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Jessica Smith, Paralympian, motivational speaker and body image activist, has created a campaign promoting healthy and positive body image. It's called Join the Revolution. I've participated at the end of this post.
She received a 2013 Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars grant to further the Join the Revolution campaign. I've asked her to write her story today. She's such a talented, positive and beautiful young woman – I'm so happy to feature her story here!
"Join The Revolution is a campaign I created with the sole aim of promoting positive body image. It was this campaign and the work I've done so far, that got me the Grant with Aim for The Stars.
It's really simple. I wanted a platform in which people could connect when it comes to Body Image – because these days, the opposite is what's happening and more and more women and men feel isolated and disconnected from society due to their appearance and the societal pressure to conform to particular ideals.
So people get involved simply by holding the Join The Revolution sign (they need to print it) and then sharing their photo on social media.
Its about starting a positive conversation about Body Image – not size, weight, disability or any other ridiculous definition.
Join The Revolution is an awareness campaign aimed at promoting Positive Body Image. Born missing my left arm and then suffering third degree burns to my neck and chest as a toddler, my self esteem in regards to my appearance was always low. I grew up with a host of body image issues and I just felt so isolated and disconnected from family and friends because of the way I looked, I felt as though I didn't fit in or belong.
Unfortunately the societal pressures to conform to an 'ideal' image took their toll and at 15 I was diagnosed with depression, bulimia and later anorexia. I battled with these illnesses for over a decade. I finally hit rock bottom in my early twenties and was hospitalised, however this was my turning point and the start of my recovery journey.
I saw firsthand the lack of services and understanding among society in regards to eating disorders and I knew that something needed to be done. I wanted to make it simple, as Eating Disorders and negative Body Image are extremely complex issues. So I decided to embark on a simple awareness campaign. I want people to start talking about these issues, because the more we talk the more chance we have of reducing the negative stigmas that are associated.
Join The Revolution is a platform in which people all over Australia and the world can unite on an issue that ironically is so isolating.
I began swimming from as young as I can remember. I loved being in the water, it was my sanctuary and form of escape in many ways. I first represented Australia at the age of 13 and my career highlight came in 2004 when I represented Australia in Athens.
Swimming and racing gave me self confidence, it was the one place where I felt 'connected' and accepted. I loved who I was when I was training and racing, it was the one thing I lived for – when behind closed doors I was struggling. Swimming gave me hope and when I was in the pool I didn't think about all the negative crap that was going on in my life.
Ironically though, as I became more successful in the pool the pressures of being an elite athlete began to impact me, and I felt as though, once again, my appearance wasn't good enough.
I became sicker and sicker, and ultimately my eating disorder cost me my swimming career.
I speak all over Australia at various events, however mainly school students where I conduct workshops focused on encouraging positive body image.
I received this from a girl I mentor just yesterday, so I thought it was appropriate to share:
" I think that above all else Jess has given me hope. Hope that there is life after an eating disorder. That recovery is worth the fight. And that you don't have to be defined by your eating disorder…but you can use it and your experience to help others. That acknowledging your fight is not weakness…but that it can help set you free. "
I have a responsibility to be a voice for all those who are currently struggling with negative body image. I need to be able to share their views and thoughts on a larger platform – with media and government, with the hope and aim that they will listen and things will be put in place for positive changes to occur.
I want Join the Revolution it to be nationally recognised and supported campaign. I know that if we talk more about the issues surrounding body image, we will inevitably help alleviate the stigmas associated, Join The Revolution gives people a reason to instigate such conversation.
(Layne Beachley spreading the positive body image message)
You can read more on my website, connect with me on Twitter, and share your photos on my Facebook page."


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The following is the "first final" list of events for the Republican National Convention in New York City, August 30 to September 2.
6 p.m. – OPENING PRAYER read by Mel Gibson, while being flogged with a spiked leather strap wielded by Ann Coulter, who will enjoy it a little too much.
* TOM RIDGE raises National Alert Level from beige to ecru.
* LEST WE FORGET – HONORARY ROLL CALL of All Members of (and Friends of) Bush Administration Who Might Very Well Have Been Killed In Vietnam If It Hadn't Been For Nasty Trick Knees, Anal Cysts, Recurrent Headaches, and Highly-Placed, Overly-Protective Parents. (Sponsored by Tyson Chicken)
* ANTONIN SCALIA speaks – "SLAVERY – THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF OUR FOREFATHERS, AND GREAT FOR BUSINESS! (Sponsored by Wal-Mart)
* DICK CHENEY hosts AMBASSADORSHIP RAFFLE – Opening Bid 1,000,000 (cash, non-sequential bills 20's or less)
* CLIMAX OF THE EVENING – FILM – "BRING IT ON!" Stirring fictionalized
re-creation of Mr. Bush's actual dental appointment in Alabama in 1972, where he showed the incredible courage to allow "deep cleaning" of gums without anesthetic. (Sponsored by Sinclair Broadcasting)
* SUGGESTED AFTER-EVENT – "GET BAKED WITH RUSH "Crankster" LIMBAUGH! (Location TBD) (Sponsored by Pfizer)AUGUST 31
6 p.m. OPENING PRAYER read by Our Lord (The Passion Of) Jesus H. Christ,
as channeled by Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the man who first revealed that Mr. Bush was chosen by God to lead this country into war against the heathens. Gen. Boykin will then give a short, upbeat presentation on Islam called, "My God can Beat Up Your God."
* TOM RIDGE raises National Alert Level to FLASHING RED.
* WAYNE LAPIERRE will pry Davy Crockett's Kentucky Long Rifle out of Charlton Heston's cold dead fingers (subject to Heston's death) (Sponsored by Smith & Wesson)
* DESIGNATED BROWN PERSON (Hispanic or Muslim, or possibly an Hispanic Muslim, if we can find one) will speak on how being a brown person doesn't automatically disqualify you from being a Republican (subject to finding a brown person capable of being bribed to do this – may need professional actor, possibly brought in from 3rd world country)
* CLIMAX OF THE EVENING – PAUL WOLFOWITZ announces American plans to invade Iran, strip them of nuclear weapons, and turn over entire country to Bechtel to be run as a subsidiary. (Wolfowitz will tell anxious voters that the operation will involve 200 out-sourced "consultants", will take one week and will be entirely funded by pocket change found in a White House couch.) (Sponsored by Halliburton)
* SUGGESTED AFTER-EVENT – "RIDE THE WAVE WITH RUSH "Big Oxy" LIMBAUGH!"
(Do a couple of 'ringers' with Big Pharma – sponsored by ROBITUSSIN)SEPTEMBER 1
* 6 p.m. – OPENING PRAYER by the REVEREND JERRY FALWELL who will demonstrate the spirit of Compassionate Conservatism(tm) and the eternal mercy of God by wishing a horrible fiery death and an eternity in the pit of hell for all non-white, non-male, non-Christian non-heterosexual non-Republicans.
* TOM RIDGE raises National Alert Level to PULSATING RED
* THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INSANELY RICH PERSONS (AAIRP) will present LAURA BUSH with A PLATINUM CHAINSAW in thanks for the Bush Administration tax cuts (Sponsored by Gulfstream)
* ANN COULTER, BILL O'REILLY and SEAN HANNITY will lead a special TWO-MINUTE HATE aimed at photo of John Kerry.
* CLIMAX OF THE EVENING – DIEBOLD CORPORATION WILL ANNOUNCE ELECTION RETURNS – BUSH WINS RE-ELECTION WITH 51% OF VOTE (YET TO BE CAST). (JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA will certify vote results) Diebold Board member Wilbur H. Grafton will deny fraud, announce his retirement, and be named the new Ambassador to Jamaica. (Sponsored by Diebold)
* SUGGESTED AFTER-EVENT – GET WRECKED WITH RUSH "Kicker" LIMBAUGH (sponsored by Eli Lilly)SEPTEMBER 2 (nomination night)
* 6 p.m. – OPENING PRAYER by ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, who will then sing "Let the Eagle Soar" and light the ceremonial "TORCH OF FREEDOM(tm) with the (actual) Bill of Rights.
