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- Combustion Brewery in Pickerington will host a weekend-long celebration of International Women's Day, beginning today with the tapping of Stand Strong double IPA, a collaboration brew made by women representing 14 Central Ohio breweries. Live music on Friday night by The Salty Caramels and a Girl Power Sip 'n' Shop on Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Get all the details on the weekend festivities at facebook.com/combustionbrewing
- Nocterra Brewing to hold their first can release for Beta Flash NE IPA on Sunday, March 10 at their brewery in Powell.
- The 24th Annual Barley's Homebrew Competition drop-off dates are March 26-30 at their brewpub in downtown Columbus.
- BrewDog's new milkshake IPA, Pulp Patriot, will be available in cans at all three Columbus-area locations starting today.
- Pack IPA, the newest bottle release from Wolf's Ridge Brewing is available at retailers around central Ohio this week.
- Big couple of weeks for Saucy Brew Works. The brewery took home the honors as "best Cleveland brewery" as judged by cleveland.com, and followed that up with the opening of a brewpub location inside Quicken Loans Arena. They then announced the location of their upcoming Columbus brewpub (slated to open this summer), all the while expanding distribution into North Carolina. Follow all these stories atfacebook.com/saucybrewworkscle
- Tonight, The Jolly Scholar will help you do your taxes, and smooth out the process with their new release 1040EZ Beer.
- We'll See Summer Come Again, a kettle sour with pink guava, is the newest beer on tap at the Butcher and the Brewer in downtown Cleveland.
- Collision Bend's Luke Purcell and Ben Northeim talk with The Taproom Exclusive podcast about their Lake Erie Sunset wheat ale.
- Platform Beer Co. is accepting new mug club members through the month of March at their taproom in Cleveland.
- Cheers to a year of beer from Fat Head's Brewery location in Canton! Pub brewer Will Polensek and his team have brewed up some special beers to release during the weeklong anniversary festivities running from March 11-16. Follow them on social media for all the details as they are released: facebook.com/fatheadscanton
- Today, the Phoenix Brewing Company will tap Stand Strong double IPA, the International Women's Day collaboration made by women from 14 Ohio breweries.
- Wadsworth Brewing Company will hold their second annual beer and Girl Scout cookie pairing on Sunday, March 10.
- Today, Two Monks Brewing will release their Lenten Bock on draft at their brewery taproom in Akron.
- R.Shea Brewing's Fruit Dance Party Berliner Weisse is back on tap, featuring blueberries this go-round.
- Moeller Brew Barn is rolling out a fresh batch of Rooster Bock to retail markets just in time for Lent. Traditionally, monks would drink bock-style brews while fasting, so it seems appropriate for Moeller to offer this option, considering the area's concentration of monasteries. We're told that a diet of bock alone can help you achieve a level of transcendence previously unknown to most. Stop in to the brewery in Maria Stein and reverently order a pint or two, or pick up a six-pack at a retailer near you.
- Grove Street Brün Cuvée 2.0, an Oud Bruin-style sour ale, is on tap now at Bowling Green Beer Works.
- A new version of Rat Trip NE IPA double dry-hopped with Citra, Mosaic and Motueka hops is on tap now at Lake Rat Brewing in Celina.
- Trek Brewing in Newark launched their Trek Together Community Fund this week, the brewery's new charitable giving program. Every Thursday the brewery will collect a portion of the evening's beer sales and donate them to a partner charity or hold them in the new fund which can be used for future charitable projects. Learn the details of the program on Trek's blog at trekbeer.com
- Wooly Pig Farm Brewery recently brought in additional lagering tanks to more than double their capacity.
- Computer Games hazy pale ale brewed with tangerines is on tap now at Three Tigers Brewing in Granville.
- Fretboard Brewing will release cans of Mellowship India Session Pilsner today from their brewery taproom in Blue Ash. Simultaneously, they'll release cans of Reba strawberry blonde ale. Both are expected to be available on southwest Ohio retail shelves starting next week. Read all about the duet can release at facebook.com/fretboardbrewing
- Fifty West Brewing released their limited edition White Out blueberry walnut cream stout this week.
- Brink Brewing will tap four new beers today: Rock the Boat Sour NEIPA, Rock the Boat Pina Colada, Brinkinator Doppelbock and Father G's Bees with Honey, Maple Syrup and Coffee.
- Urban Artifact's Squeezebox strawberry midwest fruit tart is available now on draft and in 4-pack cans.
- Warped Wing Brewing Company will launch two beers this weekend. Tonight, their new Test Flight IPA will make its debut on draft at Warped Wing's downtown Dayton taproom. On Saturday, 10 Ton Irish Cream Stout hits the taps, just in time for the week-long lead-up to St. Patrick's Day. Get all the details on both beers by following Warped Wing on social media: facebook.com/warpedwing
- Devil Wind to tap Riding Leisurely, their Vienna Lager collaboration with Yellow Springs Brewery, on Wednesday, March 13.
- Hairless Hare Brewery expanding into adjacent space, plan to offer larger taproom with more seating.

