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Qiu Liwei-Public Seat Concrete Colorful
At Design Interviews
Interview with Qiu Liwei : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Qiu Liwei : Recovery of architectural waste is the big problem of environment protection. Waste architectural waste generally adopts the handling method of burying and piling, especially in developing countries. Designing and manufacturing public facilities whose materials are regenerative concrete can not only save the transportation expense of aggregate, but also save the land expenses occupied by architectural waste. The colorful concrete can enrich the demonstrativeness of concrete furniture. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Qiu Liwei : This works takes the concrete waste as the aggregate of precast concrete to make concrete outdoor facilities,which enables new urban furniture to have ecological features.It borrows the tenon-mortise structure from traditional Chinese architecture to embody its connection with the traditional culture.It is convenient in making and various in combination mode; it is also characteristic of traditional Chinese construction element and is suitable for display of modern architectural. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Qiu Liwei : Make deeper and systematic research on the structure of concrete furniture, analyze and summarize structure, frame structure of traditional concrete, forms of overall assembly structure as well as frame connection method. Make improvement for this design. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Qiu Liwei : 3 months .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Qiu Liwei : all possible .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Qiu Liwei : I already made material object and planned to continue research on this project. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Qiu Liwei : First of all, it is because the increasing scarcities of global resources, sustainable products have become main research direction, secondly it is because my strong personal interests in public facility design. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Qiu Liwei : Yes, there is. Mr. Huang has provided great assistance in my design, seniors in the team also provided precious comments. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Qiu Liwei : Real estate agent, urban planning and designing institution, government .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Qiu Liwei : This design mainly makes research on the rational use of concrete with characteristics of durability, plasticity and environmental protection; makes design innovation, makes improvement in traditional wooden tenon-mortise structure and tries to make material and color experiments. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Qiu Liwei : Name based on its characteristics. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Qiu Liwei : Pro/E, cutting tools, measuring tools and concrete mixing tools .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Qiu Liwei : Change filling material and traditional color of public facilities, adopt traditional Chinese tenon-mortise structure, and make rational use of waste resources and present various kind of combination. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Qiu Liwei : They are mainly some professional woodworker and concrete craftsmen. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Qiu Liwei : In the preparation process, make continuous discussions with mold master and casting mold master on preparation process and method and perform continuous modifications and innovations. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Qiu Liwei : Application of color in concrete .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Qiu Liwei : The two difficult points lie in both the composition proportion of regenerative concrete and the color control of colorful pigment in concrete. We have attempted many types and failed for many times. Finally we found appropriate proportion and mastered colour matching techniques. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Qiu Liwei : I am very confident in my works and hope my efforts can be recognized through attending this competition. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Qiu Liwei : In the preparation process, make continuous discussions with mold master and casting mold master on preparation process and method, in the premise of ensuring effects, I tried my best to get the best result within my ability through continuous modifications and innovations. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Qiu Liwei : no .
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once upon a time
About a week before my holidays I decided to get my septum piercing done. I had wanted it for a long time and this seemed like a good opportunity since I could let it heal without anyone at work being able to notice it. I tend to look at such things with doom and gloom so normally tend to come up with a reason why not to do it and this at least gave me peace of mind since I could pretend I wasn't really going forward with it. Then Feb. 1st came and I was dubious as hell. I kept wondering what the most disastrous outcome could be and, trying to keep in mind that in the worst case I could take it out before I was to return to my job 14 days later, convincing myself that it really was the time now, if ever. Then there was the needle issue. I'm not very fond of needles, to say the least and when they need to draw blood I nearly faint. Actually the thought alone can make me queasy and although afterwards I ask myself what I really was afraid of, the next time it will repeat itself again. After pondering some more and recalling other fears I had overcome in the recent past, I took my bike and headed towards the center. I went to the nearest ATM to withdraw the cash I would be needing and biked to "dare2wear" on which I had read good reviews.
Approaching the small street they were hidden in, I felt an enormous rush coming over me: I was going to finally do it! But, as my luck would have it, a window sign let me know it was closed for about half an hour. My heart was beating so fast by now and I was extremely disappointed to have it all come to an end this way. I biked on towards the other 'branch' called "classic ink and mods" which would take me about 15 more minutes during which I found more time to get my mind racing again. This shop was located in an alley that, with the scaffolding there, looked like a portal to hell (at least to me). I entered, tried to look as cool as possible, and told the girl behind the counter that I wanted my septum pierced. She exclaimed: "how nice!" and asked me to come upstairs. Although quite some of the fear had passed, another fear was setting in: The thought of a needle being shoved through my skin. Meanwhile Samanta asked me whether I knew anything of what was going to happen and after I let her know I only knew just a bit, she explained the whole procedure thoroughly.
She examined my nose and told me a good spot would be more to the front, which was as I had wanted to and I decided on using 2 mm (12ga) to suit my rather big nose. It is a very odd sensation when someone else cleans your nose and when they use a yellowish goo of which the smell could remind you of an Eastern European hospital it is not getting any more normal. She went on however and placed the markings, making sure they were in the right position. I agreed on the placement and she clamped the forceps which was a slight discomfort. Another bit of chitchatting and I too was ready. I laid down, she put the needle in place and after I okayed, it started. I took a deep breath and upon the release she put the needle through. It felt like a small pinch and a bit of discomfort as the needle slid through. Much less than I had anticipated to my relief, and when the jewelry was changed with another pinch, all was done. She checked whether it was straight and gave me a mirror to check it out as well, then flipped up the retainer. After settling the bill I returned home and was amazed at how easy it all had been.
The first 2 days the swelling made the piercing look crooked, to my great dissatisfaction, and I checked on bme to see if others had the same issue as I had expected. Indeed by now the swelling has subsided and it's perfectly straight. Overall discomfort during the healing has been extremely low so far with my nose being a bit sore just after I have cleaned it. I soak once a day with a sea salt solution and flip the retainer down after doing so, removing any crusties or other stuff with Q-tips.
I am very happy with the outcome and wish I had done it a long time before already. Further I would recommend anyone to visit "Classic ink and mods" as they did a wonderful job.
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The old(er) bag of tricks
Despite its improved attacks, HOIC still points an arrow straight back at the source of the DDoS. And some of the targets Anonymous' various #Ops are going after aren't suitable for straight-up HTTP attacks. So there are two other tools that have been tossed into Anon's #Setup recommendations that aren't exactly new to the security world: Hping and Slowloris, a pair of network security testing tools that also have the potential to be used for evil.
Hping is a TCP/IP "packet assembler and analyzer" initially developed and now maintained by Salvatore Sanfillipo, a Sicilian programmer. It uses a command-line interface similar to that of the
ping network utility, but it can do a lot more than make ICMP echo requests. It can be used to throw high volumes of TCP requests at a target, while masking the source of the attack through spoofing, as Anonymous' tutorial shows:
### Normal hping DoS attack: hping3 -S -i u100 riaa.org ### Spoofed random source address attack: hping3 -S -i u100 riaa.org --rand-source ### Reflected attack(it looks like mpaa.org is DoS'ing riaa.org) hping3 -S -i u100 riaa.org -a mpaa.org
Slowloris is a different sort of attack entirely—a slow HTTP attack that uses partial HTTP requests to a server, making it wait for more chunks of the request and slowly spooning them out to keep the IP socket on the server open. This type of attack works best against low-traffic sites on Apache and a variety of other Web servers by eating up available network ports on the server. It's ideal for attacks on servers in places where there's a concern about there being enough bandwidth for a brute-force DDoS to succeed, or where there's concern about the collateral damage to other users on the same network. That's why Slowloris was used against Iranian servers during the protests around the Iranian elections in 2009.
But Slowloris is not a tool for the masses. It requires Perl, and runs best on Linux. The author of Slowloris, known as RSnake, said that Windows users "will not be able to successfully execute a Slowloris denial of service from Windows because Slowloris requires more than a few hundred sockets to work (sometimes a thousand or more), and Windows limits sockets to around 130, from what I've seen."
