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Suffolk University/7News Poll: Democrat Markey Has Wide Lead in Special General Election for U.S. Senate
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Edward Markey begins the early general election polling with a wide lead over Republican challenger Gabriel Gomez, according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH-Boston) statewide poll of screened likely voters. Markey polled 52 percent, Gomez 35 percent, Twelve Visions Party Richard Heos had 1 percent, 11 percent were undecided, and 1 percent refused a response.
This is the first statewide poll conducted which includes all of the listed candidates for U.S. Senate certified for the official Massachusetts ballot.
"Ed Markey begins this race where he left off with his win in the Democratic Primary: exceeding expectations," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston. "The early perception immediately after the party primaries was that Markey was vulnerable. These findings suggest the opposite of a close race – that Ed Markey begins the sprint to June with a large lead over his Republican opponent who voters are unsure about."
Markey held a 53 percent favorable rating to 30 percent unfavorable rating, while Gomez was viewed favorably by 38 percent, unfavorably by 23 percent, with a significant 32 percent indicating that they had heard of him but were undecided.
A whopping 86 percent had never heard of Heos or were undecided about him.
Markey's criticism of Gomez for refusing to take the "People's Pledge" limiting outside campaign spending has traction and is viewed as an important campaign issue. Some 71 percent of likely voters said it was a very or somewhat important campaign issue. Sixteen percent said that it was not very or not at all important and 12 percent didn't know anything about the "People's Pledge."
When asked if Ed Markey will be an independent voice or toe the party line, 58 percent indicated toe the party line and 29 percent said Markey would be an independent voice.
"Sending a Democrat to the U.S. Senate who will toe the party line is seen as a positive contribution to the conversation in the D.C. legislative agenda. President Obama continues to have coattails in Massachusetts and that is helping Markey."
President Obama was viewed favorably by 67 percent and had a job approval number of 63 percent.
Likely voters indicated that the economy/jobs (45 percent) is the number one issue facing the next U.S. senator, with all other issues polling in single digits. Although 59 percent of likely voters said that Massachusetts was on the right track, only 29 percent said that the recession was over while 61 percent said that the recession was not over.
A super majority (77 percent) approve raising the minimum wage from eight dollars to ten dollars per hour. Only 16 percent disapproved, with 7 percent undecided.
Scott Brown
Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown was viewed favorably by 52 percent of likely voters and unfavorably by 40 percent. And when voters were asked if they were disappointed that Brown declined to run in this special election, just 35 percent said yes and 63 percent weren't disappointed.
Balance and Perception
When asked if there was a benefit to sending one Democrat and one Republican to the U.S. Senate the state was deadlocked with 46 percent agreeing and 46 percent disagreeing. This finding was consistent with the 2012 polling of the same question when Brown was challenged by then Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren. Markey is winning the perception game as well. When voters were asked, despite their personal preferences, who they thought would ultimately be elected to the U.S. Senate 76 percent indicated Markey and 17 percent Gomez.
Boston Bombing
Suffolk University/7NEWS will post responses to a series of questions about the Boston Marathon bombings and related issues at 10 p.m. Thursday, May 9.
In the special Senate general election of January 2010, the Suffolk poll predicted a 4 point win for Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley. Brown won by 4.7 percent. In the 2010 general election for Governor, the Suffolk poll predicted a 7 point win for incumbent Democratic Governor Deval Patrick over Republican Charlie Baker. Patrick won by 6.3. In November of 2012, the Suffolk poll predicted a 7 point win for Democrat Elizabeth Warren over incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown in the race for U.S. Senate. Warren won by 7.4 percent.
Using a split sample of landline and cell phone numbers, the Suffolk poll used a tight screen to filter out voters who weren't certain to vote or who couldn't name when the special general election would be held. The field of 500 likely voters was conducted Saturday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 7. The margin of error is +/- 4.4 percent at a 95 percent level of confidence for each area. Results are posted on the Suffolk University Political Research Center website. For more information, contact David Paleologos by email, or at 781-290-9310.


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I've gone to hell and back in twenty-nine years and I'm only now coming to terms with moving forward, righting my wrongs, and making amends. Except not everyone deserves forgiveness. Sometimes the damage done is beyond repair.
Everyday is exactly the same. I focus on the pain, in the quest to feel and forget, but I remember everything. When I close my eyes the darkness encroaches and some days it feels like the things that kill me are the things that make me feel alive.
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Title: Ridge
Series: Wild #2
Author: Adriane Leigh
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotica
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I hovered over her sweet body, the soft flesh beneath my fingers like fucking silk. Her hands laced in the rungs of the headboard above her head, propping her breasts high and full for me. Her head was thrown back in ecstasy, full lips formed in a a perfect O as moans escaped her throat. She was fucking stunning. I moved in and out of her, slowing my pace, hitting her as deep as I could, rounding my hips with each slow thrust and drag. She was everything, had been my everything for a few months, the only one that had ever gotten me. All of me. The me that no one else had ever seen. Fuck of it was, she was my brother's fiancée. I'd fucking taken her right from under him. I hadn't meant to, I don't think she'd meant to either, it'd just happened one night, and there'd been no going back. And now here we were, months later, I was still plowing into her—taking her, owning her, making her mine—every fucking night in my bed, hearing her call my name, her eyes hazy with lust and love when I finished. Except tonight was different. Tonight was the last time. Tonight I was ending it. My heart clutched in my chest as the words floated through my head. My eyes burned with the pain of it. I didn't want to let her go, but more than anything, I was sick of running. And seeing my brother again had finally opened my eyes. This was it. This was it for us. For me and her. For the girl that had wrapped her fingers around my soul and held it so fucking tightly it was as if my every fucking breath depended on her. |
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Neither of the two big questions -- money for Central Corridor and its route through or near the University of Minnesota -- will be settled on Wednesday, when the Central Corridor management committee meets to discuss the project.
