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If Coca-Cola called it "misleading" when California tried to slap soda cans with obesity-warning labels, imagine the reaction to this news: A court in Nigeria has decided that two very popular Coke drinks there, Sprite and Fanta, are literally "poisonous" when consumed alongside vitamin C. A judge serving on Lagos's High Court has ordered Nigerian Bottling Company, the local manufacturer of those drinks, to add labels warning consumers that they could be dangerous.
The backstory on the case itself is complicated — in short, it started in 2008, when a Lagos businessman filed a lawsuit arguing he'd purchased large quantities of Nigerian Sprite and Fanta to export to England; but when they arrived, U.K. health authorities ran tests and concluded they weren't fit for human consumption because the levels of benzoic acid and a food coloring called sunset yellow were so high, they posed a health risk if mixed with ascorbic acid. Fast-forward to the ruling this month, and the judge has widened the attack to include Nigeria's own food regulators, who he calls "grossly irresponsible" for certifying the safety of Fanta and Sprite, even though they can become "poisonous in the presence of ascorbic acid." Maybe the weirdest part: Nigerian Bottling Company's defense was partly that its sodas aren't intended for export — so, they're, like, for Nigerians only — moving the judge to write that the company's products "ought to be fit for human consumption irrespective of color or creed."
Both the Nigerian Bottling Company and the federal food-safety agency are appealing the ruling, essentially arguing: "But Coke's products don't exceed benzoic acid limits in Nigeria …" They cite limits set by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, which technically wouldn't label the sodas as dangerous, either. Permissible ingredient levels vary by country, depending on "a number of factors such as climate," they say. (England is more temperate, versus the tropics where higher preservative levels are needed.) Regardless, the BBC reports the fiasco has basically caused "an uproar" among Nigerians, who aren't so sure they still want to drink a soda that's considered unsafe for humans in any part of the world, and several consumer groups have called for immediate boycotts.


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Thursday, August 14, 2014
The John Maxwell Event. Year three
I kissed my babies, and hit the road, heading for the airport.
I've been coaching some people, individually, and have really enjoyed helping them find the answers within themselves! Learning more about the 6 needs is going to be helpful in working with people when I'm coaching them. Very glad I went to this class.
I think it has to do with my neuro background in the PT clinic and working with so many pain patients for so many years and knowing that there is definitely a difference in people's level of awareness in general from the moment I meet them. I have always LOVED the challenge of helping them get to the next level, for healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
I found out that Paul used to live in Pittsburgh at this address. And so, I made this for him.
I like it like that!
So, hopefully, I will inspire you as I sort of take a little divergence into a new and exciting time in my life and career. If I can help you or your business, I'd love to. I can give your more details should you be interested. Just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Oh, no way!! I am not even sort of finished with all of these JM pics!! Sit back and grab some popcorn! More coming soon!!
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Not sure what happened to my comment :(
Can't wait to read more about your week. Love, love the canvas you made. Glad you're back :)
- August 14, 2014 at 11:21 PM
- Holly said...
Love your commitment and enthusiasm! You just keep growing your life! Can't wait to hear more. Missed you!
- August 15, 2014 at 9:03 AM
- Emily G said...
Would love to know more about the Turning Point conference in ATL in September, but cannot find any dates past August listed on Paul's website. Can you point me in the right direction for that?
- August 18, 2014 at 1:03 PM
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Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken Soup
1½ pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed
2 teaspoons canola oil
½ cup water
1 envelope taco seasoning
1 can (32 ounces) V8 juice
1 jar (16 ounces) salsa
1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 package (10 ounces) frozen corn, thawed
For garnish- sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese, minced cilantro
In a large nonstick skillet, sauté chicken in oil until no longer pink.
Add water and taco seasoning; simmer, uncovered, until chicken is well coated.
Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker.
Stir in the V8 juice, salsa, beans and corn.
Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours or until heated through.
Serve hot with cheese, sour cream and cilantro.
You can combine this amazing recipe with some others from our collection.
Serve 6.
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Catching the Ox celebrates the season
For the latest installment of Catching the Ox, I invited portland photographer Amanda Widis to join in the fu. For the subject, she suggested "Autumn", which was awesome because for one thing, i had never done a season as a subject, and for two, the Fall has been so beautiful this year.
I took the opportunity to enjoy the weather and do a little travel photography, bringing my Polaroid Land Camera up to Sauvie Island and out the the Fruit Loop in Hood River. It was one of the most fun CTO projects so far. Here are a few of the polaroids from the shoot. Check out the blog to see which one made the cut...
(it was a tough decision!)
the Holga goes to the pumpkin patch
This Fall was absolutely beautiful, so i made a point to head up to Sauvie Island a few times to shoot some film while the sun was still out.
24 months and 18 days later....
As i did with the Le Pigeon book, i wanted to post the very first image i took for theToro Bravo book, and the very last image. As i have mentioned, this was a amazing project that took us halfway around the world and back. The writer Liz Crain did a superb job handling everything and the McSweeneys team were so great to work with. I can definitely say it was well worth spending two full years of my life making this project a reality.
This was the first image, shot for the proposal, on April 5, 2011
And this was the final image on the final day of shooting, May 23, 2013.
Making, Breaking & Riding the Bull
The Toro Bravo cookbook is now officially out on shelves. I was shooting this over the same time i was shooting the Le Pigeon project. Head chef, John Gorham, is one of my best friends, and everyone involved in this book and the restaurant gave their all to make it amazing. You can see more pics on my website. Or just go out and buy the book! You wont be sorry.
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I never knew much about Double Dragon Bar and Restaurant, here is the SE of Portland. But i got to spend a few days hanging out with the super cool folks who work there, eating some great food, drinking some awesome cocktails and having a fun time all around shooting the comings and goings. Look for a web update soon.
the Holga gets some props
If you read this blog regularly, you know that the Holgas has become a bit of a personality in its own right, sharing my travel adventures and images. Because of its weight, size and reliability, it has become my number one travel and fun time camera. Last week the folks at Holga took notice and contacted me for an interview. Pretty cool! you can check out the whole interview and some travel photos from around the globe right HERE.
greetings from china
Last month i had the opportunity to visit Beijing and Qingdao, China. It was an amazing trip and yielded a whole lotta great photos. There will be a full gallery up on my website soon, but for now here are a few of my favorite shots.
I ate some great food. Met some interesting people. Also, I can now officially say i have seen the sun rise over the Pacific Ocean. Wild.
My bruddah
My youngest brother, Justin, has been living, working and studying all over china for the past 5 years. Last year he got his Masters in International Relations in Beijing. He is now studying the language and living in the beautiful coastal city of Qingdao. He was the impetus for my journey and turned out to be an amazing tour guide and host.
Thanks for all the translating, dude!
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SNDST091: Pan-Pot - Voodoo Signs EP
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Pan-Pot - Voodoo Signs [SNDST091]
A1: Pan-Pot - Voodoo
B1: Pan-Pot - Signs
Pan-Pot return to their Second State imprint to serve up the label's sixth release this year. The illustrious Second State has been fostering the sound of some of techno's biggest tastemakers and emerging artists for several years, with releases throughout 2021 so far being some of their strongest ones to date. "Voodoo Signs" EP however, is a shift from their usual productions, incorporating a breakbeat sound throughout the record, a step away from the duo's familiar straight ahead techno weapons.
Hugely atmospheric and packed with conflicting elements, "Voodoo" is the punchier cut of the two tracks on the record. A palpitating muffled kick launches and is quickly joined by rapid percussion and dancing hi-hats that weave throughout the heaviness. As things develop, these turbulent elements are smoothly subdued to let doomy wails echo and build to a crescendo. The main vocal sample meshes with several other voices that ominously quaver over the original. A stabbing melody is then introduced, skittering over the foundations with broken beat drum hooks moving in unison.