* TOM RIDGE raises National Alert Level to Fire Engine Red, and ANNOUNCES CAPTURE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN.
* CONVENTION SHIFTS TO "GROUND ZERO" – DICK CHENEY will introduce and personally re-nominate PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, who WILL IMPALE OSAMA BIN LADEN WITH DAVY CROCKETT'S KENTUCKY LONG RIFLE donated by Wayne LaPierre (Sponsored by NRA)
* PRESIDENT BUSH WILL GIVE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, standing on Osama's dead body.
FIRST PEEK – Here is the proposed text for President Bush's speech: "Hey, Freedom-Lovers! 9-11 Democracy Freedom Stay The Course Evil-doers trust my gut 9-11 Freedom Evil-doers Stay The Course Democracy 9-11 Evil-doers trust my gut 9-11 Democracy Freedom Stay the course Trust my gut Tax cuts Who cares what you think Evil-doers Things are great Jesus speaks to me 9-11 Democracy Freedom Stay The Course Evil-doers 9-11 Freedom Evil-doers Stay The Course Democracy 9-11 Evil-doers trust my gut 9-11 Democracy Freedom Stay the course Trust my gut Tax cuts Who cares what you think Evil-doers Things are great Jesus speaks to me. G'night everybody!POST CEREMONY CLOSING NIGHT PARTY OPPORTUNITIES:
* "GET MAXED with RUSH "ROCKET CAP" LIMBAUGH!" (Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline)
* RICK SANTORUM 'DOG ON DOG' PETTING ZOO (adults only, please)
* SPECIAL BUFFET – JOHN ASHCROFT will PERSONALLY EXORCISE A KINDLE OF CALICO KITTENS, BARBECUE THEM, AND SERVE THEM ON CANAPES (sponsored by KRAFT "Thick N' Spicy" BBQ Sauce)

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Captain Gaetano Gigliotti and the crew of the cruise ship Carnival Elation have been recognized with the Cruise Line Humanitarian Assistance Award from the Association for Rescue at Sea (AFRAS), an organization whose mission is to provide worldwide support and assistance to volunteer maritime rescue services and recognize and honor extraordinary maritime rescues.
Presented during AFRAS' annual reception in Washington, DC, the award honors Captain Gigliotti and his team for their incredible bravery in the rescue of a stranded fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Irma last year. In addition to the AFRAS Award, Captain Gigliotti was presented with a framed copy of the entry into the Congressional Record by Florida Congresswoman Federica Wilson commending the life-saving actions of the captain and his team.
The rescued mariner, Edward Potter of Tampa, Fla., was reunited at the ceremony with Captain Gigliotti in a poignant and heartfelt meeting of the two seamen.
"Words are not enough to express our immense pride and gratitude for Captain Gigliotti and the entire Carnival Elation team for placing their own lives at risk to save the life of another," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. "This rescue is a shining example of true heroism and we are honored that AFRAS has recognized Captain Gigliotti and the Carnival Elation team with this prestigious award."
"Cruise ships diverting from their course and helping others is in keeping with the best of maritime traditions and shows how the oceans unite us all," said Dana A. Goward, AFRAS Chairman.
While undergoing a scheduled dry dock in Freeport, Bahamas, Carnival Elation began monitoring a storm off the coast of Africa that quickly developed into a major Category 5 hurricane. When it became clear that the storm's path was projected directly over the Bahamas, the decision was made to move the 70,000-ton ship and seek shelter in the Gulf of Mexico.
As Carnival Elation was sailing from Hurricane Irma's path, the ship received a relayed distress message from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) alerting them that a fishing boat, Captain Eddie, was taking on water approximately 60 nautical miles to the east. With Captain Eddie's two crewmembers in dire need of assistance, Carnival Elation Captain Gigliotti and his crew immediately set out to assist in the rescue, with the U.S. Coast Guard planning to provide a helicopter to assist in the search and rescue efforts.
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Unfortunately, Potter informed Carnival Elation team that his fellow crew member refused to abandon ship and was lost when the fishing vessel rapidly sank. Carnival Elation medical team took excellent care of him, facilitated contact with his family members and coordinated with the U.S. Embassy to ensure his timely return to the United States after the ship returned to the Bahamas.


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Recently, a press release crossed my desk — one put out by an organization called the Chiller Systems Group (www.chillergroup.com). The group consists of commercial mechanical contractors who specialize in larger tonnage chiller service work. It formed several years ago to provide an independent voice with regard to the solving the CFC issue.
The group shares best practices and helps each other with parts availability, technical data, and other bits of information that should come from their suppliers, but apparently doesn't.
The press release (which can be read at www.contractingbusiness.com/chillerrelations.html) was commending one manufacturer, York International, for working toward improving relationships with its commercial chiller contractor customers by sharing information, providing fair pricing across the country, and to trying not to compete with contractors.
This is great news for the industry. There's enough competition in the marketplace without suppliers and contractors squaring off against each other over fairness issues.
In a fair world, competition is good as long as there is an even playing field: pricing, marketing, sales, training, service — these are some of the competitive factors that set one contractor apart from the other and drive a healthy marketplace. It b≥comes unfair when a supplier can compete in the contracting business, withhold product information, parts, and training, and camouflage their services in the sales of equipment.
It's my belief that manufacturers are well served when they work with — not against —contractors. If they choose to compete with their customers, manufacturers have inherent advantages in terms of pricing, information, and training. If manufacturers choose to leverage these, they shouldn't be surprised when their contractor customers turn to the manufacturer's competitors. A manufacturer who shows restraint, who sets up a service division on an equal footing with contractors will gain grudging respect.
Contractors will always view suppliers suspiciously when they operate a service division. Manufacturers must work hard to overcome such suspicions. If they don't, the danger is that they'll alienate contractor customers. Actually, this is already appening. The issue of brand loyalty is a hot one. We've seen over the years that as contractor loyalty dwindles, often so does manufacturer marketshare.
This issue isn't new — it's been happening for decades. In the early 1980s, competition between commercial contractors and manufacturers ultimately lead to a class action lawsuit, which the contractors won. (See the article, Leveling the Playing Field — History Need Not Repeat Itself, by John Owens at the following URL: www.contractingbusiness.com/playingfield.html
That suit temporarily relieved the parts and pricing pressures and drove the competitive issue underground. There it festered and, over the years, boiled to the surface again and again. Today it's an open wound, one that is spilling over from the commercial into the residential arena.
Contractors and manufacturers should learn the lessons of York and the CSG. There is plenty of "pie" for all the channels to share. Cooperating with each other, and not competing unfairly, will help make it easier for everyone in all the HVAC channels to win.


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See how the gospel transforms and challenges the church in Corinth, and your church today.
Part of the Good Book Guides series.
Even today, Jesus is still a figure of intense interest and admiration for millions. But then there's His church. Church is a boring topic for most, and a reluctantly fulfilled duty for many.
And we can understand why. Churches say they have the best news in the world, that they have the answer to our problems, that they are God's embassies on earth; and yet churches are made up of people like you and me, who are grumpy, irritable, unfaithful, selfish, and worse.
And as that is sadly true of churches today, so it was of the church in Corinth. It was young, it was full of life, and it was just as full of problems. What would God say to such a challenging church? What did they need to be excited by, to listen to, to learn?
Use this seven-study guide to open up the first nine chapters of the letter of 1 Corinthians, to hear what God said to His church in Corinth, and what God still says to His church today.
Why study 1 Corinthians?
