elon to say that. But it is just as valid to say the car can go 400 miles, as was proven, by averaging 26 miles per hour - it's just not reasonable in the real world.
Mileage range estimates (for marketing, internal range software, and the web-based range estimator) should be based on what a normal person will get in average normal driving conditions, driving at normal traffic speeds. Not hypermiling or using power saving techniques that compromise something else. Any other approach sets you up to fail, as we are now seeing.
The press is making hash of this, but consensus "fact" is coalescing around this statement:
"EV cars are better than they were, but not yet ready for primary vehicle status in most households. They are still early-adopter experiments that will get better over time if the companies survive in the face of much cheaper ICE alternatives."
There will continue to be a "but" or a "jury is still out" caveat until the high-speed charging inftrastructure is ready and available, andthe cars are as cheap or cheaper than their ICE equivalents. I would argue that teh Model S is close compared to teh Audi, BMW and Mercedes equivalents, but the available marginal market share for EV's in that segment is not a real business. Meanwhile we will be stuck with stories of KOA kwh charging speed, which outlet is faster where, etc. if we are luck and TM survives.
Real people who typically don't know how to use their Tivo or set up their iPhone, won't deal with the limits of current EV technology. You and I may do so, but we are the exceptions.
I think a wild marketing idea would be to reward owners for referrals that materialize in sales...
If three referrals buy an MS, get your next Tesla free.
This would up the game considerably...
To clarify:
The $100 million dollar loss is the loss in value that the stock took after the NYT article. The company did not lose $100m. Tesla's Market Cap is over $4 Billion, meaning the company is worth $4 Billion. So a $100 Million loss in stock value is just a 2.5% drop in value. The stock moves that much ragularly so it's not that big of deal. And, TSLA likely got that back after Elon's response.
The cancellations are a completely different topic and not related to the temporary loss in value that the stock took. IMHO, the cancellation rate will start to decrease as wait times are now down to a few months.
I didn't read everybody's comments above - and somebody might have covered already.
But just a comment on the subject of the thread - Tesla didn't loose 100M$ in cancellations. TSLA stocks lost 100M in market capitalization.
JZ13 responded about the same time as I did. Sorry for the duplicate response.
That's true on the 100m market cap, but Elon stumbled around it for a while in the questioning leading Betty and probably some viewers to believe he meant 100m in cancelations. A little confusing and it shows in all the miss quoting going on out there.
Lesson: come prepared to all interviews. Have a message. Don't mince words or leave anything up to interpretations...
Because the article happened when it did, it makes it an easy target to blame losses on. Coincidentally, it came out around the same time when serious issues were coming to light. The broken windshield, and now pano roof problem, are giving me a great deal of pause. In concert with door handles not opening, losing so much charge overnight, even when plugged in but out in the cold, or doors just randomly opening or unlocking...I have a great deal of anxiety.
I know Tesla has been great about taking care of things for customers, but I live over 200 miles away from any service center, so it's not just a quick fix. I would bet that anyone who is any distance from a service center might also have second thoughts. I am sure this has much more to do with the cancellations than a silly newspaper article. While the article was faulty, I think it is being used as a convenient scapegoat.
It would behoove Tesla to make some sort of statement about the status of these issues. How many cars have actually been affected? How are they proceeding with fixing said problems? Maybe is sounds worse than it is on these threads, but I'm sure most customers and customers-to-be frequent the forum and would be concerned. Perhaps George B. should address these areas somewhere on the website, because this will affect further sales, as well.
He probably did also mean order book reduction, though I think it was more the "price change/squeeze out the 'floaters' finalization" requirement that caused it. $100 million is 1200 cancellations or so, and there were that many in Dec., and possibly half that since then, or more. But as others point out, those were "soft" orders, and the replacement/new order book will be "hard", as the wait time collapses to a month or two.
Some of the cancellations were surely people scared or disillusioned, probably inappropriately in many cases, but not most. IMO, Elon was right to intervene to prevent any "trending" along those lines.
In any case, given the "2-3 sales by each new owner" effect, Elon's prior generalizations that TM is not demand constrained remains true. Each new delivery => 2-3 new reservations, usually very quickly!
Ambiguous sentence: "Some of the cancellations were surely people scared or disillusioned, probably inappropriately in many cases, but not most."
Meant to indicate a minority of cancellations were by the "scared or disillusioned", and a majority of those were inappropriately worried (and may well regret the decision and re-reserve later, in fact). Some feel forced into a "wait and see" stance, some are holding out for changes (which may never come, if they demand a non-Tesla design decision!)