On the flip side is "Signs", a peak time fast paced club track with a driving beat. A stifled kickdrum and a singular bleating tone start things off, before the full weight of the drum is unleashed. A dark looming bass builds on top of cracking percussion and claps until it's replaced by a distorted male vocal sample crying out "searching, searching". In the second half, the bleating tone is pushed into the minor key and the bass looms, menacingly. The kick drum returns while the vocal sample becomes increasingly distorted until it fades out. A breakbeat cuts through the noise, switching up the energy and reinstating the hectic, club atmosphere.


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Try not to wear your Chewbacca cosplay outfit to tonight's Star Wars: The Last Jedi screening. That will make eating the Cheetos popcorn much, much messier. In a mash-up that makes you wonder why it took so long, Frito-Lay and Regal Cinemas are introducing the world's highest form of concession this weekend at theaters, a bag of popcorn that is also a bag of Cheetos.
The snack has technically been available at sports arenas before, but moviegoers get it for the first time starting today. You can buy it in 32-ounce-size bags at Regal theaters nationwide, although certain markets got an early tease:
To be clear about the monster they've created here, this isn't just popcorn dusted with orange cheese powder. It's partly that, but these heart-mutinying bags also have actual pieces of Cheetos mixed in. (The official description, per Frito-Lay, is an item that features "light, airy Regal popcorn that has been puffed to perfection and paired with warm, cheesy Cheetos flavor and Crunchy Cheetos.")
It's not good for you, not even a little bit. But face it: You were already planning to eat a bagful of popcorn drenched in that butter-flavored oil, so this is hardly going to kill you. Just bring a full canister of wet wipes.


text: London's skyline is one of the world's most famous – from this sleek modern glamor of the Shard to St Paul's Cathedral's classic dome. Now this striking cityscape is the subject of an innovative gigapixel panorama photoshoot. The result is a stunning look at how the capital and popular destination changes over 24 hours, from moody clouds and sunset to the bright lights of the big city. Incredible detail This incredible panoramic timelapse was the product of a collaboration between Visualise, the London-based VR and 360-degree production studio, and Lenstore, the contact lens company. Using robotic motion technology to maneuver their Nikon D850 camera, the two-person team snapped 260 photos per hour, for 24 hours. Each highly detailed image is comprised of 7 billion pixels. "There was a team of two of us, taking shifts through the day/night," says Henry Stuart of Visualise, in a statement. "It was incredibly cold and windy, each hour we made the trip to the corner of the roof, checked the light, adjusted our settings and set off the camera remotely." The Nikon D850 was chosen because of its raw capabilities, explains Stuart: "It has this beautiful big sensor and captures a huge range of light and dark." The duo were based in London's Canary Wharf, the financial heart of the city, where highrise buildings offer incredible views of the bustling city below. They decamped on the roof of One Canada Square. Perfect timelapse The finished panoramas are so large, explains Stuart, that only purpose-built computers can process them. These photos were stitched together with absolute accuracy, to ensure the perfect timelapse experience. "The motion technology is normally just used for movie production," explains Stuart. "However, we needed a head that was heavy enough to mitigate the wind shaking the camera, and accurate enough to allow us to stitch the images together in exactly the same way for all 24 images." The hard work paid off: The result is an incredible look at one of the world's most iconic cityscapes.


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Immigrant labor in agriculture helps keep food prices low
Over the past months, I've greatly appreciated the Monitor's balanced coverage of the immigration quandary, but I take issue with some generalizations in your recent editorials about illegal immigrants taking jobs readily offered by people here in the US and about the suppression of wages caused by the low pay illegals will accept.
Speaking from the viewpoint of agriculture - particularly dairy farming - it's nearly impossible to find people to milk cows. Dairy farmers would rather not deal with language differences, which make training milkers very difficult. But Hispanic workers are those willing to do the work.
And in terms of illegal migrants keeping wages low - farmers usually don't have control of what they receive for their product, and the price received for milk is at times equal to the price received many years ago, while cost of production continues to soar. Farmers offer pay that they can afford while trying to break even.
I read that an estimated one-quarter of agricultural workers are illegals. In California and the Southwest, I bet it's a far higher percentage. Send these folks home, and you will watch your food prices soar.
Elvira Kau
Jefferson, Wis.
Regarding the May 15 article, "Mining data to nab terrorists: fair?": It is easy to say "I don't have anything to hide, and the government can use my phone records without my knowing it." But you don't control who calls you. What if a terrorist, just to derail any pattern-setting tracking, calls 10 innocent persons and says only, "Wrong number, sorry"? Or what if he or she calls 10 company switchboards, or calls the publicly available numbers of 10 congressmen? Provided no wiretapping occurs, you and the companies and congressmen are - innocently - already in the National Security Agency-established call pattern.
And if the NSA questions you two months later asking, "Who called you from the number 'x' two months ago?" - you won't be able to tell them. What's next then?
Why does it seem the government presumes that terrorists can't set up their own reliable communication network using cash or phone cards and public phones? This kind of data mining from phone records is dubious, costly, and useless.
János Samu
Kalaheo, Hawaii
Regarding the May 11 article, "Football team wears faith on its sleeve": I am disgusted with this public merging of sports and religion because it imposes one person's religion on others who may not feel the same way.
If these sports figures feel the desire or need to pray or give thanks after a game, they should do it in the privacy of the locker room. What are they trying to prove and to whom? Such displays look like "religion as fraternity" and not "religion as a way of life."
I believe this religious exhibitionism represents exactly what the Founding Fathers were trying to prevent. I have long felt uncomfortable with all the references by sports figures that they owe "all" to God, etc.
When I was in high school, Congress stuck "under God" into the pledge of allegiance. Even at that young age, without discussing it with anyone, I refused to say it.
Religion should be exemplified in how one lives one's life - doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I find these public exhibitions of religion to be totally inappropriate in American life.
Roz Mandelcorn
Los Angeles
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Assuming you heard this from Kawigi who heard it from me. It is a funny term that applies to shooting a gun. Have you ever wet your finger to figure out which way the wind was blowing? KentuckyWindage is along the same lines only you wet the front site on your gun so your gun can "adjust" for the wind. It is meant to be funny. It is usually associated with [Hill Billies]. If this show ever made it to your language and TV system, when Jed was "shootin' at some food" he was probably using KentuckyWindage while he was aiming. -- jim
It should also be mentioned that baked beans are a popular dish in Kentucky --David Alves
Just out of curiosity, why should that be mentioned? -- Kawigi
Windage... "wind"... --David Alves
Lower the level of conversation, why don't you... ;-) -- Tango
I am from Kentucky, but am moving to Virginia next year. Don't insult my state. -- Xero
I can't believe this conversation happened. -- Alcatraz


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Went out to the Goat Island Marine Reserve, off the coast of Leigh, north of Warkworth. The protected marine reserve is home to a variety of fish and marine life extending over a considerable distance. Most people scuba, snorkel and swim between the beach and Goat Island itself for safety.
We spent just over an hour in the water. While the weather warmed up, there were alternating currents of warm and cold that kept it fun. The stronger currents kicked up more sand though, and visibility was limited for parts of the swim. The most plentiful fish were trevally, the largest I saw about 18 – 20 inches. I also saw a few schools of sprat, a couple kelp fish, parore and a snapper.
Swimming in the ocean for the first time in ages reminded me how annoying it is to catch a mouthful of water.
I'd also like to point out this is the third major case of fraud since I arrived in New Zealand. First, we had the Milford Sounds that was actually a fjord. Second, the Glow Worm caverns that actually had glowing maggot shit. Today, we went to Goat Island that had no goats. What the hell!