But the committee will hear some long-awaited numbers on the so-called northern alignment route, the one favored by the University of Minnesota.
The Metropolitan Council favors a route along Washington Ave. instead. Among other reasons, it's the route that keeps the project on the schedule, according to Metropolitan Council chairman Peter Bell.
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The Washington Ave. proposal calls for a transit mall, which means much of the car traffic would have to be diverted from the busy street.
The cost estimate for diverting the traffic and finding parking for the cars won't be known for a few weeks, but it's clear where some of the traffic could be diverted, Bell says.
"We might use East River Rd. to run some of the traffic," said Bell. "There might need to be some work on Grainery Rd., which is a road that runs far north on the northern parameters of the university campus, and we might connect some of the traffic and work it around there."
The cost of diverting traffic from Washington Ave. and redesigning dozens of nearby intersections to handle it would be born by the Met Council, the university, Hennepin County and the city of Minneapolis.
Money in the proposed $909 million Central Corridor project budget would help pay some, but by no means all, of the traffic diversion costs.
The alignment spat could delay or even kill the Central Corridor project, given the competition for federal money.
The university argues the northern alignment route is a better value. Kathleen O'Brien, the U of M's vice president for operations, says that route would bring the light rail trains north of the new Gopher football stadium and through Dinkytown.
"We believe the northern alignment is going to cost less, will have less of a ride time, will have comparable ridership," O'Brien said.
The problem, according to Peter Bell, is that a decision to go with the northern alignment means a new set of environmental and other studies, that will delay the Central Corridor project a year. The delay would add at least $40 million in cost due to rising concrete, steel and other materials costs.
The U of M counters the northern alignment actually saves money in the long run, because there are lower traffic mitigation costs compared to Washington Ave.
A northern alignment, the U of M argues, avoids the loss of $100 million in revenue to its Washington Ave. medical complex, which could result from losing patients who can't easily get to the hospital or doctors' appointments.
Peter Bell isn't buying the revenue loss projections.
"That's an assertion that I haven't seen validated by studies or surveys and the like," Bell says.
The Met Council also wants to keep the Central Corridor project on schedule to apply for federal matching dollars. One reason is competition from other areas of the country.
Other cities, including Denver and Salt Lake City, are also poised to apply for the scarce federal transit funds. However, people in Congress and others familiar with the inner workers of the FTA argue the Met Council's timeline is overly optimistic.
The Met Council worries the alignment spat could delay or even kill the Central Corridor project, given the competition for federal money.
The U of M argues taking time to iron out the alignment dispute solves problems that could erupt later. Officials there are counting on Minnesota's congressional delegation to assure federal officials the solution will be worth the wait.


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by Herbert W. Armstrong
WHY were Old Testament Israelites called God's "chosen people" –and still denied the Holy Spirit to beget them into eternal life?
"Chosen"–for what? To be teacher's pet? For special favors above other nations? Was God a respecter of nations?
To understand, we need to start with Adam and Eve. It is an intriguing story, and I have never seen it put together in this manner before. The true reason for ancient Israel is an integral part of God's supreme master plan.
And did you ever realize that the Holy Bible is the book of and concerning that one nation ISRAEL? And that the Bible mentions other nations only if and as they came into contact with Israel?
The truly amazing truth about Israel is totally unrealized by any religion–by any denomination in traditional Christianity–or even by Judaism.
And here's another shocker for you–also unrealized by any, including Judaism–the kingdom of Israel was not Jewish! The first place in the Bible that the word Jews is used is II Kings 16:6, where Israel is at war against the Jews!
It is indeed true that the nation Israel was God's chosen people. But understand this: They were not chosen as teacher's pet or for special favors. They were chosen for a special purpose preparatory to the Kingdom of God–a purpose they on their part refused to comply with.
It is an intriguing story. And it has great significance in God's overall PURPOSE for all peoples!
God is REPRODUCING HIMSELF in and through MAN! God's ultimate purpose is breathtaking–the seemingly incredible transcendent potential of man.
The establishment of the ancient nation of Israel is an integral part of God's supreme master plan.
So now, to understand, and bring into mind the background, we go back a bit briefly.
God created our first parents, Adam and Eve, as perfect specimens physically and mentally. Yet they were but unfinished pieces of God's workmanship. Spiritual character was yet to be built into them and their offspring. In this humans are required to perform their own vital part.
Physically this perfectly created pair had no chronic ailments or tendencies toward physical illness or disease. That is testified in part by the fact that Adam lived to be 930 years of age. And for nearly 2,000 years the life span averaged close to 900 years!
Think of it! The first created man lived more than one sixth of all the time from his creation until now! Adam and Eve had a number of sons and daughters, but only three sons are named in the record.
Bear this in mind: Adam and Eve had rejected God as revealer of basic knowledge–rejected His government. They had chosen the "GET" way of life–the self-centered way of vanity, covetousness, envy and jealousy, competition leading to strife, violence and destruction and rebellion against authority.
Their first son, Cain, became a murderer and a liar. Although his murdered brother Abel was called "righteous Abel" by Jesus, humanity, descending at a rapid birthrate, became more and more violent.
Actually, from the time of Adam until Noah–some 1,500 or more years–only one man, Enoch, "walked with God."
By the time of Noah, a population explosion was taking place on earth–even as it is again today. It is recorded: "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth"– human thought and interests were "only evil continually… . The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence… . for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth" (Genesis 6:5, 11-12).