However, a Python-based version of the exploit, PyLoris, gets around those limitations. It has a graphical interface, and can be used effectively from Windows; Christopher Gilbert, the developer of PyLoris, claims he's tested PyLoris on Windows with "over 6000 connections, and [doesn't] see why it couldn't use more than that."
PyLoris also includes a feature called TOR Switcher, which allows attacks to be carried out over the anonymized Tor Network and switch between Tor "identities," changing the apparent location the attack is coming from at user-defined intervals.
Used individually, these tools can be somewhat effective in slowing down many of the sites that Anonymous targets. But as Curt Wilson, a researcher with Arbor Networks' Security Engineering and Response Team, said to Ars in an interview, "If you use volumetric floods on top of specific application attacks [like Slowloris], it's a pretty powerful combination."
And just by the sheer number of attacking systems that Anonymous can bring aboard to launch these attacks when its members and friends are highly motivated—as in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown—even the most basic of tools can cause problems for large websites.
Covering the trail
There is still the matter of being able to pull off these large attacks with volunteered computers and keeping those volunteers anonymous. While Hping can provide some obscuring of the source of an attack, the other tools point straight back at their source. So Anons have been eager to find ways to keep their IP addresses concealed.
The problem is that freely available anonymizing networks generally aren't up to the task of handling the bandwidth of DOS attacks. Attempting to launch HOIC or other DDoS tools over Tor would amount to an attack on that network itself—and on the Anonymous members who use it to protect themselves. So with the exception of Slowloris and PyLoris attacks, which demand relatively little bandwidth, the Anonymous edict is "DO NOT DOS THROUGH TOR."
Some Anons have turned to a variety of proxy tools—including a fairly suspicious commercial software package called AutoHideIP, which claims to anonymize users by connecting them through proxies for a one-time fee, even selecting the country from which their IP address appears to be located. Efforts by Ars to contact the creators of AutoHideIP, Coolware Max, were unsuccessful.
But there's reason to be suspicious of the security of proxy services, and of other anonymizing services such as VPNs, because they could be compelled by law enforcement to turn over traffic logs. That was the case in the arrest of one alleged LulzSec member, who was apprehended after VPN provider HideMyAss.com turned over log data that helped trace him to Arizona.
For that reason, Anonymous' best-practice advice for members is to stick to Anonine and VPNTunnel, two paid VPN-based anonymizing services based in Sweden—where privacy laws don't require providers to keep access logs (and in some cases prohibit it).
Both of the services are based on OpenVPN, a GPL-based open source virtual private network technology available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. However, as Anonine has expanded service beyond Sweden, with servers available worldwide, some of its servers have started to keep logs in accordance with local laws—so Anonymous' members are warned to specifically configure their clients for Swedish servers.
It's doubtful that everyone in Anonymous plays by these rules. And that's probably a good thing for Anonymous, because it would pose a strategic problem—all that authorities would need to do to deflect Anonymous' attacks is to refuse connections from the blocks of IP addresses assigned to these two Swedish providers. And with the European Union considering new EU-wide regulations that would standardize privacy rules across the continent, it's not certain how much longer Sweden will be a safe haven.


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boxsirRegistered User(6/16/05 9:29 pm)Reply Re: where will they go?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I work at Daytona Beach airport and some people were through the other day that had amazing race stuff, when this one lady saw it they quickly hid it and said no one is to know we are here. I would have asked a ton more questions but the girl involved with their bags didn't think anything of it till later and asked me about it knowing how big a fan I am. I am going to ask someone from Delta if they were asking about flights, etc. Richard Petty driving experience at the speedway would be a great challenge, tons of other things come to mind also.
This is the biggest spoiler that I can give to anyone. THINK LEX VAN DE BERGHE.
Florida is the starting point ? Just a thought .
what he was posting is that his son has tattoos like Lex
Moody 10 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Got Milk? Spokesperson" 06-26-05, 04:36 PM (EST) 16. "TAR 8 hasn't started filming yet - Phil" LAST EDITED ON 06-26-05 AT 04:40 PM (EST)Phil was on local radio in Calgary this morning from the Banff television festival and he said that TAR 8 has not yet started filming. I checked and it seems that the festival was June 12-15 this year, so likely the interview was pre-taped. At any rate, we know that it can't have started earlier than the 3rd week of June.Also, he confirmed that the minimum age was 8, but he didn't say definitely that there were any 8 year olds involved. He mentioned that a team of siblings was a possibility, so long as at least one of them was 21 years of age. Other than that, he just said that he thought they had a great group of teams (but, then again, what else would he say ).TAR 8 will air in the fall, but no specific date was given.Most of the interview, at least what I caught of it, was about NOW.
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:16 pm***** SPOILERS FOR TAR8 *****TAR3's Kenny just called me to tell me that his friend Ray thinks he saw TAR8 Families in New York City today. We think it's really odd that families would be in NY and not headed immediately out of the country, and we agree that this COULD be a decoy. In the event that it's a real spoiler though, here's what he told me his friend saw: 3 families driving down Broadway and stopping outside a place called Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) in Soho, 3 blocks from where Kenny lives. The only other business there is a bank, so he doesn't think they were headed to the bank. There was a cop there who didn't seem to have a problem with them parking on the street. Of the three families he saw, two were white and one was African-American. One of the families (don't know which one) had a really little kid who he thought was about 7 years old (I think he said it was a "he", and the kid must be at least 8, since that's the cut-off). The kid was yelling out the window (to traffic?) to "let them over." They were driving cars (SUV's? I don't know.) and there were cameramen. The cars were fairly new and had different license plates (one was Michigan, one was New Jersey, the other was ??). That could just mean they were rentals and Ken and I agree that cars/SUVs would be likely (over cabs) because of the sheer number of people that have to be in each vehicle. Anyway, we don't know if this is for real, or a decoy, or what, but Kenny wanted me to post it on TARflies first so that we can check against any other spoilers that might come in!
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:51 pmDingoDan just heard on the New Jersey talk radio station (101.5FM) that drivers should avoid Washington Crossing bridge in Hopewell Township until 6pm "due to ongoing filming of the Amazing Race." That was all they said. Would they run a decoy leg that far?
