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Here you can get to know the bunnies. These are all bunnies I personally created from second hand (clean) socks that were donated to me. Up until this point I have worked on two sets of projects but have ambitions to do others in the future.
Chinese Arts Centre Whisper Residency (2006)
Here you can see all the 20 bunnies that I created on my Residency. Click on a bunny and you be able to find out more information about each bunny e.g. their adoption information, foster photos & adopter's blogs. Please go to the [RESIDENCY] page to find a more in depth look into why and how I did this project.
Note to 2006 Adopters: In this new site I have disabled log to new bunny blogs, however you can still go to the [ORIGINAL SITE] and update that if you so wish like before. If you would like to add something to this new site please do not hesitate to contact me and I can add it manually for you.
plAAy Exhibition (2008)
These bunnies were made for the plAAy (Contemporary Asian Art) exhibition in Blackburn 2008. This second project was not done as in depth as the 2006 one so there is no details on each bunny (though if enough people update me i will add information. 8 of 10 of these bunnies have been adopted by people have meet in the adoption community.


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Participants in the drawing may be chosen from the device contacts, or entered manually. Grouping feature allows exclusions of spouses or group members from drawing a name in the same group. Memory of previous drawing prevents people from drawing the same name as the previous drawing.
Each participant may be designated as "Gives and receives a gift in shared exchange", "Gives and receives in shared exchange, also may give to receive only participant(s)", "Does not receive gift, may give to receive only participant(s)", or "Does not give gift, receive only. For example, child". The results can be printed to an Airprint printer for each participant without email, or who want a printed copy. History display shows the name drawn and gift given for each person for previous drawings.
Compatible with PC Gift Exchange files. You may email your *.gx files from PC to yourself and open on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Multiple exchanges may be created and saved. For example, an exchange file can be used for your direct family. A separate file may be used for an exchange for your spouse's family. Optional gift suggestions may be included in notification emails. The organizer may add any suggestions received and the option will appear to notify the person who has that name.
Fixed problem that gift suggestion changes may not be saved in some cases. Added validation and ability to re-draw only part of exchange if people are added or removed after drawing names. Added smtp send method.
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Staging Consultation - $250
The first step in staging a home begins with a consultation. The cost of the initial consultation is $250 and includes up to 1.5 hours of assessment of the home. If the home is large and requires additional hours, those are charged at $125/hour. I will then come up with a detailed plan on how to make the home more appealing to potential buyers. This plan will be sent to you within 48 business hours of our consultation and will include my suggestions for necessary updates ranging from pre-packing, altering paint colors, and beyond.
Full-On Staging - $125/hour (4 hour minimum)
If you choose to hire us to stage your home after our initial consultation, the cost will be $125/hour (4 hour minimum) for two stagers to rearrange furniture and create focal points in order to make the space appear as large and light as possible. We will come equipped with the necessary tools, props, and accessories to alter wall déecor, create vignettes, and add design flair to your home to GET IT SOLD! A destaging fee will be charged at the time of initial payment for Amanda Carlson Interiors to come and retrieve any props (the week of closing) that were used in the staging of the property.
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From: http://www.tbaptist.com/aab/webofwca.htm [NLA]
Every Sunday morning about 15,000 people gather in the Willow Creek Community Church (WCCC). This is not your regular church service. There is no organ, piano, hymnbooks. They do not join in singing the grand old hymns of the Christian faith. Neither is there a biblical sermon preached. This is their so-called Seeker Service, which is produced in order to get lost people to enjoy church without guilt or shame. There are no sermons against sin, nor is there a call for repentance...
The Man Who Inspired HybelsBill Hybels proudly gives Dr. Gilbert Bilezikian the credit for inspiring him to build the Willow Creek ministry. This French born professor did his undergraduate work at the University of Paris. Then he enrolled at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he received a Master of Divinity degree.
While Gordon-Conwell is named after two great men, it is a hotbed of new-evangelicalism and modernism. Gordon and Conwell would flip over in their graves, if they knew how their names were being used.
After pastoring for five years in Albany, New York, Bilezikian moved on to teach in Wheaton College. (This is another hot bed of new-evangelicalism, and a synonym for compromise.) After accepting the presidency of a Christian college in Beirut, Lebanon, he returned to the United States in 1971. He soon joined the staff of Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois (another school of compromise). It was there that he indoctrinated Bill Hybels into this new kind of ministry.
I have before me an application form for churches to fill out if they want to join the WCA. On the line for the Senior Pastor's title which is to be circled, it says, "Senior Pastor: (Circle) DR. REV. MR. MRS. MISS MS."


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I'm considering insulating (and drywalling) my garage, which already has insulated garage doors. My main goal is to keep it from getting much below freezing during the winter.
This garage is located in the North Cascades (2000' elevation) in Washington state, with a typical yearly temperature range of 0F - 105F.
I'm not too worried about insulating the walls, but wonder: Do I need a vapor barrier?
For the ceiling (rafters 24" oc) would it be easiest to place normal batting between the rafters and then hang the drywall, or hang the drywall first and then lay the insulation afterwards? Or would blown-in insulation be better? Which is typically cheaper? And again, do I need a vapor barrier?
The space that will become the attic is vented via wall vents under the peak of the roof on both sides of the garage.
You can see a couple pictures of the garage and rafters here:
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I prefer fiberglass batting over blown-in insulation because it's not as messy, you don't have to rent a machine to do it so you can do it at your own pace, and if you need to do any subsequent work in the attic, it's easier to move it out of the way then move it back again later. I'm not sure about the relative cost, but I frequently see special offers for fiberglass insulation in HD and Lowe's so shop around.
If you choose fiberglass, I would install the insulation before the drywall, just because you'll have more room to work in.
A lot of fiberglass batts come with a paper vapor retarder. Since I started using this site, I've learned to put an extra sheet of plastic between the batts and the drywall, something I'll be doing in the future.
Whichever type of insulation you go with, be sure not to block the vents. I've used baffles to allow air from my soffit vents into the main attic space after installing R-38 batts.
I have a few questions and observations that will effect what you should do. First, I see that the peak (ridge) seems to be over the existing framed and drywalled wall. What is on the other side of this wall? Is this garage attached to the house or free standing? Do you have or intend to put any heat or heat dump register in this space?
I also noticed that the roof framing is standard trusses, not attic trusses. Where is the attic space going to be located? If the attic space is going to be over the bay you pictured, then you are limited in the amount of insulation you can install and still have a floor for storage. If the collar ties are 2X6, then the most blanket type insulation you can install is R19. 2X4= R11. Fiberglass blanket would definitely be the most cost effective in a small space such as you have. I would use unfaced F/G, and a 4 or 6 mil plastic vapor barrier installed before you drywall. As for installing drywall, you really should install strapping at a max of 16" on center to mount your 5/8" fire rated rock to. 24" inch on center is too large for hanging rock overhead, especially 5/8" rock. If garage is attached, 5/8" drywall is minimum code in most areas.