This lawless universal corruption and violence was inflicting pain, suffering, anguish, frustration upon an evil humanity. It seems humanity never realizes the GET way–transgression of God's law–inflicts increasing suffering on its perpetrators –and on others.
This corruption and violence had become so universal that God determined to spare humanity from suffering longer in the mounting misery and anguish.
God took away their miserable lives by the earthwide flood, to be resurrected in the next second of their consciousness in the Great White Throne resurrection of the book of Revelation, chapter 20, verses 11-12. They will be brought back to life in a time when Christ is ruling the earth in righteousness, peace and happiness. Satan will be gone. Their minds then will be opened to God's TRUTH, and eternal salvation opened to them.
But God intended to preserve human life–and, as it were, to give humanity a new and fresh start.
One man only, Noah, was perfect in his "generations." That is, his heredity, ancestry.
It is amply evident that by the time of Noah there were at least the three major racial strains on earth–the white, yellow and black. All others in our 20th century have come from interracial breeding.
God does not reveal in the Bible the precise origin of the different races. It is evident that Adam and Eve were created white. God's chosen nation Israel was white. Jesus was white. But it is a fair conjecture that in mother Eve were created ovaries containing the yellow and black genes, as well as white, so that some of the children of Adam and Eve were black and some yellow, as well as some white.
At least, by the time of Noah, men "took them wives of all which they chose" (Genesis 6:2). The very fact of the insertion of the words which they chose implies they chose wives God did not intend for them to marry. There was every kind of evil and violence at the time. Jesus, some 2,000 years later, said, looking into this END time of the late 20th century, just before His coming to establish the KINGDOM OF GOD and restore the GOVERNMENT of God, that conditions would be as in the days of Noah–"they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage" (Matthew 24:38).
In what way did eating and drinking and marrying have to do with the extreme evils that caused God to blot out the lives of all earth's people, except the eight of Noah's family? To eat wholesome food and drink pure water is necessary to sustain life and is GOOD. God Himself established the institution of marriage and made it holy matrimony.
But there was something contrary to GOD'S WAY in the manner in which they were eating, drinking and marrying, in Noah's time. Like today, "eating and drinking" evidently had become a custom of the type of revelings listed as "works of the flesh" in Galatians 5:19-21 and I Peter 4:3. In the latter passage, Peter speaks of "when we walked in licentiousness [lawlessness and crime], lusts [violations of the Tenth Commandment], drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries." Verse 4 terms these as a "flood of dissipation."
Now Jesus drank wine–but in proper moderation. I frequently have attended banquets at which were present royalty and men high in government–at which only proper food and a minimum of wine have been served–and all were completely sober, discussing vital questions for the general good. Like marriage, none of these is WRONG–in moderation. God teaches moderation and temperance–not drunkenness, rioting, senseless drunken reveling like some do on New Year's Eve today.
Marriage is not wrong in itself. Yet, according to Jesus, one of the things evil and wrong in Noah's day was "marrying and giving in marriage." Genesis 6:2 reveals HOW and WHY! They were marrying wives "of all whom they chose." They were choosing the wrong wives. HOW? God had intended NO MONGRELIZATION in human reproduction.
The one man God chose to PRESERVE the human race alive was perfect in his generations–all his ancestry back to Adam was of the one strain, and undoubtedly that happened to be white–not that white is in any sense superior.
If you are a livestock breeder, planning to enter your prize animals in a livestock show–perhaps at a state fair– you will be sure to enter only thoroughbred or pedigreed stock! Mixing the breed tends toward degeneration.
God originally set the bounds of national borders, intending nations to be SEPARATED and prevent interracial marriage. Notice: "When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations [speaking of land or geographical boundaries], when he separated[notice–He separated] the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the peoples" (Deuteronomy 32:8).
But people wanted to intermarry–until there would be only ONE RACE!
That desire seems inherent in human nature today!
Noah was of a perfect lineage–in his generations. His wife and three sons were of that same pure white strain. But Japheth evidently had married a yellow woman and Ham a black.
Soon after the Flood, the world's small population was all of one language and gathered together building the Tower of Babel. Their purpose? "Lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth" (Genesis 11:4).
But God said: "The people are one, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be restrained from them" (verse 6). This expresses how great God made the mind of man.
But, just as God created varieties in many species of flowers and of animals–for example, many varieties and colors of roses–for greater beauty, so God created the three races and colors of human skin. God intended to prevent racial intermarriages. But man has always wanted to violate God's laws, intentions and ways.
So God compelled a scattering by mixing their language. "So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city" (verse 8).
Today the English language is fast becoming the chief international language. Men are entering mixed marriages and starting to get back to one worldwide language.
Shem, the son of Noah who had married a white woman, may have continued for some time in the knowledge and perhaps worship of God. But there is no record of any walking with God until Abraham, whom God specially called to have a function preparatory to the Kingdom of God. But the pure white strain probably was retained until Abraham.
Abram, as he was originally named, was not seeking God. But God called Abram to leave the land of his father and kindred and go to a land God would show him–the "promised land" of Palestine. Without protest or question, Abram obeyed and went. And through his obedience and faith in God, Abraham became the "father of the faithful." To him God made the promises of both the national Israel birthright and the "scepter" promise of eternal salvation to come through Jesus Christ.
Four hundred thirty years after Abraham, God raised up His nation Israel–descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose name God changed to Israel.
To lead these people out of Egyptian slavery and to the promised land, God called Moses. Moses was not seeking God. But God had caused Moses to be trained specially for this commission by having him reared as a prince in the palace of the Egyptian pharaoh.
