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NEA Jazz Masters Honored in NYC
Class of 2011 includes Hubert Laws, David Liebman, Johnny Mandel, the Marsalis family and Orrin Keepnews
By Lee Mergner
jazztimes.com – 01/12/11
At the annual NEA Jazz Masters awards ceremony held on Tuesday evening at Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the themes of community and family kept surfacing and not just because, for the first time in its history, the organization included a family—the Marsalis family—in its slate of honorees. Besides the Marsalis family—father Ellis, along with sons Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason—this year's NEA Jazz Masters were Hubert Laws, David Liebman, Johnny Mandel and Orrin Keepnews. Ranging in age from 64 (Liebman) to 87 (Keepnews), this year's class of Jazz Masters came from very different backgrounds but all shared a lifelong love and commitment to the music.
At a panel held early on Monday afternoon, the day before the ceremony, writer and arts advocate A.B. Spellman moderated a discussion with the new class of Jazz Masters (with Ellis representing the Marsalis family). Although Spellman kept asking about the effect of jazz moving away from the private sector of nightclubs to the highly subsidized world of performing arts, the panelists instead preferred to talk about the sense of community in jazz, in the past, present and future. Marsalis voiced concern that the feeling of community with jazz musicians is getting harder in modern times, though Mandel said that jazz musicians will always be like a family. Laws said that for him, "People are more important than things, and family members give us more than anything we can get." He added, "I miss the old days, when we were like family."
The induction of the entire music-playing Marsalis family along with paterfamilias Ellis was not just the elephant in the room, it was the room itself because the event was held in the house that Wynton built, with his own orchestra as the show's band. Any implied quid pro quo aside, it would be hard, maybe impossible, to imagine a better venue for the awards ceremony. From the seating for the awardees behind the stage to the overhead video screen for the pre-taped segments, it looked like the perfect theatrical set for the gala. The meticulously produced show moved along quickly, but still allowed for the occasional accident that makes an award show memorable. The show was exactly two hours without intermission, but it never lagged, thanks to a minimum of pomp and ceremony. After an introduction by NEA chairman Rocco Landesman, each awardee was saluted with a well-produced video clip, introduced by a close associate and then allowed a short acceptance speech, with a musical number closing out their segment. The JALC orchestra fit that role like a glove, whether accompanying one of the inductees or saluting them with a performance of an appropriate composition. The group has benefitted greatly from all its hard work both at home and on the road. Is there a jazz big band around that plays more during the course of the year? The result is a tight unit that neither overplays nor sounds imbalanced. It also features some exceptional brass and saxophone players, such as Marcus Printup, Walter Blanding, Sherman Irby, Ryan Kisor and Victor Goines.
Each of the inductees was introduced by an NEA Jazz Master from previous years, reinforcing the sense of community and family that was so often cited. And many of the previous inductees were there sitting in the first five rows of so, having gotten together for a lunch earlier that day. Like some sort of fraternity or secret society, the Jazz Masters revel in their association with each other, as proud of each other as of themselves. Among the Jazz Masters in attendance were Kenny Barron, Candido Camero, Jon Hendricks, Lee Konitz, Dan Morgenstern, Annie Ross, George Wein, Frank Wess and Gerald Wilson.
As this year's "jazz advocate" inductee (following Nat Hentoff, George Wein and Dan Morgenstern in previous years), producer Orrin Keepnews was generally the last to be mentioned in the list of nominees, but was the first to be honored on this night, as the segments rolled out in the very egalitarian alphabetical order. In that panel session, Keepnews said that "I'm still the same guy that was I was as a former young man scuffling for a way to do my thing." The eloquent producer has always had a remarkable way with words, a very long way in fact. Introduced with warmth and wit by Jimmy Heath, Keepnews characteristically took his time drolly trying to explain how someone like him could come to be called a Jazz Master. He said that he estimates that he's spent about 50 years of his life in the recording studio, but that he is most grateful for the opportunity to work with interesting and talented people whose company he enjoyed. Giving a nod to one of those storied relationships, the JALC orchestra performed Ted Nash's arrangement of "Re: Person I Knew," a Bill Evans composition. Keepnews had a lifelong personal and professional relationship with the pianist, as well as with so many other jazz giants such as Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins.
Introduced by Ron Carter, flutist Hubert Laws movingly talked about how honored he was to be included in the company of so many artists he's either worked with or admired. Laws kept his acceptance remarks short, opting instead to spend his allotted time performing a lengthy improvised duet on "Stella By Starlight" with pianist Kenny Barron. If anyone present had any doubts about Laws' qualifications for the lofty Jazz Masters honor, and likely few if any would, he certainly dispelled them in a powerful display of virtuosity and creativity. In the video clip, lifelong friends and associates Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock talked about Laws' dedication to his music and about his unique voice on his instrument. Laws said that when he first picked up the flute as a young child, it took him a few days to get a sound out of the flute, but once he did, he never looked back.
At the age of 64, the hard-working David Liebman is the "baby" of this year's class, and perhaps the most currently active as a working musician. At the previous day's panel, the saxophonist spoke about how important government subsidy is for the arts in general and jazz in particular. "The purpose of a government is to provide four basic services – defense, education, health and culture," Liebman told the audience of jazz insiders. "It's important for this music to get money from the government. Liebman lamented that like most established jazz musicians, he works most overseas in Europe. At the ceremony, Liebman reiterated his appreciation that the NEA and other organizations recognize and support achievement in the arts in this country. For the musical part of his segment, Liebman played soprano on an arrangement by Gil Evans of Gershwin's "Summertime" and "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" with the JALC Orchestra, conducted by his old friend (and, Liebman joked, his "boss" at the Manhattan School of Music) Justin DiCioccio.
Songwriter and arranger Johnny Mandel reflected on a lifetime spent working with singers and musicians. In both the informal panel and the video at the ceremony, he told his old joke that when he got started in the business, people thought an arranger was someone who moved chairs around. Introducing a performance of his "Shadow of Your Smile" by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Mandel excitedly told the crowd that he's been leading a big band of his own these days, after taking over a gig that trumpeter Jack Sheldon didn't show for. Although originally an accomplished trombonist, Mandel in many ways had more in common with a producer like Keepnews than with his fellow musician inductees. Mandel's role has largely been to make other people, in his case mostly singers, sound better. Indeed, a good part of the video segment referred to Shirley Horn's Here's To Life, a record whose exquisite arrangements by Mandel helped to bring that singer from a cult or insider following to a mainstream audience. Mandel joked at his own expense about his apparent Midas touch, telling how back in the '70s he was asked to write something silly and stupid for the sluggish part of a new movie. And when he couldn't come up with anything, he proceeded to get drunk and wrote the melody of "Suicide is Painless," the theme song of M.A.S.H., a hit tune that he called one of the lousiest things he'd ever written. Go figure, he seemed to say about much of his career.