I also noticed that you have a metal roof. Metal roofs are great, but are notorious for condensation. This makes it absolutely necessary to have a good vapor barrier and good venting to avoid potential interior "rain storms" lol.
My other consideration would be insulating the exterior walls. Since there seems to be only one long wall and very little framed cavity wall on the gable ends, it would be advantageous to go ahead and finish the job by insulating and drywalling these walls. If you only do the ceiling, you will not have a good barrier to air, heat and humidity leaking by the ends of the ceiling at the wall plates and entering the attic area. This kinda defeats the whole idea of what you are doing.
What are you meaning by "add strapping" with regards to applying sheetrock to 24O.C. ceiling?


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Looking for ways to keep your child's creative mind engaged over Spring break? Stop by to pick up a thematic book bundle for you and your youngster to enjoy! With a variety of themes to delight and inspire, these book bundles showcase 5-7 fiction and non-fiction printed books, audiobooks -- plus a music CD or DVD -- and range in age-appropriateness from Pre-K to Second Grade.
Examples of themes that can inspire extension activities:
There are just two more opportunities for you to participate in this awesome program. The "Animation Unplugged" workshop is a dynamic program created by MEDIA SAVVY's founder Denaise Seals.
This course is an introduction to the basics of animation and is designed to stimulate recognition, discussion and comprehension of animated cinematic releases and video game technology. "Animation Unplugged" invites animators of all ages and artistic levels to create flip books, thaumotropes and other optical toys.
It's a LEGO extravaganza at the library!
Why, you ask? Because we say so!
LEGO activities are a wonderful way to encourage children to particpate in science-related activities by building, designing and testing solutions. Thus, while our love for LEGOS may simply have to do with the fun that can be had from this engaging activity, it appears that LEGOS offer more than just stimulating entertainment.
During the month of April, come to the children's room at Petworth library to engage in a variety of programs. These include:
On April 2 at 4 p.m., Joe Cepeda, illustrator of beloved books Mice and Beans by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Big Bushy Mustache by Gary Soto and
Celebrate National Karaoke Week on Monday, April 20 and Friday, April 24 at 4 p.m. with Kids Love Karaoke, two special programs to encourage confident public reading and singing as well as supportive listening in children ages 5-10.
Do you love to watch and sing along with contestants on American Idol and The Voice?
Petworth Neighborhood Library will give you the opportunity to have fun while practicing and showing off your vocal gifts in a supportive, friendly environment before you get discovered by the pros!
Tax woes making you and your family sad?
Well, jump into your jammies and let some jazzy beats make you glad! Join us April 7 at 6:30 p.m. for some swinging stories, recorded jazzy jams, dandy dances as well as vintage video clips with jazz themes.
This program is appropriate for ages 3 to 7. Wearing comfortable pajamas to storytime is optional, but encouraged.
Groups of 9 or more, please call 202-645-8337 to register in advance.
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month, and win fantastic prizes!
Every Monday in March, a new trivia question will be posted on Twitter (@dcpl) and Facebook. Respond by Friday with the correct answer using #herstoryDCPL, and get entered to win a different prize each week! We'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the week.
The months of January and February have seen exciting events here at Petworth Library.
DC Public Library is closed Tuesday, Feb. 17 due to inclement weather.
On Friday, Jan. 23, I had the distinct pleasure to be one of three judges for the local Spelling Bee at Powell Bilingual Elementary School, one of Petworth Library's neighborhood schools.
Sixteen top spellers from Powell's third, fourth and fifth grades earned the opportunity to participate in the Bee as contestants. The atmosphere in the room was electric with nervous and excited energy. Roughly more than 50 of the participants' classmates and teachers comprised the very enthusiastic and supportive audience.


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The awe inspiring beauty of Aeon City is renowned across the Rogue Isles. Yet a glimpse into the shadows cast by Aeon's gleaming white towers reveals a dangerous nexus of chaos lurking in the darkest nooks of this seemingly safe, clean city.
Harnessing this thinly veiled chaos, the shadowy King Midas and his notorious gang of thieves, the Gold Brickers, maintain a firm grip on the urban crime of Aeon City and nearby Haven.
Monitoring the city from the highest rooftops, the Gold Brickers are no common street criminals. These high-tech thieves rely on unparalleled technological equipment and brazen aggression to target only the wealthiest of Aeon City.
Able to make quick escapes with their jetpacks, the Gold Brickers have taken the heist to new levels of profitability, fulfilling rumors that any caper coordinated by King Midas does indeed turn to gold.
With their flamboyant finery and advanced equipment, the boastful Gold Brickers maintain a smug sense of superiority over the street thugs of Cap au Diable.
After their bold break-in to the city bank's central vault in 1991, Dr. Aeon swore to bring King Midas and his band of thieves to justice.
The governor of Aeon City relentlessly seeks the true identity of King Midas so that he might rid his city of the Gold Brickers and their flagrant disregard for all he has worked so hard to accomplish.
Despite the ubiquity of the Gold Brickers along the city's skyline, even Arachnos does not know the true extent of their technological capabilities.
A force to be reckoned with, Midas and his Gold Brickers walk the fine line between helping Arachnos keep the thugs of Cap au Diable in line and threatening Arachnos with their technological mastery.
Unable to determine the origins of their mind-boggling weaponry, Arachnos generally tolerates their existence while also covertly preventing them from expanding their sphere of influence.
In order to contain King Midas and perhaps learn his secrets, agents of Lord Recluse monitor Gold Bricker activities, only intervening when they directly or indirectly threaten the supremacy of Arachnos.


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Your mind is the most significant asset. If you focus on your investing education, you will gain much in your lifetime. In order to help you invest in an easy and wise way, here offers top 10 best investing books that provide indispensable business and finance insights in 2014 for investors at all levels.
No.1 – A Beginner's Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way
For beginning investors
A Beginner's Guide to Investing has been listed among the top-selling investing books on amazon.com for the better part of the past year.
A Beginner's Guide to Investing provide helpful guide to the readers on how to grow their money smartly and easily. The book authors are Join Ivy Bytes and Alex Frey who is a Harvard MBA. People can be assured that they will get the latest and useful thoughts and insights instead of misguided theories or useless self-promotion content.
In this book, readers will learn how to choose an investment account, how to build a portfolio of diversified ETFs, ways to save most on tax via 401(k) and IRA. All above will help you gain the knowledge to manage your money well for life.