So now again we come to the question, WHY did God raise up this special Hebrew nation as "the chosen people"? WHY, when God never made accessible to them His Holy Spirit?
One point to notice here. The probability is that these people were all–or nearly all–of the white color strain, unchanged since creation.
After Jacob and his sons and families had come into Egypt at Joseph's behest, they were kept in the locale of Goshen– geographically separated from the Egyptians, marrying among themselves.
In this connection, go back momentarily to Abraham. He prevented his son Isaac from intermarrying among the black Canaanites then in Palestine. He sent his chief servant to his own family and racial people to find a wife for Isaac. Abraham said, "You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell" (Genesis 24:3).
The next generation, Jacob married Leah and Rachel, daughters of Laban, nephew of Abraham, who lived in the land of Haran, brother of Abraham. The whole community of Haran, where Laban lived, was of the same family ancestry as Abraham.
Jacob had six sons by Leah, two from Rachel–all of the same original racial stock, and two each from the maids of Rachel and Leah–12 in all. Even the maids of Leah and Rachel probably were of pure Hebrew stock.
But God specially prepared from birth and called Moses, with Aaron his brother to assist as his spokesman. Moses stuttered.
In the plagues God caused against Egypt, God was turning the Egyptian gods and objects of worship against them to show them that these were not gods. Even the plagues were sent in LOVE for the Egyptians.
The final plague occurred on the eve of the 14th day of the sacred month–starting in the spring. The Israelites went out of Egypt during the night part of the 15th. They reached the Red Sea. But the pharaoh had meanwhile changed his mind, and with his army pursued after them.
The children of Israel had reached the Red Sea, and there they were stopped as if dead. There was no bridge. It was too far to swim, with their women and children. Behind them the pharaoh's army was in hot pursuit. There was nothing they could do. They were stopped–HELPLESS! At that point they had to rely on GOD!
In Egypt God had caused their release from slavery by a series of supernatural plagues. Now God caused the waters of the Red Sea to form a watered WALL on either side, with a wide path on the dry sea bottom between.
The Israelites walked on through. On the opposite side they looked and saw the pharaoh and his army entering the sea-floor path. When they were all within the sea-wall passage, God allowed the waters to flow back, drowning the Egyptian army with its pharaoh.
In due time the Israelites pitched tents at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
God did not make them His nation, under His theocratic rule, without their consent.
Through Moses, God put to them His proposition. IF they would obey His laws of HIS GOVERNMENT, He would prosper them and make them the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Yet all God's PROMISES were of a national and material nature–not spiritual salvation. They agreed. Thus they became God's chosen nation.
This we know: God's purpose for them had a definite relation to preparing for the ultimate KINGDOM OF GOD–when the GOVERNMENT OF GOD would be reestablished over all the earth, and spiritual salvation would be offered to ALL!
Undoubtedly one reason was to preserve the original racial strain. But there was much more.
Nations had developed knowledge. Mankind was limited, after Adam's rebellion, to the acquisition of physical and material knowledge.
But, like educated men and scientists today, they were saying, "Give us sufficient knowledge, and we will solve all problems and eradicate all sickness, diseases and evils–we will create Utopia!"
Up to that time, mankind had been denied spiritual knowledge. God now decided to give them knowledge of His law–His kind of government–His way of life! He was going to prove to the world that without His Holy Spirit their minds were incapable of receiving and utilizing such knowledge of the things of God.
He was going to demonstrate to them that the mind of MAN, with its one spirit and without the addition of God's Holy Spirit, could not have spiritual discernment, could not solve human problems, could not cure the evils that were besetting humanity. The nation Israel would be His "guinea pig" to demonstrate that fact. God had chosen a nation of almost perfect original strain in its generations–its ancestry. Also they had the quality heredity of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel).
So God entered into a covenant with them, making them HIS NATION. It also represented a MARRIAGE covenant, with Israel the wife promising obedience to her husband–GOD. It was the physical type of the yet-to-come NEW COVENANT.
And what did it prove?
Here was a people of almost clear racial strain, and the superior heredity of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Two requisites make a human whatever he becomes in life–heredity and environment. Heredity has been inherited by birth in the areas of intelligence and character from parents. Environment includes all external influences and self-determined characteristics– whether good or evil.
Heredity–if of good and high quality–may start one off at a great advantage–but an evil environment and self-motivation may turn one into a failure in life, or an evil nature.
But God started off His chosen nation Israel with all the natural advantages of a superior heredity.
Now WHY? Why did God prepare and raise up this nation ISRAEL?
Why did God create mankind in the first place? God is reproducing Himself, to create in mankind God's own perfect, righteous and holy character–and that in turn to 1) restore His government over the whole earth–in order, ultimately, to produce, create, billions of God beings to finish the creation of the unfinished vast universe–and 2) to create even more, which God has not chosen as yet to reveal to us!
Everything God has done, since the creation of the first humans, after God's own image and likeness, has been another progressive step in that overall supreme purpose!
The immediate purpose, so far in the history of mankind, is to prepare for THE KINGDOM OF GOD, which will restore the GOVERNMENT OF GOD earthwide!
The Kingdom of God is the actual begotten and born FAMILY OF GOD. which will first actually appear by a resurrection and instantaneous translation at Christ's Second Coming! And by begotten and BORN sons of God, emphatically I do NOT mean those deceived into the current "born-again" teaching–that anyone who "receives Christ" is already, in this present human life, "born again." THAT IS A PARAMOUNT DECEPTION by which Satan the devil has DECEIVED those (the many in a so-called "Christianity") who have "accepted" a false conversion. They may be well meaning–but nevertheless DECEIVED! And of course a deceived person does not know he is deceived–he may be wholly sincere!