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Styling: Florals {A Top Now, A Dress Later}
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July 23, 2019
I make no claim to approach this book with an open mind. Making a fuller disclosure, I acknowledge with some pride that I have endorsed Justice for Some even before it was published, and my blurb appears on its back cover.
Beyond this, two months ago I took part in a book launch at George Mason University where Noura Erakat is on the faculty. My effort in this review is not to make a calm appraisal of the book's strengths and weaknesses, but rather to celebrate it as a major scholarly contribution to the critical literature devoted to resolving the Israel/Palestine struggle in line with the dictates of justice rather than by a continuing reliance on muscular weight of subjugation as augmented by geopolitics.
And, accordingly, to seize this opportunity to urge a careful reading of Justice for Some by all those interested in the Palestinian struggle as well as those curious about the way law works for and against human well-being as revealed by its use in a sequence of historical and societal circumstances.
Originally published at richardfalk.wordpress.com
Erakat focuses on the deformations of militarism and geopolitics that have been inflicted on the Palestinian people as a whole, making readers aware of how 'law' and injustice have all too often collaborated through the decades. Erakat brilliantly offers readers this illuminating critical jurisprudential exposition, but she does not stop there.
Justice for
In a sense my own partisanship on behalf of the Palestinian struggle parallels that of Erakat who makes evident from the Preface that her intention is to depict Palestinian territorial and national victimization as transparently as possible through the optic of law and human rights and to deplore the Israeli use of legal regimes, procedures, and tactics to carry forward the Zionist project at the cruel expense of the Palestinians.
Negating the mainstream academic canon
Justice for Some represents an important trend in scholarship, which seeks to combine academic objectivity with undisguised ethical and political engagement. Such a combination of goals might seem appropriate when dealing with a struggle as poignant as Israel/Palestine, but it has not been so treated in mainstream scholarship.
The academic canon on scholarly writing continues to favour the posture of neutrality or supposed objectivity as to policy implications, which is but a professional mask worn by naïve or cynical academicians unwilling to own up to their own subjectivities of perspective.
Worse than this, the Zionist influence over scholarly and media discourse on this subject-matter is so great that forthright writing of the sort contained in Erakat's book is censored, self-censored, and attacked as 'biased.'
For the mainstream, Erakat's originality and the persuasiveness of her analysis
This deformed equation offers us a definition of hate speech that amounts to a death sentence for freedom of expression.
It is a national disgrace that American legislative bodies at the state and federal level are swallowing this
"Law is politics" – and Israel has been better at using it
It is difficult to convey Erakat's jurisprudential originality without extensive discussion, but I will try. Much springs from her bold assertion "I argue that law is politics." (4)
By this she means, put crudely, 'the force of law' depends on 'the law of force,' that is legal rights without the capability to implement the law to some degree is without effect or its insidious effect is to give legal cover to inhumane
Or as Erakat puts it metaphorically, politics provides the wind that a sail needs for the boat to move forward.
At the same time Erakat when discussing Palestinian rights and tactics is insistent that the advocacy of 'force' does not imply a reliance on or a call for violence. Her tactical affirmation of nonviolence becomes explicit when she discusses approvingly the political relevance of the BDS campaign as well as in her endorsement of various efforts to discredit Israel at the United Nations and elsewhere.
Overall, Erakat reasons persuasively that Israel has been more adept than the Palestinians in making effective use of
In a larger sense, Israel due to geopolitical backing and discourse control has succeeded in having its most flagrant international crimes including the excessive use of force, collective punishment, and state terror 'legalized' under rubrics of 'security' and 'self-defense,' open-ended legal prerogatives inherent in the very notion of a sovereign state.
In contrast, Palestinians exercising an entirely justifiable right of resistance even if exercised against military targets is internationally criminalized and Palestinian behavior is characterized as 'acts of terror.'
Some examples of international law defiance
Israel's most sinister 'legal' trick has been to defy international law repeatedly and flagrantly without suffering any adverse consequences. This dynamic of defying the law can be illustrated by Israel's dismissal of the World Court Advisory Opinion of 2004 despite the agreement of 14 of the 15 judges (does it surprise anyone, that the lone dissenter was the American judge?) that building the separation wall on occupied Palestinian territory violated the basic norms of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions (1977).
Erakat also deserves praise by maintaining a scholarly tone while not mincing her words or becoming entrapped in the often fuzzy language of
Following Anthony
I would add that Israel was established despite the powerful anti-colonial current of history that has flowed in one direction since 1945.
Erakat is equally prepared to identify the Israeli prolonged occupation of Palestine following the 1967 War as having become 'annexation.' She also affirms the view that Israel's manner of controlling the Palestinian people through political fragmentation and the instrumentalities of law is a form of 'apartheid.'
In critical and constructivist approaches the avoidance of legal euphemisms is central to the central undertaking of liberating legal mechanisms from the machinations of states.
What truth-telling language does is to see through the legal masquerade so as to illuminate the moral issues at stake. This linguistic surgery is a prerequisite to elucidating the relationship of law to justice and injustice not only with respect to Palestine, but in relation to particular issues, whether involving international migrants, abused minorities, or peoples denied self-determination.
What can be learned from "Justice for Some"
Justice for Some helped me realize that this core sense of law as an inevitably politicized instrument of control and resistance can be at odds with the idea that I emphasized earlier in my own legal writing, that the true meaning of legal norms can only be discerned by their proper interpretation.
I argued against the Vietnam War on this basis, contending that the American role entailed uses of force in violation of the UN Charter and international law governing uses of
This regulative (or hermeneutic) paradigm reflects the rhetoric of international law and the way lawyers habitually address
Against the background of this understanding, what Erakat seeks and achieves is less about the emancipatory interpretation of legal norms and more about allowing us to grasp the manipulative nexus that underlies international legal discourse, and shapes political patterns of control and resistance.
The regulative paradigm is complementary and backgrounded as Erakat's overriding purpose is to develop a comprehensive rationale for a political and normative paradigm that fits the reality of the Palestinian and similar struggles for basic rights, especially that of self-determination, better than do traditional approaches.
These paradigms do not necessarily contradict one
Erakat's undertaking is less concerned with understanding the way the world
In this sense, the defining spirit of Noura Erakat's book calls to mind that famous remark of Karl Marx: "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." (Theses on Feuerbach).


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A group of charitable young people have raised over £1,000 to help buy children's toys for a ward at Lincoln County Hospital.
The group of teenagers, all from the Lincoln branch of the National Citizens Service (NCS) clocked up the cash by holding two charity concerts for children on United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust's Rainforest Ward.
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One of the concerts took place at the Queen in the West pub in Lincoln, with the other being held at the Broadbent Theatre, Wickenby.
Ben Dixon, 15, and Ron Au, 16, performed at both gigs.
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Excavations at Banias Photo by Derek Winterburn/Flickr
In the complex world of Middle Eastern boundary disputes, spare a thought for Banias, the ancient City of Pan. Straddling a strategic crossroads, it has for centuries seen masters come and go. Today's tug-of-war is between Syria and Israel, for Banias is located in the Golan Heights. The settlement was based on a beautiful spring at the foot of Mount Hermon on whose summit, according to an Arab proverb, it is winter, on whose shoulders it is autumn, on whose flanks spring blossoms, and at whose feet eternal summer reigns. The waters from the spring eventually lead into the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest reservoir.
The Canaanites (Joshua XI, 16-17) first settled the place, worshipping the divinity of the spring. In 198BCE it was the scene of the Battle of Panium between the Macedonian armies of Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Greeks of Syria, whose elephants won the day. To commemorate their victory, the Greeks built a temple to Pan, the goat-footed god of nature and wild things, and creator of panic in the enemy. The local name became Paneas, the origin of modern Banias – Arabic has no 'p', so uses 'b' as the closest sound.
The Romans renamed it Caesarea Philippi (4BCE-43CE), after the son of Herod the Great, and the city was rich in biblical associations. Here it was that Jesus told Peter he would be the Rock of the Church and be given the keys of the kingdom of Heaven (Matthew XVI, 13-18).
Conflicts continued here between the pagan tradition and Christianity, then between Christians and Muslims. Under the Crusaders, the site was known as Belinas and on the hills above, an hour's walk away, they built the imposing Subeiba Castle, today called Nimrod, which still dominates the pass leading up towards Damascus. A Christian sanctuary dedicated to St George – whom the Muslims called al-Khidr (the 'green one') – was built above the grotto; later, it was converted into a mosque. Today it is maintained by the local Syrian Druze people of the Golan.
After the First World War, Banias found itself contested by both the British Mandate over Palestine and the French Mandate over Syria. Britain wanted to retain control of the whole Jordan water system, while France wanted total control of the route linking Damascus and the Golan to Tyre on the Lebanese coast. The case of Banias was among the compromises reached, where Britain agreed for the line to be drawn 750 metres south of the springs so that it fell to the French. The French Mandate came to an end in 1946, and Syria gained its independence as a state within the same borders.
When the state of Israel was created in 1948 without the agreement of its Arab neighbours, the stage was once again set for conflict. Israel insisted on control of the Jordan headwaters, but Syrian troops refused to withdraw from Banias. Israel began work in 1951 on a channel to drain the nearby Huleh swamps, bulldozing Arab villages that lay in the way, so Syria reinforced its military presence. A swimming area on the stream was called the 'Syrian Officers' Pool'.
Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Syrian and Israeli units attacked and counter-attacked, each determined to take control of the vital snowmelt from Mount Hermon. Israel announced a plan to divert the water from the Banias stream into its National Water Carrier, and Syria countered with a plan to build a canal from Banias to Yarmouk. When the heavy machinery moved in to start on the project, Israeli guns destroyed them.
In June 1967, the penultimate day of the Six Day War saw Israeli tanks storm into Banias in breach of a UN ceasefire accepted by Syria hours earlier. The Israeli general Moshe Dayan had decided to act unilaterally and take the Golan. The Arab villagers fled to the Syrian Druze village of Majdal Shams higher up the mountain, where they waited. After seven weeks, abandoning hope of return, they dispersed east into Syria.
Israeli bulldozers razed their homes to the ground a few months later, bringing to an end two millennia of life in Banias. Only the mosque, the church and the shrines were spared, along with the Ottoman house of the shaykh perched high atop its Roman foundations. Within days, Israeli volunteers began building on the banks of the river, creating the Kibbutz Snir, the first Israeli settlement on the Golan. In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights in an illegal move unrecognised by any state but international law remained impotent. No foreign power dared intervene.
Since 2003, Israel's confidence has increased and the Golan is now covered in scores of settlements, while dozens of hotels offering settler-made wine from the Château Golan serve as weekend getaways for Israeli city elites. A ski resort has been built on Mount Hermon. Tourist websites refer to 'Israel's Golan Heights', and all local maps show it as part of Israel.
As for Banias, now emptied of residents, the site has been incorporated into one of Israel's many 'nature reserves' on the Golan. Four walking trails have been neatly laid out in loops around the ancient city, its springs and its waterfalls. The souvenir shop sells T-shirts emblazoned with 'Israeli Air Force' and 'Mossad'. Explanatory signs give the Israeli version of history. On the map, the basilica has become a synagogue, the Ottoman shaykh's house has become 'Corner Tower', and the Syrian Officers' Pool is simply 'the Officers' Pool'. The free leaflet that accompanies the entry ticket explains that Banias is now 'a perfect place to understand the pagan world of the Land of Israel and Phoenicia'. More certainly, Banias is a great place to understand how some very modern disputes have reshaped an ancient city.