The Marsalis family was the last to be honored and the video tribute made it very clear that father Ellis was to be the focus for the honor. He was introduced by fellow pianist Cedar Walton who said he met Ellis at Dillard University in New Orleans, when both of them were about 19-20 years old. Walton had gone off to college early and Marsalis was attending college classes instead of high school. Although it would be many years before Marsalis devoted himself to jazz education, his relationship with schooling (for himself and others) was established early in his life. In one part of the video clip, Branford talked about how his father's specialty in teaching jazz was in reaching difficult kids who responded favorably to Ellis' unique brand of tough love. Accepting the honor on behalf of the family, Ellis credited his wife Dolores with keeping the family together with her love, devotion and first-rate cooking. "She was a chef and she gave that up when she married me," said Marsalis. "Looking back, I realize how much she sacrificed for a guy like me." He also said that he was part of the nominating committee for the NEA Jazz Masters awards when they first started over twenty years ago, but never expected that he would ever be a recipient. Like all the honorees, Marsalis seemed entirely humbled by the award. The family then performed as a unit, along with Jason Stewart on bass, on "At the House, In Da Pocket," a bluesy Blakey-like tune written by Jason Marsalis.
The night also included a heartfelt salute to four NEA Jazz Masters who died during 2010 – Abbey Lincoln, Hank Jones, James Moody and Dr. Billy Taylor. Backed by the orchestra, Roberta Gambarini and Jimmy Heath performed "Angel Face," a song composed by Hank Jones and Abbey Lincoln. The youthful Gambarini was a sublime choice, and not just because of her pure jazz vocal approach and respect for the jazz tradition. She also had collaborated with both Jones and Moody, who held the Italian singer in high regard.
This year, both the panel and awards ceremony were broadcast via a video webcast, so that a savvy jazz fan could have one of the best seats in the house for an entertaining show that only comes around once a year.
For more information about the honorees, past and present, you can visit the NEA website devoted to the Jazz Masters.


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"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain.
Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War.
The war began in 1936 with an uprising in Morocco of Spanish Nationalists against a Madrid regime seen as anti-Catholic, Marxist and Trotskyite. Vladimir Lenin had predicted that Spain would be the second Soviet republic in Europe.
The war would last three years, with Joseph Stalin providing aid to the regime, Benito Mussolini sending troops to fight on the side of Gen. Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler sending his Condor Legion. The bombing of Guernica by the Legion, commemorated in the famous Picasso painting of that name, would be regarded as the great war crime of the conflict.
Yet Guernica was child's play compared with what was to come with the Blitz, Berlin, Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima. The Nuremberg Tribunal would wisely rule out terror bombing of cities as a war crime for which Nazis could be prosecuted and hanged.
As America has declined to intervene in Syria, FDR declared neutrality early in the Spanish Civil War, outlawing any sale of weapons to either side.
In 1936, as the Spanish war erupted, FDR spoke for his country:
"We shun commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars; we avoid connections with the political activities of the League of Nations. ... We are not isolationists except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war." [Address at Chautauqua, N.Y. August 14, 1936]
America emphatically agreed.
Today, it is the bitter fruit of Iraq and Afghanistan that explains our reluctance. Then, it was 116,000 American dead in places like the Argonne and Belleau Wood—which had produced a Carthaginian peace at Versailles and set the table for Hitler—that had left us with ashes in our mouths.
Two battalions of American volunteers did go to Spain to fight on the side of the regime. In 1947, veterans of that "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" would be put on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations.
In Spain, the struggle was ideological and religious—Nationalists and Catholics against socialists, communists and anarchists.
In Syria, too, it is religious—the Alawite Shia regime of Bashar Assad battling an uprising centered in the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.
As Europe in 1936 contained democracies, dictatorships of the fascist and authoritarian right, and a Stalinist left, today's Middle East contains democracies, monarchies and dictatorships.
As there were Catalans and Basques fighting for their own causes in Spain, in Syria today are Kurds, Druze and al-Qaida with their own rival agendas.
As America and Britain stayed out of the Spanish Civil War, so today America and Britain have stayed aloof from Syria's conflict.
As the Spanish Civil War exposed the impotence of the League of Nations, Syria's conflict is exposing the paralysis of the United Nations, when permanent members of the Security Council like Russia refuse to authorize the kind of intervention they did in Libya.
As the Spanish republic received moral and material support from Moscow, today Moscow sends attack helicopters to Damascus, while Turkey provides sanctuary for the resistance, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar provide weapons.
Russia and Iran see Assad's Syria as their last strong, reliable ally in the region. Syria's ports on the Mediterranean are open to Vladimir Putin's navy. And Putin's military-industrial complex has long sold the Assad family the weapons to fight its wars and crush rebellions.
If Assad's regime were to collapse and the Muslim Brotherhood come to power, Russia would be virtually out of the Middle East. Iran would be almost isolated. Had we not overthrown the Sunni regime of Saddam and brought the Shia majority to power in Baghdad, an Iran without Syria would be an Iran without a major ally across the region.
The first peril in the Syrian conflict is that it could become a civil war in which not just 10,000 die, but scores of thousands perish.
A second danger is that as Syria contains Sunni, Shia, Druze, Kurd, Arab, Christian—indeed, mirrors the Middle East—a Syrian civil war could become a proxy war for all in the region, beginning with Lebanon.
Third, as Syria is aligned with Iran in the conflict with Israel and with Russia on the world stage, greater powers may come to see themselves as having a vital stake in how this war ends, and intervene, each in its own way, to assure a favorable outcome.
The Spanish Civil War ended in Franco's victory in 1939 and ended well for the Western democracies that had not intervened.
When Hitler, after occupying France in 1940, met with Franco to ask permission for the Wehrmacht to cross Spain to attack Gibraltar, Franco said no and put troops in the Pyrenees to enforce his decision.
Unlike Mussolini, Franco remained a nonbelligerent in the world war, returned U.S. pilots who came down in Spain and agreed to a postwar alliance with the United States.
Non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War worked out just fine.
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His most recent published book is Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, reviewed here by Paul Craig Roberts. His new book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? was released October 18, 2011.

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Tregillis applied the Page 69 Test to The Rising, the second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy, and reported the following:
Page 69 of The Rising happens to land at a chapter break. And chapter breaks are frequently in this book, at least a place where characters' fortunes change, or where they experience revelations... whether welcome or not.Learn more about the book and author at Ian Tregillis's website.
Thus, upon opening the book to that particular page, we land in the immediate aftermath of a brief but decisive few moments of frantic, and deadly, activity. This sequence of events could have unfolded considerably better, but also considerably worse, for the pointofview character. And that distinction can be a very fine line in a world populated with superhuman clockwork servitors.
That's why, while catching her breath and assessing the aftermath, she thinks to herself:
That was less than ideal. Little point in trying to arrange the scene to suggest a simple robbery gone wrong, when it was so obvious that one of the vehicles had been destroyed by metal fists.Nothing is ever easy for these characters; coincidence is never to their benefit. The master storytellers at Pixar have some excellent thoughts on how stories do and don't work. This list is chockablock with wisdom from beginning to end, but apropos of the scene in question, I take point #19 to heart. Coincidences should only occur on the page if they make the characters' journeys more difficult, or at the very least, more interesting!