1. Count your blessings - 1 Corinthians 1 v 1-9
2. Unite in "foolishness" - 1 Corinthians 1 v 10 - 2 v 16
3. Unite as God's community - 1 Corinthians 3
4. Recognize real ministers - 1 Corinthians 4
5. Don't go soft on sin - 1 Corinthians 5 - 6
6. Let your calling count - 1 Corinthians 7
7. Use your rights - 1 Corinthians 8 - 9
Leader's Guide
Contributors | Mark Dever |
Format | eBook |
Case quantity | 50 |
Language | English |
No. of studies | 7 |
Publisher | The Good Book Company |
The Good Book Guides have been developed to ensure that each session not only seeks to uncover the meaning of the passage and see how it fits into the big picture of the Bible, but also leads people to apply what they have learned to their lives. Flexible and practical, the Good Book Guides are ideal for small groups, or individual study.
"The format is very user-friendly and the content is rich and accessible."
- Justin Taylor, Gospel Coalition blogger and Vice-President of Editorial, Crossway
"God-centered, application-oriented, and driven by the text throughout, this resource is a gift to God's church."
- Matt Smethurst, Gospel Coalition reviewer and Master of Divinity student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Here at Covenant Life Church, we have greatly benefitted from the small group resources from The Good Book Company. Many small groups in our family life ministry have used "Colossians: Confident Christianity" in their study of scripture. Additionally, our youth ministry has used "Romans 1-5: God and You" in their small groups. Both resources were very easy to use, helped the reader engage directly with the scriptures, and had a wonderful pastoral emphasis demonstrated in all the questions.
- Dave Brewer, Youth Pastor at Covenant Life Church, Maryland


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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — No one is kidding themselves about what a long shot it is for the scrappy soccer team from this tiny Central American country to qualify for the World Cup tournament in Qatar this year. But hey, one can hope.
Wednesday night's game in San Salvador, pitting La Selecta, as the men's national soccer team is known, against Canada is a make-or-break match.
"We are chasing the fourth-place spot," El Salvador's new head coach, Hugo Pérez, tells NPR in an interview at the soccer league's federation headquarters. "We can't afford to lose another game or mathematically we are out."
On Wednesday, there were sudden doubts about whether the game would happen. El Salvador players reportedly staged a short-lived protest over pay and resources — threatening to refuse to play. But later in the day, players and soccer league officials said the game against Canada was still on.
It's an important match for the two squads. The top three teams, out of eight battling in this part of the world for a trip to Qatar, qualify automatically. The fourth-place team must compete later for a wild-card spot.
El Salvador is banking on a new crop of U.S. players, and coaches, as the key to securing a chance on international soccer's top tournament.
The Salvadoran American head coach helped convince players to come
"I was born here ... I wanted to see if we could help and make some change," says Pérez. The 58-year-old moved to the United States when he was a kid, and went on to play on the U.S. 1984 Olympic and 1994 World Cup teams. He moved back to El Salvador to become head coach last spring. His son, also American, is his assistant coach.
Pérez has convinced more than a dozen American players to join him as well. All were either born in El Salvador but left as small children, or have at least one Salvadoran parent.
New team captain Alex Roldan was born in the U.S. and plays for Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders. After not being called up for the U.S. men's national team, he says, he decided to play for El Salvador and get a chance to go to the World Cup.
His mother is from El Salvador and his dad from Guatemala. Both Central American national teams recruited him. "I was going to choose one or the other and one parent was going to be happy and the other disappointed," he says, jokingly. "But no, no, both are proud of me and as far as I've come."
She never thought she'd go back to El Salvador to see her sons play
Proud is an understatement, says Ana Roldan, Alex's mother, in a phone interview from the family's home in Los Angeles. "I'm so proud, it's my country," she says.
She left El Salvador in 1982, during the country's civil war. She is now a U.S. citizen. All three of her children grew up playing soccer in Los Angeles and now work in the MLS. The eldest, Cesar, is a trainer for the LA Galaxy. And middle son Cristian, who like Alex plays for the Seattle Sounders, has a spot on the U.S. men's national team.
"I never thought I would go back [to El Salvador] and go to the [Cuscatlán] stadium and see my sons play," she says. Both Alex and Cristian Roldan got minutes on the field in last September's matchup between the U.S. and El Salvador, that ended a 0-0 tie.
The Roldan brothers grew up speaking Spanish and frequently visited El Salvador.
He learned the national anthem on YouTube before coming
Another player on the national team, Walmer Martínez, 23, says speaking Spanish fluently helps him too in El Salvador. He got his Salvadoran passport last summer and quickly joined the national team. His mother is Salvadoran. Martínez, just signed with the United Soccer League's Monterey Bay, California team.
"I didn't know the national anthem though before coming here," he says. But he learned it quickly via YouTube, he says, laughing.
While it's not a new thing for international athletes to switch national allegiances, especially during the Olympics, accepting players not born and raised here in El Salvador had previously been a tough sell.
Head Coach Pérez should know. Back when he was a rising young soccer star in the U.S., he tried to get El Salvador's national team to take him, but was told no.
What a difference a few decades make. "It used to be more serious about that, but not anymore. Whoever wants you and offers you a better program, you go," he says.
The coach helped U.S. soccer become more diverse
And no one has a better eye for young soccer talent than Pérez, says Mike Woitalla, executive editor at the sports news website Soccer America. Pérez — a U.S. National Soccer Hall of Famer — coached U.S. national youth teams for several years, and Woitalla says he was a big force in integrating soccer in the United States.
"It took a long time for U.S. soccer coaches, who come from a northern European background historically, to respect and pay attention to how much talent there is in the Latino community. Hugo Pérez has been aware of that for his whole life, and now he is doing that for El Salvador," Woitalla says.
Fans in El Salvador are grateful for Pérez's influence and the influx of American talent.
"We need these elite players," says fan Yovani Martínez, watching at a San Salvador sports bar as the U.S. beat El Salvador 1-0 last week. "El Salvador deserves this support ... so we can go far in the future." It's been 40 years since El Salvador qualified for the World Cup.
Pérez says the Salvadoran team has come very far in a short time and he has set his sights beyond this year's World Cup qualifiers. His contract goes through 2025.
Midfielder and Salvadoran team Captain, Alex Roldan, is looking toward the future, too. "Being a smaller country, it is difficult to turn the tables overnight. We are slowly getting to where we want to be," he says. "Soon we'll be chasing down those bigger countries."
The match between El Salvador and Canada — barring any further protests — begins at 9 p.m. EST on Wednesday.
A shorter preview of this story appeared on the Morning Edition live blog.
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Les sachetiers de thé
By Carl
A grand hero of our far right wing, Nicholas Sarkozy may have unwittingly created an irreparable fracture in the conservative party in France:
Meanwhile, a ludicrous, even silly, movement to force secession into the national dialogue has fertilized the ground for a fracture of the republican party.
A grand hero of our far right wing, Nicholas Sarkozy may have unwittingly created an irreparable fracture in the conservative party in France:
PARIS—Former prime minister Francois Fillon, outraged at losing a chaotic internal leadership vote marred by irregularities, announced Tuesday that he and his followers are splitting off from France's main conservative party and forming their own parliamentary group.
Fillon said the breakaway faction could return to the mother party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), if a new leadership election were held within three months. But his victorious rival, Jean-Francois Cope, has already rejected that proposal, suggesting that France's right-wing conservatives are likely to remain in disarray for some time with two hostile political figures each claiming to be in charge.
Sarkozy's success in winning the oresidency of France papered over a much deeper rift between the two factions, who kept silent in order to maintain party unity behind Sarkozy.
Well, now it's "Partie unité, mon coule!"
And yes, the split involved immigrants and Islam, at least partly. Fillon, to his credit, repudiated scare tactics like this in the heat of the campaign to re-re-elect Sarkozy.