Whether you're a total investing novice or just puzzled about all the contradictory advice out there, you will find A Beginner's Guide to Investing practical and effective for its lots of solid advice for building an overall investment portfolio.
No.2- The Millionaire Next Door
In our imagination, the millionaire always wears fancy suits, lives in big villa, drives current-model imported luxury car. Actually,a trust officer friend spends significantly more for his suits than the typical American millionaire. We may have a huge misunderstanding about millionaires. So the first step to be millionaire is to develop the necessary characters.
The Millionaire Next Door is not a typical investing book with golden investing rules but a research showing us the most significant characters millionaire shares. Author summarize the findings of research on those with at least $1 million and reveals a diametrical character those group people have, which is opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture. It seems that they are not the biggest beneficial owners of material prosperity for they are disciplined in unbelievable way.
The first rule is, always live well below your means. What are the rules left, read this book and find them.
No.3-A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street is well known to be one of the modern classics on stock investing.
The author, Burton G. Malkiel, is the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His book can not teach you any opportunistic practice tricks or guarantee you a wealthy future. This book is an combination of theory and practice concerning helping reader learn how the stock market works and set up a healthy invest idea.Learning how to distinguish dazzling investment tools and rational planning, the individual investors can break the legend that only expert can set their foot on the Wall Street and take charge of their financial future.
It is a professional book to a certain degree, however, it is much easier to read than you expected. The author put the sophisticated theory in a sample way with vivid language.If you determined to have a fortune in stock market, read this book first.
No.4-The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
It's said investing is a subject about common sense. When we chase after complex theory system built by economists and golden rules of success come up with the winners from the Wall Street, we neglect that the most simple principle is the most effective one.
Every investor wants to be fortunate in stock market, however, it's a pity that most of them chose to be a speculator or gamble all their possession on only one stock. The right way given in the Little Book of Common Sense Investing is owning a diversified portfolio of stocks so that you can own substantial wealth. That's a winner's game.
Author put his simplicity idea in simplicity words. Under these simple words, you can feel his warm care and wise sense which is a compass for common individual investor.
No.5-The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing: Fifth Edition
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is a essential stock market guidebook, especially in its fifth edition provided timely information.
Compared with other investing book, this one have its advantages. Firstly, it collects latest changes of stock market and tell readers what remains timeless.Review of online tools in this book is notable. Secondly,it come up with a completely new insight to judge whether a measurement is good enough to identify winning stocks. The last but not the least, you can read an exclusive conversation with Bill Miller, Former Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Legg Mason Capital.
Get this book and keep pace in the current market.
No.6-The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
For true investors instead of speculators or day traders
The Intelligent Investor has been considered to be the stock market bible since its original publication in 1949. Benjamin Graham, one of the best investment advisor in twentieth century, inspires and directs people all over the world to be intelligent investors with his philosophy of "value investing", in which Benjamin talks about how to avoid making investment mistakes by developing long-term strategies.
In this revised edition, readers will see updated commentary from financial journalist Jason Zweig, who incorporates the realities of today's market into the book, so that readers know how to apply Graham's principles to realize their financial goals.
No.7-One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
For average investors, the individual investor
Peter Lynch explains in One Up On Wall Street that what are the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.
Lynch offers advice which is very easy to follow with the aim of sorting out the long shots from the no-shots by evaluating and reviewing a company's financial statements and knowing which numbers really count.
As a #1 bestseller and a classic book of investment know-how, One Up on Wall Street offers you credible and useful strategies.
No.8-The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing gives readers straightforward investing guide and offers many practical advice in a slightly irreverent way. It collected ideas from people like Boglehead founder Taylor Larimore, and Morningstar forum leading cohorts Mel Lindauer and Michael LeBoeuf who have grassroots investment wisdom, so it is not only a textbook for beginners but also a refresher course for old hands. The original idea provided by them may arouse a revolution in some old hands' mind.
Let this book guide you to the wealth creation and happiness.
No.9-Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves
This is a book high recommended by "Financial Times". As a columnist and editor, Sorkin presents a comprehensible chronology and elaborate analysis of many monumental and perilous economic crises in Too Big to Fail.
In Too Big to Fail, you can be fascinated with its detailed account of economic crises and the personalities that fought to stop them. Besides, you can know more about humanizing background on all the major players.
The book is very readable with more than 600 pages. Unlike many other New York Times reporters, Sorkin does not obviously express his opinions in the story until the last several pages.
No.10-Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker is a book depicting the life on Wall Street, the life of lower-level employees who get their start in the financial world in particular. Michael Lewis makes full use of his personal experience of his financial career in the Salomon Brothers bond program to represent the larger story of the rise and fall of the entire firm during the 1980s.
In this book, liar's poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, which is designed to reward trickery and deceit. Lewis uses liar's poker as a metaphor to illustrate how economic decisions which were made at the national level affected and changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative game on the Street at that time.
Lewis is a brilliant writer describing people and their situations vividly and memorably, therefore, you don't need a lot of special knowledge to understand and love this book.


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The Little Book of Biblical Peace Series
I am filled with excitement for God's Kingdom. Today the "The Little Book of Peace Series" is up and available for download. The Bible demonstrates that God is generous and in biblical agreement all (4) books are for FREE. May God bless many that read these books.
This series was started on Father's Day week as a series of blogs and grew into a calling for the whole family. In an age when chaos reigns, there is only one refuge…the God of the Bible.
Each day this week there will be a blog on each book. The blogs will explain how these books will help you find peace in your life.
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Political Analysis and Commentary
The enlightened peoples of Europe, and growing numbers of Americans, have no interest in hearing or seeing anything that depicts Jews as good people, or even just as regular people. It is not that the cultured, intellectual A-listers in Europe and America share the Palestinians' genocidal hatred of the Jewish people.
The powerful newspaper editors, television commentators, playwrights, fashion designers, filmmakers and professors don't spend time thinking about how to prepare the next slaughter. They don't teach their children from the time they are Hadas and Elad Fogel's ages that they should strive to become mass murderers. They would never dream of doing these things. They know there is a division of labor in contemporary anti-Semitism.
The job of the intellectual luminaries in Western high society today is to hate Jews the old-fashioned way, the way their greatgrandparents hated Jews back in the days of the early 20th century before that villain Adolf Hitler gave Jewhating a bad name.
Much has been made of the confluence of anti-Semitic bile pouring out of the chattering classes. From Mel Gibson to Julian Assange to Charlie Sheen to John Galliano, it seems like a day doesn't go by without some new celebrity exposing himself as a Jew hater.
It isn't that the beautiful people and their followers suddenly decided that Jews are not their cup of tea (or rail of cocaine). It's just that we have reached the point where people no longer feel embarrassed to parade negative feelings towards Jews.