But now THINK! How does the Old Testament nation Israel play a part in progressively preparing for the Kingdom of God?
First, Abraham was a man of very outstanding qualifying abilities. Undoubtedly he, with his sons Isaac and Israel, shall, in the resurrection and the Kingdom of God, occupy a position next under Christ Himself. The Kingdom of God will be a spiritual Kingdom including both Church and State–earthwide. These, as a team, probably will be next in line of authority under CHRIST –and over both Church and State.
Of the nation Israel, Moses, whom God raised up as their leader and lawgiver (though God the Father is the original real Lawgiver), in all probability will be under the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob team, but head over the national governments of the world during the coming Millennium. And probably Joshua, who succeeded Moses, will be Moses' assistant in that office of worldwide national governments.
What of the nation Israel as a whole?
They, despite their favorable heredity, failed utterly to qualify. When God put the proposal of their formation as His nation before them, they replied, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do" (Exodus 19:8). But they broke their word and rebelled.
They were in a "husband-and-wife" relationship with God. But God said of them, " 'Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,' " (Jeremiah 3:20).
But–nevertheless, the old covenant with Israel at Sinai was a type and forerunner of the NEW COVENANT to be made with the New Testament CHURCH, which is the spiritual Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 31:31, Hebrews 8:6, 10).
However, a few in Old Testament Israel did obey God and by becoming God's prophets, they became part of the very foundation of the New Testament Church of God. The Church is built on the solid foundation of the prophets (Old Testament) and apostles (New Testament), "Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone" (Ephesians 2:20). Among them, Elijah probably will be head, under Christ and Abraham-Isaac-Israel, over the Church, worldwide, in the Kingdom of God, with John the Baptist under Elijah. There are indications that the prophet Daniel will be head over all gentile nations, and under Moses and Christ.
But in what manner did the ancient nation Israel play a part in preparation for the Kingdom of God?
I have already mentioned how the intellectuals and scholarly of this world feel that, given sufficient KNOWLEDGE, human carnal MAN could solve all problems.
God let several generations of ancient Israel and Judah PROVE by hundreds of years of human experience that the best of humanity, without God's Holy Spirit, CANNOT SOLVE HUMAN PROBLEMS AND EVILS!
I have spoken, during the past 15 years, to many heads of governments over Europe, Asia, Africa, South America. In China, I believe the Communist heads of government believe that communism, once it gains control of the earth, will solve all problems and evils. But many kings, emperors, presidents and prime ministers I have conferred privately with now realize the problems are beyond human ability to solve.
The problems and evils are of a spiritual nature. And a carnal mind, without God's Holy Spirit, cannot come to grips with spiritual evils.
The many decades and centuries of ancient Israel PROVED THAT! The scholarly think they do not NEED God's Holy Spirit. But, until Israel, God withheld knowledge of the right ways of government from mankind. But to Israel God gave His statutes and judgments, as well as His spiritual law. But these perfect laws did not, sans God's Holy Spirit, solve the problems!
God could say: "I am GOD. Take my word for it." But God gave PROOF, through Israel, that WITHOUT the Holy Spirit, MAN IS HELPLESS! They even had GOD to appeal to. But they did not have His Spirit within. Only their prophets had the Holy Spirit!
That lesson PROVED, God has given those in His Church His Holy Spirit!


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Nurse Only Disappointed That She Waited So Long to Have Surgery
A new hip joint at age 44? NorthBay VacaValley Hospital's Catherine Svetz, R.N., wonders what took her so long.
"The spring is back in my step and I'm always smiling, literally!" she says. "I had been suffering for several years with hip pain, though I had no idea the pain I was experiencing was related to my hip. Unfortunately, I ignored the pain for quite a while and only mentioned it at a routine check-up and an x-ray revealed my right hip needed replacing."
She didn't immediately schedule surgery, but by the end of 2009 she was in so much pain she was limping as she worked. "I'm a nurse and when your patients start asking you if you're OK you know it's time to do something," she says.
And for Svetz, the NorthBay Joint Replacement Program was just a walk downstairs from her nursing unit. From the moment she saw orthopedic surgeon Andrew Brooks, M.D., and scheduled her hip replacement surgery, the joint replacement team took her under their wing. "Everyone on the team helps make the journey as pleasant as possible," Svetz adds. "Even though I'm a nurse, my area of expertise is not orthopedics and I have to admit I was scared to death to go through this major surgery."
The team eased her worries and had her looking forward to being pain-free. "They assured me the hip pain would be gone when I took my first steps after surgery—something that was so hard to believe—but they were 100 percent right! The hip pain I'd been living with was completely gone, just as promised."
Every step of the journey is carefully planned out and executed perfectly, Svetz explains. After leaving the hospital, a NorthBay Health at Home nurse visited her for dressing changes and follow-up care and NorthBay's physical therapy team kept her exercising. When she was ready, she attended outpatient physical therapy.
"My post-surgical care was just as fantastic as my in-hospital care. I can't say enough about how impressed I was with the entire joint replacement experience," she adds. "And, I'm happy to report I returned to work only four short months after my hip replacement surgery. I feel wonderful and the pain is becoming a distant memory."
Looking back, she wishes she had done this a lot sooner. "I'm often asked how I knew it was time to have my hip replaced. My answer is this: When I realized I was missing out on many of the things I love doing, I knew it was time. My quality of life and happiness were being compromised by my hip pain. Dr. Brooks offered a solution and NorthBay's Joint Replacement Program made it possible. I'm glad to have the surgery behind me, but I would do it again in a heartbeat!"