*spoiler*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I saw this on an unrelated message board...LYMIPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: The Amazing Race --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I took the boys up to see where Washington Crossed the Delaware today. I like history, they were just hanging around being bums. Come on, I sad, it will be fun. They gave me that look - the one that says sarcasticly - Right. Freedom, liberty etc. Get you butts up and put the bikes in the truck it is a 30 minute ride. They each brought a walkman so they wouldnt have to listen to me on the ride. Not a vote of confidence. I pulled into the half empty lot and was told I had to park in the full side by some twerp with a radio and an earphone. He didnt look like a PA start park guy to me. Duh there are no spaces in the half that is totally full. The other half was totally empty. I choose to see the lot as half usable not hafl full but the empty side was for a "caravan" coming the geek with an ear piece said. Right. A caravan. We have them all the time here in PA. So I find another lot down the road and parked, get the bikes out of the truck and bike back to the Welcome Center to get a map. It isnt a very big place but I wanted to know what to see. The Welcome Center was across from the half empty lot. Ask what is up. Some other geek with a radio and ear piece gives us a lame story about filming an ad for PA & NJ tourism. Right. PA and NJ share money on a joint ad for tourism. You must be from Mars cause we locals know PA and NJ compete for tourism $ - they dont get along well enough to film a joint ad. I lean my bike against a sign and head in to get a map; some woman comes up bableling and tells me to move my bike, the filming and all. I am losing my Evil Emperor charm and walk in leaving the bike were it was. I said I was going in to get a map. While I was in there all the staff were talking in hushed tones all excited. Way too busy to hand me a map. No other tourists around. I mumbled some kind of a comment about geeks with earphones. One of the staff ask if they were rude. No I said they were just acting like a bunch of Tories. I wondered they were so a twitter they didn't get the insult. Connor & Blair notice a thing that looks just like an Amazing Race mail box. Connor jokes about opening it and the commercial guy gets real nervous and say Connor cant touch it and that is how they are making the tourism ad interesting. Right. We bike a bit but they have part of the path roped off. We go around nice like they ask and come back after a bit, it is a small place and few views of the river outside their ropes. So I sit outside the ropes at one of the few places we could see the crossing talking to the boys about how the river doesn't look all that wide but it would suck rowing across in a snow storm. Some other geek comes and tells us to move we are in their camera lines. It is a private event and they have a permit. You put the ropes up. If we are in the line it is cause you put the ropes in the wrong place. Dude were here to see the river, we are respecting your ropes but it the history is everyones. More lame cover storyness. Clearly something aint like they said. So we move around again and there are guys out in the river and ambulances all over. I am getting tired of getting moved away from the river as Mr. Ambulance guy come over. Whats Up with all the equipment I ask. It is a Drill, said with no sincerity. Right same lack of sincerity. I came to see the crossing. Well you picked a good day stick around and watch TV in September. So we go back to another rope line, (but in the same 'safe' camera line as all the geeks with earpieces.) The geeks get all jazzed up, their earpices a buzz They are coming. A bunch of Suburbans come rolling across the bridge. (Why didnt George et al use the Bridge?) Families of 4 (it was the Family edition of Amazing Race we sent them a tape but didnt make the cut.) come running out of their Suburbans in the still almost half empty side of the parking lot, check the Connor cant touch it mail box and run to the river where the camera guys tell them to stop and run in in a better formed group on the angle they want. So the families stop and re-run in for the cameras. (Next time you see the Amazing Race and they are all running in a group the camera guy stopped them and told them to.) It was a challenge. They had to row a guy dressed in colonial stuff across the river, grab a flag and row back. We watched 6 groups do it. Most couldnt row worth a lick. One almost knocked their George overboard running into a sand bar. The families had to wear life vest. The guys being George Washington had to stand. I hope they had floatation under his heavy colonial costumes but I doubt it, they are extras after all. I was talking to a guy whose wife was the contact for the state parks; he drove down form Harrisburg to watch. We had a great time watching them try to row straight across with the river current. I made the boys be careful as we rode our bikes back to the truck. The Suburbans left the half empty side of the parking lot without paying much attention. I guess there was no camera man around.
T2Just Tuned In Jul 9, 2005 Today @ 06:56 PM Anchor Email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I usually avoid spoilers, but I have to share this one. My husband just called from Dulles airport (outside Washington D.C.), and he just saw Phil and three production types checking in for a United flight (at around 7:45pm eastern time). No clue which flight; they were in the first-class line and poor hubby was stuck in a long economy line and couldn't hear anything or follow/stalk Phil. If he happens to run into Phil again and sees which flight he's on, I'll post again.
T2Just Tuned In Today @ 08:20 PM Anchor Email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Phil and his group were in the check-in line, not waiting to board. My husband was checking in for an international flight, but I'm not sure about Phil (and hubby is incommunicado). I have a vague recollection that United has separate check-in for international and domestic flights, but I don't know for certain whether both international and domestic first class check-in counters are visible from the international economy line my husband was in. When I talked to my husband, I was assuming that Phil was also flying internationally, but that was before I read the previous posts about sightings in the US. At Dulles, you check in, then take these funky shuttle thingys to your terminal, so my husband didn't see which terminal Phil went to. Rats!
eveningChannel Surfer Today @ 02:58 PM Anchor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I've been waiting for weeks to post this! When Survivor announced they would be shooting the next season near Tikal, there was a lot of chatter on the Belize chat boards due to the proximity/affinity... A friend/travel arranger I know in Belize (who was formerly involved in TV production in NYC) commented "they will be here in July." I shot off a personal email to her asking if she was working on Survivor Guatemala. She replied that she couldnt go into detail because she had signed a confidentiality agreement, but that no, she was working on "the other one."Unless she's talking about Road Rules, I figure TAR 8 has to be cruising through Belize at some point this month.oh, and re: the Disney spoiler... somehow I doubt CBS would be promoting ABC's parent company
MisterMcGeeFanatic Today @ 04:47 PM Anchor Email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ive never delved into spoilers for TAR, but I received word of this today (and maybe this ties in with the Virginia locations) - TAR is apparently filming in Norfolk, Va. tomorrow. They apparently are going to film the contestants running through the Norfolk International Airport. The filming is supposed to be contained to the airport. It seems like an odd thing to film
and of course this would happen after I have moved from there. I have to keep the deets on how I found out on the downlow for now.
For the sake of accuracy, the production credits from the PR announcementJerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman and Hayma Screech Washington are the executive producers for Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with Touchstone Television and Amazing Race Productions. Amy Chacon and Evan Weinstein are co-executive producers. THE AMAZING RACE was created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri and is distributed by King World Productions, Inc.Buena Vista is part of the Disney conglomerate, but King World is owned by CBS and they control the licensing of the show.
scwriter 6 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 07-12-05, 08:46 AM (EST) 9. "RE: Season 8 Timings/Locations" LAST EDITED ON 07-12-05 AT 08:47 AM (EST)Looks like it is a North America edition. Rumor has it that TAR8 filmed in Charleston, SC (more specifically Mount Pleasant, which is on the other side of the bridge from peninsular Charleston) on July 11. I'm sorry I don't know other details.
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Clovis people may have hunted elephant-like prey, not just mammoths
Traces of ancient American culture also discovered farther south than expected
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Ancient North America's Clovis people, known as mammoth and mastodon hunters of the Great Plains, may have started out as gomphothere hunters of northwestern Mexico.
New finds indicate for the first time that Clovis people killed these now-extinct elephant-like creatures. What's more, Clovis people did so from the culture's early days in a region well south of the best-known Clovis sites. Clovis culture peaked between 13,000 and 12,600 years ago and its members may have been ancestors of today's Native Americans (SN: 3/22/14, p. 6).
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Ten years ago, Sarah Susanka started a revolution in home design with a deceptively simple message: quality should always come before quantity. Now, the book that celebrated that bold declaration is back in this special 10th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction and 16 additional pages that explore three new homes.
Nearly a quarter-million people bought this ground-breaking book when it was published in Fall 1998. Since then, the book's simple message -- that quality should come before quantity -- has started a movement in home design. Homeowners now know to expect more. And the people responsible for building our homes have also gotten the message. Architects and builders around the country report clients showing up with dog-eared copies of The Not So Big House, pages marked to a favorite section.
Why are we drawn more to smaller, more personal spaces than to larger, more expansive ones? Why do we spend more time in the kitchen than we do in the formal dining room? The Not So Big House proposes clear, workable guidelines for creating homes that serve both our spiritual needs and our material requirements, whether for a couple with no children, a family, empty nesters, or one person alone.
In 1999, Sarah Susanka was then architect and principal with Mulfinger, Susanka, Mahady & Partners, the firm selected to design the 1999 Life Dream House brought Frank Lloyd Wright's same common-sense, human-scale design principles to our generation. Consider which rooms in your house you use and enjoy most, and you have a sense of the essential principles of The Not So Big House. Whether you seek comfort and calm or activity and energy at home, The Not So Big House offers a place for every mood.
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Most car races last a few hours. The 24 Hours of Le Mans takes a whole day. Then there's the Dakar, the off-road endurance race open to cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
Originally known as the Paris-Dakar Rally, the event began in 1977 as a race through Africa and Europe. In 2009, the race was moved to South America because of security concerns.
Even in the Western Hemisphere, it is a dangerous proposition: At least four people died during last year's edition, only one of them a participant.
This year's 5,000-mile route goes down the Pacific coast, into the Peruvian desert, over the Andes Mountains into Argentina, and then back to the coast before concluding in Santiago, Chile.
About halfway through the race, there has been plenty of excitement so far, all of it captured in these 21 remarkable photos.