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How to rate a turd? For make no mistake about it, this movie is a very bad and trashy one but at least the movie makes no illusions about being something more.
That's the one main thing John Waters and his movies often have going for them. He's not being pretentious about anything and he doesn't claim his movies are some sort of higher art form, that you have to understand to appreciate. He relishes in the fact that his movies are just about the trashiest movies imaginable and he also exploits this very well. The crazier, the better, in his case and it certainly gives his movies a certain charm as well as a very distinctive style to them.
But just because it does its very own thing so very well, I still can't call this movie a very good one as well. The acting is absolutely atrocious (though Divine is still pretty good in her own right), the plot lines are totally nonsensical and the movie just seems to take place in its very own unearthly world, with its own rules of logic, morals and justice. Once you get sucked into this world, it becomes a pretty enjoyable watch, though there is just no way I can say that this movie ever becomes a great one, in any way or form.
The main goal of the movie seems to be that it wants to shock- and gross out, for as much as possible. It does so by inserting a whole bunch of controversial subjects and characters and by often being very graphic. Not with any violence in this case but with sexual orientated themes and some graphic nudity instead. Also, it's an independent movie, so it doesn't play by any of the 'rules' of the studios. This means it also has lots of foul language and it didn't cut anything. Every crazy and dirty idea the film-makers come up with ended up in this movie, no matter if it actually served a purpose for its main story or not. It provides the movie with some strong moments, as well as with some very disgusting (the movie is pretty notorious for it) and absolutely pointless ones. So actually some stuff works well but most falls flat unfortunately.
The movie clearly got made on a shoestring budget, which shows with its camera-work, sound quality and editing and stuff. It's however not as bad or distracting as you may fear and it certainly adds to the trashy and simplistic approach that the movie is going for. It enhances the movie its atmosphere and adds to its charm. I'm actually convinced of it that I would have absolutely hated this movie if it featured the same story and actors in it but had a far more slick and deliberate look and feeling to it.
So as far as trashy cinema goes; this movie is somewhat decent and enjoyable for what it is but just don't mistake it for a good movie!
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London songstress and 10 Summers Records empress Ella Mai embarked on a 6-date winter tour beginning at The Observatory OC in Santa Ana, California. Her following shows included cities like New York, Paris and Amsterdam before her final homecoming in London.
For more familiarity, Ella was found by DJ Mustard on social media before inking a deal with his label. Some of her major singles include: "She Don't (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)", "Lay Up", "10,000 Hours" and recent release "Naked".
This tour was supposed to commemorate her growth and transition between various EP's Time, Change and Ready. But it did more than that: Mai's shows developed close relationships with other loyal fans who sang along to each song.
During a cold November night, fans patiently awaited in a long line outside of the Constellation Room — the Observatory OC's smaller venue. Doors did not open until a bit after 8:30 pm and Ella strolled on stage around 9:40 pm. Her 10 Summers family, DJ Mustard and RJ were in attendance for moral support.
Ella was dressed for comfort with a messy bun, a matching yellow 10 Summers crewneck and sweats outfit and Vans. She was welcomed with echoing screams and fans singing "Boo'd Up". quickly transitioning to "Makes Me Wonder", "Anymore" and "Don't Want You". She briefly exclaimed the inspiration behind each project and continued to perform a shuffled discography of these works.
Her set consisted of a performance running a bit over an hour. Loving fans sung in unison to "Naked" and it brought a tear to her eye. Some of us even broke down in tears due to the raw, truthful lyrics, emphasizing self-love and acceptance for authentic love. The overwhelming support encouraged Mai to perform an encore of the song.
After this, she calmly expressed intense nervousness for this opening show. But due to the overwhelming love and support of fans, Ella encouraged us to wait for a free meet-and-greet and album signing at her merchandise table. There, I found black and orange hoodies, a tee shirt and hat for sale ranging from 30-60 dollars. Whoever bought anything, received a free album of the three LP's in return for attending the show.