But times of flux can also be times of opportunity. And this character is never one to pass up an opportunity, no matter how slight or dangerous. Which is why, as Chapter 4 fades to black, she says, in part:"I want you to forget everything that happened tonight... And then I believe you'll begin your new assignment by showing me the contents of the chest you were guarding."That stolen chest becomes instrumental to her continuing adventures. It shines with the promise of long and hardsought information. It's also extremely dangerous, as she quickly learns.
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The first thing that came into my mind when I arrived Melaka was DJ Anatta's gig back in 2006. She had a gig at Pure Club hence a few of us accompanied her there.
There we encountered some helicopter boys.
Anyway, my trip this time was to accompany A, who had to go there for work. We ate and ate and ate throughout the trip.
We started off with chicken rice balls, roasted chicken, barbecued pork and hot and spicy cabbage at Famosa Chicken Rice Balls. I wanted small portions for each dish but the waiter gave us too much -___- Our plan to leave some space for other food was interrupted.
We didn't go to Restoran Chung Wah for chicken rice balls because I like the dark sauce provided by Famosa.
Anyway, the queue at Chung Wah was crazy!
I wonder what is so good about this place. I came here once and I find it so-so.
We decided to take a break from food and visited the Cheng Ho Museum. Entry was RM10 per person.
The museum provides a guided tour both in English and Chinese. The tour lasted around and hour.
If you didn't know who is Cheng Ho, Cheng Ho is a famous Chinese official who had traveled all around the world in the 1400s. Author of the book "1421 – The Year China discovered America", Gavin Menzies, claimed that Cheng Ho found America before Christopher Columbus.
Notwithstanding that Cheng Ho was a eunuch, some of his descendants can be traced until today. Apparently, most of them live in Thailand and their pictures are shown in the museum.
Models of Cheng Ho's 208 ships that sailed through the world
Our tour guide also gave us a brief explanation on how forced castration was done on eunuch in China. According to him, a boy's penis together with his balls will be carved out and covered for 3 days. If he is able to pass water on the 3rd day, he will be able to survive. uuuhh..
Plenty of porcelain in this museum. Many of them donated or loaned by locals.
Overall, I think the artifacts and presentation of this place is rather mediocre. I don't understand why Malaysia museums like to use mannequins. I don't remember seeing any in the British Museum in London or Mets in NYC. Some local politician got contract to provide mannequins is it?
After our museum tour, we walked to Jonker 88 for our favourite cendol.
However, the queue was bloody long and we decided to forget Jonker 88. As we were about to enter the shop next to Jonker 88, our friend Frederick waved at us.
He was in front of the line and he offered to buy us cendol! Woohooo.
He even gave us a bowl of curry laksa cause he over ordered. -_____- I was soooooooooo fulll!
Before my trip to Melaka, my colleague recommended me to try the Mille Crepe in Nadeje Cafe. Apparently, it is better than Food Foundry hence I was determined to try it before I head back to KL.
Before setting to Nadeje Cafe…we bought a packet of fresh onde-onde 😀
To be continued..


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Yamashita "Golden Bait" squids are the highest quality on the market today. Here in the Pacific Northwest they are the standard in the fishing industry. They are not only manufactured from the highest quality materials but also have the best colors.
The Cuttlefish has a larger profile than the 35 Octopus as well as a set of wings atop the head.
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Preparations for Japan's staging of Rugby World Cup 2019 have been further boosted after the International Rugby Board announced that the 2012 IRB Pacific Nations Cup will be hosted by the Japan Rugby Football Union.
The awarding of the marquee international tournament demonstrates the JRFU's commitment to successfully delivering major Rugby events in the run up to Rugby World Cup 2019. It also underscores the massive growth potential within Asia – a Region that has experienced 18 per cent uplift in participation since 2007.
The announcement comes off the back of the JRFU's successful hosting of the Tokyo leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series – the first international Sevens event to be hosted in the country in 11 years. It is also a strong endorsement of the Union's operational and organisational skills as Rugby World Cup 2019 planning and preparation continues to advance on track.
It also provides a welcome and timely boost for Rugby across Japan after the 2011 IRB Pacific Nations Cup was reluctantly moved from the country to allow the Union to concentrate on assisting the Rugby community affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March last year.
Five of the six matches will be played in Japan with double-headers featuring in the first two rounds of matches giving fans the opportunity to see the stars from all four teams. The opening match day on June 5 will see Samoa v Tonga (17:10 local time) and Fiji v Japan (19:10) in Nagoya while the second match day will take place on June 10 in Tokyo with Fiji v Samoa (12:10) and Japan v Tonga (14:10). The final round will be split over two weeks to accommodate Scotland's tour to the Pacific Islands with Samoa v Japan in Tokyo on June 17 (14:10) and Fiji v Tonga rounding off the action in Lautoka, Fiji on June 23 (15:40).
"We are delighted that Japan is to host this major international championship. The awarding of this event not only underscores the great appetite for showcase Rugby events in Japan, but also demonstrates the JRFU's intentions to reach out to new Rugby fans across Japan and wider Asia as we look towards Rugby World Cup 2019," said IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset.
"These are exciting times for Rugby in Asia and the Pacific Islands. The IRB Pacific Nations Cup was introduced in 2006 to provide an expanded high-level competition calendar for Fiji, Japan, Samoa and Tonga and therefore increase the competitiveness of Rugby World Cup. In that regard it has been a success story for the IRB and Participating Unions, demonstrating that our strategic investment programme is working. The IRB Pacific Nations Cup is now a hugely anticipated event in the Rugby calendar in its own right."
"Scotland will tour Samoa and Fiji as the 10-year IRB tours and test schedule kicks off which highlights the IRB's commitment to providing the likes of Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Japan with more tests than ever before in a calendar year. In total we have invested more than GBP 15 million in Rugby in Oceania between 2009-2012."
Growing the Game in Asia is a key priority for the IRB ahead of Rugby World Cup 2019 and the JRFU continues to make significant progress towards hosting Rugby's showcase event. The IRB Pacific Nations Cup 2012 follows successful hosting of a record-breaking IRB Junior World Championship in 2009 and Tokyo's debut as a HSBC Sevens World Series venue.
Japan Rugby Football Union Chairman Tatsuzo Yabe said: "These are exciting times for Rugby in Japan and throughout Asia and I am delighted that the Japan Rugby Football Union will host this year's IRB Pacific Nations Cup, one year after the difficult decision was taken to relocate the tournament following the Tohoku earthquake. This will be a tournament for the people of Japan in memory of all who tragically lost their lives and were affected."
"We are fully committed to delivering a very successful tournament that will showcase international Rugby as we continue to build towards Rugby World Cup 2019. Working in partnership with the IRB and RWCL, the JRFU has a long term plan to grow Rugby and host major international Rugby events that will continue to lay the operational and management foundations for a successful Rugby World Cup 2019 that will be the gateway to Rugby's boom across Asia."
"The IRB Pacific Nations Cup will also provide valuable opportunities for the Japan national team, led by newly appointed head coach Eddie Jones, to compete with top level Rugby nations," added Yabe.
Eddie Jones commented: "This is a new era for Japan Rugby and the Japan national team as we build towards Rugby World Cup 2019. The hosting of the IRB Pacific Nations Cup on home soil represents a great opportunity for us to move forward – to develop a truly Japanese style of Rugby with a young squad full of talent.