Another segment (how large?) are those who want to lease, or were caught with overlapping leases. Given the faster deliveries, the "wait penalty" for cancelling and re-ordering has almost vanished, and that strategy is much more acceptable for those folk now.
More press from Forbes:
Be sure to expand the comments ~~
My first post. I agree with bsimoes. Tesla should step up to the plate and instead of petulant responses, address the issues head-on. They already have a great car; if Tesla can also distinguish itself with unprecedented responsiveness to customer concerns, they will have gone a long way to recapturing the magic.
The 196 is from cars delivered averaged over the whole quarter. TM never said itbmade 400 per week in Oct, Nov and Dec. It is just another one of these misleading statments from d**b journalists.
The high number of reservation and cancelations in Dec I think is because a lot of folks cancel and reserved again before the price increase. When I made my reservation mid Nov I expected Aug/Sep delivery and now I'll pick up my car this Friday... My financial planing was targeted for late summer, but I could adjust to the earlier date. I think a lot of people got suprised and needed to delay as much as possible (leases, financials, etc). So I am really not suprised by the cancelations - some folks on this board have canceled multiple times - because spending $5k on a reservation is one thing, spending $100k on a car NOW instead of later is another.
Done. Here's my comment:
Wrong. In this, as in many other cases, "there's no such thing as bad publicity." While the nattering may discourage some, it will intrigue others. And even a little investigation will be good for Tesla.
Re the ingenuousness of Broder, consider he couldn't find the Supercharger unit at Milford for 5 minutes. This is impossible. There are multiple units in a string, lit up like daylight, right at the entrance, as you come off the driveway. Then to circle for 5 minutes without actually running into them you'd have to dodge, every time you circled the smallish lot.
BS detectors clanged across the whole of New England as the (many) owners who had actually seen the place read that. A thoroughly insincere, mendacious, dissembling, intentionally misleading account. No other conclusion is possible.
And false in one, false in all.
Most people cancel their reservation for one reason and one reason only. $90K.
They see this car and they want one because it is game changingly awesome, they want to help the environment, they want to reduce their fuel bill. They want to be the guy driving the Tesla Model S and are hoping all of these reasons will justify spending more than they ever thought they would on a car. So they throw down a refundable $5K and start dreaming.
But when it comes time to pull the trigger on a $90K car, they can't do it, because that's a lot to spend on a car, even if it is the best value they've ever seen.
I still can't believe I'll be spending this much on a car, but I'm also beside myself with excitement. I'm expecting delivery in April and I can't wait.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The Model S is a expensive auto! I have never spent more than 45K on a car before. This machine is a game-changer and I will gladly plop down 90K for mine.
I just received my "Delivery" button two days ago and am also "beside myself with excitement". Come on April!!!
I reserved 16 months ago and received the car 3 months ago. Compared to what I anticipated 16 months ago, the car turned out to be more expensive than I thought, the range lower than I thought, and the charging costs higher than I thought (CA). I also had a few small problems that took perserverance and 3 months to solve.
Nonetheless, I like the car much better than 3 months ago and am glad I bought it. There is no other automobile that can match the coombination of performance, room, and beauty. Also, no gas stations, no fumes, no toxic fluids, no ICE noise & vibration. This car is a blast to drive, and it has soul. Tesla is going through growing pains, but I am rooting for Tesla. The world needs more fun and less exhaust.


text:
The scents of a wild night with notes of smoke, whiskey and honey Concentrated flavor, 10% dilution is recommended
1 x 10ml flavor
La Tabaccheria - Special Blend – Wild West 10ml
No still review for this productWrite your review
You can receive your order at the chosen address, we will send you: an email to confirm the shipment (once the order has been sent from the warehouse), and another message with the order tracking code (with link to the courier website).
Shipping by Express Courier: you will receive your parcel in 24/48 hours and for orders over € 100 it is free. Choosing the shipment with Corriere Espresso (Express Courier) you will receive: a notice of delivery by e-mail, a notification for stock and complete tracking always available online.
All shipping costs are inclusive of VAT. The free shipping, for orders over € 100 (including VAT), is understood as excluding the costs of the Cash on Delivery (€ 2.50). With the Cash on Delivery the only method of shipping allowed is with Corriere Espresso (Express Courier). Cash on Delivery is not available for Country outside Italy
Fast Shipping
With Corriere Espresso you receive your order in 24/48 hours and you will receive a notice of delivery by e-mail with complete order tracking.