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For the past five years Military Spouse Magazine has presented an annual award, the "Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year®." Though it's not officially sanctioned by the U.S. Military, it's no beauty contest either. 2012's award to Jeremy Hilton is proof of that. I can personally verify that he would look terrible in a tiara.
The brainchild of Navy wife Babette Maxwell, the award was created to recognize leaders and reward volunteerism within the military spouse community in a cohesive branch-wide event. What happened, however, was a real "build it and they will come" environment that I have witnessed spreading like a controlled burn with a slow, steady breeze behind it. In addition to the obvious fact that everybody likes a little recognition now and again, the winners of this event end up with the kind of publicity that can make a profound difference. That means the winners' causes get exactly the kind of boost they've been hoping for. It also means that instead of a sailor nominating their sweetie for being the "bestest wifey ever" the trend is for volunteers to be nominated for their efforts in the military community. That's exactly the kind of legitimacy we need in the milspouse community.
In 2011 I was virtually introduced to Bianca Strzalkowski, a Marine Corps wife. She was serving then as 2011 Military Spouse of the Year® and it was the first time I had heard of the award, likely because it's rarely mentioned in the reserve community. After spending just a few minutes with her in person (and laughing about my inability to pronounce her name), I understood why she had the support of so many: she had a mission to make sure military spouses were getting higher education, and this girl seemed unstoppable. In a single year she took her idea to the next level, creating a Military Spouse Education Initiative. Believing spouses can achieve educational goals despite the obstacles of military life, she met with Congressional leaders, attended meetings with Department of Defense officials, and worked with the American Council on Education to find ways to make this idea of hers a reality. She has now created the Military Spouse Education Foundation and is working on a new Military Service Grant for spouses who are excluded the from Department of Defense's MyCAA program. Bianca took her expertise coupled with the responsibility of the award, and really put it to work for others.
Jeremy Hilton, an Air Force spouse and the first male spouse to win the award, experienced the same kind of lift for his platform in 2012. The care and treatment of the military's special needs children affects a relatively small group within the military, so creating a voice for them may have been virtually impossible without the award. A recent article in Time Magazine and a spotlight on Fox News should be proof enough that he's using his powers for good and not evil. But Jeremy doesn't just look bad in a tiara; he has developed a national campaign for legislation, has spoken in front of the Congressional Family Caucus, and has raised his issue with the Congressional delegation to the Armed Services Committee.
I was recently named Naval Base San Diego's Military Spouse of the Year by my peers and the weight of it is just hitting me. If you read this blog, I already owe you a thank you because it was your voting that allowed me to move to the next level of this process. I'm honored to represent San Diego, the Navy Reserve spouse community, and all of those spouses who have somehow managed to hold down both a career and an unending chain of moves. You can make me your voice at the national level by voting on Tuesday, February 5th.
However, I'd like to take some time to introduce you to some of the other spouses I've met, either virtually or in person, who have also been honored with nominations. I think it's an amazing testament to the award. These are exactly the type of military spouses that make bikinis, baton twirling, and sequins obsolete. I'm pinching myself (and my non-bikini midriff) that I'm even within their company. I'm proud of the way they've supported each other too, some even casting votes for each other. It feels great to know that what we're all stumping for in these last couple of days is not ourselves, but the idea of giving a voice to an entire segment of the military community that we've chosen to serve.
Rachel Preen – Rachel is a Marine Spouse, a family readiness advisor at Goodfellow AFB, and the writer of "Living on a Bootband Budget" who became a U.S. citizen in 2010. Born in New Zealand, Rachel had trouble as a brand new military wife coping with deployment, moves, and frequent separation even after her husband's return. Instead of focusing on the negative she has made it her mission to help other new wives, taking on the mantra, "If not me, then who?" She is a great supporter of all the branches, and my hat is off to her for being one classy lady.
Jacqueline Goodrich – This Army wife and founder of "The General's Kids," a nonprofit to support the children of Wounded Warriors, knows first-hand about the sacrifices military families face. After her husband had his jaw severed and shrapnel embedded in his leg in an Afghanistan firefight, she has helped him through a year of rehab. The road ahead is still long and Jacqueline approaches it with an outward view. The most touching statement from Jacqueline about her new position as a Wounded Warrior Wife whose first accompanied duty station was Walter Reed Hospital? "This was meant to be part of our story and we were meant to be there for those going through it now."
Angela Caban – the New Jersey representative for the Army National Guard, Angela is also the founder of Homefront United Newtork, an amazing resource for military families. She started the network after a 2008 deployment when she had to reach out to find the help she needed because she found herself without the support of a nearby installation. Ever since, she has been on the front edge of military family information. She's young, beautiful, hysterically funny in real life, and ferociously loyal to her military community. I personally voted for Angela to become an installation winner in January. Her MSOY profile is here: Angela Caban.
Kristine Schellhaas – A Marine Corps wife and creator of USMC Life, this lady is doing it all for military spouses! She has created a base-by-base guide for all major Marine Corps bases as well as a website full of discounts, benefits from both government and private companies, and information and help for all military newcomers. She not only runs a blog made up of other USMC spouses, she is also co-host of Semper Feisty Radio, where she covers issues facing military families and life outside the Corps. Her MSOY profile is here: Kristine Schellhaas.
Jenelle Hatzung – Though I've just met Jen through the MSOY process, I can confirm she is an instantly likable and genuine person! The daughter of a Navy Master Chief and now a Navy wife herself, she works as a Social Media Manager for Blue Star Families and started the blog "Navy Wives Unite" to connect and empower Navy families. She has worked as a family life consultant for Fleet and Family Support, and her family was awarded the NMFA Navy Family of the Year award in 2011. Now at Naval Station Norfolk, Jen wants to help military families dealing with the struggles of infertility, after battling the issue herself and learning the ropes of military healthcare and infertility issues. Her MSOY profile is here: Jen Hartzung.
Janet McIntosh – In my favorite of the nomination letters sent in by this Army wife's supporters, Janet's father wrote "She uses her experience to help other spouses and she always goes above and beyond to help other military families across the branches." And I would wholeheartedly agree! I can't even begin to list all of her volunteer accomplishments, but Janet answers family questions at Army Wife Network, is the Books on Bases program manager for Blue Star Families, and helps new spouses through Army programs she herself develops and implements! She says if given the award, it's her goal to help new spouses as they begin their military journey, by sharing her experiences and helping to educate and empower them. She is the BOMB on Headline News' new show, "Raising America" which premiers February 4. Go Janet! Her MSOY profile is here: Janet McIntosh.
Alisa Johnson – Alisa is a Navy wife who represents NAS Corpus Christi, and is working hard to standardize military pet policies. She wants to bring accountability for those who dump animals on base and commit pet cruelty with no consequences. Her organization, Dogs on Deployment, reports that pets are tied up or left on base every day and all members have to say is "I gave it to a friend." If given the opportunity to represent the U.S. Navy, her platform is all about raising the elevation of military pet issues, and to inspire meaningful action by those who have the power to make a change. Did I mention she's also an active duty Marine training to become a pilot? Wowzers. Her MSOY profile is here: Alisa Johnson.
There are over 20 nominees vying for branch titles in every category. You can see the entire list at the Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year ® homepage. Voting is one day only on Tuesday, February 5th.


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Politico reports that when running for U.S. Senate in 1992, Fox News host Mike Huckabee called homosexuality "aberrant, unnatural and sinful." Huckabee does not appear to have changed his anti-gay rhetoric since becoming a Fox News host, comparing homosexuality to drug use and incest, claiming that same-sex marriage is a threat to a "stable society," and promoting virulently anti-gay guests.