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Do you find yourself having to manage different projects, and sometimes it gets too overwhelming to get most of your work done? Luckily you can use Trello to ensure that you keep your work management skills up in the game.
We are going to discuss more on this fantastic tool and also see how we can download it on our computers.
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What is Trello for PC
Trello is a free web-based project management tool that allows its users to manage their activities, whether personal or commercial. You can also manage your tasks or as a team. This tool was created in 2011 by Fog Creek Software. It later became a company in 2014 and was subsequently sold to Atlassian.
The software provides tools that allow you or your team to create projects and define their requirements. With Trello, you can create, organize, and also prioritize some tasks by the use of cards. The cards system also makes things more enjoyable while using Trello.
By dragging and dropping cards on Trello, you can assign tasks, prioritize and give more information on the card. Others on your team can add comments, files, and also links to pass their message too on the platform.
The pricing for Trello is something that anyone can afford. The free tier allows many unlimited features like unlimited boards, cards, attachments, members, checklists, and many more. In this tier, you are also allowed to upload files of up to 10 MB and also upload from one drive, dropbox or box accounts. If these are the features that Trello offers on the free tier, you can imagine what it can provide on the premium tiers.
Trello Features
To make this software more useful and beneficial, several features enable it to be effective and allow you to be organized and productive.
The boards feature on Trello allows you and your team to create boards from the dashboard. From these boards, you can create different boards like to-do lists, doing, or done tasks. You can then develop cards to highlight tasks on each board, and your team can move the cards to take part in everything on the app.
The 'butler' button power-up feature also allows you to set rules such that if anyone does activity on the board that undermines the rules, there will be a notification to remind them of the rule.
How to get Trello for Android, iOS, and Windows or Mac devices
Trello is very advanced such that there are apps for both Android and iOS devices, an app for desktop devices, and you can also use it on the web without having to download the app. The app is also integrated with different third-party software like Slack, Onedrive, Gmail, and others.
For macOS desktops, which are higher than 10.9, you can get the app from the Mac app store. For Windows 10, you can get the app from Microsoft if you have a desktop with versions below the ones we mentioned above you have to use an Android emulator to download the app from either Google Play or App Store.
Trello FAQs
1. Is Trello available on PC?
Yes, it is available only that you have to have a Mac desktop with a Version higher than 10.9 or a Windows 10 computer. If you do not have these versions, you can choose to use an emulator to download and install the app on your Trello for PC.
2. How do I get Trello on my desktop?
If you are using a macOS 10.9 desktop, you can get the Trello app for PC from the Mac App Store. If it is Windows 10, get the app from Microsoft.
3. Is Trello really free?
Yes, it is you are free to use a free tier or a premium tier.
4. Does Trello have an App?
Yes, Trello has apps for mobile versions iOS or Android. It also has an app for Windows or Mac desktop.
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Ever wondered if somebody you thought you could trust is going through your phone when it's out of sight?
That's the (all too pertinent) premise behind Catchr, a new app designed to give users peace of mind while they are away from their iPhone. While the app won't protect against "leaky apps" or other forms of government eavesdropping, it can tell you whether your phone has been moved, and which applications have been started or stopped during your absence — along with plotting on a map where your iPhone has been during the time Catchr is running.
The developers note that the app doesn't work with two of the iOS built-in applications — the Mail and Phone apps — since recording this data violates the App Store Rules.
It's also worth noting that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease your device's battery life.
In all, though, Catchr is a fun application — and likely one of an increasing wave of privacy-oriented apps and other services we're likely to see in the near future.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Four years after the uprising, where is Yemen going?
Talking Yemen yesterday at the Global Voices' hangout along with Hisham Al-Omeisy & Sahar Habib Ghazi. Too bad (Wameedh Shakir) وميض شاكر was not able to join. Next time inshalla ya Wameedh.
Gotta mention that I concluded with a positive note because we really can't afford to be completely pessimistic. Revolutions' martyrs didn't sacrifice their blood and soul for us to give up on their (& our) demands. We must have a blind, deep & huge belief in the power of the people, and the potential lying ahead of us. Kudos to the martyrs & let's continue the struggle!


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Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
From amusement parks to zoos, EA certainly has the gamut of summertime travel covered! The Moe's Ark (Springfield Zoo) event hit our games earlier today, and with it arrived lions and tigers and bears…oh boy!
As was mentioned on the rundown post Act 1 of Moe's Ark runs until August 15th, and you'll need to send 3 Simpsons on a 6s task to get things started.
Don't forget the Questline will help you get some bonus prize currency…so make sure you complete it to earn that extra currency…also the questline is there to guide you. Make sure you complete the main questline in order to unlock things like neighbor actions, crafting and more.
Now let's work our way through the wildness of the Act 1 questline….


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The Friars (9-4) will open Big East play on the road for the second consecutive season, as they visit Chris Mullin and the St. John's Red Storm tonight at Carnesecca Arena in Queens. St. Johns (10-2) are coming off a 77-73 victory over St. Joe's in the Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase, the same event where the Friars fell to Houston 70-59. The Johnnies are led in scoring by Shamorie Ponds (20.4 ppg) and in rebounding by Arizona transfer Justin Simon (8.2 rpg). Both teams are currently dealing with injuries as the Friars' Kyron Cartwright and Alpha Diallo, along with St. Johns' Marcus Lovett all appear to be game time decisions. Given the way the season has gone lately the Friars really don't want a repeat performance of last year dropping their first two Big East games on the road, so tonight is a big game for the team. So with that lets get to my keys to the game.
Crier's Keys to the Game
Make Ponds a Jump Shooter
Although Shamorie Ponds has seen his point production increase from freshman to sophomore year he is having a down year shooting the ball. He is shooting 39% from the floor and a dismal 21% from beyond the arc. Despite his poor shooting from three Ponds still doesn't hesitate to shoot from there attempting over 6 shots from downtown a game. Ponds is most effective off the dribble, attacking the basket where he either finds a teammate or finishes on his own. The Friars are going to want to stay in front of Ponds and turn him into a jump shooter to avoid him lighting them up. If Cartwright does in fact play tonight I think Cooley will need someone else to guard Ponds because Kyron, especially on a bum ankle, wont be up for the task.
Prevent a Tariq Owens Block Party
Tariq Owens may not kill you in terms of scoring or rebounding but the guy is a legit rim protector. Owens, who once played for the Tennessee Volunteers, is averaging 3.7 blocks per game and as pointed out by Jon Rothstein has really emerged since becoming a starter. It will be interesting to see if Cooley tries to go small on offense to get Owens out of the lane. If the Friars decide to have Bullock at the 5 they can use his ability to stretch the floor and thus pull Owens out of the paint. The Friars are going to want to make outside shots as well to avoid SJ from packing it in defensively. If the Friars spend the night getting denied at the rim by Owens they could be in for a long night.
Give Bullock Help on Offense
The past two games Rodney Bullock has made up 37% of the Friars offensive production and that's go to change. I usually get on Bullock for his shot selection but the offense has been so bad lately that its hard to blame him for some of the shots he takes. If the Friars want to win tonight they need Bullock to score but someone else is going to need to step up. Even if Cartwright and Diallo play its hard to expect a ton from either of them so I am looking at guys like Isaiah Jackson, Jalen Lindsey or Makai Ashton-Langford to provide a spark for the Friars offensively. If the Friars just rely on Rodney for the bulk of the offense tonight expect an 0-1 start to the Big East season.
Even though they only won by 14 points against a subpar Sacred Heart team the performance was encouraging. The Friars had a comfortable lead throughout and I saw them play with more fluidity on offense. The problem is the fact I'm encouraged by a 14-point victory over Sacred Heart shows how bad things have gotten for the Friars. This is the same Sacred Heart team that St. Johns pummeled en route to a 35-point victory early in the month. In terms of tonight you hope that the week off did the teams well in terms of health and if Marcus Lovett cant go for SJ it could be a huge boost for the Friars. I think the Friars will compete tonight and make things interesting but ultimately wont be able to keep up with SJ on offense.
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Back to Before (Second Chances) by Tracy Solheim
Chances Inlet, North Carolina, has an infamous power for second
chances. But its charms are lost on the town's favorite son—until she comes along…
his father's sudden death puts his family's construction business in
serious debt, architect Gavin McAlister is forced to put his dream
career in New York on hold. Making matters worse, his fiancée calls it
quits. Desperate to return to his big-city life, he discovers an
opportunity to save his family, one that has him reluctantly starring in
a home restoration TV show.
Former soap star Ginger Walsh hopes
this job as a TV makeup artist will lead to better things. So far it's
only brought her to a hamlet full of people who don't like her—except
Gavin. After a wild night out leads to Ginger waking up in Gavin's
loft—and the rest of town talking—the two of them soon wonder if getting
back to before is what they want. Because being in each other's arms
certainly feels like what they need…