For those curious, the name 'goat island' was actually a pretty common name for small islands very close to a coast. The original explorers would leave a couple goats on such islands to provide food for any stranded people or shipwrecked survivors. According to the signs, there is no evidence that goats were left on this island. However, there were pigs left on the island for the same purpose, but they had the good sense to swim to shore during low tide.


text: By: Ray Garcia "At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie." The end of fall quarter reminds me of how dynamic life can be. In the beginning, there's a type of invincibility that comes with an unweathered spirit, but that feeling seems to become almost nonexistent over the span of those 11 weeks. In Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist", he tells an enlightening story of a young, Andalusian shepherd named Santiago who has a recurring dream of a wonderful buried treasure. It is then he decides it's his destiny to discover this fortune - his own personal legend. Along the way, Santiago is faced with a plethora of obstacles that force him to look within himself. In one of the novel's pivotal moments, he is faced with the task of turning himself into the wind. When Santiago begins to believe that it's impossible, an alchemist tells him that the "fear of failure" is the only thing that can stop him from achieving his goals. Amidst Santiago's soul-searching and his surrounding adversity, Coelho's novel reminds me of the experiences we face in adjusting to the new school year. Everything is so uncertain, and the tasks ahead may seem overwhelming. However, in connecting with the self, you can understand that it's not about the length or difficulty of the journey, but about the person we become at end result. Nothing is merely a mirage. Like Santiago, we can find our own oasis in the harshest of deserts. We, too, can succeed in completing our own personal legends - but only if we will it to be. This book can be checked out at Western Libraries.


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KBEP Honors Black History Month
The Katie Brown Educational Program is excited to celebrate Black history and learn more about the experiences of Black peoples in the United States and beyond.
Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926 when Historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History declared its celebration during the second week of February. Celebrations of this week spread across the country. In 1969, around the peak of pro-Black activism by the Black Panther Party and other Civil Rights leaders, educators and students at Kent State University called for the weeklong celebration of Black history to be expanded to a month. In 1976, President Ford officially recognized February as Black History Month.
Learning about the richness and diversity of Black histories is critical to being a culturally competent and socially-aware citizen. At the Katie Brown Educational Program, we recognize the contributions that Black people have made to violence prevention and social justice promotion efforts, as well as to all of society at large. In being responsible and effective in our approach to relationship violence prevention, we also recognize the role that different forms of oppression play in creating and perpetuating the violence that populations of the country experience.
In our efforts to end sexual and domestic violence, we strive to confront the ways that racism and sexism impact Black women's experiences with these forms of violence. Our workshop, "Unrapable: Sexual Violence in Black Communities," provides participants with best practices for addressing sexual violence with Black clients and communities.
On Thursday, February 21st from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, PD@KBEP (The Katie Brown Educational Program's professional development program) will be facilitating this workshop as a webinar in partnership with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Click here to register!
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At the inauguration celebration Thursday night, the Piano Guys gave a thrilling performance. Among the song they played was their classic, "It's Going to Be Okay."
At the time they created this song, I'm sure they had no idea they would be playing it at Donald Trump's "Make America Great" celebration concert. But the message they originally shared on Facebook with this song has new meaning now:
We hear about hate, terror, and despair. But just because what sells, what goes "viral," or what gets attention may try to drown out the good in the world, it doesn't mean that goodness is gone. . . .And in the end, since darkness is merely the absence of light, light will inevitably overcome dark. This is the essence of hope. And the essence of this song. "No matter what you've been through, no matter if you think you're falling apart, it's gonna be okay."
In the meantime, there are so many more things to hope for and to work at while we yearn for the outcome we want so badly—more gratitude for what we have, more love for those we've taken for granted, more faith in ourselves and those we hold dear, and more confidence in a Divine purpose.
Before their performance of "It's Going to Be Okay," Al van der Beek said: "Okay, America. It's time to put all our differences aside. It's time to unite our hearts, our minds, and our voices as one. Because when we do, it's going to be okay."
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Aside from all of the "unpopular opinion" threads and the #ByeFelicia tweets, we've been noticing something else popping up on our timelines recently: pink natural hair. Girls and guys with curls and coils of all lengths aren't just going soft with last year's rose gold trend (even though we still love it, and Hollywood does too). This time, they're trying bold hues like magenta and fuchsia, which somehow makes melanin look even more magnificent.
Plus, if there was a right time to dye your natural strands, it's now: Summer months are practically made for cowashing and wash-and-go styling — because your color is going to need a lot of moisture and way fewer heat tools. See some of our favorite pink big chops, braids, and Afros ahead.


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The Politics of Impossibility: A Socio-Symbolic Analysis of Society, the Subject, Identification, and Ideology
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CitationDodson, Thomas A. 2003. The politics of impossibility: A socio-symbolic analysis of society, the subject, identification, and ideology. Master's Thesis, Ohio State University.
AbstractThe present study seeks to explain why every discursive articulation of society must fail both to constitute itself as a closed totality and to fully symbolize and give meaning to individual subjects. It further seeks to explain how this symmetrical lack in society and the social agent contributes to our understanding of the multiple and flexible structures of ideological (dis)identification. This model of society and the subject will draw primarily from the discourse-theoretical analytics developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and extended by others. Often referred to by the terms "discourse theory" or "hegemony theory," this body of work applies semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and post-Gramscian Marxism to contemporary social struggles. The present study also draws significantly from Lacanian psychoanalysis and from those theorists (notably Yannis Stavrakakis and Slavoj Zizek) who have begun to articulate a distinctively Lacanian political theory.
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Video put together on my phone as we wait for a weather window to sail south from Hokkaido to Kagoshima. Test the new Pelagic autopilot do some last minute maintenance and repairs. Go for a test sail and wait out a monster storm. And finally get that weather window.
Has been a slow week as we wait for a 24-36 hour weather window so we can set off sailing south from Iwanai on the Japan Sea side and get through the Tsugaru Straight and into the Pacific.
Once through to the Pacific Ocean side we have better weather and generally away from a lee shore. Plus a lot more ports to run too if the weather packs in.
Sailing south down Japan in November is not the best time of year is cold and the weather doesn't give us much of a chance.
Have done the last prep on the boat. All stocked. Fueled up. Sails tested. Autopilot is working (we think) and have a 24 hour window to get down as far as Esashi (95Nm) before the window closes. Then a wait of 24-48 hours before we can duck around the corner and heading for the pacific and the east coast of Japan.


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According to new research from digital advisory firm Digi-Capital, the augmented reality market will deliver roughly $120 billion in revenue by 2020, while the virtual reality market will earn approximately $30 billion. The combined revenues promise to significantly "disrupt" the mobile space, Digi-Capital maintains.
While the terms "augmented reality" and "virtual reality" are sometimes used interchangeably, there's an important distinction to be made. When it comes to headsets, for example, though both augmented reality and virtual reality headsets provide 3D high-definition video and audio, VR is a much more immersive experience. A user can see through and around an AR headset, while a VR headset would be fully encompassing. This distinction plays a key role in how the technologies will be used as the market gains momentum, Tim Merel, managing director of Digi-Capital, explains. Virtual reality has promising potential for the gaming industry, where a total transformative environment is crucial to the experience. As for business use cases, augmented reality is the way to go, Merel says.
The proliferation of augmented reality–enabled devices opens the door to a number of different types of enterprise and consumer applications, such as enterprise applications that deliver marketing content in an entirely new format or consumer applications that allow users to project a customer service representative onto any screen around them. The technology may also pave the way for a-commerce, the so-called "cousin" of e-commerce and m-commerce, according to Merel. Eventually, augmented reality devices may become yet another purchasing channel for shoppers that will behave somewhat like the mobile channel.