Huckabee Made Virulent Anti-Gay Comments As A Public Official
As A Public Official, Huckabee Called Homosexuality An "Aberration" And Condemned The Government For Supporting It Along With Pedophilia, Sadomasochism, And Necrophilia. In a 2007 appearance on Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Huckabee about his assertion in a 1998 book claiming "it is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations -- from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia." Huckabee responded that "all of these are deviations from what has been considered the traditional concept of sexual behavior." Russert also asked Huckabee about his assertion in 1992 that "I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle." Huckabee responded that "all of us are sinners." [Towelroad.com, 1/2/08]
In 1992, Huckabee Came Out Against Additional Funding For AIDS Research And Called For U.S. Government To "Isolate" AIDS Patients. From a December 8, 2007 Politico article:
Huckabee wrote on [an Associated Press] questionnaire that AIDS research was receiving an unfair amount of federal money. Instead, he said celebrities should pay for the research.
"In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional federal spending can be justified," Huckabee wrote, according to the AP.
"An alternative would be to request that multimillionaire celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna and others who are pushing for more AIDS funding be encouraged to give out of their own personal treasuries increased amounts for AIDS research."
Huckabee also wrote that he wanted to quarantine AIDS patients, according to the AP:
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents." [Politico, 12/8/07]
Huckabee Continues To Campaign Against Gay Rights Since Becoming A Fox News Host
Huckabee Labeled Same-Sex Marriage A Threat To "Stable Society." From the February 25 edition of Fox Business' Freedom Watch:
NAPOLITANO: Can families be non-traditional? And if they're non-traditional, is it any business of the federal government?
HUCKABEE: Well the question is
NAPOLITANO: Can you have two women or two men raise a child?
HUCKABEE: Well, here's the question. What is marriage? Marriage is a man and a woman. That's what it is historically. That's what it is legally. If we change the definition to accommodate a man and a man or a woman and a woman, then why can't we accommodate a man and two women or a woman and three men?
NAPOLITANO: Let me run this past you. Marriage is a contract. It's an agreement between two people whose hearts have joined together. What business is that of the government?
HUCKABEE: The business of government is to ensure that we have the most stable society because we have a $300 billion a year dad deficit in this country. That's in chapter one. I talk about the fact that this is an economic issue. As a libertarian judge, you've got to love the fact that we're spending a lot of government money to pick up the pieces because fathers don't do their duty.
NAPOLITANO: I don't love the fact. I love the fact that you've exposed the fact that we're wasting all the money.
HUCKABEE: Well--and here's another issue. Poverty. Two-thirds of the children in America who are in poverty would not be in poverty if the mothers of those children were married to the fathers of those children.
NAPOLITANO: None of that has anything to do with allowing a same-sex couple down the block to live together and to be married. Question: do conservatives care about the couple down the block?
HUCKABEE: Yes, they do.
NAPOLITANO: Why? --
HUCKABEE: Not that they care what they do privately -
NAPOLITANO: Why do they want to get in their bedroom?
HUCKABEE: No, no no. They don't want to get in their bedroom. They definitely don't want to get in their bedroom. They don't want to see what's going on in that bedroom. But I'll tell you what they want to do. They want to make sure that we have an institution called marriage that really does mean historically that you have a mother and a father because children need the benefit. [Fox Business' Freedom Watch, 2/25/11]
Huckabee Claimed That Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Is Like Legalizing Drug Use, Incest, And Polygamy. From an April 9, 2010 article concerning an interview Huckabee gave to the College of New Jersey's magazine The Perspective:
He continues to oppose any government recognition of same-sex relationships. Even civil unions are "not necessary," Huckabee said. "I think there's been a real level of being disingenuous on the part of the gay and lesbian community with their goal of civil unions," he alleged, referring to LGBT activists who first claimed that their goal in several states was to enact civil unions, but subsequently launched efforts to implement full marriage rights.
Huckabee went on to draw parallels between homosexuality and other lifestyles that are considered by some to be morally aberrant. "You don't go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal," he said of same-sex marriage. "That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want who use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them." [The Perspective, 4/9/10]
Huckabee Defends His Incest And Polygamy Comments On His Fox News Show. From the April 17, 2010, edition of Fox News' Huckabee:
HUCKABEE: This last week has been kind of a tough week in some ways for me. There were some recent headlines from an interview that I had from a speaking engagement at the College of New Jersey. Here was one of the headlines. From the student newspaper, it said: "Huckabee rips Steele, Romney, and LGBT activists" from this publication called The Perspective. Now, from that, before the week was over, the Associated Press was saying "Huckabee likens gay marriage to incest and polygamy." Uh. Let me tell you. This has been one of those weeks where I've come to understand, once again, why a lot of people, particularly conservatives, have a real problem with the mainstream media.
HUCKABEE: I made clear my position, which is by the way the same position of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, is that marriage still means one man, one woman for life, and that we shouldn't change the definition of it. And I mentioned that the burden of proof is not on those of us who believe in the tradition of marriage, but it is on those who wish to change it. But once we have changed the definition to something that it has never meant before, then we just need to remember that if somebody else says, "well I'd like for my lifestyle or my belief system to be accommodated," there is no ending. I did not say that same-sex marriage was the same as incest or drug use or a whole host of things I supposedly said. [Fox News' Huckabee, 4/17/10]
Huckabee Said He Opposes Same-Sex Marriage, In Part, Because Of The "Ick Factor." From a June 28, 2010 New Yorker article:
One afternoon in Jerusalem, while Huckabee was eating a chocolate croissant in the lounge of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I asked him to explain his rationale for opposing gay rights. "I do believe that God created male and female and intended for marriage to be the relationship of the two opposite sexes," he said. "Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship. We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn't work the same."
I asked him if he had any arguments that didn't have to do with God or ickiness. "There are some pretty startling studies that show if you want to end poverty it's not education and race, it's monogamous marriage," he said. "Many studies show that children who grow up in a healthy environment where they have both a mother and a father figure have both a healthier outlook and a different perspective from kids who don't have the presence of both." [New Yorker, 6/28/10]
On Fox News Sunday, Huckabee Defended "Ick Factor" Comment. From the June 27, 2010, edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: In the aforementioned New York -- New Yorker magazine article, you got into something of a dust-up with the gay rights community. In the article you say this about gay marriage, "We can get into the ick factor but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship -- biologically that doesn't work the same."
A group called the Human Rights Campaign responded, "Ick is certainly an appropriate way to describe Mr. Huckabee's mind going into sex when all that we're asking for is our equality."
Your response, sir?
HUCKABEE: Well, that term actually comes from a gay magazine called The Edge in which the author, Joseph Erbentraut, interviewed Professor Martha Nussbaum from -- one of Barack Obama's colleagues, University of Chicago. She uses a term projected disgust. He, in the interview, coined this phrase. It's in the article that he wrote in the interview with her. That phrase was not mine. It actually is a phrase that exists within the gay community. But somehow it's OK if they talk about it, but if someone else talks about it, it's off bounds.
And it's interesting. The American Spectator -- I thought Joseph Lawler this week did a wonderful analysis of the hypocrisy and the duplicity of those who want to, on one hand, push this issue, but then they really don't want their own discussion to be brought into the public square. It's a little bit disingenuous on their part to make it.
It's not the big issue for me. But if I'm asked about it, I try to be honest that I'm standing where most of the American public stands, and that is for traditional marriage of one man, one woman.
And by the way, Chris, that's been on the ballot in 31 states and in every one of the states, including left-wing states like Maine and California, it's been affirmed when the people themselves had a chance to vote for it. [Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox News Sunday, 6/27/10]
Huckabee: "I Am Not ... Pro-Gay, Pro-Sodomy." Huckabee had the following discussion with conservative activist Ann Coulter in January 10, 2009:
COULTER: A little more conservative, and you would have had my vote.
HUCKABEE: Well, OK. I'm going to give you a copy. I'm going to ask you to read my book. And if you find anything in there that isn't conservative -- I'm pro-life.
COULTER: Well, I know that.
HUCKABEE: I'm very pro-Second Amendment.
COULTER: I know that.
HUCKABEE: I am not, as you characterize me in one article, pro-gay, pro-sodomy. That is so not me.