And that's when things fell apart for French conservatives.
I raise this article because of the interesting dynamic we are starting to see in America. Support for Grover Norquist, the unlikely tax cut Svengali of an entire national party, has been eroding quickly in the face of the wholesale repudiation of the electorate of the politics of anger, fear, and greed.
Meanwhile, a ludicrous, even silly, movement to force secession into the national dialogue has fertilized the ground for a fracture of the republican party.
Make no mistake about it: the Republican hierarchy is dismantling, and what then do the Teabaggers (Les sachetiers de thé) do about it? They do not have the numbers for a full-scale takeover of the GOP, and while they may have the resources to finance a third party, it will be a humiliation for them except in places like the Plains states and deep, deep South.
You see, people are generally civilized, which works against Baggery.
Eventually, the moderate... and I used the term advisedly... Republican hierarchy, the one that values power over ideology -- particularly when the ideology can be written in crayon -- will stomp a mudhole in the Baggers. They know a losing hand and while it worked in one election and could be deployed in 2014, for national election years, it's a no-win proposition. They cannot juggle the feelings of the far right with the lust for power.
So keep an eye on France. This could be interesting, in a Chinese way.
(Cross-posted to Simply Left Behind.)
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2 Timothy 1:1 identifies the author of the Book of 2 Timothy as the apostle Paul. Full article: Who wrote the book of 2 Timothy? Who was the author of 2 Timothy?
Date of Writing:
The Book of 2 Timothy was written in approximately A.D. 67, shortly before the apostle Paul was put to death.
Purpose of Writing:
Imprisoned in Rome yet again, the apostle Paul felt lonely and abandoned. Paul recognized that his earthly life was likely coming to an end soon. The Book of 2 Timothy is essentially Paul's "last words." Paul looked past his own circumstances to express concern for the churches and specifically for Timothy. Paul wanted to use his last words to encourage Timothy, and all other believers, to persevere in faith (2 Timothy 3:14) and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 4:2).
Key Verses:
2 Timothy 1:7, "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."
2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 4:2, "Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction."
2 Timothy 4:7-8, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."
Brief Summary:
Paul encourages Timothy to remain passionate for Christ and to remain firm in sound doctrine (2 Timothy 1:1-2, 13-14). Paul reminds Timothy to avoid ungodly beliefs and practices and to flee from anything immoral (2 Timothy 2:14-26). In the end times there will be both intense persecution and apostasy from the Christian faith (2 Timothy 3:1-17). Paul closes with an intense plea for believers to stand firm in the faith and to finish the race strong (2 Timothy 4:1-8).
So concerned was Paul to warn Timothy and those he pastored of the dangers of false teachers that he invoked the story of the Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses (Exodus 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18, 19; 9:11). Although their names are not mentioned in the Old Testament, tradition has it that these men instigated the building of the golden calf and were killed with the rest of the idolaters (Exodus 32). Paul predicts the same fate for those who resist the truth of Christ, their folly eventually being made "clear to everyone" (2 Timothy 3:9).
Practical Application:
It is easy to get side-tracked in the Christian life. We have to keep our eyes on the prize—being rewarded in heaven by Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 4:8). We must strive to avoid both false doctrine and ungodly practices. This can only be accomplished by being grounded in our knowledge of God's Word and firm in our refusal to accept anything that is unbiblical.
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Create MS/Windows file system on a Hard Drive so it will be recognized on an MS/Windows system. The goal here is to initialize a hard drive that was previous initialized with a non-Microsoft Windows file system, with a single active partition populated with Microsoft Windows 32 bit FAT (LBA) file system. So this hard drive will be recognized as containing a valid MS/Windows file system when used on a Microsoft Windows system. I have an old IDE 3.5" hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it as external USB attached disk on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB adapter cable. It will work with 2.5" & 3.5" IDE drives and SATA drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5" IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in "control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives" as there but "windows explorer" does not assign a drive letter for it so I can not reformat it. All PC's running a MS/Windows system inspect sector 0 of the hard drive for the partition/slice table to determine the sysid of each partition/slice. If the sysid value is 12 then it's a valid Microsoft Windows file system and gets assigned a drive letter in "windows explorer". Any other sysid value means non-Microsoft Windows file system and the device is seen in "control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives" as there but "windows explorer" does not assign a drive letter to it. There are 2 ways to initialize ((2.5" or 3.5") (IDE or SATA)) hard drives with a valid MS/Windows file system. Using the Microsoft "fdisk" program or the FreeBSD "fdisk" program. The Microsoft "fdisk" program defaults to sysid =12. The FreeBSD "fdisk" program defaults to sysid = 165, but has alternate way to assign any sysid value you want. Microsoft method. Replace the 2.5" hard drive in your laptop with the 2.5" hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. If 3.5" hard drive then open your desktop PC, remove the data cable ribbon and power connection from the existing hard drive and attach them to the 3.5" hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. Put the Microsoft XP, Vista, or Windows7 install CD in the cdrom drive and boot. Select fdisk option from the install menu to populate the hard drive with official ntfs file system. No need to continue with the install after fdisk complete. FreeBSD method. You need a PC with a running FreeBSD system and USB hardware to attach the 2.5" or 3.5" IDE or SATA hard drives with. A USB external hard drive housing will work fine for 3.5" IDE and SATA drives. For 2.5" IDE or SATA drives you will need a USB adapter cable. The 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable I purchased works with 2.5" & 3.5" IDE drives and SATA drives, cost $10 USA. If you have a 3.5" IDE or SATA hard drive and FreeBSD is running on a desktop PC, you could open it up and add it as a second hard drive on the data ribbon. Attach the hard drive to the USB equipment and plug into USB port on the PC running FreeBSD. Best if you are logged in as "root". You will see the USB console messages as the USB hard drive is connected. In most cases the USB drive will be assigned da0 as the device name. The following instructions are for initializing the hard drive as a single MS/Windows partition occupying the whole hard drive. Wipe clean the sector 0 slice table Code:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 Code:
#fdisk -BI /dev/da0#newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 If at this point you un-plugged the USB cable from the FreeBSD system and plugged it into a Microsoft Windows PC. The USB drive would be un-accessible by "windows explorer" because no drive letter gets assigned. That's because Window's see this hard drive as a non-windows drive. Which is really true because the slice sysid contains the 165 value. To make the hard drive accessible to a Microsoft Windows PC, the sysid has to be set to a value of 12. This time use the fdisk flag lower case "i" which clears all existing slice entries and puts you in interactive slice table update mode. Code:
# fdisk -Bi /dev/da0 Changing partition1 which you answer "y". When prompt ( Supply a decimal value for "sysid (165=FreeBSD)" [165] ) enter the value of 12. Then at prompt (Are we happy with this entry? [n] ) enter value of y for yes. And at the end you get prompt (Should we write new partition table? [n] ) enter value y for yes. Code:
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# newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Will format the slice 1 partition for MSDOS file system. Elapse running time is dependant on hard disk size. If at this point you un-plugged the USB cable from the FreeBSD system and plugged it into a Microsoft Windows PC. The USB drive would be accessible by "windows explorer" because a drive letter gets auto-assigned. That's because Window's now sees this hard drive as a windows drive. Which is really true because the slice sysid contains the 12 value.
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I was Strudeling along one day, in the merry merry month of May...
So here were are, it's May again, and apparently time for Strudeling according to our gracious Daring Baker hostesses. Now, to be honest, I am not a big fan of strudels, I don't know why since I have such a sweet tooth and am happy to eat any and all Viennoiseries, but my guess is that it's probably because I'm not a huge fan of cooked fruit in the form of fillings, although there are, of course, a few (or actually many) exceptions to that.