Augmented reality software and services are closely tied to the mobile market, and have a symbiotic relationship—though AR technology competes with mobile technology in some ways, it is also responsible for growing it in others. "The potential scale of augmented reality and AR's cannibalization of mobile are relatively new concepts. We anticipate disruption of hardware and software across [the] mobile Internet," Merel says. At the same time, "together with innovative applications nobody has thought of yet, AR's scale could prove a bonanza for mobile networks' voice and data businesses. Someone has to pay for all that mobile data," Merel wrote in a blog post.
Though Digi-Capital expects the augmented reality and virtual reality markets to grow quickly in the coming years, Merel admits that it's very early in the game, and enterprise software vendors aren't ready for the rush yet. A device from a major consumer electronics company such as Apple may be the catalyst required for getting the industry's attention, and such a device may not be a far-off prediction, Merel speculates. Other companies such as Microsoft, which recently debuted HoloLens, or Facebook, which has also entered the playing field after acquiring Oculus, may add fuel to the fire as well. "Looking at how today's giants are or are [rather] not prepared, there is a lot of room for the growing list of early-stage companies," Merel says.
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Getting the Hang of Elixir's Enum.reduce22 Jan 2015
Reduce (also called fold or left fold in other languages) is the backbone of the Enum module. Take a minute to look at the functions that Enum defines. The majority of them are implemented using reduce. So what exactly is it and how can we use it in our code?
Reducing an enumerable is a lot like making cookie dough. Seriously, just stick with me. You have a collection of ingredients: eggs, flower, sugar, etc. You enumerate over that collection of ingredients, one by one, mixing each to a bowl until they form dough. You have conceptually reduced that collection of ingredients into a single thing, the cookie dough.
Enum.reduce has 3 parts: an enumerable (the ingredients), an accumulator (the combined ingredients as we are adding them to the bowl), and a function to apply to every item of the enumerable (the mixing action itself).
Let's break down a simple Enum.reduce example that sums all of the items of a list with our initial state of the sum being 100.
Enum.reduce's first parameter is an enumerable, in this case it is simply a list of integers. The second parameter is the initial state of our accumulator. We will see how that comes into play in just a minute. The third parameter is the function we want to run for every item in the enumerable. In this example we are adding each item of the list to the accumulator.
The first time the function is invoked it uses our initial accumulator, 100, as the accumulator value. So when we process the first element in the list, the function body looks like this:
Remember the value returned from this function is used as the accumulator for the next item of the enumerable. So when we get to the second element of the list the function body looks like this:
And the third:
The final value returned by Enum.reduce is the accumulator, in our example: 106.
The real fun in using Enum.reduce starts when you move beyond simply dealing with numbers as the accumulator. The accumulator can be any kind of value. Take a look at the following code block and see if you can guess what commonly used function it implements:
If you guessed map then give yourself a high five.
Enum.reduce is a powerful tool. Spend some time playing around with it, you won't regret it! Here are a few suggestions of things to try building with it:
- Recreate Enum.max
- Given a string count the number of occurrences for each letter and store the result in a map
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Two years ago today, Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with a legally purchased AR-15 assault rifle and killed 49 people and injured 53 more.
The shooting did not lead to legislation to reduce gun violence. The will to even address the issue of gun violence – however ineffectively – would only come 612 days later, according to Pulse survivor Brandon Wolf.
"Six hundred and twelve days," he said. "That's how long it took for Pulse headlines to become Parkland headlines. That's how long it took for 49 lives lost to become 17 more. And in those 612 days, nothing changed."
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During those 612 days, state Senator Linda Stewart tried to introduce a ban on assault weapons, which would have included AR-15 style rifles. But it was "dead before it was even introduced."
On the other hand, those 612 days saw bills that would have allowed guns on college campuses, government buildings, and even airports get hearings in the state legislature.
Governor Rick Scott (R) even refused the simple gesture of wearing a rainbow ribbon to remember the victims of the Pulse shooting.
On February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, with an AR-15 assault weapon – the same kind that Mateen used at the Pulse. He killed 17 people and injured 17 more.
The national outcry that followed the Parkland shooting was loud enough to be heard by Florida Republicans, and led to the passage of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act less than a month after the shooting.
The law was focused on arming teachers and making it more difficult for people with diagnosed mental health issues to buy guns, and it provided some funding for mental health care. It increased school security and created a three-day waiting period for all gun sales.
This law isn't much, and it contains a lot of measures that will probably be ineffective since they were included as a result of Republican talking points, not a genuine belief that they would work.
But in the context of Florida's GOP, it's amazing that a gun control law passed at all, and a miracle that it passed so quickly after the shooting. It showed that even Florida Republicans realized that the public wanted them to do something about gun violence.
Governor Scott, who has earned an A+ rating from the NRA – as well as the fawning praise of the gun lobby – signed the bill. That was unthinkable in the wake of the Pulse shooting.
And he even wore a red ribbon to remember the victims of the Parkland shooting.
Many of the measures included in the law address the particularities of the Parkland shooting – Cruz was 19-years-old, he had multiple diagnoses for mental health conditions, his shooting took place at a school, and school administrators tried to get him to undergo an involuntary psychiatric examination under the Baker Act.
Mateen, on the other hand, was 29-years-old, had no record of mental health issues, and murdered people at a nightclub.
The bill was clearly about Cruz, not Mateen.
The issue is that some victims are more sympathetic than others. And Florida's Republicans – as well as the national media – cared more about the mostly straight Parkland victims than the decidedly queer and more brown Pulse victims.
"The majority of the Pulse victims, the 49 people who lost their lives at Pulse, they were mostly LGBTQ people of color. Didn't their lives matter? Why wasn't the debate about gun safety important enough then?" said state Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith (D).
"So I'm calling the question over why Republican leaders are tripping over themselves right now and calling for investigations and resignations and new laws."
After the Pulse shooting, many people believed that things would be different. It was the most deadly mass shooting in America up to that point.
But it doesn't matter how many people die when the lives don't really matter to people in power.


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Sample format of Lost and Found letter in Housekeeping
When guest enquiries are received for Lost and found items, the executive housekeeper should respond to such enquiries in a timely and professional manner. If any additional information is required from the guest regarding the lost item then an inquiry form is also attached as annexure.
In addition to this, all such guest enquires should be recorded and filed on the lost and found response file. Below you can find sample format of standard response for guest enquiry related to lost items.
LOST & FOUND – Enquiry Response Letter
Dear (Salutation + Guest name),
Regretfully the item mentioned on your correspondence email / mail mentioned as being lost, has not been turned into our Lost and Found Department.
I have personally checked our Lost and Found log and the security locker.
(In case additional information is required about the lost item)
I have enclosed a request for additional information form and please provide the details.
The information you have given me now will be kept on our file. If your missing item should be turned in future, then we will inform you accordingly and also we will make necessary arrangement to courier you the same at the following address:
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The Animated Films of Don Bluth
by John Cawley
While working at the Disney studio, Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy began working at Don's garage on private projects. These were initially exercises to re-learn some of the techniques of the past. Using their salaries and exercising their stock options they purchased a number of pieces of equipment including a movieola.
These weekend workouts saw almost everyone at the Disney studio drop by. If they felt invigorated, they stayed. If they wanted to go other directions they never came back. Don saw this as a good weeding out period helping him locate talent that agreed with his vision.
Eventually the crew began working on a real project rather than just recreating scenes from Disney. The first to be worked on was "The Piper" based on the Pied Piper story retold by Don's brother, Toby (Fred) Bluth. (Toby later went into children's book illustration, as well as a character and layout designer in animation. He even went into stage design for live theatrical productions.) After some work had been done, it was decided that "The Piper" would be too large of a production for the small studio.
The second project was BANJO. It began as an idea for a possible TV special or featurette. As work continued it shifted direction many times. When Don and his crew felt that they finally had it locked down, they took it to Disney's Ron Miller and offered it as a future property. Miller saw no value in it and turned it down.