Free Shipping
With orders over € 100 you will receive your order in 24/48 hours, thanks to Express Courier Delivery, and shipping will be completely free.
Customer care 24h
We are always here for you
Do you need help? Do you have any questions about your order? You can ask for assistance with the page Contact Us. Fill out the form in all its parts, choosing the area of interest, and the Customer Care will take care of your request immediately.
+39 02 928118101
Vaper Style guarantees that the Products marketed are free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 12 (twelve) months from delivery, subject to the limitations set forth in art. 21 ("Exclusions and limitations of the guarantee"). Vaper Style is also responsible, up to two (2) years from the delivery of the Products, to Consumers Customers, pursuant to art. 130 and 132 of Legislative Decree 206/2005
The shipping costs of sending by the Customer to Vaper Style for assistance will be anticipated by the Customer, and subsequently refunded by Vaper Style in case of confirmation of the presence of conformity defects complained of by the Customers. Vaper Style will not recognize the aforementioned guarantee, for health and hygiene reasons, on all products in the catalog, single or compound, equipped with a rechargeable tank and resistances if they are filled with inhalation liquid.
Vaper Style will recognize to the customer the warranty on lithium batteries in the catalog only if the customer will report, through the appropriate form on the site, any defect found within 24 hours after receipt of the product.
For more information on the Guarantee visit the Terms and Conditions section
Product with Warranty


text:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) nudged its full-year net profit forecast up to $9.7 billion, even as it put the cost of recent anti-Japanese protests and a slowing economy in China, the world's biggest autos market, at lost sales of 200,000 cars.
Sales at Toyota and its two Chinese joint ventures almost halved in September and October amid often violent protests in a dispute over ownership of islets in the East China Sea. Honda Motor's (7267.T) China car sales more than halved last month, while Nissan Motor's (7201.T) fell 41 percent.
Toyota said on Monday the impact of the drop in sales would cost it 30 billion yen off its full-year net profit. It sold around 900,000 vehicles in China last year.
While Honda last week cut its full-year net profit forecast by a fifth to take account of the China damage, and Nissan is expected to follow suit when it releases its July-September results on Tuesday, Toyota has found room to revise its forecasts higher as it traditionally gives more conservative earnings guidance and relies less heavily on China sales.
China accounts for around 12 percent of Toyota's sales, compared to Nissan's 27 percent and Honda's 20 percent. The backlash in China against Japanese goods allowed Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and BMW (BMWG.DE) to pick up market share.
Toyota increased its net profit forecast for the year to end-March to 780 billion yen, up 2.6 percent from its previous guidance. It said full-year operating profit would be 1.05 trillion yen, up a touch from its earlier forecast for 1 trillion yen.
July-September net profit more than trebled to 257.9 billion yen ($3.2 billion) on solid sales in North America and Southeast Asia, beating an average estimate of 228.8 billion yen from six analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. A year ago, Japanese manufacturers were still reeling from the March earthquake and tsunami.
"It's uncertain when sales will recover in China. It's unlikely to happen anytime soon ... I think the market hopes for a recovery in January-March, but I don't really see what's going to drive that," said Kei Nihonyanagi, autos analyst at Barclays Securities in Tokyo.
In its biggest market, the United States, Toyota's sales rose 16 percent in October from a year ago, giving it and its Lexus luxury brand a 13.9 percent market share, up from 12.3 percent. Toyota said it hopes to sell 2 million vehicles in the United States, a market it sees growing to 14 million vehicles.
The Camry was the third-best selling vehicle in the United States in October after Ford's (F.N) F-Series pickup truck and GM's (GM.N) Chevy Silverado, and led the mid-sized family sedan category ahead of Honda's Accord and Nissan's Altima.
Toyota and its group companies sold a total of 7.4 million vehicles worldwide in January-September, beating GM and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) to be the top selling carmaker. Toyota was the world's biggest automaker from 2008 through 2010, and could this year regain top slot after recovering from a series of crises - from the global financial meltdown and damaging recalls to natural disasters and the China row.
Toyota on Monday trimmed its forecast for global sales in the year to end-March - excluding those at its Chinese joint ventures - to 8.75 million vehicles from a previous 8.8 million.
Shares in Toyota, valued at nearly $135 billion - almost as much as Honda, Nissan and Hyundai combined - are up by a quarter this year, easily outpacing Honda's 4.5 percent gain, while Nissan is flat. Ahead of Monday's results, Toyota rose 2.2 percent to their highest close in 6 weeks.