The other thing is have I mentioned that I am usually mostly crap at recipes where I have to knead the dough? I don't know what it is but I think I usually underknead or overknead or wrongknead the dough or something because the breads come out ok but nothing to write home about. Although I guess this also has something to do with yeast, and luckily for me this dough didn't require yeast. Luckily too, I am quite happy to dare to make strudel since I have never made it before and the endeavor here is to be daring (and perhaps with enough practice I'll be a little less crap at those dough-kneading recipes).
I have to tell you about the incident that almost killed this for me. I'd left my dough to rise for over a day so that when I came back to stretch it, it was an absolute dream how easy it was to get it paper thin. I can't go all around my table the way it's set up in our kitchen nook here in London so I thought, maybe I'll just ever so carefully turn the cloth around so I can get to the other side. Yeah. NO. My shirt got caught on one side of the cloth and the whole thing followed me and folded over on itself which, as you might guess, renders the whole exercise futile because it won't restretch again. After about 15mn of fuming at the universe, I made another batch of dough which I let rise for about 75mn before stretching it. It worked fine as you can see, but it wasn't as workable as the first one. I guess this means I'm going to have to do this again because, as much as I thought I didn't like strudel, I've tasted this one and I have to say I like it enough to make it and eat it again.
I am, again, ever so grateful for a recipe that can be completed in several short steps as this is easier to negotiate with Baby Saffron than one long stint in the kitchen, and I am doubly grateful for it turning me on to strudels (Thank you Linda and Courtney!). If you want to see what Baby Saffron looks like at 2 months old (just a few days ago), scroll down to the Lemon Bars post.
And apologies if this post seems rather incoherent, everything other than the baby around here is done pretty piecemeal these days...
The May Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers.
Apple strudel
from "Kaffeehaus – Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague" by Rick Rodgers
Preparation time
Total: 2 hours 15 minutes – 3 hours 30 minutes
15-20 min to make dough
30-90 min to let dough rest/to prepare the filling
20-30 min to roll out and stretch dough
10 min to fill and roll dough
30 min to bake
30 min to cool
Strudel dough
from "Kaffeehaus – Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague" by Rick Rodgers
1 1/3 cups (200 g) unbleached flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
7 tablespoons (105 ml) water, plus more if needed
2 tablespoons (30 ml) vegetable oil, plus additional for coating the dough
1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar
1. Combine the flour and salt in a stand-mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix the water, oil and vinegar in a measuring cup. Add the water/oil mixture to the flour with the mixer on low speed. You will get a soft dough. Make sure it is not too dry, add a little more water if necessary.
Take the dough out of the mixer. Change to the dough hook. Put the dough ball back in the mixer. Let the dough knead on medium until you get a soft dough ball with a somewhat rough surface.
2. Take the dough out of the mixer and continue kneading by hand on an unfloured work surface. Knead for about 2 minutes. Pick up the dough and throw it down hard onto your working surface occasionally.
Shape the dough into a ball and transfer it to a plate. Oil the top of the dough ball lightly. Cover the ball tightly with plastic wrap. Allow to stand for 30-90 minutes (longer is better).
3. It would be best if you have a work area that you can walk around on all sides like a 36 inch (90 cm) round table or a work surface of 23 x 38 inches (60 x 100 cm). Cover your working area with table cloth, dust it with flour and rub it into the fabric. Put your dough ball in the middle and roll it out as much as you can.
Pick the dough up by holding it by an edge. This way the weight of the dough and gravity can help stretching it as it hangs. Using the back of your hands to gently stretch and pull the dough. You can use your forearms to support it.
4. The dough will become too large to hold. Put it on your work surface. Leave the thicker edge of the dough to hang over the edge of the table. Place your hands underneath the dough and stretch and pull the dough thinner using the backs of your hands. Stretch and pull the dough until it's about 2 feet (60 cm) wide and 3 feet (90 cm) long, it will be tissue-thin by this time. Cut away the thick dough around the edges with scissors. The dough is now ready to be filled.
- Ingredients are cheap so we would recommend making a double batch of the dough, that way you can practice the pulling and stretching of the dough with the first batch and if it doesn't come out like it should you can use the second batch to give it another try;
- The tablecloth can be cotton or polyester;
- Before pulling and stretching the dough, remove your jewelry from hands and wrists, and wear short-sleeves;
- To make it easier to pull the dough, you can use your hip to secure the dough against the edge of the table;
- Few small holes in the dough is not a problem as the dough will be rolled, making (most of) the holes invisible.
Apple strudel Filling
from "Kaffeehaus – Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague" by Rick Rodgers
2 tablespoons (30 ml) golden rum (I used mead)
3 tablespoons (45 ml) raisins (omitted)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon (80 g) sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick / 115 g) unsalted butter, melted, divided
1 1/2 cups (350 ml) fresh bread crumbs
strudel dough (recipe below)
1/2 cup (120 ml, about 60 g) coarsely chopped walnuts
2 pounds (900 g) tart cooking apples, peeled, cored and cut into ¼ inch-thick slices (use apples that hold their shape during baking)
1. Mix the rum and raisins in a bowl. Mix the cinnamon and sugar in another bowl.
2. Heat 3 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-high. Add the breadcrumbs and cook whilst stirring until golden and toasted. This will take about 3 minutes. Let it cool completely.
3. Put the rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a large baking sheet with baking paper (parchment paper). Make the strudel dough as described below. Spread about 3 tablespoons of the remaining melted butter over the dough using your hands (a bristle brush could tear the dough, you could use a special feather pastry brush instead of your hands). Sprinkle the buttered dough with the bread crumbs. Spread the walnuts about 3 inches (8 cm) from the short edge of the dough in a 6-inch-(15cm)-wide strip. Mix the apples with the raisins (including the rum), and the cinnamon sugar. Spread the mixture over the walnuts.
4. Fold the short end of the dough onto the filling. Lift the tablecloth at the short end of the dough so that the strudel rolls onto itself. Transfer the strudel to the prepared baking sheet by lifting it. Curve it into a horseshoe to fit. Tuck the ends under the strudel. Brush the top with the remaining melted butter.
5. Bake the strudel for about 30 minutes or until it is deep golden brown. Cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing. Use a serrated knife and serve either warm or at room temperature. It is best on the day it is baked.


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This year's San Diego Comic Con was the place to introduce many new projects. However the most surprising event, at least for Joe Simon, was Nick Barrucci's announcement that Fighting American would be published by Dynamite (as seen in Comic Book Resources and Newsarama). According to Mr. Barrucci:
We started talking to Joe Simon himself, and met with him and his attorney Ted Kessler, and then the conversation went to Lisa Kirby and Lisa's attorney Paul Levine. From there, it's just been a very long conversation.
It is true that Mr. Barrucci started with talks with Joe Simon, but Simon turned down Dynamite's proposal in no uncertain terms. Apparently Mr. Barrucci did not know the meaning of the word no and he proceeded anyway. Joe only found out the supposed deal when it appeared on Comic Book Resources.
Joe Simon says:
There are some penciled covers of Fighting American by Mr. Ross that are printed in the story without copyright notice. I find that damaging, as is the whole fake story.
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There is an important pieces of information that I feel I should include here:
Newsarama also spoke with Lisa Kirby Monday afternoon, who informed us the Kirby estate will no longer be participating in a Fighting American project at Dynamite.


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The second ToorCon Seattle got off to a quick start last Friday with a round of Lightning Talks at the Public Nerd Area. Each talk was limited to 5 minutes and covered a broad range of topics. Some talks were just supplying a chunk of information while others were a call to action for personal projects. Here are a few of the talks that we found interesting.
[I)ruid] opened with an explanation of his handle, since he catches a lot of flak for it being l33tsp34k (that's supposed to be a capital 'I'). The name has actually proven to be quite fun since it has broken a few systems that aren't sanitizing input properly. Registering at Black Hat 2006 caused a database error. At the ShmooCon hacker arcade, he entered his player name and was dropped directly to a root shell. It's also rather hellish on many webapps. His point was: why not choose a l33t name and have the fun of fuzzing all the time and breaking stuff even when you aren't trying?