A DECADE ago, the revelation that French ambassador to Britain Daniel Bernard referred to Israel as "that shi**y little country," was shocking. Now it is standard fare. Everyone who is anyone will compare Israel to Nazi Germany without even realizing this is nothing but Holocaust denial.
The post-Holocaust dam reining in anti-Semitism burst in 2002. As Jewish children and parents like the Fogels were being murdered in their beds, on the streets, in discotheques, cafes and supermarkets throughout Israel, fashionable anti-Semites rejoiced at the opportunity to hate Jews in public again.
The collective Jew, Israel was accused of everything from genocide to infanticide to just plain nastiness.
Israel's leaders were caricatured as Fagin, Shylock, Pontius Pilate and Hitler on the front pages of newspapers throughout Europe. IDF soldiers were portrayed as Nazis, and Israeli families were dehumanized.
No longer civilians with an inherent right to live, in universities throughout the US and Europe, Israeli innocents were castigated as "extremist-Zionists" or "settlers" who basically deserved to be killed.
Professors whose "academic" achievements involved publishing sanitized postmodern versions of anti-Jewish Palestinian propaganda were granted tenure and rewarded with lucrative book contracts.
Today, when properly modulated, Jew hatred is a career maker. Take playwright Caryl Churchill's 1,300- word anti-Semitic monologue Seven Jewish Children.
The script accuses the entire population of Israel of mass murders which were never committed.
For her efforts, Churchill became an international celebrity. The Royal Court Theater produced her anti- Jewish agitprop. The Guardian featured it on its home page. When Jewish groups demanded that The Guardian remove the blood libel from its website, the paper refused. Instead, it left the anti-Semitic propaganda on its homepage, but in a gesture of openmindedness, hosted a debate about whether or not Seven Jewish Children is anti-Semitic.
From London, Seven Jewish Children went on tour in Europe and the US. In a bid to show how tolerant of dissent they are, Jewish communities in America hosted showings of the play, which portrays Jewish parents as monsters who train their children to become mass murderers.
Seven Jewish Children's success was repeated by the Turkish anti-Semitic action film Valley of the Wolves- Palestine, which premiered on January 28 — International Holocaust Memorial Day. The hero of that film is a Turkish James Bond character who comes to Israel to avenge his brothers, who were killed by IDF forces on the Turkish-Hamas terror ship Mavi Marmara last May.
No doubt owing to the success of Seven Jewish Children and Valley of the Wolves-Palestine and other such initiatives, anti-Semitic art and entertainment is a growth sector in Europe.
Last month Britain struck again. Channel 4 produced a new piece of anti-Semitic bile — a four-part prime-time miniseries called The Promise. It presents itself as an historical drama about Israel and the Palestinians, but its relationship with actual history begins and ends with the wardrobes. In what has become the meme of all European and international left-liberal salons, the only good Jews in the mini-series are the ones who died in the Holocaust. From the show's perspective, every Jew who took up arms to liberate Israel from the British and defend it from the Arabs is a Nazi.
WHAT ALL this shows is that Netanyahu was wasting his time calling on world leaders to condemn the murder of the Fogel family. What does a condemnation mean? France and Britain condemned the massacre, along with the US. Does that exculpate the French and British for their embrace of anti-Semitism? Does it make them friends of the Jewish state? And say a British playwright sees the YouTubecensored photographs. No self-respecting British playwright will write a play called Three Jewish Children telling the story of how Palestinian parents do in fact teach their children to become mass murderers of Jews. And if a playwright were to write such a play, The Royal Court Theater wouldn't produce it. The Guardian wouldn't post it on its website. Liberal Jewish community centers in America wouldn't show it, nor would university student organizations in Europe or America.
No, if someone wanted to use the photographs of Yoav's and Elad's mangled corpses and clenched fists as inspiration to write a play or feature film about the fact that the Palestinians have no national identity outside their quest to annihilate the Jewish state, he would find no mass market.
The headlines describing the attack make all this clear.
From the BBC to CNN the Fogels were not described as Israelis. They were a "settler family." Their murderers were "alleged terrorists."
As far as the opinion makers of Europe and much of America are concerned, the Yoavs and Hadases and Elads of Israel have no right to live if they live in "a settlement."
So too, they believe that Palestinians have a right to murder Israelis who serve in the IDF and who believe that Jews should be able to live freely wherever we want because this land belongs to us.
Until these genteel Jew haters learn to think otherwise, Israel should neither seek nor care if they condemn this or any other act of Palestinian genocide. We shouldn't care about them at all.
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JWR contributor Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, where her column appears.
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Entries from November 2017
Give blood at the zoo!
November 25th, 2017 by Sara
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Shop small in Fremont today!
November 25th, 2017 by Sara
Saturday, November 25, 2017 is Small Business Saturday – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. All are invited to support shop at a small business in our neighborhood!
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Metro Transit to eliminate peak and zone fares, will switch to single fare for adults
November 16th, 2017 by Sara
From Doree at our sister site Phinneywood.com
The King County Council unanimously approved Metro Transit's plan to switch adult fares to a single fare, regardless of peak or non-peak hours or travel through multiple zones.
Adults will now pay a standard fare of $2.75, even if they travel through two zones and no matter what time of day. The old fare structure charged an adult between $2.50 and $3.25, depending on zone and time.
The plan does not affect Metro riders who use Metro's low-income fare program called ORCA Lift, or youth, senior and disabled fares.
"The Council also voted for additional funding to assist low income riders who are not covered by ORCA Lift and directed Metro to increase efforts to enroll eligible adults into ORCA Lift before new fares take effect," according to a press release.
The new fare structure takes effect next July.
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Bee-Thankful this Thanksgiving
November 16th, 2017 by Sara
For More Information: Bruce Speight, (206) 533-7143,
We don't see many bees flying around Washington at the end of November, but we do see the fruits of their labor. Pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, green beans and more of the foods that make Thanksgiving dinner so special are possible through the work of bees. But bees are at risk. So this holiday season, chefs, restaurant owners and environmental advocates are speaking out to protect bees and help stop them from dying off at alarming rates.
"We're thankful for bees this Thanksgiving," said Bruce Speight, Environment Washington Executive Director. "Without bees, Thanksgiving dinners in Washington would look and taste different. No bees means no pumpkin pie."
Honeybees, bumblebees, and other bees are critical both to the environment and our food supply. Bees pollinate many of the world's most common crops, including Thanksgiving favorites such as cranberries, green beans, carrots, brussel sprouts and pie fillings from pumpkin to apple. Bees pollinate coffee, chocolate and the alfalfa eaten by dairy cows. Even honey and fruit-sweetened beverages, like Fremont Brewing's Pink Boots Pale Ale with honey, need bees.