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Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome
20th January
FABIAN, a layman who happened to be in Rome, and in the crowd of onlookers, on the day a successor to Pope St. Anterus was being selected. St. Fabian was chosen to be the twentieth Pope of Rome by acclimation when a dove alighted upon his head and the assembled clergy and laity took this as a sign from the Holy Spirit. St. Fabian served the See of Rome from his selection in 236 until his martyrdom in 250. St. Fabian has been credited with sending St. Denis of Paris (9th October) to Gaul, and with being the first martyr of the Decian Persecution.
FECHIN, a native of Co. Sligo in Connaught and the founder of several monasteries in that region; St. Fechin is principally remembered for founding the monastery at Fore (Fobar), Co. Westmeath. Ecclefechan and St. Vigean's near Arbroath in Scotland also perpetuate his memory. He is said to have lived a life of extraordinary penance, spending his nights reciting the entire Psalter. St. Fechin reposed circa 665.
MAURUS, a nephew of Pope John IX, St. Maurus was priested and then received monastic tonsure at Classe in Ravenna, where in 926 he was elected Abbot. In 934, St. Maurus was consecrated Bishop of Cesena. As Bishop, St. Maurus had built a small cell on Spaziano Hill in which his relics were buried upon his repose in 946. Around sixty-five years later construction was commenced on the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte at the location of St. Maurus' cell.
MOLAGGA (LAICIN), though there are several Saints of the same name (most Irish hagiographers count at least twelve), and it is often difficult to disentangle their Lives, it is believed this St. Molagga was a disciple of St. David of Wales (1st March). Returning to his native Ireland, he founded a monastery at what is now Fermoy (Irish: Mainistir Fhear Maí, meaning "monastery of the Men of the Plain") Co. Cork. He was distinguished for his exceptional learning and piety as well as his Christian charity. St. Molagga seems to have survived the Great Pestilence of 664, reposing circa 655, and is greatly venerated in the South of Ireland.
SEBASTIAN, an officer in the imperial army, captain of the Praetorian guard, a favourite of the Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–304), and a secret Christian. During the Diocletianic Persecution, St. Sebastian visited imprisoned Christians, and is reputed to have converted soldiers, a governor, and healed the wife of a fellow guard by making the sign of the Cross over her. Soon his identity as a Christian was no longer secret, and his status and favour with Diocletian proved no help. St. Sebastian was arrested, tied to a tree, and shot full of arrows by soldiers who used him for target practice. He miraculously survived, but was ordered beaten to death by Diocletian, circa 288.
Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox, and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies".
Details of British Saints excerpted from Orthodox Saints of the British Isles.
Details of continental saints from these sources.
In many cases there are several spelling versions of the names of saints from the British Isles. I use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography version as the primary version with the more prevalent version in parenthesis e.g. Ceadda (Chad) of Lichfield.


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Situated in Landes department in SW France, 8km from beaches, 80km north of Biarritz and 135km south of Bordeaux. The area is very quiet, but has plenty of restaurants, cafes, and outdoor markets open in Summer. The house, in a "village de vacances", is our holiday home, and is perfect for a family with young children who can play in the garden, and enjoy the holiday village's swimming pool or play with our 5 year-old son's toys. Older children can use the tennis courts 20metres away. The endless sandy beaches are within easy cycling distance and are world-famous for surfing. Rooms: 1 double, 2 single bedrooms each with 2 beds, 1 living room with open fire, kitchen, bathroom. Bicycles in the shed. We also offer our main residence in Vitoria (Northern Spain), although dates are more limited.
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The large-scale color images in this exhibition reinterpret masterworks of painting as photographs. In some cases fashioned as an homage, in others a critique, these works combine elements of historical paintings with traits particular to photography to create images with a unique and powerful presence. Runs March 30-Oct. 23.