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Backup contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, sms messages and call logs from Nokia 6650d
Available guides for synchronization to the secure cloud
Supported functions
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Nokia 6650d is supported on PhoneCopy. Please note that following settings may vary a little depending on the firmware version.
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With Nokia 6650d
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- Select Ctrl. panel and Phone, then Sync.
- Click Option and select New sync profile.
- Click Start and in Profile name write PhoneCopy, then as Server version select 1.2.
- Tick the items you want to back up, then press Next. According to your choice, further information will be requested:
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- Contact database: contacts
▼ hide calendar- Calendar database: calendar
▼ hide notes- Notes database: notes
▼ hide sms- Test messages database: sms
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- Host address: write http://www.phonecopy.com/sync
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Fansided Local & NFL Sites 2014 NFL Mock Draft (Picks 1 – 25)
Nov 30, 2013; Stanford, CA, USA; Stanford Cardinal linebacker Trent Murphy (93) tips the pass by Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback Tommy Rees (11) during the third quarter at Stanford Stadium. The Stanford Cardinal defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 27-20. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
As a Fansided site, we are hosting an ongoing 2014 NFL Mock Draft here at Factory of Sadness with some of the Local and NFL sites.Follow along here as we complete all 32 teams First Round Picks.
#1. Houston Texans select Teddy Bridgewater, Louisville, Quarterback – The Houston Texans select Teddy Bridgewater with the first pick in the 2014 NFL draft. The Texans are in desperate need of a young, skilled quarterback who has the potential to become their franchise guy, and Teddy Bridgewater fits that bill. It will be interesting to see if the Texans bring in a veteran to start while Teddy learns the ropes or if they plan on immediately implementing him as their starting quarterback. Personally, I hope it's the latter. This kid is really fun to watch and he's smart. If the Texans don't choose a quarterback for the first pick in the draft (which is asinine), I'm not sure who else they'd take. They have so many other holes to fill it would likely be Jadeveon Clowney or an OLB before they attempted to draft any offensive linemen.
Selection Made By House of Houston. Check out more about the Texans here at their site.
#2. St. Louis Rams select Sammy Watkins, Clemson, Wide Receiver – Now I know this will sound crazy. Taking a wide receiver 2nd overall? However, he fits a need for the St. Louis Rams. Tavon Austin is a fantastic football player. However the Rams were not productive throwing the football. The St. Louis Rams ranked 27th in the NFL in passing yards. Some of that had to do with the injury to Sam Bradford but even when healthy Bradford was average at best. So if the Rams are going to gain more yards through the air, how can they do that? Getting a better quarterback is the obvious answer however that might be off the table so you get a playmaker at wide receiver that can turn a short pass into a long touchdown.
Selection Made by Arch Authority. See more details about this selection at their site here.
(Hypothetical) #2 Washington Redskins select Jake Matthews, Texas A&M, Offensive Tackle – The Washington Redskins would select Jake Matthews with the second pick. Matthews fills a need for the Washington Redskins. He will fit right in at the right tackle position. Other options for this pick include Anthony Barr, Taylor Lewan, and Greg Robinson.
Hypothetical Selection Made by All Over The Hill. Read more about their hypothetical selection here.


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So, this is an introduction to my latest 3d printer extruder system with a detailed view of the Hot End, Cold End and Nozzle. There are plenty of pictures and a detailed ilustration that shows details about the 3d printer extruder system I'm currently using. I explain some of the pros and cons, and explain why the latest extruder system I'm using works.


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Case Study 4 – Lucerne Publishing (Question 63 – Question 68)
Case Study 5 – Northwind traders (Question 69 – Question 74)
You are designing an Azure application that provides online backup storage for hundreds of media files. Each file is larger than 1GB.
The data storage solution has the following requirements:
– It must be capable of storing an average of 1TB of data for each user.
– It must support sharing of data between all Windows Azure instances.
– It must provide random read/write access.
You need to recommend a durable data storage solution.
What should you recommend?
A. Azure Drive
B. Azure Page Blob service
C. Azure Block Blob service
D. Local storage on an Azure instance
Answer: D
You are designing an Azure web application.
All users must authenticate by using Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) credentials.
You need to recommend an approach to enable single sign-on to the application for domain-authenticated users.
Which two actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. Use Forms authentication to generate claims.
B. Use the SQL membership provider in the web application.
C. Use Windows Identity Foundation in the web application.
D. Use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to generate claims.
Answer: AD
You need to ensure that the website scales.
What should you do?
A. Deploy Traffic Manager and configure it to route user traffic to specified endpoints to other Azure datacenters.
B. Enter multiple DNS entries in each virtual network to route requests to other Azure datacenters.
C. Set up a new Azure datacenter to Azure datacenter VPN to enable the solution to communicate across regions.
D. Use a virtual network to route network traffic in a single Azure datacenter.
Answer: C
You need to analyze Lucerne's performance monitoring solution.
Which three applications should you monitor? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. The Lucerne Media-D application
B. The data mining application
C. The Lucerne Media-W application
D. The Lucerne Media-M app
E. The Lucerne Media-N app
Answer: BCD
You need to configure the deployment of the storage analysis application.
What should you do?
A. Create a new Mobile Service.
B. Configure the deployment from source control.
C. Add a new deployment slot.
D. Turn on continuous integration.
Answer: B
You need to recommend a technology for processing customer pickup requests.
Which technology should you recommend?
A. Notification hub
B. Queue messaging
C. Mobile Service with push notifications
D. Service Bus messaging
Answer: C
You need to recommend the appropriate technology to provide the predictive analytics for passenger pickup.
What should you do?