"Fremont Brewing is a member of the Bee Alliance because bees are a crucial part of our ecosystem and protecting the environment is one of our core values," said Sara Nelson, Co-Founder/Owner of Fremont Brewing. "Bees pollinate many of the plants we use as ingredients in our specialty beers and infusions such as berries and lavender and, of course, they produced the 120 lbs of honey we used to make our Pink Boots Pale Ale last March. We are thankful for bees *Because Bees Matter* – not just for our beers but
for the planet!"
Unfortunately, millions of bees are dying across the U.S. every year. Beekeepers report they are losing an average of 30% of all honeybee colonies annually. Not only are honeybees in danger; native bees, including bumblebees, are also at risk. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the first bee in the continental U.S., the rusty patched bumblebee, to the endangered species list earlier this year.
Scientists point to several reasons why bees are dying off, including global warming, habitat loss, parasites and a class of bee-killing
pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics. Sharing some of the same chemical properties as nicotine, neonics are
neurotoxins that can kill bees immediately and also can disorient bees, making it harder for them to pollinate plants and get back to their hives.Despite the fact that the science is clear on the dangers, neonic use has dramatically increased over the past decade. A recent study found that 86% of North American honey sampled contained neonics.
In February, Environment Washington joined with Environment America to launch the Bee Friendly Food Alliance, a national network of over 240 chefs, restaurant owners and other leaders in the food industry working to protect the bees. In Washington, 18
restaurants, chefs and local food industry leaders, are part of the Alliance, including Sara Nelson from Fremont Brewing Co.
Together, chefs and restaurant owners are educating their customers and the public about the problems facing bees and the food supply and making their voices heard to protect bees. Working with Environment Washington, chefs and restaurant owners are calling on the U.S. EPA to stop the use of bee killing pesticides.
"I'm looking forward to making my grandmother's fresh cranberry sauce," said Speight. "We need to take action now to protect the bees and ensure we can enjoy our favorite foods with friends and family for many Thanksgivings to come."
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Bartell Drugs and Salvation Army team up for 15th annual "Toy 'n' Joy" Drive
November 13th, 2017 by Sara
Bartell Drugs is once again partnering with the Salvation Army to provide holiday gifts for children in need by collecting new, unwrapped toys during its 15th annual Salvation Army "Toy 'N' Joy" drive.
The toy drive will run November 12 through December 9 at 65 of Bartell's locations in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
Toys will be distributed to low-income children and youth the week before Christmas through the Salvation Army's "toy warehouses."
Donation options include:
- Donate at the cash register at any Bartell Drugs location.
- Donate new, unwrapped gifts appropriate for children up to 14 years of age.
"This community-wide drive helps make the holiday season brighter for deserving children in the neighborhoods we serve," says Bartell Drugs CFO Rob Jensen. "The generous response by our customers over the past 15 years has been extremely gratifying."
The month-long drive in 2016 generated over 5,800 toys provided by Bartell customers—the equivalent of $88,710 in toys provided to the Salvation Army.
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Brown Bear Car Wash salutes vets/current service military with free car washes
November 10th, 2017 by Sara
Saying "thank you" to our military, Brown Bear Car Wash offers free washes to current or former members of the military on Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11. The free "Beary Clean" washes will be offered at Brown Bear's 24 tunnel wash locations from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The offer operates on an honor system and no verification or documentation is required. Upon arrival, drivers should identify themselves as a current or former member of the military to the wash attendant. Click here for a list of Brown Bear's 24 automated tunnel wash locations.
Brown Bear will also proudly donate $1 for every car washed on Veterans Day to Puget Sound Honor Flight. For the past three years, Brown Bear has donated more than $30,000 to support Honor Flight's mission of transporting Western Washington war veterans to visit memorials in Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.
"The Veterans Day event is our way of saluting those who currently serve our country and have made past sacrifices on behalf of all of us," said Brown Bear Car Wash President Vic Odermat, who is a proud US Marine veteran.
For more information about Brown Bear Car Wash locations and programs, click here.
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BHS Dance team workshops
November 6th, 2017 by Sara
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We've had Harley now for a couple of weeks and she's getting settled. She seems to love Jefferson and he honestly seems to like her as well! Even though he is so much bigger than her!!! I finally got some pictures, everyone has been asking to see her. So here she is!
This one is her on the patio with her "what?" look!!!
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When you feel the pain on your heart, dark and heavy. As if the world has become a darker place, and that which you wanted or needed is taken away form you. You feel as if nothing matters any more, and that you are cast out from Allah's grace.
But in those deepest darkest moments, that's when you cry His name, and seek closeness to Him. Through those tears of sadness, and pain, through the heart ache and sorrow, He loves you more than He has ever loved you before.
Specially when you turn back to Him! Surely Allah is the Lord of love towards his creation. Surely Allah is the Most Merciful and Compassionate towards His creation. So with that reasoning and logic if some thing happens that you feel is not to your liking, then could it be a blessing in disguise? When your heart aches and your mind is sad, you may think not.
But in those moments of darkness when your heart is so low and you cry His name, and you seek love and strength from Him, Allah is so close to you, you can feel His love calming your heart like a summer breeze from the sea.
Send three salawats, to seek Divine assistance by those most close to Him, and ask His Majesty to answer the pain that is in your heart with His most beautiful words, and then open the Holy Quran some where randomly, and read the first verse you see on the top right corner of that page. Its as if Allah speaks to you directly. He has seen your pain, your sorrow and heartache and through his miracle which is the Noble Quran answers you, speaks to you directly, sending light onto where it seems dark!
He tells you what you need to know and what will calm you and what gives you strength to realise that what has caused your broken heart is not necessarily a bad thing, but its the way for better things to come.
Some times those doors that close on you were not the best of places to have gone.
For when Allah opens doors for you, you will be sure that He guides you to places that you could not have even imagined. For Allah's love for his creation is in no doubt and His guidance at times maybe mysterious to our limited minds and comprehension but to give your heart back to its rightful owner, the one who created it in the first place, is the hardest and most challenging task.
Mercy unto those who give back to its rightful Owner the heart which He has lent to them to spend.
"Indeed, those who came with falsehood are a group among you. Do not think it bad for you; rather it is good for you. For every person among them is what [punishment] he has earned from the sin, and he who took upon himself the greater portion thereof – for him is a great punishment." Holy Quran 24:11


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Three inmates have succumbed to cholera while 30 others with symptoms have been isolated at the Shimo la Tewa Maximum security prison after an outbreak. According to the Coast Region Prison Commander James Kodieny those spotted with cholera symptoms are undergoing treatment.
"Cholera is so contagious so we can't take them to the hospital. We are dealing with them locally. The situation has been put under control after the county government intervened and gave us medication." said Kodieny on Wednesday.