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On Tuesday, March 16, thousands of Nigerians marched on the capital, Abuja, to show their frustration with the woes that continue to besiege the country. This sort of protest has not been a common feature of the Nigerian political scene – at least not in this decade– though this demonstration is one of several that have taken place this year.
The protest was organized by Enough is Enough, a diverse coalition of youth, media, and business leaders. The group marched to the National Assembly building bearing a letter which outlined their demands, four of which they said stand out as requiring "urgent intervention". Excerpts of the demands are as follow:
1. The Jos situation makes it clear that the Nigerian state is incapable of securing the lives and limbs of its citizens…. We demand an urgent overhaul of the security and intelligence apparatus in our country…
2. The promise of 6000 megawatts was flagrantly broken…. [We] demand that within the month, the government gives a realistic, practical plan to solving this perennial power problem.
3. We also demand that President Yar'Adua should resume, resign or be removed so that Nigerians know who their leaders are…
4. The Uwais report has been lying between the executive and the legislature for months now, and now election timetables have been released… We demand that all its recommendations be passed and implemented before the next elections.
[The Uwais Report is a document containing recommendations for making Nigerian elections fairer and more transparent.]
The coalition's letter emphasized the fact that those under 35 make up 75% of Nigeria's population; it carried a warning for the upcoming election:
We will come out to vote massively this time around, we will be watching closely and we will not leave election centres until all votes are counted. Anyone who rigs elections this time around will have themselves to blame. Young people across the country – from the North to the South – will be coming out in their millions…
The letter concluded:
We grew up hearing ourselves addressed as the "leaders of tomorrow," and now we have realised that it is time… to take our destinies into our hands if we want to stand any chance of witnessing that much-touted "tomorrow."
The protest ended relatively peacefully, and was largely declared a success. Olamild gave a play-by-play of the events of the day:
After hours of waiting and chanting, the crowd switched to Plan B Mode – they sat on the bare floor insisting that bankole and mark come out.
[Dimeji Bankole is Speaker of the House of Representatives; David Mark is President of the Senate]
The crowd insisted on seeing who they came for and gave an ultimatum – " It is either we march into the house by force or you bring Mark or Bankole to come out and speak to us."
The doors were eventually opened and the youths marched into the house where they encountered 4 layers of hand-locked policemen. Serious pushing was involved but they got in. On getting in, they were told that the House of Assembly officials had escaped through the back door. Protesters were then urged by their leaders to head out and end the rally. Angry Stella Damasus yelled "we can't just go like this. "
[Stella Damasus is a popular Nigerian actress]
The youths were shocked at the act of cowardice displayed by the House of Assembly. "They ran away?? Only one who has done evil will run away at a time like this. We will come back again and the next time we come, we will shut this place down."
Twitter users Gbengasesan and Bubusn posted pictures of the march, and live footage of the event was available at ustream. The demonstration had an online presence unprecedented in the history of Nigerian protest: Facebook, Twitter, and Nigeria's extensive blogging networks were all mobilized in support of the event (of particular note were the Facebook group Save Nigeria and the demonstration organizers' website Where is Yar'Adua?). Nigerian Curiosity even reported that the hashtag #enoughisenough was the number three trending topic on Twitter (though she pointed out that not all the tweets referred specifically to the demonstration in Abuja).
Many in the online community expressed their support for the marchers. Jcsgrl, a commenter on Bella Naija's post about the protest, articulated many people's thoughts when she wrote:
This is quite new to us Nigerians. We're not known to protest. We sit back and let things happen to us. Perhaps, the fear of military leadership still rules our life. Give it time…be patient. Keep building momentum and developing a grassroots mentality. We'll get it together one day. In the mean time, don't ever give up hope and don't ever stop fighting for what you believe in. I support this group 100%. Just hope the fight doesn't end there.
Demiji, commenting on Imnakoya's post, had a similar view:
I'm proud my people have found a new zeal to pursue their demands, how I wish I could be part of this historic moment!
Tolu Ogunlesi wrote of his reasons for protesting:
This sorry state of our country has left an interesting side effect. It has turned us all into comedians, people for whom no lemon is too unripe to be turned into lemonade, for whom absurdity is an instant 'open-sesame' for verbal ingenuity. We have made jokes about everything; composed ballads for President Yardie, turned "Turai" and "Mutallab" into verbs; and wondered why, after having a president who suffered kidney failure, we now have an acting president afflicted by "liver failure."
Increasingly, however, we are realising that it is time to move on, to go beyond Concern, and Comedy, and make our way into the uncharted territories of Commitment. It is dawning on us that it is not enough to be Angry Young Men and Women, trapped in the online factories of Twitter and Facebook assembling jokes and status updates from our ever-increasing frustrations.
We need all the support we can get. So, if you are young, or young at heart, and think it is time to say ENOUGHISENOUGH, to electoral malpractice, to power failure, to fuel scarcity, to the cabals in high places, and to whatever else you may think of, let's start in Abuja on Tuesday March 16, 2010.
Not all observers were unequivocally optimistic. Imnakoya wrote that he admired the protesters energy and commitment:
They are the ones in the trenches and up against the brutality of the security forces. Putting their bodies at risk and investing their time to make a case for the general well being of Nigerians is a noble task, and I doff my hat!
But he was skeptical of their demands. He outlined his reasoning as follows:
The removal/resumption/retirement of Mr. Yar'Adua is no longer critical at this stage of event in Nigeria. What is important is having in place constitutional measures that will prevent similar occurrences in the future. Let's deal with the issue of transparency, the root cause of the problem.
We could have asked for the establishment of regional/local/ industrial parks nationwide with 20-24 hrs of electrical power (and other necessary amnesties) where businesses can set up shop and engage in symbiotic existence. Nigeria does not need power 24-7 nationwide at this point, just guarantee power to the industrial and production centers! Ending the five-month scarcity is easy, just get more ships to bring in more fuel! But this is not the solution to the problem…
Oil refinement must be done locally, and open to the private sector involvement. Three refineries are too few to handle the demands of Nigerians and her nearby neighbors! Rid the sector of politics and see how quick a turn-around will happen. Have each geo-political zone own and operate a refinery.
Solomonsydelle was similarly skeptical:
Will any of these demands be fulfilled by the end of March? A reasonable thinking person familiar with Nigeria would be foolish to say yes. There were promises made to my grandparents generation that are yet to be fulfilled by the Nigerian federal government. And for that reason, I personally would be seeking more than a plan when it comes to the second demand concerning electricity. Despite this, I feel that this protest is a step in the right direction for Nigerian democracy, as it is crucial for citizens to express themselves even when the consequences could be dire.
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The New Ministers: my Federal Executive Council
With the news of the sack of all the Ministers in Nigeria, our people dared to hope, again, for better. I dared to draw up a list of my dream team.
AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES – Mu'Azu, former Governor of Bauchi State.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY – Ernest Ndukwe, outgoing National Communications Commission chief.
CULTURE AND TOURISM – Duke, former Governor of Cross Rivers State.
DEFENSE – Gusau, newly appointed to the same post by Jonathan.
EDUCATION – Soyinka, our Nobel laureate.
ENVIRONMENT – Amina Moh'd Hassan, former classmate of mine. Give her an executive task…consider it done.
FCT – I don't know. Decide between Aliero, Odom, and Muhtar on merit. (Respectively, the three men are the outgoing minister of Federal Capital Territory, Minister of State for FCT, and Minister of Finance)
FINANCE – Tony Elumelu, recently idle CEO of UBA.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, bringing sexy back, former Minister of Finance.
HEALTH – Fatima Zara Isa-Modibbo/Iorfa Tor-Anyiin. Both are 26-year old doctors. Fatima was awarded this year for Excellence in Public Service at The Future Nigeria awards. I trust her, even if we've never talked. Iorfa is phenomenal and has a passion for delivering health care to people no matter how rural. Nominated in the same category at The Future.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION – Akunyili. Let her keep talking and rebranding.
LABOUR – Pat Utomi. Nigerian economist and presidential candidate.
MINES AND STEEL – El-Rufai, former FCT Governor/Minister, that the impossible (steel production in Nigeria for example) may become possible.
NATIONAL PLANNING – Nuhu Ribadu, former head of Economic and Financial Crimes Comission, EFCC.
NIGER DELTA AFFAIRS – Saro Wiwa, Ken's son. The vision would be to achieve conflict resolution and dissolve this ministry within a year or two.
PETROLEUM RESOURCES – Shamsudeen Usman, economist, former Finance Minister, outgoing National Planning Minister.
POWER – Seke Shomolu, engineer, former chief of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and technical chief at NEPA.
POLICE AFFAIRS – Buhari, former military President and Commander in Chief of Nigeria, presidential candidate, and warrior against indiscipline and corruption.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – Fakinlede, my Head of Department at the University of Lagos. Crazy how he gets things done to advance technology education in this funky town.
SPORTS – Frank Nweke, Jnr. , former Minister for Special Duties, current chief of Nigerian Business Forum.
TRANSPORT AND AVIATION – wildcard, award on merit to one of the outgoing ministers.
WOMEN AFFAIRS – Hafsat Abiola-Costello, chairperson of KIND, a women's NGO.
WORKS AND HOUSING – Fashola, current governor of Lagos State. Yes o!
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT – Femi Falana, civil rights lawyer.
INTERIOR – Maryam Uwais, lawyer, on the Presidential Advisory Council.
SPECIAL DUTIES – Victoria Ezeokoli, former NTA Director.
Note: If there's a Minister, what is the need for a "Minister of State" with the same portfolio? I ended up with at most 27 ministers, down from 40. It was reported that the President Jonathan is considering cutting down from 40 to 30. Right direction, Prez.
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Fantastic round-up of the events sorrounding this week's demonstrations.
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RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week's most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.
With the election less than two weeks away, conservative commentators are making some pretty terrifying predictions about how President Obama will serve out the remainder of his term. But last-minute Obama-bashing won't distract them from their other, equally important, job: attacking gays and lesbians.
5. Ernst Goes There
Since securing the GOP nomination for her state's open U.S. Senate seat, Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst has been trying to downplay her extremist record.
But the Republican candidate is having a hard time running away from her past remarks on such issues as the danger of the UN's Agenda 21 and the ability of local law enforcement to arrest federal officials implementing Obamacare.
In the latest example of Ernst's record catching up to her, a video surfaced this week of the candidate telling an audience at a 2012 NRA event that the reason she takes her gun "virtually everywhere" is because she is afraid of not only violent assailants but also the government: "I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."
Ed Kilgore explains the thinking behind Ernst's claim: "The idea here is to intimidate liberals, and 'looters' and secular socialists, and those people, that there are limits to what the good virtuous folk of the country will put up with in the way of interference with their property rights and their religious convictions and their sense of how the world ought to work. If push comes to shove, they're heavily armed, and bullets outweigh ballots."
4. Obama Will Kill Us All!
If you wonder where Joni Ernst gets her ideas about an imminent government crackdown that may require a violent response, look no further than Fox News, where just this week Sean Hannity hosted conservative pundit Mark Levin to discuss President Obama's nefarious agenda.
Levin told Hannity that Obama is imposing "quintessential statism" on America that "is a disaster," Media Matters reports.
"The country has gone to Hell under this president and under the Democrat [sic] Party," Levin said, warning that after the election, "with Obama it's going to get worse, you're going to see his full Mussolini coming out."
Wayne Allyn Root, another conservative commentator, managed to top Levin's remarks in an interview on the "Point of View" radio show, where he claimed that Obama "was sent here to destroy this country," possibly by the "communist forces" of the Soviet Union or the Bilderbergs, and is "taking down the entire America." Root added: "We've got to remove him from office and fast before he kills all of us."
3. Latest Voter Fraud Menace
We keep hearing stories about Republicans increasing their outreach to African American and Latino voters, but their enthusiastic efforts to prevent people from registering to vote and from casting ballots may not be helping their case.
Take a recent incident in Arizona, where a GOP official and conservative media outlets fumed that an activist with a progressive group dropped off a box of absentee ballots at a polling center, which is completely legal. Immediately, conservatives accused the activist — a Latino man — of committing voter fraud through "ballot stuffing" and wondered if he was a violent "illegal alien."
Of course, not only is delivering ballots on behalf of voters legal in Arizona, but Wonkette notes that Republicans brought in Mitt Romney to host a ballot drop-off campaign event this very week.
Thursday night, Mitt Romney made an appearance in Mesa, Arizona, to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey. A graphic on a couple of conservative blogs, reproduced up top, urged attendees to "Bring your Early Ballots!" so GOP get-out-the-vote volunteers could collect them and get them to the county elections office.
Just remember, it's only okay if Republicans do it, otherwise it's voter fraud.
2. Beware Gay Plants, Or Something
Matt Barber's website BarbWire today published an unintentionally hilarious piece by columnist Lee Duigon, who compares gays to super-plants from outer space that eat people.
"Gaydeology," the dogma that "sexual liberation" is the highest moral value, presses forward aggressively on all fronts. Christians are to be punished by the state if they refuse to knuckle under. But the militant "gays" are only the street muscle for a "progressive" project to beat down church, family, and anything else that competes with the secular, God-denying state for the loyalty of every citizen. This vision for America, and for all the other countries of the Western world, has roots in the 19th century that sprouted into man-eating plants in the 20th, to become a worldwide plague in the 21st.
It is reminiscent of "The Day of the Triffids," a classic horror movie about plants from outer space that infest the earth and strike blind anyone who gets too close.
Well, we have been blind, haven't we? Blind to threats to our freedom, blind to the vast incompetence of government, and blind to its insatiable lust for power. Worst of all, we have been both blind and deaf to God our maker and our Father, whose blessings have been the lifeblood of America.
Maybe that should be the rallying cry of the anti-gay movement: Beware the triffids!
1. Gay 'Terrorists' Out To Get Us
Pat Robertson, who once warned viewers that they could become the victims of a gay 'AIDS ring' attack, lashed out at gay rights advocates on "The 700 Club" this week and accused them of trying to throw their opponents in jail.
Robertson didn't hold back, warning that gay "terrorists" are launching their own Spanish Inquisition: "These people are terrorists, they're radicals and they're extremists. No Christian in his right mind would ever try to enforce somebody against their belief or else suffer jail. They did that during the Inquisition, it was horrible, it was a black mark on our history, but it isn't being done now."
Of course, Robertson's argument relied on a twisted reading of a legal case in Houston, Texas, but that didn't stop him from attacking the "monstrous" gay rights movement.