[nous] gave a quick plug for Ninja Network's phreaking contest. Last year at Defcon was the first event they held. The first task was to use a butt set on a 25 pair block to find usable line. Once the random line was found they were dropped into a voice mail system to explore. The backend for the contest is Asterisk plus some custom Perl scripts. You can catch a preview version of this contest next month at LayerOne.
[jrandom] talked about how scratch-off cards can be gamed. Using a bright light or a resurfacing pen can help you with games that require a certain scratch order. Other cards can be identified by telltale signs they pick up during their production. Winners and losers are usually produced in two separate batches. Cards from each group will have the same cut quality, alignment flaws, printing color, and even the font could change. Sometimes the cards even have coding on them to indicate the winners (could be a simple as a W and L). All this is great, but the manufacturer might be doing this intentionally just to get attention.
[Travis Goodspeed] gave a brief introduction to reversing the Econolite ASC/3 traffic light controller for compatibility. It's a PowerPC box running VxWorks 5.x and has snmp and FTP support. The FTP provides simple anonymous access. All of the control values are stored in the ASC3.DB binary file that's checksummed. [Travis] built a way to describe a binary file structure as XML and generate libraries for reading the binaries natively in multiple languages.
We also thought [Dean Pierce]'s network pentesting visualization framework was interesting. [Joel Voss] was attempting to write a softphone for the IAX2 protocol and ended up DOSing Asterisk. 30kB from the attacker could cause a massive amount of packets from Asterisk. He now has a framework for testing all aspects of the protocol.


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Information flow in the brain is not a "one-way street"
Berlin neuroscientists discover a new principle of information flow in nerve cells
A longstanding question in brain research is how information is processed in the brain. Neuroscientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure and University of Newcastle have made a contribution towards answering this question. In a new study, they have shown that signals are generated not only in the cell body of nerve cells, but also in their output extension, the axon. A specific filter cell regulates signal propagation. These findings have now been published in the journal Science.
Until now it has been assumed that information flow in nerve cells proceeds along a "one-way street". Electrical impulses are initiated at the cell body and propagate along the axon to the next neuron, where they are received by extensions, the dendrites, acting as antennae. However, the team around Charité researchers Tengis Gloveli and Tamar Dugladze has demonstrated that this model needs to be revised. They discovered that signals can also be initiated in axons, i.e. outside the cell body. This happens during highly synchronous neuronal activity as, for example, in a state of heightened attention. Moreover, these axonally generated signals flow bidirectionally and represent a new principle of information processing: on the one hand, impulses propagate from their origin towards other nerve cells; on the other hand, the signals also backpropagate towards the cell body, i.e. in the "wrong direction" down the one-way street. A potential problem is that backpropagating signals could lead to excessive cell activation.
However, the researchers found that backpropagating signals do not reach the cell body under normal conditions. The reason for this, the scientists discovered, is a natural filter that prevents these signals from passing. "Axo-axonic cells, an inhibitory cell type, regulate signal propagation and thus occupy an outstanding strategic position," explains Tamar Dugladze. Through the filter function, these cells allow signals initiated at the cell body to pass, but suppress backpropagating impulses generated in the axon. By this means, excessive activation of the cell body is prevented. In experiments, the scientists could show that when this filter function is deactivated, backpropagating signals are allowed to pass, resulting in higher cell activation.
These filter cells can become damaged in various neurological diseases. The consequent misregulation of signal flow, in turn, has fatal effects on information processing in the brain. "Results of this study shed new light on the central question of how signals are processed in the brain. In addition, these findings could help us better understand the development and progress of neuronal diseases such as epilepsy, which involves excessive hypersynchronous activity of large sets of neurons. This knowledge could open up new therapeutic approaches", says Tengis Gloveli. The neuroscientists will therefore focus their future research on both basic understanding of the mechanisms of signal flow in the nervous system, and the relevance of these mechanisms in the genesis of epilepsy.
T. Dugladze, D. Schmitz, M.A. Whittington, I. Vida, T. Gloveli. Segregation of axonal and somatic activity during fast network oscillations. Science 336, 6087 (2012).


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Attorney on 'all-natural' lawsuit vs Monster Bev Corp: 'I think most people would look at this and think it's getting crazy'
In a complaint filed in California last month vs Monster Beverage Corporation, Hansen Natural Corporation and Hansen Beverage Company, plaintiff Steven Viggiano claimed that a reasonable consumer would interpret the phrase 'all-natural flavors' to mean that all ingredients which affect the flavor of the product - including sweeteners - must also be natural.
He added: "The inclusion of sweeteners, the type of sweeteners, the quantity of the sweeteners, the nature of sweeteners, have an impact on a soda's flavor."
And as the Hansen sodas contain artificial sweeteners sucralose and ace-K, which he describes as "flavor-related ingredients", they are therefore misbranded, he said.
Plaintiff: The term 'all-natural flavors' refers to all ingredients that affect the flavor
Viggiano, who filed his suit on behalf of consumers nationwide that have purchased Hansen's Diet Premium Soda with All Natural Flavors in the past four years, alleged:
"A reasonable consumer would understand the term 'All Natural Flavors' to mean that the word flavors … refers to all ingredients that affect the flavor - the entire mix of ingredients that give a product its flavor, that the whole extent or quantity of the flavors in the sodas are produced or existing in nature; not artificial or manufactured, and that none of the ingredients related to the flavor of the product are synthetic, not natural, or artificial."
Prochnow: This is not the first time a plaintiff's attorney has attempted to put a square peg in a round hole…
Commenting on the case, Justin Prochnow, an attorney based in the Denver office of law firm Greenberg Traurig, told FoodNavigator-USA that "this is not the first time a plaintiff's attorney has attempted to put a square peg in a round hole".
But he added: "I would be very surprised if this has legs. Maybe they are just hoping that as Monster has so many legal issues to deal with right now, it will just want to settle and get rid of this, but I think most people would look at this and think it's getting crazy.
"There is a cottage industry now around these [all-natural] claims; everybody is trying it on because it is such a lucrative business model."
Nevertheless, the chances of success for this particular case appear slim, he suggested:
"This cases smacks of the SoBe case dismissed earlier this summer when the plaintiff argued that "All Natural with Added Vitamins" [on PepsiCo's SoBe Lifewater products] meant "All Natural" with "All Natural Vitamin" and the judge stated that no reasonable person would interpret it in that way."
Dance: I don't think this complaint is any more frivolous than lots of others
William Dance, an LA-based attorney at law firm Tucker Ellis LLP, said he didn't think the complaint was "any more frivolous than lots of others", but noted that "most of the 'natural' labeling lawsuits I see seem designed to elicit quick strike-suit type settlements for plaintiff's counsel, as opposed to bringing to light issues of widespread consumer confusion."
He said: "Plaintiff alleges that Hansen labels the products as 'Premium Diet Soda made with all natural flavors'. One ambiguity of this language is that Hansen could mean the soda is made with certain flavors that are all-natural and others that are not, or it could mean that the product is made with flavors, all of which are natural."
The plaintiff interprets it as the latter, he said, "but the company can argue that it means the former, and that sucralose is one of the flavors that is not all-natural."
Viggiano also claims that the term 'premium' is misleading because it is predicated on the 'made with all natural flavor' label claim, he observed.
"It is not clear at all that the company intends a connection between the premium label and the flavorings, so this portion of his claim seems quite tenuous."
Wasserman: Complaint shows the care and consideration that must be taken when crafting labeling and advertising claims
Ivan Wasserman, a Washington DC-based attorney at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, said bizarre though the complaint might appear at first glance, it "shows the care and consideration that must be taken when crafting labeling and advertising claims, especially in the 'natural' space".