Undaunted they continued on the project and began looking for a new outlet. Around 1977, they met Mel Griffin, a former executive of Schick. He was brought on board as Production Executive to assist the trio in their business affairs.
As the Seventies were ending, there seemed to be a slight growing interest in animation. Disney's own publicity, as well as the success of THE RESCUERS had assisted in creating this situation. Several studios and producers announced animated feature projects.
Ralph Bakshi, who had been successful with the X-rated FRITZ THE CAT was working on LORD OF THE RINGS. WATERSHIP DOWN received generally good critical reaction and did well at the box office. Others began looking at animation as a possible money making film proposition.
One group was Aurora Productions. This organization had been recently formed by several ex-Disney executives including Richard Irvine (a former president of Disney's educational media company), James Stewart (a former executive vice president of corporate relations) and Jon Lang (a former Disney distribution executive). They began casual talks with Don and the idea of a feature began to formulate.
At the same time, Don was beginning to get interest in BANJO. ABC agreed to purchase the TV rights. With this money, the belief of a feature, and a growing dissastifaction with Disney, Don, Gary and John began to plan their exit.
The date chosen was September 17th, Don's birthday. The three announced their resignation and left. The next day another eight left: Lorna Pomeroy, Heidi Guedel, Linda Miller, Emily Juliano (all animators), Frank Jones, Dave Spafford, Vera Law and Sally Voorhees (assistant animators). On the 20th, Diane Landau resigned.
Even Don was surprised the effect the walkout had. Besides the obvious production delays on THE FOX AND THE HOUND, the walkout became a major media event. Animation, which seldom received any coverage was first page news from the The Hollywood Reporter to the Wall Street Journal to local dailies.
The first reports were in the industry papers, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. The Reporter headlined "12 animators at Disney quit to join with Aurora." The front page article merely mentioned the event and stated the new production would be MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH.
Variety was a bit more sensational with "Disney Loses A Big Chunk Of Its Animation Dept." This front page story detailed more information, including listing the names of the other eight defecting animators. It discussed more about the reasons for the walkout. Bluth is quoted as saying "We did not tell the studio why we left." However he goes on in the article to state "I was hoping the good old days could be revived... and it turned into a lot of politics and fighting. Egos were just everywhere." He concluded by stating "It became intolerable to work under the current administration. They don't understand the creative side. Walt did, but they didn't."
Ron Miller, then head of the studio, was equally blunt telling the trade "those animators that remain are still the creative backbone of the company." As for those who exited, "Some of them I respect... Some I wouldn't have back. Some will be back."
With Disney's live action films hitting an all time low in box office, and the theme parks still recovering from a rough period due to the various oil shortages of the Seventies which curtalied attendance, their attempt to re-build animation was seen as key to the company. Disney may have moved into a number of different businesses, but animation was still its central force and image.
"Disney Is Dealt Blow by the Resignations of 11 Animators to Start Production Firm" was the front page headline of the Wall Street Journal on September 19, 1979. The report discussed Disney's announced delay of THE FOX AND THE HOUND from a Christmas 1980 release to a summer 1981. The Journal found the move a "blow" since "the company's theme parks and many other activities are based on creations of its animators. In recent years the company has spent considerable time, effort and money to rebuild its animation department which has been depleted by retirements."
The paper quoted Ron Miller as saying the Bluth defection equaled around "17% of the total department." He also was quoted as saying the defection was "possibly the best thing that could happen to our animation group but that the timing was bad."
(Years later, animator Glenn Keane would agree with Miller's initial statement. In a 1981 New York Times article, Keane stated, "To tell the truth, it was a relief when they left. The rift developed during the making of PETE'S DRAGON and carried over to THE FOX AND THE HOUND, and it caused a lot of conflicts.")
The New York Times picked up the story the next day reporting that "A severe blow was struck at Walt Disney Productions' animation department last weekend when 11 members - over 15 percent of the department - resigned to form a rival company." The paper cited disputes over "training practices and artistic control" as being key to the walkouts.
Don stated "The creative working atmosphere at Disney's had changed subtly but greatly in recent years. There were too many committee decisions. Everything got done by vote. In addition, people can't be left in a room to teach themselves how to become animators. There is a sincere desire on the part of Disney to perpetuate the art of animation, but the studio wasn't **teaching**. On THE SMALL ONE, I was desperately trying to make people come up to the quality we needed. Several others felt as I did, and we decided not to keep making life miserable for the [Disney] studio."
Miller again stated his relief over the exodus. "The atmosphere and the climate here in the last few days have been wonderful. It's like getting rid of a thorn. They complain of our training program, but, if it hadn't been for our training program, Mr. Bluth wouldn't have had all those trained people to go with him."
Miller even got a little philosophical on the subject. "The same thing happened to Walt twice. And it's going to happen again. We develop the finest artists in the world. It's typical of artists to want to spread their wings."
Eric Larson, one of Disney original Nine Old Men was quoted at the time as stating, "In no way do we stem people's creativity, but we can't possibly influence young people to the degree that Walt influenced us. Walt had such a tremendous ego he could weld us into a team. I think young people today lack a certain discipline. It's a problem for them to become a cog in a team effort. But this place is so far ahead of any place else that I welcome competition. It's what we need."
One point picked up by most reports was the fact that the walkout took **all** of Disney's female animators at the time. Don explained this in one report. He said the women left "out of a certain loyalty to me and because the atmosphere at Disney is sometimes oppressive to women. For years, women have been assistant animators there, but they've rarely let them get higher."
Over a month later, the press was still fascinated by this battle in the house of Disney. Of most interest were various comments by Don about the problems in the original mouse house. Don obliged with his opinions of Disney animation management and talent.
"Their creative atmosphere has disappeared." stated Don about Disney management. "Their thinking is more toward marketing than product - more business than art."
Another article had Don discuss other changes. "I found it was difficult for creativity to happen. Why not the best? But they weren't trying for the best. They always settled for the weakest people and paid the lowest salaries." In the same article he also stated "The young people were hard to teach. They were not the hungry, eager artists that came to Disney in the Thirties. The new bunch were arrogant. They refused to listen and got mad if you tried to press them. You'd explain a drawing to them, then look around and see they had wandered off."
Still another found him talking of his last work at Disney on THE FOX AND THE HOUND. "We felt like we were animating the same picture over and over again with just the faces changed a little. In contrast, Walt always found something new to delight an audience. For example, they've gutted all of the meaning from THE FOX AND THE HOUND. It's become a cute story instead of a meaningful one."
Financial analysts continued to discuss the effect. The New York Times re-tackled the situation in an article on October 9th headlined "Animators' Loss Shakes Disney." It again told how the Disney studio relied heavily on the presence of animation. "Walt Disney Productions, one of Wall Street's premier growth stocks, remains a money machine, with low debt and high liquidity. But success has exacted its price, industry analysts say. Disney's enormous expansion since the 1960's - the theme parks in California and Florida (and next in Tokyo in 1983), the television series and the 'live-action' features - have meant the neglect of animation." The article went on to state delays in animated production, caused by the walkout, could cost the Disney company over $50 million in film revenues that year.
Meanwhile, Don finished up work on BANJO at his garage and quickly moved to larger facilities in Studio City in 1980. The two-story building was located behind a bank on Ventura Boulevard. At this time Don Bluth Productions formed an exclusive association with Aurora Productions.
More than at Disney, Don became a beacon to animation enthusiasts around the world. Whereas Bakshi had promised to move animation forward, Don promised to return the art form to its classic look. The studio become deluged with people wanting to work on the new projects. The tight budget meant that wages could not be high, but the artists didn't care. Many would have probably worked for free.