Mr Kodieny said that the prime suspects to have brought the disease to the prison were the remandees taken in recently. He added that families of the deceased had been informed of their deaths.
Mombasa County Health Executive Binti Omar said the remandees started symptoms of the disease while at the prison. "They were rushed to the Coast General and Referral Hospital but succumbed. It has been confirmed they died from cholera," she said.
The bodies of two inmates identified Hamisi Guzo Samba and Eric Omondi Odhiambo have since been taken to the Coast General Mortuary. Samba was facing a defilement case while Omondi was facing theft charges. The third victim has not yet been identified because the family had not been informed of his death by yesterday. An official has however stated that the third inmate died at the prison's dispensary.
"If the family members suspect foul play they can conduct a post mortem. It is the only way to ascertain the cause of death," he said. The official moved on to reveal that there have been cases of acute diarrhoea reported at the prison.
"Remandees interact with many people. We suspect they contracted the disease from the courts or outside this facility because those are the only public places they frequent." he said.
Mombasa County Health Officer, Dr Swaleh Chidagaya has said none of the inmates who were serving their sentences has been infected. He also said that the county government was not taking any chances and said all the cells would be cleaned thoroughly. "We will clean the cells and courts. We are not taking anything to chance."
Four patients were admitted to the isolation ward at the Coast General and Referral Hospital while two others were at Mwembe Tayari Health Centre.
A doctor from the Coast General Hospital has said the hospital had taken the necessary hygiene precautions such as cleaning using disinfectants, to curb the spread of the disease.
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UPDATE (5:57pm PDT on Sunday): The Sharks announced Sunday evening that they have re-signed Joe Thornton to a one-year deal. According to the Top Shelf Hockey agency, the deal is worth $8 million.
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SAN JOSE – The greatest player to ever lace up the skates for the San Jose Sharks organization, Joe Thornton will remain with the team on a one-year contract, NBC Sports California has learned.
TSN's Bob McKenzie reports that Thornton will earn "closer to $6.5 million than $6 million" in 2017-18 when the deal is finalized.
There was widespread interest around the league in Thornton, an unrestricted free agent, but in the end he chose to return to the organzation with which he has spent the past 11-and-a-half seasons of his career.
In 914 games with the Sharks, Thornton has 215 goals and a franchise-record 722 assists for 937 points. Since he was traded to the Sharks on Dec. 1, 2005, only Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby have more points, and the Sharks' winning percentage of .637 since the trade is the best mark in the NHL.
In 19 seasons in the NHL with the Sharks and Bruins, Thornton has 1,391 points, placing him 23rd all-time in NHL history. He is 13th all-time in league history with 1,007 assists.
In 2017-18, Thornton, who turns 38 on Sunday, posted seven goals and 43 assists for 50 points in 79 games. He suffered torn ligaments in his left knee in a game in Vancouver on April 2, forcing him to miss the final three regular season games and first two games of the Sharks' first round series loss to Edmonton. He returned in Game 3, somehow playing through a torn MCL and ACL, and underwent surgery on April 24.
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Setting aside allegations of bias and error stemming from the arbitration panel's exclusion of evidence, the SDNY confirmed a FINRA arbitration award in Rubenstein v. Advanced Equities, Inc., Case No. 13-Civ-1502(PGG) (S.D.N.Y. March 31, 2014).
In March 2007, Advanced Equities, Inc. ("AEI"), a private equity firm, recruited several brokers to join its recently-opened New York City office. The brokers were presented with employment contracts that guaranteed them the greater of a minimum draw or a "gross commission" payout. In connection with their employment agreements, the brokers executed promissory notes, pursuant to which AEI agreed to make a loan to the each broker that would be forgiven over the first five years of employment but that would become immediately due and payable upon the employee's termination.
The brokers believed that AEI violated their employment agreements throughout their employment. By late 2009, all of them had either resigned from or been terminated by the company. The brokers initiated a FINRA arbitration against AEI and its parent company, asserting various claims including breach of contract, breach of FINRA rules, and fraud.
A critical issue at the arbitration was the meaning of the term "gross commissions." The brokers contended they were entitled to commissions based on the total cash compensation that AEI received from the brokers' transactions. AEI contended that the term referred only to the cash remaining after deducting the costs of overhead and non-commissioned employees.
The arbitration panel conducted twelve pre-hearing sessions and sixty hearing sessions that took place over thirty-two days. Altogether, it heard testimony from twenty-two fact witnesses and three expert witnesses.
Following the hearing, the panel denied four of the five brokers' claims in their entirety, and as to the fifth granted only $18,000 in compensatory damages. The panel also awarded AEI compensatory damages against each of the brokers on the ground that their employment contracts provided for prejudgment interest and attorneys' fees for any action involving collection on the promissory notes.
The brokers moved to vacate the arbitration award in state court, asserting that the panel wrongfully excluded pertinent evidence and acted with manifest disregard for the law. AEI removed the matter to the Southern District of New York.
Before addressing the brokers' claim that pertinent evidence was excluded, the district court noted that the arbitrators judge the admissibility and relevancy of evidence submitted in an arbitration proceeding and that their refusal to hear evidence does not automatically require the vacatur of an award unless the refusal amounts to a denial of fundamental fairness.
The brokers argued that the panel should not have excluded evidence that AEI brokers in other locations had brought similar claims against the company, but the court held that the panel could have reasonably concluded that the claims of brokers outside the New York office were not pertinent in determining AEI's liability. The court also ruled that the panel properly excluded the brokers' evidence of other FINRA awards against AEI due to the general rule that FINRA awards are not considered precedent in other cases. In substance, the court held that the brokers had not demonstrated that the panel's rulings on the evidence issues were egregious errors or a denial of fundamental fairness. The court also ruled that the panel was not biased, as "evident partiality" may not be shown by alleged errors in the admission or exclusion of evidence – even if the panel had clearly failed to follow the rules of evidence.
The court also explained that the panel's refusal to admit certain evidence could not justify vacatur of the award on grounds of manifest disregard of the law, in part because the court considered manifest disregard to be a "doctrine of last resort," but more importantly because a FINRA arbitration panel has great latitude in deciding what evidence to consider.
The Takeaway
Because the goal of arbitration is to promote a speedy and efficient resolution of conflicts, arbitrators have a great deal of discretion in making evidentiary rulings and are not required to admit every piece of relevant evidence. Thus, evidentiary rulings are unlikely to constitute the "denial of fundamental fairness" required to overturn an award unless there is a clear showing that the arbitrators favored one side over another.
Scott D. Simon, Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP, New York, New York. This article originally appeared in the ABA Section of Litigation, News & Developments for May 2014.