He added: "The plaintiffs appear to be trying to argue that a claim that is both literally true and permitted under FDA regulations creates a misleading implication in the context in which it appears.
"Class actions and FTC investigations based on alleged implied claims often take companies by surprise because they never thought they were making a claim that they are now being forced to defend.
"Whether there is actual consumer deception in this case obviously remains to be seen."


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- Ian said...
Your blog is becoming an advertisment for a radio show. I can't be the only one to notice this.
Ian - September 29, 2010 7:20 pm
- charles said...
You are putting up too many adverts for LBC but the unrelenting pressure swayed me to tune in just for once (973 on Virgin)
And I enjoyed it, seems fair and balanced with good guests
The black TV screen was a disappointment though, can we anticipate vision in the near future? - September 29, 2010 9:38 pm
- Iain Dale said...
Ian, Forgive me but hosting a three hour radio show every night is what I do. Many people who read this blog listen to my programme. I tell people what I am discussing in order to attract more listeners. Funny that!
I post once a day on this. Are you seriously suggesting I shouldn't?
Paul, see, I got you in the end :) - September 29, 2010 10:32 pm


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The Venezuelan capital, Caracas, can be one of the most expensive cities in the world — or one of the cheapest. It all depends on how you exchange your dollars.
At a fast food restaurant in the city recently, a pretty tasty plate of chicken and rice cost me 160 bolivars. At the official exchange rate set by the government, that works out to a little more than $25; at the black market rate, it's just $2.
Needless to say, most anyone who can change money on the black market in Venezuela does so.
As one person told me: "For people like me [who are] paid in dollars ... it is easier and better to change your dollars in the black market where the price is higher, and the ways are much easier than the official ways."
He didn't want his name used because changing money on the black market can come with a six-year jail sentence.
In most countries, you change your dollars for the local currency at a price the market deems fair. In Venezuela, the government fixed the price at 6.3 bolivars to the dollar. But the black market said that price is ridiculously low. Recently, 1 U.S. dollar in Venezuela could get you up to 90 bolivars.
The rate has come down since then. Reuters reports that the black market rate was about 58 bolivars to the dollar on Monday, the same day that the government introduced a new exchange system.
The exchange rate is just one example of the economic crisis that has prompted weeks of unrest in Venezuela. Many basic goods have been in short supply, and inflation has been running at more than 50 percent under President Nicolas Maduro, who champions a socialist economy, as did his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez.
How Do You Get Dollars?
At a Caracas cafe, a student named Andrea told me that crime, the lack of opportunities, and political tension are the reasons she wants to leave Venezuela and study abroad. She's headed to the U.S. if she can get dollars from the bank at the official rate to pay for her tuition.
But the Venezuelan government and the banks don't want to part with the dollars they have, so it is incredibly hard for people like Andrea to get them. And buying dollars on the black market would be exorbitantly expensive.
She pulled out a 34-page document. First, she said, you have to apply online. Then you need to get all these documents together, get them certified and in some cases translated, and make three copies to present to the bank.
Among the papers she has to provide is her class schedule, her mother's birth certificate, her school diploma, a letter explaining her reason for leaving the country, and on and on. It takes weeks to get the information together, and there is a limit to how many dollars she can apply for.
One document she needs is a copy of her airplane ticket, which she has purchased. But she says that unless she gets the dollars, she won't be able to afford the trip. Many people don't get the dollars they've asked for, and aren't told until the very last minute.
Because the government has set an artificially low price for U.S. dollars, everyone who needs them wants to buy from the government — but the government doesn't have enough to go around, because the demand is so high.
Huge Demand
All Venezuelans doing business with the outside world want these cheap dollars.
Let's say you're a Venezuelan businessman who needs to import goods from Miami. You need dollars to pay for the shipment, but the government won't give you any. What do you do?
I went to a dark shop that sells clothing off a main shopping street in the capital. The owner here is also a money changer. In fact, most businessmen you meet in Caracas are constantly trying to buy dollars.
One businessman told me he had never been able to get money at the official rate from the banks despite numerous applications — which means the only way to get dollars is to trade them in.
But in the illegal, secretive black-market system, how do you determine the price of a dollar? The owner at the store whips out his computer and looks at dolartoday.com. This particular website has had many names and incarnations, but it's the one people go to now to get the black-market rate for dollars in Venezuela.
And this is where it gets really weird: Venezuela's economy — what people all over the country are buying and selling pegged to the dollar — is determined though a murky website run out of Miami.
Venezuelan economist Robert Balsa, who teaches at the Catholic University in Caracas, says the website makes its calculation by looking at the dollar reserves the Venezuelan government has and the rate being used by traders in the Colombian border city of Cucuta.
He says what's so shocking is that this calculation should serve as the basis for so many transactions. And, he adds, it's all because the government's policy means that Venezuelans can't get the dollars they need at the official rate.
As Venezuela's government launched the new official currency exchange system on Monday, the rate was fluctuating between 50 and 55 bolivars to the dollar. But few people were buying at that rate, Reuters reported.
Still, the black market is taking notice — that's well below the recent high of 90 bolivars to the dollar.
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Architecture of Windows Group Policy for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
- 3/5/2008
Like most technology, Group Policy is very logical and predictable. The structure of Group Policy has not changed much over the years, although some of the internal mechanisms have. Because Group Policy is such a stable and reliable technology, there has been no need for major changes.
With that said, there have been some radical changes to the underlying implementation of Group Policy with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Although the core dependencies have not changed, the core engine of Group Policy has changed for the better. There is now a dedicated service for Group Policy, which gives Group Policy even more stability and efficiency.
Administration of your domain-based GPOs has not changed, either. The Group Policy Object Editor is now called the Group Policy Management Editor (GPME), but its functions and those of the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) remain the same. The core architecture for updating domain-basedGPOs is important to understand and manage, as it has always been.
Understanding the storage of Group Policy in terms of the Group Policy template (GPT) and the Group Policy container (GPC) is critical to efficient management of the GPOs, ADM files, replication, and troubleshooting. Of course, the biggest change that Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 offer with regard to architecture is the addition of ADMX templates and the central repository.
An architecture overview cannot be complete without a rigorous discussion on replication. Replication for Group Policy is not simple, but a good summary of the subject will help you tackle most problems that arise. Replication and Group Policy are important concepts to understand when you need to troubleshoot an issue.
Finally, this chapter will review the architecture of client-side extensions (CSEs). CSEs are the soul of Group Policy settings. You will get an inside glimpse into the different CSEs, what they do, and how they function with the information provided by the GPT and the GPC.
Group Policy Dependencies
Although Group Policy is a large and complicated service and technology, it also relies heavily on other complicated services and technologies. You must understand these other services and technologies to fully understand Group Policy, especially when you encounter trouble. Understanding Group Policy's dependencies will help you pinpoint the source of the problem, whether it be Group Policy or one of these services.
The services and technologies that Group Policy has direct dependencies on include the following:
Active Directory
Domain Name System (DNS)
Active Directory replication
Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)–formerly File Replication Service (FRS)
DFS publishing
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
As you can see from the preceding list, the services and technologies that Group Policy depends on are extremely important, not only to Group Policy, but to your network as a whole. Without these services and technologies, you would not have a fully functional enterprise.
Each of these services and technologies is responsible for a specific aspect of Group Policy. Understanding how each component fits into the bigger picture will help you with design, implementation, management, and troubleshooting of Group Policy.
Active Directory and Group Policy
Active Directory has the biggest role as a dependent technology with Group Policy. Most certainly, without Active Directory you would not have much of a Group Policy infrastructure to work with. Active Directory provides the foundation upon which Group Policy is embedded.