"We are looking forward to competing in the competition and bringing top class international Rugby to the Japanese people. Samoa and Tonga are ahead of us in the IRB World Rankings and we respect Fiji greatly. It will be very competitive."
The IRB Pacific Nations Cup dovetails with the sister IRB Pacific Rugby Cup to deliver a local player and coach development pathway for the Pacific Island Nations. This year A sides from each of the three nations have played against Super Rugby development team opposition in Australia and New Zealand. The competition resumes in October with the final round robin matches between the Island teams.


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Jason Aldean's Wife, Sister Team Up to Launch Line of Politically Conservative Clothing Items
Jason Aldean and his family are wearing their political viewpoints on their sleeves — literally. The singer's wife, Brittany, and his sister, Kasi Rosa Wicks, have teamed up to launch a new line of right-leaning clothing items that are available for fan purchase now via their online pop-up shop.
However, Brittany explains, the clothes won't be available for long.
"This is a flash sale, so these pieces will only be available for 3 days, then gone forever!!" she writes in the caption of an Instagram post made Monday morning (Nov. 8). A portion of the proceeds from these items will benefit Special Forces Charitable Trust, she says, which supports military families.
"Thank y'all for supporting this line we have worked so hard on," Brittany adds.
The clothing line consists of four different unisex T-shirt and sweatshirt designs, all of which prominently feature known political slogans, or twists on them. A heather grey crewneck sweater reads "Unapologetically Conservative"; a green, long-sleeved T-shirt bears the slogan "Military Lives Matter," and a blue hooded sweatshirt identifies the wearer as part of the "Un-silent Majority." Finally, a gray tee reads "We the People" in small print on the front, while the back of the shirt bears the phrase, "This is our f---ing country."
In Brittany's post, she and Kasi model two of the shirts and enlisted their musical husbands to wear the other two. Jason Aldean appears in the post, as does Chuck Wicks, the country singer and radio personality who is married to Kasi.
In recent months, Aldean and Brittany have been vocal about their right to wear clothing that reflects their political values. In September, the singer's wife shared photos of herself and the couple's two young children wearing anti-President Joe Biden T-shirts. Aldean chimed in with a supportive message in the comments section, replying, "My boy" to an image of his son Memphis wearing a shirt that read "Hidin' from Biden."
The family received some blowback in the comments section, too, but Aldean quickly stepped up to defend their political views and choices. Subsequently, he shared an image of himself backlit by the American flag, with a caption stating, "I will never apologize for my beliefs or for my love for my family and country."


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text: View from the couch By Lisa Fabrizio Having been forced into a prone position following surgery two weeks ago, I was necessarily bound to recumbent furniture and was therefore a captive audience of the Boob Tube for nearly ten days; which for me, consisted mostly of Turner Classic Movies, old sitcoms on TV Land and the Sochi Olympics. Now, already being a faithful follower of TCM, I knew that February was a good time to be laid up, as they are smack in the midst of their annul 31 Days of Oscar programming where, with the exception of 1950s and 1960s angst-filled dreck, one can usually find a great movie any time of the day or night for an entire month. For example, while awaiting the da Vinci robot in my pre-op room, I was able to watch most of the classic 1941 romp, Ball of Fire, wherein hipster Barbara Stanwyck delivers important life lessons on slang and boogie to an impossibly stuffy professor played by Gary Cooper. It was a great way to drift into the arms of Morpheus, as so artfully delivered by my anesthesiologist. During the first day of my confinement at home, I was treated to a one-two punch of MGM leading ladies, beginning with the languorous Greta Garbo toying with the affections of the young and gorgeous Robert Taylor in 1937's Camille, followed by the great lady of MGM herself, Norma Shearer, attended upon by a gallant Tyrone Power as well as the hissingly evil Joseph Schildkraut in the 1938 feast for the eyes, Marie Antoinette. But alas, my love for movies is not served by the talents of method actors, and so when TCM saw fit to devote many hours of programming to their exhausting emotive efforts, I turned instead to the small screen characters with whom I grew up. And while I was not a big TV fan even as a child, still, if you have a lot of time to kill, you could do worse than to hang out with Perry Mason, Sgt. Friday and Aunt Bea. I was particularly struck by the wry humor of the late 1960s iteration of Dragnet, with Jack Webb and Harry Morgan administering tough love to the turtle-necked punks of Los Angeles. As I began to feel better, I felt it necessary to justify my week-long loafing by delivering daily accounts of Olympic happenings to my wonderful husband who waited on me hand and foot during my recovery before, during and after his long work day. Both being huge American sports fans, we usually view the Winter Olympics as a sometimes interesting interlude between football, college hoops and baseball. My husband really loves hockey while I prefer the intellectual aspects of curling, and as such, we were most disturbed by the dominance of the Canadians in these matters. Okay, so it's one thing when our hockey teams are consistently and brutally beaten by our friends from the Great White North. After all, it's their game really, even if the paying customers in most NHL cities are Americans. But the buff, muscle-bound physiques and chilling efficiency with which the Canadian players dispatched their opponents in the recently concluded Games prompted my good friend Mike to call for stricter drug testing in curling. And what to say about Johnny Weir that hasn't already been said about his geisha-girl chic hairdos and junk jewelry? Suffice to say that whatever NBC had in mind in regards to his being the answer to Russia's 'oppression' of gays, it didn't work out too well. As for the rest of the Games, it is my considered opinion that no sport in which the exposition of one's tongue is de rigueur, should ever again be permitted on the international stage. Near the end of my recovery period, reality appeared via Fox News, where images from the Ukraine intruded on my revelry. Awful scenes of violence and bloodshed filled the TV screen where only minutes earlier, Aunt Bea had been baking Opie's favorite pie. Not to worry though, as Barack Obama quickly and manfully responded by threatening someone, with something. I felt confident that all our problems and indeed, those around the world would be ameliorated by the prompt and decisive actions of our esteemed Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. And then the drugs wore off. Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Our leather bags are handmade by a small team of craftspeople dedicated to making a truly unique luxury product. Photos show the bag's front and bag which are generally different from each other. The bag can be worn on your desired side!
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Gold zip enclosure.
Beaded strap.
Diameter: 19 cm
Bag Strap: 116 cm
Clean with a soft cloth using soapy water.
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For this collection, Saz photographed and sketched a variety of birds. From peacocks to parrots, she fell in love with their jewel tones and used them to inspire her textiles. She collaged her photographs and sketches into beautiful digital designs which were then digitally printed onto real leather.
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One of the main types of project Munters look at is energy efficiency improvements within the thermal management side. One of the easiest changes that can be made is swapping out the old AC powered motors for EC powered impellors. the reductions in energy is considerable, with some older belt drive unit changes measuring a saving of over 60% this is due to the design of the new impellors and the remarkable efficiency of the EC motor.
By David Bennett, Service Sales Manager, Munters
They use less energy to produce the same amount of power. The use of EC fans does not affect the air volume produced, only the positive effect of lowering the power consumption of the unit. They are able to produce the same air flow through the unit, but at a lower RPM, meaning less energy is consumed to produce the same air flow.