A. Use Power BI to analyze the traffic data and PowerPivot to categorize the results.
B. Use HDInsight to analyze the traffic data and write a .NET program to categorize the results.
C. Use Machine Learning Studio to create a predictive model and publish the results as a web service.
D. Use Hadoop on-premises to analyze the traffic and produce a report that shows high traffic zones.
Answer: C
You need to design the authentication solution for the NorthRide app. Which solution should you use?
A. Azure Active Directory Basic with multi-factor authentication for the cloud and on- premises users.
B. Active Directory Domain Services with mutual authentication
C. Azure Active Directory Premium and add multi-factor authentication the for cloud users
D. Active Directory Domain Services with multi-factor authentication
Answer: A
You need to recommend a solution that meets the requirements for data storage for the NorthRide app.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. Azure Remote App
B. Azure Service Bus
C. Azure Connect
D. Azure SQL Database
Answer: A
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You are the Azure architect for an organization.
You are working with C-level management to assign Azure role-based access control roles to a team within the organization. A single director oversees two teams, a development team and a test team. The director is wholly responsible for the organization's Azure account, including billing, infrastructure, and access control.
The director is the only member of the team with the ability to alter access controls.
You have the following requirements:
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You need to assign built-in Azure role-based access control roles to team members within the organization.
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Written by Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, originally published at CounterPunch.org
Once again, information has surfaced regarding United States governmental efforts to mislead and misinform people about disgraceful, cruel destruction caused by a United States war of choice against people who meant the U.S. no harm. In the Afghanistan Papers, the United States government officials acknowledged, privately, their own uncertainty about why they were going to war against Afghanistan in 2001. The trove of newly released documents about the 18-year war unmasked years of high-level deceit and deliberate efforts to obfuscate realities on the ground in Afghanistan.
The United States War on Terrorism began in 2001. A decade earlier, the U.S. invaded and bombed Iraq, following the aerial attacks with an economic war which cost the lives, through sanctions, of hundreds of thousands of children. In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq under false pretenses, sparking a vicious civil war, destroying the country's infrastructure, harrowing the ground for Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of ISIS, and turning the country into a bloodbath which continues to this day.
United States wars have literally set the Middle East on fire. Several million people in the Middle East and North Africa have been killed, and tens of millions maimed, traumatized, and made into refugees.
Over the last 19 years United States forces have detained tens of thousands of people in dozens of countries. Prisoners have suffered ghastly torture, and some will remain at Guantanamo Bay without trial until they die.
The U.S. has killed untold numbers of civilians by unmanned aerial drones, bombing raids, cruise missile attacks, and special operations missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia—also in Syria and Yemen. The U.S. toppled the Libyan government leading to years of violent chaos. In all of these places, United States war-making has helped cause humanitarian catastrophes.
Rather than follow the lead of the Vatican and other states that have signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the U.S. now exacerbates a new nuclear arms race by upgrading every warhead and delivery system, along with every production and command and control site in the nuclear weapons complex.
This tragic pattern of killing and destroying begs the question of our responsibility as Catholic followers of Christ. The endless War on Terrorism has fallen short of the Church's Just War requirements on multiple fronts. Likewise, United States nuclear weapons policy, which targets the world's children, falls short of Just War requirements. I call on Catholics in the military, including chaplains, as well as all who work for the military or any branch of the armaments industry to heed Pope Francis's call to set aside the futility of war. All Catholics should refuse to kill and should refuse cooperation with United States wars. Catholic taxpayers should make every effort to avoid paying for war and weapons. Rather, embrace Jesus, who calls us to love our enemies, put up the sword, and take up the cross.
Thomas Gumbleton is a Roman Catholic Bishop in the Archdiocese of Detroit.


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Jay Goldspinner Collection
All social change and cultural movements have their associated resources for the exchange of information, ideas, stories, and art. Particularly in the women's movement, the effort to create newsletters, journals, and other forms of information dissemination was a proactive step taken to assert women's stories and to locate the power of the press within women-run communities. These periodicals, both large and small in scale, reveal the ways women connected to each other and to larger spiritual and cultural concepts. Local artist, activist, and feminist Jay Goldspinner was engaged with many of these communities, particularly those characterizing the spiritual elements of the women's liberation and feminist movements, and collected and saved their periodicals. Her collection includes journals focusing on feminist linguistics, goddess myths and spirituality, Wiccan and witch traditions, progressive politics, and women's spirituality and community in local and international settings. Each is a unique window into discourses of women's history, feminist movements, and social change work.
The Jay Goldspinner Collection consists of issues of feminist and progressive periodicals, journals, and newsletters from over five decades, along with correspondence, ephemera, and scrapbooks from Goldspinner's life, especially her work as a storyteller. Published titles represented include Always in Season, Goddessing, The Lonesome Node, The People's Voice of Franklin County, Themis/Thesmophoria, Wicked Word, and an almost complete run, including the two indexes, of the seminal magazine of feminist spirituality, WomenSpirit.


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The large fireball (technically, called a "superbolide") observed on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, was caused by a relatively small asteroid approximately 17 to 20 meters in size (about 18.6 to 21.9 yards) that entered Earth's atmosphere at high speed and at a shallow angle. In doing so, it released a tremendous amount of energy, fragmented at high altitude, and produced a shower of pieces of various sizes that fell to the ground as meteorites.
The fireball was observed not only by video cameras and low-frequency infrasound detectors, but also by U.S. government sensors. Information on the composition of the meteor was also derived from meteorite fragments found in the Chelyabinsk area. With this new data incorporated, the details of the impact have become clearer.