First, consider that Active Directory houses all of the user and computer objects for the domain or domains. It is these user and computer objects that Group Policy controls. Next, Active Directory creates the structure that the objects are placed within. The structure is made up of organizational units. The design of the organizational units is essential in the deployment of Group Policy–the user and computer objects located within the organizational unit where the GPO is linked, as well as those in child organizational units, are affected by the settings in the linked GPO by default.
A well designed Active Directory structure considers the user and computer object location within the organizational units. Because GPOs are linked primarily to organizational units, ensuring that the links are easy and efficient will help with the overall success and good design of Active Directory.
GPOs can be linked to three Active Directory components. These include the domain, organization units, and sites. If Active Directory did not contain these components, GPOs would not be able to link to them.
As a side benefit, Active Directory allows for single sign-on for user accounts, which Group Policy can leverage because each user is unique within the Active Directory domain. Because each user is unique, administrators can mold and deploy the precise security settings, desktop settings, registry values, and profile environment for each user.
Domain Name System
You probably already know what the Domain Name System (DNS) is, but as a reminder, DNS is a distributed database that resolves DNS host names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. In Active Directory, DNS is the locator service that enables computers to find other computers, as well as important networking services.
For Active Directory networks, DNS has entries called Service Resource Records (SRVs) that are associated with different networking services. These include entries for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and Kerberos. These SRVs help computers in the Active Directory domain find the servers that are functioning as domain controllers. At a domain controller, they might get a listing of Group Policy Objects, update their Kerberos ticket, find a resource, and so on. When DNS is not working properly or is misconfigured, computers will not be able to use DNS to find this information. At this point, Group Policy will fail to work properly; all updates and refreshes will cease until DNS is functioning properly again.
DNS is also used for Distributed File System (DFS). DFS can be used within Group Policy to share applications or other resources. When a GPO is configured to direct a desktop or user to a DFS distribution point for accessing software, the computer must use DNS to find these installation points. If DNS is not configured properly, the computer will never find the DFS distribution point and the software will not be installed or updated.
Finally, DNS is important for managing Group Policy. As you will see later in this chapter, domain controllers are the computers that store GPOs. Therefore, when you are managing a GPO, a domain controller must be contacted. If DNS is not functioning properly, a domain controller cannot be found and an error will occur when trying to update or view a GPO.
One of the more significant tasks of Group Policy is to ensure that each GPO is synchronized with each domain controller. Domain controllers are the command center of GPO distribution. As you will see a little later in this chapter, a GPO is not just a single entity. It is really made up of two separate parts: the Group Policy template (GPT), which is stored in the SYSVOL of each domain controller, and the Group Policy container (GPC), which is stored in Active Directory, again on each domain controller.
Both portions of the GPO must be replicated to every domain controller within the domain. If the GPOs do not synchronize to all domain controllers after a change is made, strange behavior will occur. This behavior might include differing settings on two desktops that should have the same settings, errant settings on a server caused by a missing GPO setting, failure to apply policy altogether, or a desktop that is not secure because of a failure of the GPO to replicate.
As you can see, replication is a significant factor for Group Policy. There is a small concern with Group Policy replication, however. The GPO is made up of two different parts, but the SYSVOL replication and the Active Directory replication are not driven or supported by the same replication technology.
SYSVOL replication is controlled by either the Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) or the File Replication Service (FRS), depending on the domain functional level. Domain controllers running Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 cannot take advantage of DFSR for replication of the SYSVOL, so they must still use FRS. Windows Server 2008 does support DFSR for SYSVOL replication, but all domain controllers must be running Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of this new technology. If any domain controllers in the domain are running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003, the Windows Server 2008 domain controllers must also use FRS to support the limitations of the older operating systems.
Active Directory replication is not controlled by DFSR or FRS. Instead, Active Directory replication is controlled by its own replication service. Active Directory replication is responsible for replicating the entire Active Directory database, not just the GPC. Because changes occur with the other objects in the database more than the GPC, the technology and details of replication were designed for those other objects more so than for Group Policy. With this said, the replication of Active Directory is quite complex, with many moving parts and considerations. Later in this chapter, an in-depth overview of Active Directory replication will explain how it affects and controls the GPC.
Another service that Group Policy depends on is DFS. You might miss this service unless you consider how DFS assists Group Policy in many different areas. If you think that DFS publishing can assist Group Policy when software is delivered through a GPO, you are correct. However, Group Policy does not depend on this service in this regard–DFS is simply an enabling service in this scenario.
So, how exactly does DFS function with Group Policy as a dependant service? DFS is the service that makes the SYSVOL on the domain controllers available. Every domain controller has the SYSVOL shared. There are two folders named SYSVOL, and only one of them is shared. The path to the shared SYSVOL is C:\Windows\SYSVOL\Sysvol.
This share is not a routine share. Rather, it is a domain-based DFS share. This type of share is very useful in situations in which all computers in the domain need to access the same resource. If you are not familiar with domain-based DFS, it has some significant advantages.
With domain-based DFS shares, all computers access the share by using the domain name, instead of the domain controller's NetBIOS computer name or DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Therefore, all computers that communicate with SYSVOL on the domain controllers (every computer in the domain) do so by using \\domainname\sysvol.
Although this might seem simplistic and limited in rewards, the power is in the technology behind the scenes. With this form of communication to the domain controller and SYSVOL, the names of the domain controllers are irrelevant. Domain controllers can be added, removed, changed, taken offline, brought back online, and so on without the existing connections and mapped drives. As long as there is at least one domain controller online for the computers to access, the computers on the network will be able to communicate with the domain-based DFS share.
This is possible because domain-based DFS shares are accessed through DNS. SRV records that help the computer find the nearest domain controller are automatically registered in DNS. The nearest domain controller is relative, because DNS uses Active Directory sites, which represent physical networks. When a computer receives a list of domain controllers from DNS, the domain controllers in the computers' sites are listed first, followed by the other domain controllers.
This process and technology allows computers to receive the GPT information for the GPOs from the domain controllers. The process is very efficient for both keeping track of the domain controllers and allowing the computers on the network to find the closest domain controller to retrieve the Group Policy information from SYSVOL.


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NEW YORK - Oakland running back Marshawn Lynch was suspended for one game without pay by the NFL on Friday for shoving a game official during the Raiders' victory over Kansas City on Thursday night.
Lynch was ejected from the game after he shoved line judge Julian Mapp.
The scuffle started when Oakland quarterback Derek Carr was hit late on a run by Kansas City's Marcus Peters midway through the second quarter. Raiders offensive linemen Kelechi Osemele and Donald Penn immediately confronted Peters, and Lynch sprinted onto the field from the bench to join the fray. Mapp tried to break up the fight, but Lynch pushed him and grabbed his jersey. Lynch also got a personal foul.
NFL vice president of football operations Jon Runyan wrote a letter to Lynch, saying:
"You made deliberate physical contact with one of our game officials as he was diffusing an active confrontation between players. You were disqualified for your inappropriate and unsportsmanlike actions. Your conduct included pushing the game official and grabbing his jersey. ... You were not directly involved in the active confrontation that the game official was attempting to diffuse, nor were you a participant in the play that initiated the confrontation. You were the only player from either team who ran from the sideline to midfield to insert himself into a situation in which he was not directly involved."
Lynch will be eligible to return to Oakland's active roster on Oct. 30, the day after the Raiders' game against the Buffalo Bills.
Lynch finished the game with two carries for 9 yards.
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The Raiders rallied to win 31-30 on a touchdown pass by Carr on the final play, and Lynch was in the locker room after the game congratulating his teammates.
Lynch came out of retirement this season and was traded from Seattle to the Raiders. Lynch said he wanted to make a comeback so he could give something back to his hometown of Oakland before the Raiders move to Las Vegas in 2020.
Lynch has rushed for 266 yards and two touchdowns in seven games.