EC motors and matching impellors are currently the most efficient type of fan arrangement for the air movement needed in CRAC units. They utilise the most modern manufacturing techniques used to produce the impellors, they are generally a polymer based injection moulded component, which means more efficient designs can be made without the need to individually shape the impellor blades, and weld them into place. The metal impellor fabrication had to allow tolerances for the construction methods used. With the improvements gained in impellor design and manufacture, the EC motors attached to them could provide the maximum energy savings. The new impellors can deliver the same air flow as the older fans, but at a slower speed, this reduction in speed gives efficiency improvements, as well as motor efficiency being improved upon. These two areas are where we see the energy savings. Multiply the savings from each fan, into a complete data centre and the savings become obvious.
EC fans do not need an inverter to control their speed; instead a 0-10 volt signal (normally sent to an inverter) is sent directly to the motor, resulting in no controls efficiency losses, these signals control the speed of the fan, either through commissioning or by demand based control.
None. It is often thought that the reduction in motor power and fan speed will cause the chillers to work harder, as the flow rate will need to increase to allow for the lower air flow. This is incorrect, the air flow remains the same as before, as the design of the impellor and motor mean it provides the same air flow but at a lower speed.
Yes, the air flow needs to be controlled to prevent the evaporator coil inside the CRAC unit from freezing. If it is a mechanical change out at the same air flow as the original, then there is no need to consider this.
Should you have other manufacturers products installed, we are able to carry out these works to upgrade them too. It doesn't matter who's name is on the front, we can upgrade them, and probably already have somewhere in the UK.
We monitor installations and provide energy usage data of before and after installations. These figures allow us to confidently provide payback periods and expected energy savings. The new fan and motor assemblies we use are vigorously tested during lengthy R&D tests, to ensure that the data provided is 100% accurate. Once we know your cost per kW/Hr we can work the energy cost savings. We generally provide a payback in less than two years, and in some cases much quicker.
We provide EC fan upgrades for the axial fans installed on chillers for the condenser fans and some dry coolers. The saving can be just as impressive on the chillers, and should be considered. The additional savings are very good, for minimal outlay. We have a range of fans specifically designed to retro fit on to condensing coil fans. We can apply the same technology to all chillers.
We are also able to offer EC fan upgrades on comfort cooling Air Handling Units (AHU'S) too; we often see older belt drive fans in these units. The process is basically the same as it is for a CRAC unit, only the fans are usually larger.
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DALLAS – Dick Davis, a veteran conservation journalist who spent the
last five years as Director of the Texas – Oklahoma Region for the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, has been named executive
director of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation, effective June 1.
Davis and a current staff of three based in Dallas, will lead
efforts to provide private support for the work of the Texas Parks
& Wildlife Department, for which the foundation is the official
non-profit partner.
"We're delighted that Dick has come on board," said Pat Oles,
Chairman of the TPWF board. "We've been very impressed with his record
over many years of conservation efforts and in non-profit work. "We
think that he'll be a great fit for our foundation and will be a great
leader in helping us achieve our potential."
Davis began his journalistic work on behalf of conservation when
still a high school student in Duncanville by writing articles for the
Dallas Morning News outdoor page. He later served as sports
writer-photographer for the Waco Tribune-Herald, where an article about
his personal tryout with the Dallas Cowboys was named "Best Feature
Story" by the Texas Sports Writers' Association. In 1975 he began to
publish in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Gray's Sporting Journal,
Southern Outdoors and Game & Fish Publications.
His award-winning series, "Outdoor Magazine," first appeared on 150
public television stations, then later on cable. It was three times
named "Best Television Production" by the Outdoor Writers' Association
of America. The series also won the Theodore Roosevelt Award for
Conservation from the National Outdoor-Travel Film Festival.
While living in Louisiana serving as Outdoor Editor for a major
daily newspaper, his articles won Best News Story, Feature and Column
by the Louisiana Press Association. He also helped found the Louisiana
Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. And, he was
instrumental in the establishment of the Tensas River National Wildlife
"Everything I've done in my career, from writing about natural
resource management for newspapers and magazines to producing
television programs to working for other non-profit organizations, has
prepared me for this job," Davis said. "The people who work for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have always been among my heroes.
Now to be able to assist them and the department in accomplishing their
conservation goals on behalf of the people of Texas is both an honor
and dream come true."
During his five years with the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, he helped increase the number of grants to Texas
organizations from about 8 to about 30 annually and the average federal
and private investment rose from $300,000 to $1.5 million a year. He
also established the Texas Legends Award recognizing individuals for
life-long conservation accomplishments. Recipients have been Tobin
Armstrong, Karen & Tim Hixon and Dick Bartlett, all supporters of
the TPWF.
"The Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation has a rich history, from
the outstanding conservationists who have served on its board to the
hundreds of supporters who have contributed to its many efforts and
special projects," said Davis. "One of my short-term goals will be to
visit with as many of those folks as soon as possible to enlist their
continuing support, engage them again in our work and to invite and
incorporate their suggestions on how to make the foundation stronger in
the future.
"At the same time, we will reach out to new people who may have
never supported ours or any other conservation organization, invite
them to join our team and help ensure the permanent protection and
management of Texas' unique natural resources."
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– Lake Mohave


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Joanna posted "Things not to do when visiting a McDonald's" at McDonald's Talk, a Live Journal community where many McDonald's employees post their thoughts, stories, complaints and ideas about their employment at McDonald's. She has worked at McDonald's for 2 years.
Here are a few of my favorites of the 43 McRules she has posted (I've made some minor corrections to spelling and grammar):
- Don't confuse franchises! We don't Biggie size, we don't have onion rings or nachos, and no...you may not "Have it your way."
- If you ordered a burger without pickles and they somehow ended up there anyway... just pick them off because that's all I'm going to do when you bring it back to me to "fix it."
- Don't come into the lobby two minutes before we close. Chances are I've already cleaned, and it will only cause me to do unspeakable things to your (already stale) food.
- Don't scream at me if I ask you to repeat your order... we're talking about cheeseburgers, not missiles... so calm down!
- If you don't see tomatoes on the sandwich in the picture don't [f#@%ing] ask me to take them off. The Big Mac has been around for ages... it doesn't have tomatoes.
- Does this look like Toys-R-Us? Who cares if your kid's got 10 of the same toy already. That's telling me you don't feed them at home enough!
- When I hand you your food and say "Have a nice day," you better respond with a smile, a "Thanks, you too," or at least acknowledge my existence. Its called being polite people.Wow
I don't know how important it is to follow Joanna's McRules, but it might be helpful to remember that other McDonald's employees might share her state of mind. It might help you avoid the "unspeakable!"
Joanna has also posted some photos of herself at work on her Myspace page.
Others have posted there own versions of rules like these here and here.


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I've just spent a few days hunting whales in Lamalera, on the eastern end of Lembata island, off Flores. We didn't have much luck, but last week, there was something of an end-of-season bonanza: in rickety wooden boats and using only long bamboo harpoons with rusty metal tips, the lads of Lamalera (and they are definitely Lads) brought in six whales. They get hacked up on the beach, which is littered still with spines and skulls.