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A submarine is using a communications laser to send a message to a jet cruising overhead. The sea surface is flat. The submarine is cruising at a depth d below the surface. The jet is at height h above the sea surface, and a horizontal distance x from the sub. The submarine turns toward the jet before starting communications, but needs to know the angle of elevation, φ, at which to aim the laser.
When the laser passes from the sea into the air, it is refracted (its path is bent). The refraction is described by Snell's law, which says that light approaching the horizontal surface at an angle θ1, measured from the vertical, will leave at an angle θ2, given by the formula
sin θ1 / sin θ2 = n1 / n2
where n1 and n2 are the respective refraction indices of the water and air. (The refraction index of a material is inversely proportional to how fast light can travel through that material.)
Each test case consists of a single line of input containing 5 space-separated floating point numbers:
Input ends with a line containing 5 zeroes (0 0 0 0 0).
For each test case, print a single line containing the angle of elevation φ at which the submarine should aim its laser to illuminate the jet.
The angle should be displayed in degrees and rounded to the closest 1/100 of a degree. Exactly two digits after the decimal point should be displayed.
600 600 1000 1.333 1.01 600 1200 4000 1.5 1.01 400 100 10000 2.5 1.01 0 0 0 0 0
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Gonzaga Law, Catholic Charities Collaborate to Open Immigration Clinic
SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga Law School and Catholic Charities Eastern Washington have launched "The Catholic Charities Immigration Clinic at Gonzaga Law School." The Clinic supports low-income individuals in need of immigration legal assistance and provides training to the next generation of immigration lawyers. Members of the local news media are invited to attend a reception on Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 5-6:15 p.m. at Gonzaga Law School to mark the inauguration of the Clinic and hear perspectives from the leaders of the effort.
The Clinic is addressing the significant unmet legal needs of immigrants and their families in the Spokane community. In addition to providing critical representation for vulnerable, underserved individuals and families, the Clinic gives law students hands-on lawyering experience, supervised by faculty, to strengthen their immigration lawyering skills.
"This partnership gives the law school community a unique opportunity to practice the Jesuit ideals of collaboration, educating agents of change, and serving the poor and marginalized in our community," said Jacob Rooksby, dean of Gonzaga Law School. "The Clinic collaboration speaks directly to the Jesuit leadership's recent call to expand advocacy on behalf of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers."
The Clinic is housed within University Legal Assistance (ULA), Gonzaga's public-serving law clinic.
Second- and third-year law students staffing the Clinic advocate for clients under the direction of a supervising attorney. These students began serving eligible clients this fall with pro bono representation primarily in the areas of family reunification, humanitarian-based visas, and naturalization assistance.
"I'm thrilled to join Gonzaga in finding creative, new ways to serve our immigrant neighbors. This is a unique collaboration between a Catholic Charities organization and a Catholic university in the area of immigration legal services in the United States," said Rob McCann, president and CEO of Catholic Charities. "God calls us to go to the margins to serve the vulnerable, and our partnership means we can bring more resources and providers to this underserved group."
Gonzaga University and Catholic Charities are pleased to announce this collaboration on Indigenous People's Day as a reminder that America is a nation of immigrants, continually strengthened by those who come from other parts of the world to join us.
About University Legal Assistance
University Legal Services (ULA) is a non-profit law firm that provides legal advice, representation and counseling without charge to low-income community members. ULA is located in Gonzaga University School of Law and cases are handled by second- and third-year law students under the direct supervision of attorneys. Currently, ULA offers clinics in business law, elder law, environmental and land use law, federal tax law, Indian law, and immigration law.
About Catholic Charities Eastern Washington
Catholic Charities Eastern Washington affirms the dignity of our most vulnerable neighbors by offering collaborative and innovative solutions to the complex challenges facing Eastern Washington. Carrying forth Christ's love, we respond in crisis to ease the suffering of individuals and families, stabilize lives by connecting clients to their communities and advocate in hope to help people make progress in their own lives.
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The use of zinc and other metals for countertops and a variety of kitchen surfaces is an emerging trend. It provides a warm appearance to the kitchen. The color of zinc is more similar to pewter and not like stainless steel at all. The finish is actually reminiscent of the duller look unique to bullet metals. Over time, zinc oxidizes and takes on a patina like that of an early American cup. Even though it is softer than stainless steel, zinc will resist dents. However, it will scratch with frequent use. Luckily, many people find that it adds to the rustic charm. Trivets and cutting boards are recommended to prevent heat damage and scratching.
At any rate, it is a nice change from the cold and institutional look of stainless steel. For those who prefer a cleaner and more polished look to their zinc counters, a clear coat can be applied to maintain a smoother finish. If anyone is unhappy with seeing so much wear and tear, another option would be to polish the zinc regularly to brighten the appearance. Also, the process of sanding to eliminate unwanted scratches and wear is not difficult.
Since zinc is a necessary mineral for the body, it is an absolutely safe material to use for countertops. Because the zinc oxide that forms on the surface is a natural inhibitor of mold, mildew and bacteria, it is highly recommended to use on chopping blocks and for food preparation areas. Keep in mind that different foods and beverages may make their own mark on a zinc countertop, but because zinc is naturally nonporous, it is virtually stain resistant. Cleanup and maintenance is a breeze since zinc can be easily wiped down with warm water and a mild detergent. Cleaners that contain abrasives should not be used. If the natural tarnishing process is undesirable, it may be somewhat controlled by waxing the surface with beeswax.
Just like every other material used for countertops, zinc counters can accommodate any under mounted sink of your choice. Another popular option is to have a custom zinc sink welded to the counter so it becomes an integral piece without any seams. In addition to countertops, zinc can be used to fashion other surfaces. Metal tiles and patterned back splashes also are available for a customized look. Range hoods, cabinet doors and wall panels are other options offered to enhance the rustic charm of any kitchen.
The price of zinc starts at about $120 per square foot. Although it is about the same cost as granite, the look is entirely unique and designer. Stainless steel may be durable and look sleek in a modern kitchen, but metals like zinc and copper are able to blend in beautifully with more traditional or old world style kitchens. One benefit that metal countertops have over all the other materials is that they are totally recyclable. As an added bonus, the edges of the softer metal counters can be decoratively shaped in almost any design you can imagine.