Toyota, which blazed a trail for mass producing quality cars but then tripped up by expanding too fast into the U.S. muscular SUV and truck market at a time when the yen, too, was rising, has been on a relentless cost-paring binge. Investors now want to see real signs that Toyota is fixing its core problem. As the company's president Akio Toyoda puts it: having to make "ever-better cars".
Satoshi Ozawa, an executive vice president, said Toyota expects further cost cuts during the current second half, and predicts a 300 billion yen improvement in profits from the cuts.
While Toyota is again making money, profitability in its core car business is much lower than its financial services unit, which brings in just 5 percent of revenue, but a quarter of operating profit.
"We are changing a lot from what we were. We want to prove how we have changed through our products, and we want to ask everyone to wait a little bit more," another vice president, Mitsuhisa Kato, said in August.
"It's tough for Toyota to dominate the market again with its current product line-up. It needs to improve overall product attractiveness, including design and ride quality," said Masatoshi Nishimoto, autos analyst at IHS Automotive in Tokyo.
One sign of change is Toyota's more controversial designs tested on recent models. For example: the "spindle grille" on some luxury Lexus models - a prominent grille pinched in the middle - gives the car a bolder, more aggressive look.
"We are starting to think about how we can produce cars that stand out, rather than cars that are accepted by everyone but have no unique identity," said Toyota designer Ryo Ikeda.
Another is the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), a new framework to build better cars and cut costs by developing multiple models simultaneously to use more common parts. Shared parts mean suppliers can produce a larger number of fewer parts, cutting the unit price. The framework focuses on three platforms, each carrying 8-10 models, Toyota employees said.
The first car to be fully developed by the TNGA will be the revamped Prius for late-2014 release, followed by the subcompact Vitz and the next generation Camry around 2016, analysts said.
As the global market evolves, Toyota is looking to strengthen its foothold in emerging markets, and plans to double its China sales to 1.8 million cars by 2015. It has positioned Southeast Asia as a "second mother-base" after Japan.
Additional reporting by Kentaro Sugiyama, Mari Saito and James Topham; Editing by Ian Geoghegan


text:
THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
PowerShell is an amazing tool to help you automate your administrative processes. There are a lot of books and online sources to help you learn PowerShell, but how do you learn how to use it with SQL Server? Simple, just sign up for my PASS PreCon session. Here's the outline:
Use PowerShell to Get the Most out of SQL Server
As you can see, we're going to spend the first part of the day learning the basics of PowerShell, but the focus is on how you can manage your own environment using this powerful language, so you can spend your time solving problems instead of the constant point-and-click drudgery of typical DBA tasks.
The all-day session is reasonably priced, and you'll come away with scripts to help you put this tool into use right away. Check out the session details at Use PowerShell to Get the Most out of SQL Server.
See you there!
You know I was not to terribly dissappointed that I could not go to PASS Summit this year, even though I have never been before anyway. Hearing about last year I had been thinking about how I could get out there to see it, but...
Well now reading this post...I'm down right depressed!
Are the pre-con sessions available on DVD or something (like they do TechEd)?
I attended your session at PASS 24 Hours of SQL on gathering perf data using Powershell. You mentioned that your script might be available when the recording of the post went up, but I am unable to find it. Would it be possible for you to post it somewhere it could be downloaded?
Jim, the script is available in the attachment to this blog post: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/archive/2010/06/13/teched-2010-followup.aspx
Thanks for attending.
Hi Allen,
I just attended your pre-conference seminar at SQLPass, and need to know where to download the scripts you used in class. Do you mind providing those?
helen siegert


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
I still think he has something to offer, he was never an awful player the way people seem to go on.
Just a shame we still have to deal with them idiots over Coleman once McCarthy goes.
I guess the club that pays his salary have no say in the matter then? Otherwise why don't the club just say he's not available as he is unfit, as he has been all season. Doesn't say much for the Irish squad if they are even selecting him.
Oh we have a truly awful squad, it's embarrassing to watch them play, we are the Sunderland of international football
TBF they do tend to punch above their weight though don't they every now and again....do you think that's the O'neil factor or just the players... or just luck of the irish.....Tone?
I completely forgot he still plays for us
Page created in 0.06 seconds with 26 queries.


text:
I'm getting a NullPointerException in my code. I've use the debugger and traced it to the chooser.getName() line. This is returning a null value to me.