To assist these new faces, the studio began holding in-house training sessions. Similar to Disney, this was a way to speed up the process of gathering the skills for animation. Successful trainees were assimilated into staff positions as they were ready. These many lessons were videotaped, according to early press releases, for future use and reference.
It was a year of frenzied activity for the Bluth group. They finished BANJO, moved to new quarters, created an animated music video segment for XANADU and continued production on THE SECRET OF NIMH.
There was an excitement and enthusiasm not seen in animation in possibly decades. Don's crew worked seven day weeks, ten and twelve hour days, with no overtime! Every worker was committed to making the film the best ever created. After years of management dictating to animation, now the animators were in charge.
This situation intrigued the media. They kept close tabs on the new studio. Almost a year after the walkout, animation historian Charles Solomon checked in at the studio and reported "There is a stimulating sense of mission at the Bluth offices in a two-story building, tucked behind a bank on Ventura Boulevard. It's not simply the $7 million that is at stake, it is the possibility of full-length animation, a gravely endangered art form not only because of the time and costs involved but also because of audience disenchantment with some recent cartoon features (of which there were, of course, only a handful to begin with)."
Solomon's story also showed how Don had begun turning away from his strong anti-Disney stance. He would now start settling into his role as lover and guardian of classical animation. Don told Solomon, "Something has to happen to keep animation from dying. Television could help if it would pay more money for better animation, but it won't. Now there are just Disney and us and the TV stuff, and young people are discouraged from entering the field. This animated feature **must** succeed. Anytime one fails it kills us all. If this one succeeds, it'll open doors for all of us."
After viewing some artwork and listening to voice tracks, Solomon was impressed with the prospective feature. He concluded by stating, "Disney's loss, which it will survive, is animation's gain, and already there is a want-to-see picture for 1982."
It would be a major turning point for Don, the animation
industry, the Bluth workers, Steven Spielberg (more on that
later), Disney and the media in general. Not since Mickey would
so much rest on a mouse.
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GB Boxing's Performance Team is led by Rob McCracken MBE who was appointed Performance Director in November 2009 and has responsibility for all aspects of performance and the success of the Podium and Podium Potential squads.
Rob leads a team of seven full-time coaches, more than 10 part-time coaches and a host of performance staff that are responsible for specific aspects of the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) such as nutrition, coach development and identifying, recruiting and developing new talent. Former Olympic bronze medallist, Richie Woodhall, also works with the Podium Squad as a coaching consultant for two-days per week.
The Performance team is supported by a number of sport science and medical practitioners from the English Institute of Sport (EIS) that are contracted to work with GB Boxing and are embedded into the team and work daily with the boxers and coaches. These include a Team Doctor and practitioners in a range of specialities including Physiotherapy, Physiology, Strength & Conditioning, Performance Psychology, Performance Analysis and Performance Lifestyle. The EIS is the UK's leading provider of sport science and medical services to elite sport and works with over 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports.
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Rob McCracken, Performance Director
Full-time coaches
Dave Alloway, World Class Podium Coach
Lee Pullen, World Class Podium Coach
Gary Hale, World Class Podium Coach
Graham Alderson, World Class Podium Coach
Paul Bennett, World Class Podium Coach
Darren Maher, World Class Podium Coach
Phil Sellers, World Class Podium Coach
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GB Boxing is led by Chief Executive, Matt Holt, who is responsible for the overall management of the organisation and the delivery of the WCCP.
Matt works closely with Rob McCracken on strategic performance issues and helping to create the best possible performance environment for men and women in GB Boxing's Podium and Podium Potential squads. He oversees a team which looks after all operational and administrative aspects of the WCPP covering financial management, operations and logistics, commercial activities, communications and programme strategy.
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A misdemeanors court in Patra on Thursday cleared the local mayor, Costas Peletidis, of charges of dereliction of duty that were lodged against him by Michalis Arvanitis, a former candidate for neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, in 2015 after Peletidis denied Arvanitis the right to use a municipal venue to stage a pre-election campaign.
The decision to clear Pelitidis was greeted by cheers both inside the courtroom and by a large crowd of supporters who had gathered outside to await the news.
Earlier this month Peletidis struck a defiant tone, declaring that the Patra municipal authority would "continue its fight to stop Golden Dawn from passing on its ideology, propaganda and racist poison."
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RUSH: Now, the president, when the gun control bill failed in the Senate yesterday afternoon, he was mad. Wouldn't it be great if you saw him get that kind of mad when Americans are killed? He didn't get that mad after Benghazi. He didn't get anywhere near that mad after what happened in Boston. But let his gun control bill go down in the Senate, this guy blows a gasket. He literally blew a gasket. And I know why he blew a gasket. Because this gun control bill was supposed to fail in the House so he could blame it on Republicans. This gun control bill was not supposed to pass, folks. It was supposed to pass the Senate. It was supposed to fail in the House.
Everything is about 2014 and winning the House and having a one-party control government so he can basically implement whatever he wants with no opposition. Because, remember, that's Obama's objective, no opposition. He doesn't want to debate people. He doesn't want to persuade people. He doesn't want to convince people. He wants no people in his way. So this bill was supposed to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate and then die in the House of Representatives, where he could blame it on Republicans, like he does everything, and then put that in the hopper of everything else he's blaming on Republicans and let that be part of the ongoing campaign effort by the Democrats to win the House in 2014.
He is mad because his party sandbagged him. He is mad, still is mad — he was livid — because the Democrats pulled a rug out from under him, four of them in the Senate. He's mad at Dingy Harry. He's mad at whoever it is that failed to get this done.
RUSH: Now, F. Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie were on the Today Show today, and they were talking about Obama's remarks after the Senate vote. He called people "liars." So I guess it's okay to use that word now. The president has put it out there. It's okay to call people liars.
Savannah Guthrie and F. Chuck Todd are talking about the president here…
GUTHRIE: What we see there appears to be very genuine anger, but was there genuine surprise at this result at the White House?
TODD: I can tell you he was genuinely angry, and I think the anger has to do with the fact that it was just, he didn't see… He didn't think that they would reject this. They just didn't think they were gonna lose.
RUSH: Why?
Only 4% of the American people want gun control!
Only 4% of the American people want it. These are Gallup numbers: Only 4%, folks, want what Obama wants. There's another poll, an ABC poll. "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Obama's handling gun control?" Not whether or not you want it or not. It is 50% disapprove of the way Obama's handling it. What in the world is such a surprise, when only 4% of the people want, the Senate voted it down. But I tell you again the reason the president is angry. It could have been anything. It was not supposed to go down in the House by a bunch of Democrats. The plan was to have Republicans shoot this down in the House so that they could be blamed for it going into 2014, and that's what Obama is mad about.
RUSH: Audio sound bite number seven last night in Washington. White House Rose Garden, President Obama speaking about the defeat of the "anti-gun" bill in the Senate.
OBAMA: I've heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced. "A prop," somebody called them. "Emotional blackmail," some outlet said. Are they serious?
RUSH: Yes.
OBAMA: Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don't have a right to weigh in on this issue?
RUSH: No.
OBAMA: Do we think their emotions, their loss is not relevant to this debate?
RUSH: No.
OBAMA: So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.
RUSH: Yeah, because it was supposed to be the Republicans we blamed for this, damn it! This thing was supposed to pass the Senate! I was supposed to get all kinds of credit for parading around the families. I was supposed to get all kinds of credit, compassion, love, adoration — and then my own party kills my bill! Here's more from the president in the White House Rose Garden…
OBAMA: The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. They claimed that it would create some sort of Big Brother gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite. This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry, plain and simple right there in the text. But that didn't matter. And unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose, because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners, and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators.
RUSH: "You live by the lie, you die by the lie."