COULTER: Yes. There was a Supreme Court decision you said you agreed or disagreed with. Yes, I got you on that, Mike Huckabee.
HUCKABEE: Nope, you didn't. I am definitely not pro-sodomy, I promise, Scout's honor. There are many things that I may be, but that is not one of them. [Fox News, Huckabee, 1/10/09]
On His Show, Huckabee Suggests That Iowa Governor Should "Def[y]" Court Decision And Strike Down The Same Sex Marriage Ban Like Lincoln Did With Dred Scott. Discussing an Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage on his May 3, 2009 Fox News show, Huckabee said:
HUCKABEE: This isn't the first time there's been a conflict between executive and legislative and/or executive branches. The Dred Scott decision, back in the 1850s that was rendered by the Supreme Court said that people of color essentially were not fully human being. Abraham Lincoln defied the Dred Scott decision, and in fact later issued the Emancipation Proclamation. So, I mean, one of our highest moments in the land was when the executive branch essentially said thanks for your opinion, but that isn't the law, and it's -- beyond that, it's not right. And so he took a different course. Is that what you're asking for, is for the governor to use the legislative body, the elected representatives and to say, wait a minute court, let's see if that's what the people think?
BOB VANDER PLAATS (unsuccessful Republican candidate for Iowa governor): I'm asking for a full-out discussion of the separation of powers. What's interesting about the Dred Scott decision is that is what was got Abraham Lincoln interested again in politics. But I would tell your viewers here, this isn't just an issue for the state of Iowa. This is an issue for every American that we need to wrestle with. Not only the definition of marriage, but what is the separation of powers within the state of Iowa and across the country.
HUCKABEE: Well and clearly, one of the things that matters if you wonder, well why does it matter to me, I live in a different state. Because if people go to Iowa, get the license, get married, and come to your state, what's going to happen? They'll be filing a lawsuit and then saying if they are recognized in Iowa, they have to be recognized everywhere because of the Full Faith and Credit act of the United States Constitution. [Fox News, Huckabee, 5/3/09]
On His Show, Huckabee Attacks Obama For Including LGBT Issues In the Civil Rights Page Of White House Website. In the first show after Obama's inauguration, Huckabee had the following conversation:
HUCKABEE: Barack Obama ran his presidential campaign promising unity and change. But within five minutes from his swearing in, the White House website posted the president's goals for the country, and some of them tell a very different story than unity. There's certainly change. Despite the calls for unity, his mission seems to be about repealing controversial legislation including things like the Defense Of Marriage Act that was signed by Bill Clinton.
HUCKABEE: I got an email shortly -- I guess within a couple of hours after the swearing in. Somebody said, have you seen the White House website. I said no, and they sent me some stuff that they said were on it. I didn't think that was true. So I went to the website. In fact, we've got a MacBook here that I'm going to navigate. There's a section, and this is the homepage. And if you go to what's called the agenda and then under civil rights, for example. We're just going to get into it. There's some pretty interesting things here. This is not necessarily what many Americans thought they were going to be seeing. And one of the categories, support for the LGBT community. LGBT, doesn't spell it out. For the uninitiated out there in America, and I think a lot of people would say "what is that?" What are we talking about here?
MATTHEW STAVER (chairman of the Liberty Counsel): Well it's the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Transgender community. And within five minutes, as you said, of his swearing in, as you said, the entire WhiteHouse.gov website changed, and it was a different agenda than many people anticipated. Most of the people that voted for him, and I don't believe understand what his agenda really is, but on the LGBT, it is the far left agenda of the gay and lesbian movement. [Fox News, Huckabee, 1/24/09]
On Fox, Huckabee Attacked Groups That "Say They're Conservative But Think It's OK To Overturn The Historical Definition Of Marriage." From the February 10 edition of Fox Business' Freedom Watch:
HUCKABEE: I don't care if there are people who are homosexual. That's their business. But here's what I do care about. I do care that we would have a group of people that would say they're conservative but think it's OK to overturn the historical definition of marriage. Marriage still means something. When it doesn't mean anything, then it has had a severe impact upon the social fabric. [Fox Business' Freedom Watch, 2/10/11]
Huckabee Hosts Virulently Anti-Gay Guests In Segments On LGBT Issues
Matthew Staver
Huckabee Hosts Matthew Staver From Liberty Counsel. In his January 24, 2009, segment attacking Obama for including LGBT issues in the civil rights section in his website, Huckabee hosted Matthew Staver from Liberty Counsel and Liberty University.
Staver's Group Suggests Schools Should Encourage Students To View Homosexuality As "Temporary Sexual Confusion." From an April 7, 2010 post on Staver's website titled "Pediatrician Sets the Facts Straight about Sexual Orientation and Gender Confusion":
The letter reminds school superintendents that it is not uncommon for adolescents to experience transient confusion about their sexual orientation and that most students will ultimately adopt a heterosexual orientation if not otherwise encouraged. For this reason, schools should avoid developing policies that encourage nonheterosexual attractions among students who may merely be experimenting or experiencing temporary sexual confusion. Such premature labeling can lead some adolescents to engage in homosexual behaviors that carry serious physical and mental health risks.
There is no scientific evidence that anyone is born homosexual. Therefore, the College further advises that schools should not teach or imply to students that homosexual attraction is innate, always life-long, and unchangeable. To the contrary, research has shown that therapy to restore heterosexual attraction can be effective for many people.
It is not the school's role to diagnose or attempt to treat any student's medical condition, and certainly not the school's role to "affirm" a student's perceived personal sexual orientation. The "Facts About Youth" website counters the propaganda published by the pro-homosexual pamphlet called "Just the Facts," which is riddled with inaccuracies.
Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: "Public schools can harm students by suggesting that same-sex attractions are natural and unchangeable. Research shows that youth who experience sexual confusion often do so only for a temporary period. To suggest to a student that temporary sexual confusion means the person is homosexual can be damaging and harmful. The information provided by the 'Facts About Youth' website is invaluable for anyone who works with children." [Liberty Counsel, 4/7/10]
Staver Attacked Janet Napolitano For Appointing Gay Judges. In 2009, Staver's group announced an "Adopt A Liberal" program that "encourages people to pray for those in leadership to restore poor leaders to right thinking." One of the people targeted by Staver was Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. One of his major criticisms of Napolitano was that "Twenty percent of the state judicial appointments Napolitano made as governor were of homosexuals, reflecting her pro-homosexual agenda." [Liberty Counsel, 10/5/09, 10/5/09]
Staver Suggested Washington Mutual Collapse Was Related To The Company's Support For Gay Rights. In a September 29, 2008 post attacking Google for putting out a statement against California's Proposition 8, Staver's group stated "Of course, Google is not the only search engine available to consumers. Washington Mutual became an active supporter of the homosexual agenda. But today, it is no more. Corporate America has learned the hard way that anti-family policies are bankrupt in more ways than one." [Liberty Counsel, 9/29/08]
Janet Porter
Huckabee Hosted Janet Porter To Criticize Anti-Proposition 8 Activists. Huckabee hosted Janet Folger (now known by her married name, Janet Porter) on the November, 15, 2008, episode of Fox News' Huckabee.
Porter Suggested "Homosexual Activists," Abortion-Rights Activists And The ACLU Are "Enemies Of God." From a WorldNetDaily column by Janet Porter:
To those who still believe that we should stay out of the cultural war, I have a question: How is that working out for you?
We now have two generations who are lost in the lies of humanism, evolution and homosexuality, facilitated into fornication and abortion, trapped in pornography and devastated by divorce. Congratulations.
If you're still having a hard time discerning what to do, here's a helpful hint: if you find yourself on the same side as the ACLU, homosexual activists, the baby killers and the enemies of God, chances are, you're on the wrong side.