Every household gets its part: when I arrive the whole village is garlanded with shriveling flesh, dripping oil. It stinks. I hate to keep harking back to my past life, but when we were writing questionnaires for sex workers, the boys from Statistics Indonesia and I had long arguments about how to describe symptoms of chlamydia and other STIs in women. In the end we settled on this delicate formulation: a vaginal discharge "yang bau kurang sedap" ("that smells unfragrant"). Now I've got a new suggestion: "a vaginal discharge that smells like Lamalera". The whole village exists in a miasma of stale fishiness; since dried whale meat is virtually the only protein on offer, that stuck-in-the-back-of-your-throat stench surfaces on the dinner table, too.
To punish me for my uncharitable thoughts, the whale Gods saw to it that the villager sitting next to me in the truck leaving Lamalera spilled a bottle of fish oil over my backpack. A little, portable miasma which at least creates space around me in overcrowded buses.
For readers in Britain, here's a BBC feature on the whale-hunters of Lemalera:


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The Design Team are -
Mel Brough
I'm a sahm to 3 kids. My mum introduced me to card making about 2 years ago, pretty basic things at first but then I discovered blog land and quickly progressed onto stamping and altering anything I could get my hands on! My first love will always be stamping, I love stamps that are out of the ordinary, my favourites are Paperbag Studios and Paper Artsy, if I had to give you my ultimate favourite stamp it would have to be Smile by Stampotique, I love him he's incredibly quirky & versatile. I find my inspiration from all the brilliant artists in blogland, there really is no better place to find inspiration than blog hopping.
Jo Capper-Sandon
I trained originally as a printed/woven textile designer and so love texture, colour and layering and generally work with mixed media and recycled bits and pieces. I'm 45 and live on the south coast of the UK in a beautiful tranquil village with my husband and two sons (6 and 18).
I belong to various stamp manufacturer Design Teams including Art Journey, Paperbag Studios, Crafty Individuals, Paper Artsy and Stampotique Originals as well as producing various pieces of artwork for craft shops, online stores and Gingersnap Creations Challenge site. I also write on a regular basis for Craft Stamper magazine.
I really enjoy creating with all the different designs and to think of new ideas and ways of working, which hopefully, inturn, gives other people incentive to develop what they've seen further by adding their own twist, taking it to another level.
Julie Dandy
Aka: ScrappyDandyDoo
I'm married with no kids,just a daft dog, and am the youngest of a large family which gives me lots of photos to scrap I work in a busy department store as a visual supervisor which I love as I get to be creative as I work. I have been scrapbooking since 2004 and was a cardmaker before that, but I have always been a crafter from a small age. I would drive my mum mad cutting and sticking and often made my dolly's clothes :D As a teenager I learned to make my own clothes, often cutting the patterns myself, as I liked to have my own style (I wont be sharing those photos believe me LOL). I am currently researching my family tree and have some amazing vintage photos to be scrapped.
I love all things vintage and, like my dad, am a big hoarder! I tend to squirrel things away until they are just the right thing so often use old bits and pieces in my work. I have a bit of a thing for vintage lace at the moment and mini frames so you will see quite a lot of those in my work. love hybrid scrapping and often use digi kits to print embellies or acetate overlays. I seem to have quite a grungey style too, and even when I try not to my work is still labelled as grungey! I also love to recycle bits and pieces especially packaging from craft and every day products, or even broken jewellery, spare buttons etc.. I'm an active blogger, and an active member of UK Scrappers so say hi if your passing. I love Happy Daze site for my shopping as it is full of fabulous little finds.
Linda Elbourne
Aka: Linda_E
I have been crafting since forever in one form or another. My passion for stamping took over about 5 years ago. I am a Ranger girl at heart and love nothing more than trying new things and getting inky and messy ... My style is eclectic ... if that is a style :0) and I will give anything a go at least once! I have been known to sky dive and abseil on occasion! I love the ethos that Moira beings to Happy Daze and I am extremely proud to have been asked to join her design team.
Debbie Fletcher
Aka: Krafty Kitten or KK
By day I work in IT Compliance and Security for a Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices company and by night I live in my beautiful home with two gorgeous Chihuahuas. I have been crafting for 10 years now. A lady at work got me into it and took me to the Hobbycraft show at the NEC - and all I could think was - stamping images in black and colouring them in would not look that great - how wrong I was! Once the possibilities became evident to me, it opened up a whole new world in my creativity. What started as making a few cards for friends and family became a big part of my life (and took over an entire room in my house)! I also write poetry so that makes card inserts a doddle, and I love to scrapbook and alter things too. I wouldn't say I have a particular style as such as I love to try new things and experiment all the time. But when I find something I love I tend to stick to it for a while before moving on. Have fun creating with Happy Daze!
Carol Fox
Aka: Ginger
I am Carol AKA ginger both in the real world and online. I have been crafting in one form or another since I was tiny. It started the summer I realised I was tall enough to reach the treadle on my Mum's old sewing machine and I have havent stopped since. I have tried most things and still do most of the crafts I have learnt over the years. But now my real loves are Mixed Media and Altered Art as absolutely anything goes. I love nothing more than a good rummage around a junk shop for old bits and pieces to use on altered art projects. I can usually be found either in my craft room or on my allotment.
Siobhan Fry
Aka: ceruleanblue
I've been scrapbooking for just over two years now after reading about it about it in a card making magazine. I only ever made about five cards as I realised that you have to give your card creations away but with scrapbooking you get to keep what you make! I found my way onto the UKScrappers forum and lurked there for about six months before creating and posting my first layout. I love scrapbooking because it allows me to be creative in my own way. I don't consider myself to be artistic or crafty, I can't draw a straight line for toffee (or stick photos on straight for that matter!), but scrapbooking gives me that creative outlet that I crave. I'm not one for producing quick and graphic layouts as I really enjoy the whole process of getting inspired, choosing papers and embellishments that will enhance what I am trying to convey with my layout. I often choose time-consuming techniques that will absorb me for a while so I can switch off from the workaday stresses. I'm thrilled to be part of the Happy Daze design team, and hope that you will enjoy my creations.
Ruth Phillips
Aka: alteredgeisha
I am delighted to have been offered a place on the Happy Daze design team, the beautiful products available in the shop are just my style. It took me such a long time to get to find my own style, and when I finally did it was a huge relief. I discovered papercrafts when a Scrapbooking shop opened in my neighbourhood four years ago. It was love at first "stroke" and I started to attend card making classes as soon as I could. This progressed to techniques classes and during this time I totally fell in love with making 12x12 layouts. My style has since developed over the years and I would describe it as a distressed shabby vintage look.
I couldn't survive without my scissors and distress ink for making my edges shabby and glossy accents for keeping my paper flowers in place. Die cut shapes form my biggest collection as I only use them for tracing around to get the base for the next layout. I am inspired by the papers first and often nearly finish a layout before the right photo is found to compliment it. For me its all about shape, design and complimentary colours. My altered items tend to be of a practical nature and are often very pretty with lace and lots of bling on them. I love grungy altered art but always feel the need to add a photo to it....I think maybe thats the part of me that justifies this hobby by saying it's preserving history for my kids!!