Can you believe these guys? Worried about being lied about? You ought to try being a Republican for one day, Mr. President and see how it feels! You ought to try being a conservative. You want to worry about being lied about? Did you ever lie about Obamacare? That's not the question. How many lies were told about Obamacare? Your own party, Max Baucus, is warning this thing is an absolute disaster. Mr. President, your own party is walking back your health care law. Did you lie about the stimulus?
But look, lies in the gun control bill? This was going to be a national registry, surreptitiously back-door. The bottom line is, Mr. President, the NRA doesn't have to lie to anybody. The gun lobby and their allies didn't have to lie to anybody. The American people on their own full-blown understand every time the Democrats start talking about guns what they want. The American people don't need to be told. The American people understand who you are!
The American people, a vast majority of 'em according to the Gallup, understand without being told what you Democrats want to do to the Second Amendment and their guns. They don't have to be told. You've done that for them. You got plenty of gun laws on the books. Try enforcing those. You talk about having the families of victims lobby and be props and so forth? The Democrat Party does that on practically every issue. There wasn't one part of this bill that would have stopped what happened at that school.
There wasn't one element of the bill that went down to defeat that would have prevented what happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Not one. Have you seen the murder rate in your town of Chicago? Why aren't there any prosecutions there? Why aren't existing gun laws being put to use? You want the answer to that, folks? Think about it. We have plenty of laws on the books to be prosecuting gun culprits. Why aren't they being used? Why is it said we need more? Why is it said we need new laws?
Why are the existing laws not being enforced?
You want an answer?
Because we need the chaos!
We need to make it look like existing law isn't enough so that we can justify new laws, so we can justify new restrictions, so that we can justify new requirements. If you use existing law to prosecute gun violence today, and you get some bad guys off the street, you might send the message that you don't need any new laws. We can't have that! We want the new law. Why? Because of what's in the new law that isn't in current law, and that would make it tougher to own a gun, and that's what this is all about. It's trying to get around the Second Amendment, and the American people fully understand it 'cause they know who the Democrats are on this issue. I wish the American people understood who Democrats are on every issue, like they understand this one.
RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program, when President Obama began speaking at the memorial for the Boston Marathon, I didn't know how many EIB affiliates had cut away from this program in order to carry or cover the president's remarks. I still don't know. I assured everybody then that if it were necessary, that I'd repeat a little bit of what happened in the opening monologue. I'm gonna do that now. Just one particular thing, and that is the gun control bill going down to defeat yesterday.
Now, we played sound bites.
Grab sound bites seven and eight again. We may as well do this. The president was never angrier. It's really unique to see him this angry. He was livid! In fact, even the AP writes: "A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims Wednesday and declared it a 'pretty shameful day for Washington' after the Senate rejected a measure designed to make it tougher for criminals to get their hands on guns."
Well, we've already got countless laws that keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. I'm sorry, folks, but every gun control law proposed by any Democrat is gonna do nothing but take guns away from law-abiding people. We already have countless gun laws, just like immigration laws, that are not being enforced either properly or at all. And the whole point of this yesterday was for the Senate to pass this so that it could fail in the House.
Now, I know that many people can't understand that the president would want something to fail. But he did. The president and the Democrats are doing everything they're doing for the 2014 midterm elections. They want to win the House of Representatives. That's the objective. Everything is about that. The gun control bill was proposed. It's a punitive gun control bill. It will take guns away from law-abiding people. It will serve as a national gun registry — or would have.
Not directly. It would have happened incidentally, but by design. It was supposed to pass the Senate. The Democrats run the Senate. It was supposed to pass there. You bring the parents in from Newtown. You fly 'em in on Air Force One. You do the appropriate quote/unquote "lobbying" with the parents of the victim. They meet with a Democrat Party lobbyist who then introduces them to senators. That alone is supposed to pressure Democrats into voting for the bill, and that didn't happen.
Four Democrats voted against it, and that's why Obama is livid.
This was supposed to pass the Senate and then go to the House where it was to lose, because the Republicans outnumber the Democrats. It was guaranteed to lose in the House. Obama wanted that so that he could then campaign on the idea that Republicans don't care about people getting shot. "Republicans don't care about kids losing their lives. Republicans don't care about families. All Republicans care about is Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. All the Republicans care about is guuuns!
"The Republicans want people to have guns, guns, and more guns. The Republican Party is absolutely horrible. That's all they want is guns! They care about guns. They care about War on Women. The Republican Party doesn't care about people!" That's what Obama wanted. He didn't get it, and that's why he's mad. That's why he's livid. He's not livid because he didn't get his bill. Folks, if you're in the low-information voter community out there and you're listening to this, I'm telling you:
I've got no reason to make anything up. It doesn't serve my purpose to lie to you. I don't gain anything by it. I'm telling you, he wanted this to lose in the House so that he could continue to lie about how mean, cold-hearted, and unfeeling the Republicans are so that he could have the Democrats win the House. Because winning the House and keeping the Senate means the Democrats would have one-party control of government and he could do whatever he wants practically with simple implementation.
He wouldn't even need legislation to be voted on. It would be rubber-stamped, and the last two years of the Obama presidency would be where balls-to-the-wall socialism would happen. Whatever he wanted, nobody could stop it, and this is a giant wrench in the works. Up next is the immigration bill. I'm gonna tell you, the polling data on that is identical to the polling data in Gallup on gun control.
Only 4% of the American people want legalization for people who are here illegally but voluntarily. There is not a mass sentiment for amnesty. There's no mass sentiment for legalizing people who are here because they've broken the law. So you have a two-pronged stool, if you will, here — gun control and immigration — and half of it's gone down the tubes now. Here's the president in the Rose Garden. We have two sound bites. You can hear how angry he was.
OBAMA: I've heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced.
RUSH: It was.
OBAMA: "A prop," somebody called them. "Emotional blackmail," some outlet said. Are they serious? Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don't have a right to weigh in on this issue? Do we think their emotions, their loss is not relevant to this debate?
RUSH: Wait. Hold it a minute. Stop the tape! They can weigh in on it all day long, but they're not guaranteed to prevail. They can lobby all day long. They can go to Washington all day long. They can fly on Air Force One all day long. They can ask for what they want all day long. But there's no guarantee they get to win! Mr. President, you expect people just to lay down and let you have what you want? There has been too much of that! The country hangs in the balance. You getting what you want is not good for this country, certainly not the way it was founded.
So they can do everything they want, you can do everything with them that you want, but you're not guaranteed of winning. Here's the next sound bite.
OBAMA: The gun lobby and its allies —
RUSH: Yeah?
OBAMA: — willfully lied about the bill.
RUSH: No they didn't.
OBAMA: They claimed that it would create some sort of Big Brother gun registry —
RUSH: It would.
OBAMA: — even though the bill did the opposite.
RUSH: Wrong.
OBAMA: This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry —
RUSH: (big sigh)
OBAMA: — plain and simple right there in the text. But that didn't matter. And unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose —
RUSH: Ohhh!
OBAMA: — because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners, and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators.
RUSH: Have you ever lied about Obamacare, Mr. President? Did you ever lie about your immigration plans? Did you ever lie about the stimulus? Anyway, he was upset. He's really mad. The Politico. Looky here! headline: "Gun Control: President Obama's Biggest Loss." See, everything is about Obama. This was not about the Sandy Hook parents, folks. This wasn't about the Sandy Hook kids. This wasn't about future gun violence. This was about Obama's agenda.
Everything is always and only about Obama's agenda, and that's what this was about. Obama's agenda took a hit, and that's why Obama's mad, and that's why the media's upset. It wasn't about the children. Politico says it right here: "Never before had President Obama put the moral force and political muscle of his presidency behind an issue quite this big and lost quite this badly." Wow! I didn't see a word in here about the parents or the children. I see how it affects Obama.