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text: EL AL Israel Airlines has launched discounted fares to Israel, in addition to providing families with increased savings for children ages 2 to 14, just in time for summer travel. Roundtrip fares start at $1,299 from New York (JFK/Newark) and Boston for departures June 16 through Aug. 18. Discounted summer fares from Los Angeles are also available for departures from June 8 to Aug. 13. Additionally, EL AL is introducing an exclusive children's fare with savings of at least $200 for each child over the age of 2 and under 14 years old. For more information, call (800) 223-6700 or visit elal.com.


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1 qt. beer
1/2 piece of cinnamon bark
4 cloves
1 tbs. butter
4 egg yolks
1/2 pint of sweet cream
Put into a pot one quart of beer, 1/2 piece of cinnamon bark,
4 cloves and sugar to your taste. Cover tightly and boil slowly.
Beat in a serving soup bowl one tablespoonful of sweet fresh
butter to a foam with a fork. Combine with 4 egg yolks and
beat together very well.
Add 1/2 pint of strictly fresh heavy sweet cream and beat with an egg beater to a foam. Now remove the cinnamon bark and the cloves from the beer.
Holding the pot in one hand, pour the beer a little at a time into the foamy mixture, while at the same time stirring constantly with your other hand without interruption until you have poured in all the beer.
Serve with toasted slices of roll.


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Bobcasting (and Google Reader)
I've been a fan of RSS for a long time, and I've been just waiting for it to reach its potential. Most of the readers of this blog read it via RSS, (if you don't, click here–more confusing than it needs to be, isn't it?)
Here's what's I think has been holding back RSS: the name (initials!) and the lack of a standard way to read a feed and to add a feed. We need one button, not twenty or thirty. I think both problems have been solved by RSS inside of Google Reader. (Click the link for a lens on an any easy way to get started). As the acceptance of Google Reader approaches ubiquity, marketers and managers now have the chance to take this technology to a totally new place.
Dave Winer, the pioneer of RSS, had a brilliancy about seven years ago that led to podcasting. Podcasting is just an RSS feed of music, with an easy interface (iTunes). Podcasting took off because it had the good parts of RSS without the hassles. But that's music, not text.
I want to suggest something that takes no new technology but could have a big impact on the way you do business: Bobcasting.
I call it that because instead of reaching the masses, it's just about reaching Bob. Or Tiasha. Or any individual or small group.
The future of online communication is micro-pockets of people getting RSS feeds in their Google Reader or on their Google home page. Amazon updates? Bobcast em to me. Fogbugz summaries for the customer service manager? Bobcast her three times a day.
Yes, Twitter is just an example of Bobcasting, but with a different interface. You only twit the people who want to hear from you, and you do it without spam filters or other noise.
What happens to your team when you have an RSS feed that can put a message or update in front of them without noise? And because the Reader separates the inputs by source, I can queue up my messages from you and read them in sequence. Compare that to the noisy disaster we call an inbox.
Facebook feels seductive, until you realize that the messages from those hundreds of friends are all sort of BlendTecked together. Yes, the spam is missing, but so is control.
With Bobcasting, I can have a feed for my Fedex packages, a feed updating me on the status of my frequent flyer miles at American, a feed from the project manager on the construction of my treehouse… anything that is primarily a one way piece of communication, anything where status updates instead of dialog are the goal.
If we are really living in a one to one future, then Bob (and our interactions with him) represent the asset we need to obsess over. Using RSS and Google Reader (and yes, there will be other, better readers to come) to do Bobcasting feels like a smart asset to build.


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Beginning June 21, due to dry and hot conditions, fire restrictions will be implemented on Bureau of Land Management lands within the Phoenix District. The district's 2.4 million acres of public lands in Arizona extend across portions of eight counties, including Pima, Pinal, Maricopa, Gila, Yavapai, Coconino, Navajo and Apache counties. Visitors to public lands in these counties are encouraged to plan before recreating in the area and check for updates for local weather and fire conditions.
Beginning June 21, the following are temporarily prohibited until rescinded:
- Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal, coal or wood stove other than in a developed campsite or picnic area where agency-built campfire rings and grills are provided.
- Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, or in a developed recreation site at least six feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
- Welding or the use of any torch, metal cutting or grinding equipment.
- Discharging a firearm except while engaged in a lawful hunt pursuant to state, federal or tribal laws and regulations.
- Fireworks, exploding targets and incendiary devices are prohibited year-round.
Pressurized liquid or gas stoves, grills or lanterns that include shut-off valves are permitted when used in an area of at least six feet or more clear from flammable material such as grass and brush.
Once conditions improve and the risk of wildfires has been reduced, fire restrictions will be rescinded and all allowable activities will be permitted to continue on public lands.
Any person who knowingly and willfully violates the regulations shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 12 months, or both. In addition, such persons will be liable to the United States for damages through either an administrative process or in United States federal court.
Fire restrictions can vary by agency and jurisdictions. Know before you go. Learn more about current fire restrictions and current fire situations at https://wildlandfire.az.gov.


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Hilarious D&D send up from Key and Peele on YouTube (perhaps not safe for work). Enjoy!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Kanye the Giant (Key and Peele Sketch)
Posted by Mark CMG Clover at 7:30 AM
1 comment:
- Niccodaemus said...
OMG. That has to be THE funniest D&D video I've ever seen.
- February 23, 2012 at 1:17 PM
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Fuchsia Mandala Suzani TapestryDE-COR | Globally Inspired
This majestic antique Suzani Tapestry originally handcrafted in Uzbekistan is full of history, luxury, and style. It features multi-color mandala and floral suzani motifs that are hand embroidered on a cotton textile. It's a one-of-a-kind statement piece. It has minor wear and some stains due to the age of the tapestry.
- *Era: Antique
- *Material: Cotton/ Cotton Embroidery
- *Size: 130" (L) x 92" (W)
- *Color: Multicolor
- *Wash Care Instructions: Dry Clean Only
- *Condition: Hand-woven/ antique or vintage fabrics may show wear, uneven edges, discoloration & blemishes
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