I am extremely lucky to be on a few design teams, have won some challenges on SB.com and have been published in Scrapbook Inspirations and on-line. I am looking forward to this exciting new adventure with Happy Daze and creating lovely layouts from these gorgeous kits to inspire you.
Paula Whittaker
Aka BB
I live in the UK, I'm married and I have one cat. I love gardening and photography but my main love (I was going to say don't tell my husband but I realise he already knows this) is papercrafting. The affair started in 2005 and I'm still all consumed by it! My other roles include Designer for Daring Cardmakers, Designer for Gingersnap Creations and Guest Designer for the Spring 2007 issue of Take Ten. My work has appeared in Handcrafted, Card Beautiful, Craft Stamper and Stamper's Sampler.


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Exchange Control is the bugbear of every South African residing outside SA or even for those in SA wishing to internationalize their business or investment portfolio.
South Africans have seen a gradual ease of exchange control rules and although most transactions remain under "surveillance" the ease of transfer and tracking have been made substantially easier of the last few years.
Tucked away with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's budget address was a small note in section W3 suggesting he will make it easier for SA pensioners living abroad.
Pensioners living abroad can now extract their monthly pension and retirement annuity income from South Africa (SA) without the need of a tax clearance certificate, despite living Read More


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April 23, 2014: Kansas City, Ks.
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MR. RUSSERT: As you well remember back in October of 2002, Congress voted to authorize the president to attack Iraq if he decided that that was in the best interest of the United States. The primary rationale provided by the administration was that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. Nearly 180 members in the House of Representatives cited the nuclear threat in their speeches as they voted to vote for authorization. I want to go back and show you what you said in October of 2002 about Saddam. "...once a madman like Saddam Hussein is able to deliver his arsenal, whether"--it's--"chemical, biological or nuclear weapons"--there's--"no telling when an American city will be attacked at his direction or with his support. ...the threat from Saddam Hussein's terrorist state. ...Only regime change can remove the danger from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Only by taking them out of his hands and destroying them can we be certain that terror weapons will not wind up in the hands of terrorists."This is the kind of deceipt I thought Spinsanity would be all over (they're too busy playing Fair and Balanced and trying desperately to nitpick at Dean and Moveon.org to notice this stuff, I suppose) and I haven't got the energy or the ability to control my rage long enough to point out what should be obvious to every sentient being about DeLay's soulless mendacity, I just want to draw attention to Russert's blithe acceptance of DeLay's response, his failure to question a single statement made by that hypocritical troll, then his little tapdance to support the idea that everybody thought Saddam had WMD, and his opening the door for a little Clinton bashing which, if you follow the link, you'll see DeLay wasted no time in proceeding with. Fine, we know what DeLay is, he is a lying politician without a shred of moral or intellectual credibility. We expect him to trot out the party line. Russert is supposed to be a journalist; Russert's job is to investigate, analyze, interpret, and basically help reveal the truth. He clearly has no desire or intention to do any of those things.
Why haven't we found significant stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction? And was the country, the world, misled in the suggestion that Saddam possessed biological and chemical weapons in the imminent--and the risk was imminent?
REP. DeLAY: Well, first, Tim, I don't accept your premise. The president didn't overemphasize weapons of mass destruction as the only reason to go into Iraq. And in my own remarks, if you had given the entire remarks, you would have seen that I went through a complete list of things that this--Saddam Hussein has been doing, that has been proven to have been right. First and foremost, he used weapons of mass destruction against Iran, against Kuwait, against his own people. So we knew that he had the--at least chemical weapons of mass destruction because he had used them in the past. He was violating U.N. resolutions for 10, almost 12 years. He violated every agreement that he made after he lost the war in Desert Storm.
He lied to the American people. He lied to the world. He supported terrorists. We have proven that to--to be the case so far. He had weapons of mass destruction. I think we'll still find them. But it wasn't the only thing. And I--we have found that he has supported terrorists in Israel. He had missiles aimed at Israel. He supported terrorists around the world. It was in his best interest to do so. So I think we did the right thing in the war on terror and that is to go after the terrorist Saddam Hussein, and we got him.
MR. RUSSERT: President Bush, former President Clinton, even the Germans, the French said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. If, in fact, we do not find significant stockpiles, has this been a colossal intelligence failure, and should there be an aggressive, bipartisan attempt to find out what may have gone wrong?
OK, so it looks like I decided to proceed with the Airing of Grievances after all. The So-Called Liberal Media has let me down the most in the past year.


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I am a lawyer in the Los Angeles area. After a lifetime of spiritual search, I have concluded that the best evidence, to date, makes it much more likely than not that there are no supernatural beings involved in our universe and no God or gods.
I am a moderate liberal. I am more liberal than conservative, but also, never hesitate to take on the left when I believe that leftist policies would jeopardize the freedoms I hold dear.
I believe that prostitution among consenting adults should be decriminalized.
I also firmly support a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion and support the full provision of family planning and contraceptive services. I maintain that, in the interests of fundamental justice, persons who romantically love others of the same gender should not suffer any less legal rights than those of us who are heterosexual.
However, my primary purpose in establishing this website is to promote the arguments for Atheism/Secular Humanism and to champion the Separation of Church and State. I will also defend free speech and free expression, generally, whenever these liberties are in jeopardy.
It is not my purpose to restrict the legal freedoms of believers. I only want to secure a society in which believers and non believers are equal before the law. On the question of church/state separation,
One does not have to be an Atheist in order to work with me on this issue. Everyone, regardless of individual viewpoint on how the universe is put together, will benefit if government stays out of the God business and if individuals are left free to make their own decisions and lifestyle choices in these delicate matters of conscience.
The arguments against the existence of a God are the most under heard point of view in America, today. An overwhelming number of people consider it self evident that a person cannot be moral without believing in a supernatural being, even though there is a dearth of actual evidence supporting the claim that such a being really exists.
The arguments against the supernatural are powerful both from a philosophical and scientific standpoint. These arguments must be put before the public so that everyone will have access to the compelling reasons for coming to an Atheistic worldview, before deciding whether to believe or not believe.
Rejecting belief in God and in the supernatural, generally, does not necessarily entail any political point of view, beyond those issues touching upon religion and church/state separation. A person can be very right wing on economic and other issues and still be a nonbeliever. My ultimate goal is to help Atheism become so widespread and universal that when people state that they do not believe in God, we will not be able to tell, from that statement alone, what a person's position may be on a wide array of political issues. I am hoping that people from all over the political spectrum and from many diverse points of view will be able to come together and agree on the naturalistic reality that prevails in our world.
It is long overdue for Atheistic arguments to be given a seat at the table of the marketplace of ideas in today's world. I have established this website in the hope of providing a platform for the dissemination of these arguments.
Does The Claim of Jesus' Resurrection Prevail Under the Federal Rules of Evidence? The claim that Jesus was supernaturally resurrected after he died, as described in the Gospels, would prevail.


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A Visit to Two Australian Wineries
YARRA VALLEY, AUSTRALIA — Just about an hour's drive from Melbourne, this picturesque region is the country's leading cool climate wine region.