Does anyone have an idea where I went wrong? If it makes a difference, I'm using Linux Mint and the file selected is on a cifs network folder. Perhaps Java is having some problems working with my OS? I can browse the folders fine.
Note, I have not initialized currentFile before this point. Not sure if that would make a difference.
private String currentFile; private boolean setFile() // returns true if there is an error { JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser(); chooser.setFileFilter( new FileNameExtensionFilter( "XML files", "xml")); if (chooser.showOpenDialog(this) != JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) return true; currentFile = chooser.getName(); return false; }


text:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Peter Egan guests, as we look into #YesAllWomen coming up against neutrality on Wikipedia. Meanwhile, Congress is looking at Internet Sales Tax legislation and the media remains silent. How would it affect you? Later, look at upcoming Star Wars and Marvel flicks. We discover a reason to (maybe) take pictures of certain body parts, & also learn that hoarding can kill!
Topics Discussed:
- Shout-Outs
- #YesAllWomen
- Internet Sales Tax
- Painters & Dockers
- Star Wars
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- First Derm
- WTF: Death by Hoarding
- Simple Minds
- Type O Negative
BlendoveR is the "trendover" podcast, bringing you the news that the news isn't covering. Presented by Greg Davies, we focus on topics that are not trending across the web and in the mainstream media, and have a knack accurate predictions of coming events, trends, and media coverage.
Feminists upset after #YesAllWomen page edited for accuracy
HOLD THE FUCK UP – Let's step back for a second, Tumblr!
Police took no action in reported attack by Elliot Rodger in 2013
Internet Sales Tax
House Committee Approves Permanent Internet Tax Moratorium
H.R. 3086: To permanently extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act
Market Place Fairness Act Information
Permanent Internet tax ban moves forward in the House
Senate Passes Bill to Widen Tax Collection on the Web
Time is running out for Congress to ban the 'Internet tax'
Painters and Dockers
Painters and Dockers – Die Yuppie Die
Painters and Dockers @ Facebook
Painters and Dockers @ Last.fm
Painters and Dockers @ Wikipedia
Star Wars
Rian Johnson Will Write and Direct Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX
UPDATE: 'Star Wars' Bombshell! Rian Johnson To Write, Direct Next Two Films
X-Men: Apocalypse
Jennifer Lawrence Does Madonna? The Next X-Men Movie Will Be Set in 1983
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy trailer 2 UK — Marvel | HD
First Derm
App Lets You Anonymously Send Dick Pics to a Doctor for an STD Diagnosis
WTF: Death by Hoarding
Cops: Hoarder Dies After Floor In Home Collapses
Simple Minds
Type O Negative
Type O Negative – Official Site
Type O Negative @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
Music Featured:
- "Die Yuppie Die" by Painters and Dockers from the album Kiss My Art
- "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds from the album Celebrate: Greatest Hits
- "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" by Type O Negative from the album Bloody Kisses


text:
PureDWTS Season 18, Week 5 – Disney Week Song Predictions/Wish List!!!
Bye-bye, gadawful switch week – helllloooo, Disney week! This may be the one good idea TPTB have had the entire season 😀 Sounds like a lot of you are pretty pumped about it – so why not get even more excited by compiling a song wish list and seeing if we might be able to predict what everyone might be dancing to, shall we?
Vogue & I came up with a list of the most popular Disney songs we could think of and divided them up by dance style – Deep Throat indicated that all the songs were probably going to be very well-known, so while I think it would be totes appropos to see Maks dancing to "Gaston" from Beauty & the Beast, it's probably far more likely that he & Meryl have a song like "Beauty & the Beast" or "Be Our Guest".
If you didn't catch it yesterday, some of the couples revealed some clues about their dances in this media post Vogue posted yesterday. Some other clues, which I revealed on Twitter yesterday? Both Meryl & Charlie have eschewed the expected "Disney princess/prince" roles that some were hoping they'd assume this week, and are both going for "something different". And because Peta is about as subtle as a sledgehammer (thanks, emojis) I'll go ahead and throw out one song spoiler: James & Peta are, indeed, doing contemporary to "Let it Go" from Frozen. Happy Hump Day, kids 😉
Read more..


text:
On Tuesday, June 9, we gradually began easing family presence and visitor precautions at all Wake Forest Baptist locations. Learn more
More COVID-19 Updates | Our Care Options
Davie Medical Center
329 NC Hwy. 801 N
Bermuda Run, NC 27006
Get Directions »
Search by zip code to find an Urgent Care or Emergency Department near you.Learn about the difference between Emergency Care and Urgent Care.