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Marion Ross is best known for her cheerful portrayal of Marion Cunningham, "Mrs. C," on Happy Days.
But behind the scenes, the actress, now 86, says her life wasn't always as perfect as it seemed.
"When I was 40, I got divorced. Nobody had a job [for me], and I had two small children," the TV star exclusively revealed to 'Closer Weekly' in a new interview.
Marion on 'Happy Day's in the late 1970s.
"I rented out one of the bedrooms in my house to pick up some money," she continued. "I'd think, 'I made $35 today.' It was hard."
Marion made her film debut in 1953's 'Forever Female' and appeared on her first television series, 'The Lone Ranger,' that same year.
By 1974, the actress nabbed a starring role on 'Happy Days' as endearing matriarch "Mrs. C" — a part for which she later received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
The cast of 'Happy Day's in September 1975.
But despite her continued success in Hollywood, Marion found herself struggling to pay her bills after her marriage to Freeman Meskimen ended in 1969.
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"I'd thought I would get over it quickly, get everything straight in my head. So I went to see a shrink, and I do recommend it for anyone," she told 'Closer' of her tough times.
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What does Vince McMahon have up his sleeve?
Twelve months is a long time in wrestling. Just ask Jinder Mahal.
A year ago this week, the 'Modern Day Maharaja' was tagging with Titus O'Neil and losing to The Golden Truth on WWE Superstars. Now he is carrying the most prestigious championship in the industry; evidence if ever it was needed that anything truly can happen in WWE (if the company happen to be launching the WWE network in a country your character is from.)
At the other end of the spectrum, T.J. Perkins has been cast aside to the bottom of 205 Live. In September 2016, he was crowned the winner of the hugely popular Cruiserweight Classic.
Mahal is one of 12 title holders in the company (with the NXT Woman's Championship having been vacated due to Asuka's injury and subsequent main roster call-up), but the sometimes nonsensical nature of WWE booking, and unpredictable mind of Vince McMahon, means that there is no guarantee of their place on the card a year from now.
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Point to Point Races and tailgating
Old Dominion Point to Point
Every year Old Dominion puts on their point to point races which is a much smaller version of the VA Gold Cup Races. Here are a few shots from the final race and the festivites at various tail gates.
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We come now to the heart of the book, some of the most beautiful and meaningful writing I know. After the king and the duke lose all their money trying to rob Mary Jane and her family, the king sells Jim back into slavery for forty dollars. It's a sharp slap in the face to readers who may have gotten caught up in the adventure and forgotten (as apparently Huck has forgotten) that Jim is in peril every moment he spends in the South. Now reality sinks in, and Huck is faced with the decision he's been putting off ever since the pair missed Cairo in the fog.
The crucial thing to remember is this: everything Huck knows from his society, every single thing, screams to him that he is doing wrong. Not just wrong, but sinfully wrong. He is stealing. This isn't like borrowing a chicken or even a canoe. This is taking property so valuable an entire way of life is built around it. More than that, everyone in Huck's society knows about people who want to free slaves, and they all despise them. Recall Huck's quote, "(T)hey'll call me a dirty Abolitionist."
Huck knows now that the game is up. Jim has been captured. He'll either end up with a new master, or else go back to Miss Watson, a woman who even before Jim ran away wanted to sell him to a plantation in New Orleans. The words are too beautiful to paraphrase; I'll just quote them. It's way too much for a blog entry, I know, but you need the entire passage to truly understand.
Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide, it ain't no disgrace. That was my fix exactly. The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a-going to allow no such miserable doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared. Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, "There was the Sunday-school, you could 'a' gone to it; and if you'd 'a' done it they'd 'a' learnt you there that people that acts as I'd been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire."
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out.
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I'll go and write the letter—and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send. HUCK FINN.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.
As modern readers, it's hard to put ourselves in Huck's place. We know slavery is a great evil; we know Jim is not property; we know Huck is doing the right thing by helping Jim escape. But Huck doesn't know any of this. Every single influence in his life insists with a certainty that cannot be questioned that slavery is natural and right, that Jim belongs to Miss Watson, that helping a slave escape is not just wrong but a deep and mortal sin. Huck would be not just despised by his neighbors but condemned to hell. Huck doesn't just feel guilty. He is also scared! He is convinced that not just human but divine retribution awaits if he doesn't turn Jim in.
But something isn't right. How can it be that Jim cares for his family? How can it be that Jim cares so deeply about Huck? How can it be that Jim is a man, far more of a father to Huck than his own father ever was?
Back in education school we called such events examples of "cognitive dissonance." Our brains want to make sense of the world, and Huck has come to a realization. A world in which a human being such as Jim can be property just doesn't make sense. Huck can't assimilate this realization about Jim into his model of the world. Instead, Huck must remake his model. Even though it means punishment, and shame, and guilt, and hell, Huck can't turn Jim in. He has to follow his heart.
This is where Adventures of Huckleberry Finn goes from being just a cleverly written and funny follow-up on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and becomes a great work of American Literature – maybe the first truly American book. Who knows? What I do know is in that moment, Huck makes a choice. He asserts his own individual truth, and in doing so becomes my hero. This is the moment we've been waiting for. This is the moment when we leave fate and predestination behind, and begin depending upon ourselves. This is the moment that Huck, and through Huck all us modern readers, realize that we control our fates, our minds, our future. Existence belongs to us. In the words of the poet,
That you are here
That life exists – and identity
That the powerful play goes on and you will contribute a verse
– Walt Whitman


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Debut CD "14"
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Recording my CD "14" with Frank Vignola
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Cal Men's Tennis Falls at D'Novo/ITA All-American Qualifier
Oct. 6, 2008
TULSA, Okla. - California men's tennis experienced a rough day today at the 2008 D'Novo/ITA All-American Championship qualifier on the courts of the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla. as both senior Eoin Heavey and junior Kallim Stewart bowed out in the first round of play. The Golden Bears will however, have a chance to earn wins via the back-draw/consolation round. The two will also team up to face Ignacio Taboada and Keith Crowley of Miami in the doubles qualifier in a match taking place not before 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday (Oct. 7).
Ranked No. 64 among singles players, and seeded 17th in the tournament, Stewart was able to take his match with Kean Feeder of Boise State to three sets before falling 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. No. 121-ranked Eoin Heavey barely got clipped in the first set, 7-6, edged in the tiebreaker by an 8-6 score, but fell to Ionut Beleleu of Oklahoma, 6-3 in the second. Both players will be entered into a singles back-draw bracket and have a chance to earn rankings points with wins against some of the top players in the country. The back-draw/consolation bracket will be posted tonight (Oct. 6) at www.itatennis.com.