Put the rocks down. Come out of the closet and bring your manger scene with you. Spend more time reading the Bible (and the news) than all those rock-throwing slander sites. Because all the people that they're targeting? They're the ones fighting to keep the Internet, the airwaves and the public square free. And if they're successful, they're also the ones who will keep the padlock off your closet door. [WorldNetDaily, 6/8/10]
Porter Funded Ads Promoting "Ex-Gay" Movement In Order To Fight Efforts To Protect Gays From Discrimination. From an August 13, 1998 New York Times article:
As a startup in the already crowded field of conservative Christian public advocacy organizations, the Center was in search of a strategy and a focus. Ms. Folger had been at work developing a series of ''animated cartoons for children promoting biblical values,'' she said, when she realized that the advertising campaign on homosexuality was more timely.
''The final straw,'' she said, came in June when Michael D. McCurry, the White House press secretary, denounced Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, as ''backward'' for comparing homosexuality to alcoholism and kleptomania.
''She's looking for a way to influence the debate,'' Mr. Reed said, ''and she's smart enough to know that it's easier to dive into a topic that people are already talking about than to try and start a new conversation.''
The advertisement that ran in The New York Times featured a photograph of Anne Paulk, with a caption that read, ''Wife, mother and former lesbian, and '' showed a portrait of men and women gathered at a convention for Exodus, an ex-gay ministry. Ms. Folger said she wanted to strike at the assumption that homosexuality is immutable and that gay people therefore need protection under anti-discrimination laws. [New York Times, 8/13/98]
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On Huckabee, Rev. Anthony Evans Claimed Obama's Decision Not To Defend Defense Of Marriage Act Is Akin To "Breaking Up" His Own "Beautiful Family." From the February 26 edition of Fox News' Huckabee.
EVANS: Well, Governor, as you know, we supported the president. We love the president. We love his family. And the Bible teaches us, of course, to pray for our leaders. And, but the -- what offended us -- the church -- is the fact that he has such a beautiful family and he continued to advocate breaking up that family by interjecting this sort of foreign object called gay marriage. And it just doesn't fit. And our congregations and our congregants believe that the President -- it seems like he is struggling with this issue, but -- and we certainly want to help the President out here. [Fox News, Huckabee, 2/26/11]
Evans Says Opening A Gay Bar Would Harm Neighborhood Children. From an article in Washington, DC's Metro Weekly:
Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the D.C. Black Church Initiative, filed his group's protest March 27. Evan's letter did not mince words: ''Granting the permit will undermine the moral character of the Shaw community, stain its tradition and send the wrong message to children and families,'' it reads in part. ''The pending applicant in question will only promote an alternative lifestyle that runs counter to the values of the Shaw community.'' [Metro Weekly, 8/24/06]
Evans: Same Sex Marriage Is "Not A Civil Rights Issue" Because We Don't "Sic Dogs" On Gay People. From a Metro Weekly article:
''Well, it's fairly simple. We look at gay marriage as -- not a civil rights issue, but a moral question. And the moral question is that, in our tradition two men together, or two women together, it makes no sense. It makes no biblical sense to us....''
''We love Coretta [Scott King], but she was absolutely, fundamentally, 100% wrong on this issue. And it was an issue that even her husband would have corrected her on.... Martin was very heterosexual! He would not have perceived this as a civil rights issue. Martin was not blind for gay marriage, simply because Bernard Rustin, who was one of his chief strategists, was gay. And he had every opportunity to, in the '60s, to raise civil rights issues around the gay question, because Bernard Rustin was there....''
''I reject the notion that gay marriage, that fighting for gays is equal to the Civil Rights Movement. Simply because of the fact that they were not -- they were. We don't sick -- we don't sick dogs on them. We don't beat them up. We don't hose them with hoses. And we don't burn down their houses because they're black -- er, they're gay. We don't do that in this country!'' [Metro Weekly, 8/5/10]
Evans: "The Church" Is At "War" With The Gay Community. From The Washington Blade:
"This law was forced down the church's throat and what the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community," Evans said. "And let me just state for the record, we don't want that fight. We love our gay brothers and sisters. But if the Supreme Court is not going to acknowledge the fact that we have a right as religious people to have a say-so in the framework of religious ethics for our culture and society, then we reject the Supreme Court on this issue." [The Washington Blade, 1/18/11]
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Revs rout Galaxy for third straight win
Foxborough, MA – The New England Revolution extended their winning streak in league play to three consecutive matches after a convincing 5-0 thrashing of the Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
After a slow start to the season, Jay Heaps' club has been firing on all cylinders recently, posting clean sheets in each of their past three victories.
Young guns Diego Fagundez and Kelyn Rowe powered the rout for the Revs as Fagundez scored and added an assist, while Rowe also scored and contributed two assists. New England also received goals from Saer Sene, Lee Nguyen and Chad Barrett on the afternoon.
The Revs opened the scoring in the 31st minute when Sene was played into the penalty area via a nice through ball from Fagundez and he buried it far post past Los Angeles goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini for the first of many on the day.
It was 2-0 for the Revs in the 71st minute as Nguyen took the ball into the penalty area completely untouched and slid it into the bottom right corner, and Fagundez made it 3-0 with three minutes to play when he collected a low cross from Rowe and fired it home.
But the rout wasn't quite over yet as former Galaxy man Barrett got into the scoring mood in the 90th minute and Rowe put an exclamation point on a statement win for New England just moments later when he curled a beautiful strike just inside the right post to finish the result.
The win moves New England level on points with Philadelphia Union in fifth place in the Eastern Conference, while Los Angeles remains in fourth place in the West on 20 points.


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Jeanne Robertson discovered she had a sense of humor that people couldn't get enough of when she was a rising junior in college.
�I don't even think I was the funniest person in school,� she said about her growing up days.
But in 1963, when the Alamance County native won the Miss North Carolina Pageant, she began making speeches around the country � and people laughed.
�I was funny,� she said. �So because of that, I dropped out of college.�
That started the 69-year-old's successful speaking career, although she did go back and finish college.
On Sept. 13, Robertson, who lives in Graham, will be bringing her humor to Kinston starting at 7:30 p.m. for the Lenoir Memorial Hospital volunteers� 60th anniversary fundraising event.
The volunteers have partnered with the Lenoir Memorial Hospital Foundation to raise money for the cardiology lab's new equipment.
Volunteers Director Ann Durusky said she was looking for a unique idea for a fundraiser to fulfill a hospital need.
�Recently, I heard (Robertson) in Wayne County,� she said, �and she was hysterical. People want to have a good time and laugh.�
So she asked the Foundation how the event could benefit the hospital.
LMH had recently completed its $2 million cardiology lab, including a $400,000 cardiac imaging and information management system. The equipment will be used for a new procedure for catheterizations in the near future, Foundation Director Dirk Griffith said.
�I saw this as an opportunity to raise money for a cause,� Griffith said about the fundraiser.
The proceeds from the event will help recoup the money spent on the new equipment, he said.
The partnership between the volunteers and the Foundation is a first.
�I love the fact that we're working together,� Griffith said. �It's the first time we've actually worked together on a project. I hope we do it again.�
At least 65 percent of the tickets for the 640 seats have been sold. Durusky said she's hoping for a full house. Tickets are $25 each.
�We wanted people who wanted to see (Robertson) to be able to afford it,� she said.
Robertson doesn't consider herself a comedian. She doesn't tell jokes; she tells stories � humorous ones. In fact, she's written books on the difference between a comedian and a humorist � which is what she considers herself.
Her website describes her as �a professional speaker who specializes in hilarious humor based on her life experiences.�
�I weave a story,� Robertson said, �that everybody in the audience is familiar with and can identify with.�
And she means everyone.
�I like to say,� she said, �you can bring your momma and bring your teenagers.�
Last week, her show on YouTube received 18 million hits, Robertson said.
She noted � tongue in cheek � what might have been the reason for her success as a public speaker during her year as a pageant winner.
�That year, I was unusually tall,� she said. �I'm 6-foot-2.�
Today, Robertson is still 6-foot, 2-inches tall � and a polished national speaker who doesn't stop writing new material.