The state-of-the-art Emergency Department at Davie Medical Center is open 24/7 to serve Davie County and surrounding communities. The Emergency Department provides convenient, high-quality care for adults and children with injuries and sudden illnesses.
View our
Emergency Department as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Bret Nicks, provides a tour.
Sign up for our FREE patient portal today.
At Wake Forest Baptist, we are committed to providing our patients with a simple, secure way to access their medical information (such as lab results and future appointments) and e-mail their healthcare providers for more information (including prescription refills) about their care.
Access your health information online, anytime. Please view our
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section for information on how to get started.
At Wake Forest Baptist Health, we offer a wide variety of both complex and routine treatment approaches to orthopaedic conditions and injuries.
Wake Forest Baptist Health Heart Center physicians provide patients with expert care for all types of heart conditions, from the simplest cardiac problem to the most technical and complex condition.
Eye Center doctors provide leading-edge eye treatments and therapies with the most advanced technologies.
Wake Forest Baptist Health - Davie Medical Center provides neurology services at the Bermuda Run location.
Pre-operative Assessment assists the patient in preparation for surgery and determines the type of anesthesia needed for procedures.
The Podiatrist at Wake Forest Baptist Health - Davie Medical Center offers solutions to many of your ankle and foot needs.
©DavieMedical Center. All Rights Reserved.


text:
876 members18464 Comments 89 Likes
22 members4 Comments 2 Likes
15 members16 Comments 1 Like
331 members49 Comments 9 Likes
377 members117 Comments 9 Likes
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jennifer Nicole Sep 23, 2010. 32 Replies 0 Likes
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Nov 4, 2017. 97 Replies 0 Likes
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Jan 29, 2012. 116 Replies 0 Likes
Jezzy has not received any gifts yet
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:40am 3 Comments 1 Like
I found this in drafts, and figured I might as well post it! It's old... But I had to finish up my coming out story. Which is really more of a... becoming an atheist story...
So this last fall I started college. Now I'm living alone 200 miles from home, but still very much in Utah. At first, it was great. I loved being by myself, having freedom, the weather was much better, school went pretty well, and the people seemed a lot nicer-- and less fake, particularly. …
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:32am 8 Comments 0 Likes
Title says it all. I posted before on my sexual life story... I wish I could say that things have improved since then.
I don't think, when I wrote my first post, that I had experienced my first kiss. But I have now. And saw my first naked man in the same week. Kissing was cute, but not very sexual. Because I never feel truly sexual. The second guy I kissed, and likely my first time really "making out" is not a particularly good memory. I think the guy really is…
Posted on December 11, 2010 at 8:35pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
Proposition 8 was never something easy for me to handle. I kept the old newspapers, got in more than one fight, and went to my first protest over it. I live in the heart of it. I live with the Mormons. I live with the sick, twisted, inhuman bastards who threw away millions of dollars to pass it. And to this day hearing about it makes my heart want to throw up.
I don't understand. I was well over this kind of ignorance coming out of elementary school. Yet even being raised in this…
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:06pm 6 Comments 0 Likes
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 9:58pm 10 Comments 0 Likes
Wait--is this the Christian dating website? Oh damn--I think I just sexted the Seventh Day Adventists. Ah, well--live and learn, I guess.
Someone sent me the following about Southern Utah,
There is a Unitarian Fellowship there and a Dixie Reason Inquiry & Freethought college student group! There may be other reasonable/non-religious groups in the Cedar area that we haven't heard about yet"
Hi Jezzy, I just received an email about The Evolution of Non-Theism in Utah on Feb 5 from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/events/222517477834434/
I was in the neighborhood so I thought I'd drop by and say hi.
AA is American Atheists.
I've heard that colleges don't set up core curriculums very well anymore causing students to take random classes that don't amount to marketable skills. I think it's important to take broad based education that includes art, history, science, anthropology, and etc. It's important to take classes that will further your employability.
The book What Color Is Your Parachute? may help you define your interests and help you decide which courses would be the most beneficial.
That's great news on several accounts. You're back at school (campus right?) and meeting secularists/atheists. What school are you going to and what classes are you taking?
Are you trying to get chartered with AA?
When I lived in NE Oregon it helped to meet other atheists in person. You should try to do that at your nearest friendly atheist meeting.
The Salt Lake City still has atheist meetings. You should attend one.
© 2020 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: The Nexus Group. Powered by