For complete results, draws, live scoring and video from the 2008 D'Novo/ITA All-American Championships, please visit www.itatennis.com
All-American Championship Qualifying TournamentFirst Round (128) - Monday, Oct. 6Ionut Beleleu (OKLA) def. No. 121 Eoin Heavey (CAL) 7-6(6), 6-3Kean Feeder (BSU) def. (17) No. 64 Kallim Stewart (CAL) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
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US Media: More War, Less Journalism – RT News
+Also watch 'US Mainstream Media loves to support war' with Jeff Cohen discussing the universal media support for war – "MSNBC is not really a progressive channel, its more like a Democratic channel" -PR+
Media budgets collapse amid foreign disasters
"When you talk about someone like Katie Couric, who for 5 years reportedly received fifteen million dollars a year, you talk about Brian Williams – ten million dollars a year, in some reports. If they didn't take those enormous salaries, you could hire a hundred, a hundred and fifty actual reporters, producers," – Professor of Journalism Jeff Cohen.
From RT News:
Long time love affair between MSNBC and America's wars
MSNBC is believed by many to be the most liberal of all cable networks. Most who watch would agree that many of the hosts are pro-Obama, pro-choice and pro-union.But it turns out they are also pro-war.
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Media budgets collapse amid foreign disasters
US televised media network annual budgets are collapsing three months into the year, as breaking news stories explode one after another across the globe.
Meanwhile while superstar pundits continue to get paid millions of dollars and hundreds of foreign bureau journalists are laid off to save money.
News pundits are teleporting almost at the speed of light – from the safety of their news desks too far away and dangerous places, led by their journalistic callings and big bucks to be made and spent.
Egypt, Tunisia, Libya have been in a whirlpool of chaos. Japan has been in a tremor of tsunami and earthquakes. Disasters exploding around the world one after the other these past months have broken all breaking news records, forcing US networks to cough up the cash.
"The news organizations are crying because their entire budget is gone by March. Their whole annual budget for covering emergencies and crises," said media critic Danny Schechter.
Reports suggest big TV networks have been spending as much as 2 million dollars on each of the Middle East uprisings. One network is said to have spent an entire one and a half million dollars in just one day in Japan.
While this money is ripping away at their annual budgets, it's certainly not ripping away at the pockets of the star pundits.
"When you talk about someone like Katie Couric, who for 5 years reportedly received fifteen million dollars a year, you talk about Brian Williams – ten million dollars a year, in some reports. If they didn't take those enormous salaries, you could hire a hundred, a hundred and fifty actual reporters, producers," said Professor of Journalism Jeff Cohen.
Instead, most networks have been shutting down foreign bureaus, and kicking out hundreds of journalists many of whom were on the ground, and in the know.
ABC News alone cut 25 percent of their entire news staff last year, begging the question whether the superstars are actually worth more than hundreds of their colleagues, and putting a toll on the information the viewers end up receiving.
"There is no doubt that in general, the quality of any one news organization is lower than it was thirty years ago," said media analyst TJ Walker.
It seems a shadow has been cast on what was once top-notch news coverage.
"To pay the enormous salaries to these stars, who don't know a lot about the Middle East, they're not experts on nuclear power, they don't speak Arabic, but there they are jetting over to these countries – it's a little silly," said Jeff Cohen.
Getting filled in on events in an unknown land forces networks to play catch-up at top speed – often unsuccessfully.
"As far as Libya goes, we are hearing all of this talk about "the rebels", nobody has really told me who these rebels are! They don't seem to know!" explained Schechter.
Though CNN got to enjoy the highest ratings since Obama's inauguration after several months of dying viewership, FOX – for one – has been caught cheating yet again, placing "Shibbuyaeggman" – a local night club – on one map with Japan's nuclear reactors, as well as going so far as to call New York's Times Square with a Lion King ad – Cairo's Tahrir Square – in its news coverage.
In fear of being out-competed by others, TV networks have to be there or be square – the wrong Square that is. While such a method certainly saves a buck or two, it can't cover up the fact that crews jet in for disasters, jet back home as soon as the worst is over, leaving viewers in the dark about what leads up to, and what happens after the chaos.
Long time love affair between MSNBC and America's wars
MSNBC is believed by many to be the most liberal of all cable networks. Most who watch would agree that many of the hosts are pro-Obama, pro-choice and pro-union.But it turns out they are also pro-war.
This week on The Ed Show, Ed Schultz said, "Let's get it done, let's arm the rebels, let's give them a chance to fight."
Blogger, filmmaker and former journalist Danny Schecter said television makes war possible.
"We couldn't have wars in America if TV networks didn't glorify them in some way and make them exciting, give action oriented coverage and give what I call militainment," he remarked.
It's a sentiment also supported by MSNBC's most liberal talk show hosts, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, who defending the effort following President Obama's speech.
"It seems to me there is a practical war-making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country," O'Donnell said.
"Exactly," said Rachel Maddow."He kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of America doing any sort of military intervention so you're exactly right."
And it's not just because the U.S. involvement in Libya falls under a democratic president. It turns out MSNBC's love affair with war is long-standing.
Reporter Ashleigh Banfield, a rising star in the company, was punished after giving a speech in 2003 at Kansas State University. In her speech she made the case that networks were not giving the whole story.Here's a portion of that speech:
"What didn't you see? You didn't see where those bullets landed. You didn't see what happened when the mortar landed. A puff of smoke is not what a mortar looks like when it explodes, believe me. There are horrors that were completely left out of this war."
MSNBC refused to let her out of her contract, but kept her off air for more than a year.
Former independent governor Jesse Ventura said he was supposed to have a show on MSNBC, but it was canceled before it ever aired.
"CNN, Fox and MSNBC got in a bidding war over me.MSNBC won," Ventura said."I went to do my show.They were putting together a five day a week show for me and all of a sudden a phone call came."
One of his employees was asked if it was true that he didn't support the war.
"Well it turned out they wouldn't put me on the air," he told Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. "They paid me for all three years, they pulled my show. I sat and collected pay checks but I couldn't say anything because my contract said I couldn't do any cable or news shows for three years."
The list goes on, and includes so too, did Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett after giving an interview on Iraqi TV, in which he criticized the Pentagon's war strategy.
Back when MSNBC was still up-and-coming, its highest rated show was hosted by Phil Donahue – an outspoken critic of the war.
This was well documented in the documentary, "War Made Easy," presented by the Media Education Foundation.
In one show, talking about Sadaam Hussein, he said, "You know, everybody's righteous.What a terrible Hitler this is.We were mute when he was doing that. He was our SOB and now we're sending our sons and daughters to war to fix that mistake doesn't seem fair to me."
That show was canceled a few weeks before the start of the war, and putting him in a group with so many others whose criticism of the war ended their job.


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