�I think people will want to hear things they haven't heard or seen on YouTube,� she said.
She's written books and monthly columns, as well as produced CDs and DVDs.
For about 22 days a month, Robertson's on the road � writing � in between shows. There's always a point, or a lesson, from her stories.
�Funny things happen all around us,� she said.
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State Department approves Enbridge's Alberta Clipper oil pipeline
The US Department of State issued a permit on Aug. 20 for Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership to build a cross-border pipeline from Alberta's oil sands deposits to US refineries. Four environmental organizations said they would legally challenge the decision.
The US Department of State issued a permit on Aug. 20 for Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership to build a cross-border pipeline from Alberta's oil sands deposits to US refineries. Four environmental organizations said they would legally challenge the decision.
Noting that the White House delegated presidential authority to review applications for facilities including pipelines at US borders to it, the department said that it issued a presidential permit for the Enbridge Inc. division's Alberta Clipper project from Hardesty, Alberta, to Superior, Wis.
The department said in a statement that it found that the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of US strategic interests. "These included increasing the diversity of available supplies among the United States' worldwide crude oil sources in a time of considerable political tension in other major oil producing countries and regions, shortening the transportation pathway for crude oil supplies, and increasing crude oil supplies from a major non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries producer," it said.
The statement called Canada "a stable and reliable ally and trading partner of the United States, with which we have free trade agreements which augment the security of this energy supply."
The 1,000-mile pipeline would resolve capacity constraints created by growing US demand for crude oil from Canadian oil sands, according to information at Enbridge's corporate website. Initial capacity would be 450,000 bbl a day, with capacity up to 800,000 b/d available, it said.
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But Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy jointly said that the decision contradicts US President Barack H. Obama's promise to cut global warming pollution, reduce US addiction to imported oil, and invest in a clean energy future.
"The State Department has rubber-stamped a project that will mean more air, water, and global warming pollution, particularly in the communities near refineries that will process this dirty oil," said Sarah Burt, an Earthjustice attorney. "The project's environmental review fails to show how construction of the Alberta Clipper is in the national interest. We will go to court to make sure that all the impacts of this pipeline are considered."
The environmental organizations said that groups also have appealed to the US Forest Service to not let the pipeline cross parts of the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota, and that a group of tribal members have apparently gathered enough signatures on a petition for a referendum on the Leech Lake Tribal Council's agreement to allow the project to cross tribal land.
In its announcement, the State Department said that it consulted all relevant agencies and parties "with extensive public and stakeholder participation and outreach" before making its decision.
Other groups applauded the decision. "We were very happy to see that the project received the permit. We were also pleased with the analysis of the issues," Thomas J. Corcoran, director of the Center for North American Energy Security, told OGJ on Aug. 21. "This administration has a very high priority for green issues and environmental protection, but it achieved a nice balance here and came out with the right result."
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When we first saw the first Casio G-Shock Bluetooth-compatible watch - the GB-6900 - there were a couple of things that were different. First, it was connected to an Android smartphone. And second, it only came in black with a white (grey) face.
Now, having been released in the US recently and due to come to the UK in 2013, there's a swathe of other colour schemes, all of which appeared on the Casio stand at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, and compatible only with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 at present.
The Casio G-Shock GB-6900AA is available for $180 in the States (around £111) and now comes in gloss black with a silver and black face, gloss blue with a silver and blue face, gloss brown with a silver and black face, and gloss white with a silver and white face.
They each carry the same feature set as the original version released in Japan in 2011. The Bluetooth connectivity allows the watch to inform its wearer of inbound email and text messages, including the sender name. And it can display the name of a song currently playing on an iDevice.
But the feature we've been most impressed by each time we've seen a Casio G-Shock Bluetooth watch is that it will tell you when you've strayed too far from your phone, ensuring that you don't leave it behind.
Because the profile is Bluetooth v4.0 it is also power efficient, even when it is constantly connected. And a time synchronisation function means it will always display the same time as your iPhone.
The reason it is currently iOS compatible only is purely because of the free application needed to drive the watch's features. The Android version is yet to be approved, but Casio tells us that it is in the pipeline for the coming months.
Hopefully, we'll see the GB-6900 hit the UK soon, along with the newer Casio G-Shock GB-5600A we also played with at CES.


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This World Water Day, CI is participating in a series of educational events sponsored by the World Water Day coalition, emphasizing the need for more integrated health and conservation initiatives. CI's Janet Edmond explains why this is so important.
During the late 1990s, I served in the Peace Corps in the rugged Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where my mud hut had no running water and only a rudimentary latrine. Every morning, I began the day by fetching three to four gallons of water from the stone well down the hill. While this morning ritual could turn into a lively, impromptu social gathering with all the neighboring women and girls charged with the same task, I couldn't help but wonder how much their lives would be improved if they had a water storage or pump system to bring water directly into their homes.
Every year on March 22, World Water Day focuses attention on the vital importance of fresh water to our everyday survival, from drinking to cooking, washing and cleaning to sanitation and hygiene. Healthy freshwater ecosystems supply the natural infrastructure that underpins sustainable access to water for these needs; they also provide flood control, food and numerous other services on which millions of people depend. According to a 1997 study in the journal Nature, the value of these services could be as much as $80 trillion per year.
By cutting in half the number of people without access to safe drinking water, the world recently met one of its Millennium Development Goal targets several years ahead of the 2015 deadline. Between 1990 and 2010, more than 2 billion people gained access to an improved source of drinking water.
These gains are impressive, but regional disparities persist, with almost 800 million people worldwide still lacking access to clean water. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 4 out of 10 people lack access to safe drinking water. And while access to sanitation services is improving in all regions of the world, in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, less than half the population has access to adequate sanitation. As a result, child mortality rates remain high, with more than 3,000 children dying from diarrhea every day.
Too often, conservation and development groups work in parallel on related issues, missing opportunities to leverage their resources and collaborate. Depending on how they are designed and implemented, water supply and sanitation projects can either degrade or help protect freshwater ecosystems. That's where we come in.
CI is taking a fresh approach to freshwater conservation by linking with development groups to promote Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) efforts combined with watershed and environmental management. Sustainable WASH projects play a great role in both improving the lives of people and in supporting the conservation of freshwater-dependent species.
Recognizing that nature will play a significant role in helping the remaining 11 percent of the world to achieve access to safe water, CI is working with development groups such as Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and World Vision to bring integrated initiatives to life. For example, in Madagascar CRS and CI are combining WASH activities with freshwater conservation education efforts and watershed management.
At the global level, we hope to leverage these efforts into broader demonstration projects and wider advocacy efforts to conserve freshwater ecosystems and improve the health and well-being of communities which depend on them the most.
Janet Edmond is the director of the Population Environment program within CI's Health Security initiative.


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Archibald McIndoe (1900-60)
Archibald McIndoe was born in New Zealand but trained with his cousin Harold Gillies in the UK. McIndoe became consultant surgeon to the Royal Air Force and specialised in plastic surgery.
Although plastic surgery was a speciality established during the First World War, there were only three experienced plastic surgeons in Britain when the Second World War broke out in 1939. One of them was McIndoe. As a civilian surgeon, he was not constricted by military rules and regulations. He set up a specialist hospital in East Grinstead to treat 'airman's burn', which was caused when a plane's fuel tanks exploded. The unprotected hands and face of the pilot could be severely burned. McIndoe treated several hundred airman, skilfully performing plastic surgery to give them new faces and hands. Many of them went back to fly again.
McIndoe's patients became known as 'McIndoe's guinea pigs' as much experimental work was performed on them. Many painful operations were performed, sometimes over several years, until their faces and hands were reconstructed. The patients formed the Guinea Pig Club to help them readjust to their new faces. McIndoe instructed the local people around the hospital not to stare or make a fuss about the airman, but help them reintegrate back into the community. Thus they gained confidence in going to the pub or shopping with their new faces.