That's what the media's focused on in practically every issue: "How does it affect Obama? How does it help Obama? How does it hurt Obama?" From The Daily Caller: "Obama Lashes Out at GOP, NRA After Gun Bill Fails." The story spells out how Obama hoped to use gun control as "a wedge issue." That is exactly right. It wasn't about the kids! "Mr. Limbaugh, this is actually a shameful performance by you today." This is the voice of the New Castrati, folks, the liberals that listen.
"I can't believe you'd be so insensitive and so outrageous as to say that this was not about the children, it was not about the parents, it was not about the safety of the American people!" It's not. It's about Obama's agenda. This was indeed a wedge issue. This was to drive a wedge between the Republican Party. This was to go down in defeat in the House. Reading here from the Daily Caller: "The defeat also curbed Obama?'s efforts to use gun control as a wedge issue against House members in swing districts in the 2014 election. If the Senate had passed the bill, Democrats could have lashed House members for not supporting what the president calls 'common-sense gun reforms.'"
Never mind that we never hear about "common sense" abortion reforms.
But there's a second article here that I have attached, and it's by The Politico. It actually may be a little bit more interesting than The Daily Caller piece. Reading from the article in The Politico: "Axelrod is looking for gun-control advocates like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to stick with the cause and seek retribution through the mid-term elections. 'A bunch of suburban, swing district Republicans in House are probably deeply relieved that Senate appears poised to kill background checks,' he tweets." That's Axelrod.
In other words, Axelrod is revealing that this issue is all about defeating House Republicans and nothing else. It wasn't about the children. It wasn't about the parents. "Mr. Limbaugh, that is just outrageous. I can't believe that you would dare say that."
This is not about the children. It was made to look like it, but it was about Obama's agenda. It's not me telling you. It's the news media. Dianne Feinstein, senator from California, was angry. They don't like to lose. Here she is on the Senate floor yesterday, last night.
FEINSTEIN: I am really chagrined and concerned. Anybody cares, vote at least to prospectively ban the manufacture, the sale, the importation of military-style assault weapons. Show some guts.
RUSH: There is no such thing as an assault weapon. I'll say it again. It's a term created by the wordsmiths at the Democrat Party to get as many people as possible opposed to guns, period. When you get right down to it, every gun's an assault weapon. You don't make popsicles with the things. It's a loaded term. It's designed to gin up opposition. They just can't do anything about the Second Amendment. That's their problem. That's what they really need, just erase it, find a way to get it out of the Constitution. They can't do that, so they gotta try their back door. Dingy Harry on the Senate floor yesterday in Washington during the debate on gun control.
REID: I'll vote for the ban because maintaining a law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theories who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I'll vote for the ban because saving the lives of police officers, young and old, and innocent civilians, young and old, is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
RUSH: See, they want you to think that the forces that defeated this think they need guns to hold back the helicopters of the federal government. The federal government's coming for everybody, and that's why we can't give up our guns, a bunch of conspiracy kooks, weirdos, tinfoil hat people. What you need to know, low-information people, we've already got so many gun laws. There are already so many restrictions. In fact, the states with the most restrictive gun laws have the highest crime rates with guns.
New York, Washington, two of the hardest places in the world to get a gun, and they are ravaged by gun crime. We've got more gun law than you can imagine, and we don't enforce existing law to make it look like we don't have enough laws so that we can get more. Everything is political. Everything with the Democrat Party, everything is political, disguised as compassion.


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Orica's chief executive Ian Smith said he is extremely disappointed that his sometimes aggressive and confrontational management style has led to his sudden departure from the explosives giant.
Orica, the world's biggest supplier of mining explosives, on Wednesday said that Mr Smith will step down and a global search for a new CEO is underway.
Mr Smith, who is widely known as an abrasive and direct manager, had been working through hispersonality and style issues with chairman Russell Caplan.
But after he returned from a holiday over Christmas, an aggressive outburst from Mr Smith towards his now departed general manager of investor relations Karen McRae, sparked discussions with the board about transitioning to new leadership.
"I'm extremely disappointed. I was changing and there was an incident that coloured where we were going [as an organisation]. Sometimes I go beyond being robust and become aggressive," Mr Smith said.
Mr Smith said his turnaround strategy, which involved organisational restructuring, heavy cost-cutting and redundancies, had taken its toll on him.
"My wife told me it [the job] was having an effect on me. The emotional and physical toll was too much. There is no excuse for it [the outburst]. It should not have happened and I've apologised to the person a number of times," he said.
Orica shares fell 5.3 per cent to $18.20 on Wednesday, giving the group a market value of $6 billion.
'Overly aggressive'
Chairman Russell Caplan said he has a close relationship with Mr Smith and the decision to bring in a new CEO in this way is disappointing for both of them.
"The board and Ian have agreed that this is the best outcome for the company," Mr Caplan said.
"It has been in the public domain for some time that the board has been working with Ian on his management style.
"He has a direct style and can on occasion be overly aggressive. If you are the recipient of that you have every right to think you are being bullied. I personally don't characterise it as that [bullying]."
Mr Caplan said the rapid turnaround of Orica had been stressful for a lot of the company's executives.
He lauded the strategy Mr Smith has been implementing and said there will be no change to Orica's strategic direction.
"As a result of Ian's stewardship the company has been transformed. It is stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable across the resources cycle, which is what we set out to do," he said.
"We have full confidence in the strategy."
Mr Caplan said that he has been meeting with Mr Smith regularly and had been getting feedback from the executive team on his management style.
Prior to the incident in January, he said Mr Smith had been improving and he was not "at all defensive [about changing] and we were encouraged by his response."
Succession search
Orica has hired an executive search firm and is looking globally and internally for a replacement. Mr Smith said he is happy to stay on as long as it takes.
"I'm flexible. I want to do the right thing by the company. They have done the right thing by me," he said,
He rejected the suggestion he has been fired.
"If this was a firing I wouldn't be having this conversation with you," he said.
Orica will go ahead with a strategy investor day next week despite Wednesday's news that he is departing.
Mr Smith laughed when asked if he would be a "lame duck" CEO while the board looked for his replacement.
"I think everyone knows I have a certain style, and perhaps one of the only good things about it is you can be sure I will not be a lame duck CEO," he said.
Since Mr Smith took on the top job in February 2012, Orica has cut more than 2000 jobs and has restructured its global procurement and back office systems.
The latest round of job cuts and efficiency measures, announced in November, are expected to result in pretax cost savings of $140 million to $170 million in 2015 and savings of up to $80 million in 2016.
Orica has been under pressure as its mining customers, particularly east coast Australian coal, cut back spending in the face of much lower commodity prices.
Last month Orica completed the $750 million sale of its chemicals business to private equity giant Blackstone, completing its transitions to be a pure-play mining services company.
Orica is using some of the proceeds to buyback up to $400 million worth of its shares.
A number of senior staff have left the company during Mr Smith's tenure. Corporate communications head, Miche Paterson, left Orica just weeks after she replaced Simon Westaway, who departed to BHP Billiton.
The vast majority of the original executive committee that existed when Mr Smith became CEO in 2012 is no longer with Orica.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/business/oricas-ian-smith-confesses-to-aggressive-behaviour-20150318-1m20l9.html


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Well, you were probably expecting to see a running picture BUT here's something else. Despite struggling a bit with my balance, I sure had a great time playing hockey yesterday (at 6.5 mos pregnant!). Thanks for inviting me, Avery and Sondra!
In terms of running, I think the plantar fasciitis is slowly healing. But, now the added weight likely isn't helping. So, I am running but not too much. I am enjoying about 3 km every other day. I also swim, use the eliptical, and bike on rollers to keep fit! The pregnancy has certainly helped me to sit back and let my body call the shots … to heal.


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