On my recent trip to Australia, sponsored by Boundary Bend Ltd., I had a chance to visit two outstanding wineries in this valley, the oldest wine region in the state of Victoria in the southern part of the continent.
With its stunning, contemporary main building with sweeping lines that echo the ridge line it overlooks, Yering Station hardly looks like the the oldest winery in the Yarra Valley. But the first grapes were planted here in 1838.
The family-owned winery is known for its Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Shiraz and sparkling wines. In fact, Yerring Station's Assistant Winemaker Marc Lunt says that many wine critics consider Australia second only to Burgundy, France for its quality of Chardonnay. The 2009 we tried was wonderfully creamy and tasted vaguely of peaches. It also had a lovely mineral note, giving it nice balance.
Yering Station also makes an interesting blend of Shiraz and Viognier, apparently a quite common marriage in the Yarra Valley because Merlot does not grow well here. The Viognier takes its place instead, softening the power of the Shiraz grape.
A small group of food journalists and I had the pleasure of dining at the winery's fabulous restaurant with Lunt. The large dining room has a back wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the rolling hills. Even on an overcast day in the fall in the Southern Hemisphere, it was breathtaking.
We shared an assortment of appetizers at lunch. You know a restaurant is good when it can turn out such outstanding dishes when the head chef isn't even in the house that day.
The prices may seem high by American standards (about $21 each for the appetizers), but you have to take into consideration that the gratuity system is much different Down Under. In Australia, it's not customary to tip 18 percent or what-have-you as it is in the United States. Instead, even if you leave a token tip, it's viewed as more than enough. So the prices reflect that.
The other interesting dining difference is that in Australia it's against the law for a restaurant to wrap up your leftovers in a doggy bag for you to take home. A restaurant is only allowed to do that if it specifically has a to-go license. Our hosts explained that it was probably to safeguard against lawsuits from people who might claim they got sick after eating restaurant leftovers that languished in their refrigerator at home for days. Given how litigious we are in the United States, it's a wonder a law like that hasn't passed there.
Lunch began with barramundi, a fish native to Australia's northern waters. The white, flaky fish was incorporated into a refreshing melon salad tossed in a spiced-honey vinaigrette and topped with crispy zucchini flowers filled with gooey cheese.
Quail was roasted with Muscatel until it was tender and juicy. Alongside was a buttery brioche stuffing, parsnip puree and an autumnal sage jus.
Duck got the Thai treatment — flavored in a zingy kaffir lime, coconut and ginger braise that made you want to scrape every last morsel off the plate.
Squid arrived in an earthenware dish, glazed with fortified Pedro Ximenez wine. Bits of chorizo were mixed in for a warm, spicy kick.
My favorite dish had to be the pork belly, one of the best renditions I've ever had. A cube of juicy, fatty belly arrived in the center of a five-spice consomme, heady with star anise. The pork belly was crowned with skin so crisp, you almost felt embarrassed at the noise that emanated from your mouth with every bite.
We also had a chance to visit another family-owned, Yarra Valley winery that day, De Bortoli Wines, which was established in 1928.
Now, third-generation-operated, the winery is an especially fun place to visit because it incorporates cheese tastings with wine tastings. In fact, the tasting room even sports its own cheese cave. Cheeses from all over the world are brought in — mostly by ship — and matured in this high-humidity room.
I had a chance to taste a wonderful goat's blue cheese from Tasmania. With a distinctive pebbly-looking rind, the cheese had a real tang to it, with a very long, pungent finish.
The Yarra Valley is known for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabarnet Sauvignon varietals. De Bortoli makes great use of those to be sure. But it also makes exceptional fortified wines that you shouldn't miss.
Its Noble One has won more awards than just about any other Australian wine. One sip of this golden-hued wine and you'll understand why. Semillion grapes are left on the vine to develop Noble Rot or botrytis to create this stunning Sauternes-like sweet dessert wine. The 2007 tastes like nectar made from peaches, apricots and candied orange peel. Pure heaven.
If packing luggage for a flight weren't such a huge hassle these days, I would have gladly toted a bottle or two of this wine back home. As it is, it'll just give me an excuse to visit the beautiful Yarra Valley again — as if I needed one.
TIP: To experience more of what the incredible Yarra Valley has to offer, check out Wine Compass' Yarra Valley Tour.
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Grandparents, an increasingly important source of child care in the United States, vary greatly in the kind of care they provide, depending on their age, resources, and the needs of their children, research at the University of Chicago shows.
A new UChicago study, based on a National Institute on Aging survey, shows that 60 percent of grandparents provided some care for their grandchildren during a 10-year period, and 70 percent of those who did provided care for two years or more.
The results mirror recent U.S. Census data showing the importance of grandparents in child care. The 2010 Census reported that 8 percent of grandparents live with their grandchildren, and 2.7 million grandparents are responsible for most of their grandchildren's needs. In 2006, 2.4 million grandparents had that responsibility.
Additionally, grandparents are the primary source of child care for 30 percent of mothers who work and have children under the age of five, a Census survey showed. The UChicago study explores the diversity in the kinds of care provided by grandparents.
"Our findings show that different groups of grandparents are likely to provide different types of care. Importantly grandparents with less income and less education, or who are from minority groups, are more likely to take on care for their grandchildren," said Linda Waite, the Lucy Flower Professor in Sociology and co-director of the Center on Aging at NORC at the University of Chicago..
The study found that while minority, low-income grandparents were more likely to head households with grandchildren, most grandparents provided some kind of care for their grandchildren.
The research is based on one of the most comprehensive surveys done on grandparenting, the 1998-2008 Health and Retirement Study supported by the National Institute on Aging. The longitudinal study interviewed 13,614 grandparents, aged 50 and older, at two-year intervals over the period to determine their level of care-giving.
The results are published in the paper, "Grandparents Providing Care to Grandchildren: A Population-Based Study of Continuity and Change," published in the September issue of the Journal of Family Issues. Waite is an author of the paper.
Care across households and generations
The paper looks at a variety of forms of grandparent care — multi-generational households, in which a grandparent lives with a child and grandchildren; and skipped generation households, in which a grandparent heads the household caring for grandchildren without their parents being present.
Among the paper's findings are:
• African American and Hispanic grandparents are more likely than whites to begin and continue a multi-generation household or start a skipped generation household.
• Hispanic grandparents are more likely to start a multi-generational household.
• Grandparents with more education and better incomes were more likely to provide babysitting, Waite said.
• Grandmothers are more likely than grandfathers to provide babysitting. Grandparents who are married are more likely to begin and continue babysitting, however.
• Grandparents are less likely to provide care if they have minor children of their own at home.
• Grandparents least likely to provide care are older, unmarried and less likely to be working.
The findings have implications for public policy, Waite pointed out, as child welfare agencies are increasingly depending on family members, particularly grandparents, to provide care to children when parents cannot. The Census figures show that 60 percent of the grandparents caring for their grandchildren also are in the labor force.
"Day care assistance may be particularly needed by middle-aged grandparents who are juggling multiple role obligations — as parent, a grandparent and a paid employee," Waite wrote.
Joining Waite in writing the paper are Ye Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Clemson University; Tracey LaPierre, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas; and Mary Elizabeth Hughes. Assistant Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.