At 9:20:20 a.m. local time (3:20:20 UTC) the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over the Kazakhstan/Russia border. As it descended through the upper atmosphere, it traveled northwest into Russia. The impactor's trajectory approached Earth along a direction that remained within 15 degrees of the direction of the sun. Asteroid detection telescopes cannot scan regions of the sky this close to the sun.
During the atmospheric entry phase, an impacting object is both slowed and heated by atmospheric friction. In front of it, a bow shock develops where atmospheric gases are compressed and heated. Some of this energy is radiated to the object, causing it to ablate, and in most cases, break apart. Fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and atmospheric braking. The object disintegrates when the force from the unequal pressures on the front and back sides exceeds its tensile strength. This disruption, or disintegration, usually occurs around the time of maximum brightness.
Thirteen seconds after atmospheric entry, at 9:20:33 a.m. local time (03:20:33 UTC), the fireball, traveling at a velocity of 11.6 miles per second (18.6 kilometers per second), achieved its maximum brightness just south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, at an altitude of 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometers). The approximate effective diameter of the asteroid is estimated to be about 18 meters (about 19.7 yards), and its mass about 11,000 tons. Approximate total impact energy of the Chelyabinsk Fireball, in kilotons of TNT explosives (the energy parameter usually quoted for a fireball), is 440 kilotons. Note that these estimates of total energy, diameter and mass are very approximate. The Chelyabinsk event was an extraordinarily large fireball, the most energetic impact event recognized since the 1908 Tunguska blast in Russian Siberia.
The U.S. government sensor data also provides an approximate path for the Chelyabinsk impactor. A similar calculation can be made from analysis of video records of the event; both methods yield similar results. This path through the atmosphere reinforces that the fireball was not associated with asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a very close flyby of Earth just over 16 hours later. This is known because the two objects approached the Earth from completely different directions and had entirely different orbits around the sun. And, their compositions are dissimilar. The meteorite fragments emanating from the fireball are reportedly composed of silicate-rich ordinary chondrites, whereas the telescopic spectral data of asteroid 2012 DA14 suggest a carbon-dominated composition with abundant calcium- and aluminum-rich inclusions.
NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.
JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch . More information about asteroid radar research is at: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ . More information about the Deep Space Network is at: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn .
Update: February 15, 2013 7pm PST
New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered that atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).
The estimated size of the object, prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, has been revised upward from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its estimated mass has increased from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Also, the estimate for energy released during the event has increased by 30 kilotons to nearly 500 kilotons of energy released. These new estimates were generated using new data that had been collected by five additional infrasound stations located around the world - the first recording of the event being in Alaska, over 6,500 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk. The infrasound data indicates that the event, from atmospheric entry to the meteor's airborne disintegration took 32.5 seconds. The calculations using the infrasound data were performed by Peter Brown at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you have a fireball of this size we would expect a large number of meteorites to reach the surface and in this case there were probably some large ones."
The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object. The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia.
Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which is flying by Earth safely today.
The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.
Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.
The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere.
It is important to note that this estimate is preliminary, and may be revised as more data is obtained.


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[I'm re-printing this because, this past week, I was contacted by - or contacted concerning - the guys I wrote about in this piece. We're all going to be attending the 50th birthday bash of the singer, and those of us attending are considering getting back together, as a band, and having some fun. We'll jam, at the least, and... who knows after that? I'm truly psyched. I loved playing with these guys.]
Fame is fleeting. That's the old saying, but sometimes it depends upon what your definition of fame is - and how well-made your bumper stickers were.
I lived in Dorchester, right on the border of Mattapan, for 37 years. I moved to Watertown 14 years ago. If you walked up to everybody living in Dorchester and Mattapan today, showed them a picture of me, and asked them if they knew who it was, you might find a double handful that could identify me. There are probably a few folks who remember me running for state rep, and another two or three who bought grass from me (NOT while I was running for state rep, by the way) and perhaps one or two of my old friends still live in the area.
On the other hand, if you were to ask every resident of those areas if they knew who Jimi LaRue was, I'd be willing to bet big money not a single one of them would have the slightest idea. That's too bad, because there is actual physical evidence still extant concerning Mr. LaRue's doings during the year of 1981. Before we get to that, though, here's some necessary back-story.
In 1979, I was 22 years old, unemployed, and rapidly becoming a decent bass guitar player. I spent the better part of every day stoned and banging on the instrument. As a result of the many hours invested in those pastimes, I had become very good very fast.
I had been in a band already – and you could read about it here and here - but as a keyboard player/vocalist. If you don't feel like going to the links, I'll condense the story of that band thusly: The band sucked and so did I. It was fun, though. And while I was in that band, I did what I always did in every band I've ever been in. I played everybody else's instruments as often as possible. Whenever there was a break, I'd jump behind the drums, or pick up a guitar, and try to learn how to do something with them.
From the time I was a kid, I'd always been drawn to musical instruments. I could usually pick out a tune on anything with keys or strings. I was no idiot savant (well, not the savant part, anyway), but I had some innate talent for it. So, as I said, I fiddled (hah! fiddled!) with everybody's instruments and got so I could at least fake my way on drums, bass, and guitar, as well as the keyboards, which I was already faking my way at.
After leaving that band, my girlfriend of the time told me about a friend of hers willing to sell a bass guitar for $10. I bought it. It was worth every penny of $10, too. It was a hideous instrument, and it was basically (BASSically! Hah!) strung with rusty cable. I didn't really know any better, however, so I figured if I was really going to learn how to play it, I'd better just buckle down and get on with it. I played it and played it and made my fingers literally bleed. I built up mighty calluses on my fingertips. You can still light a match under them and all I'll feel is a little bit of warmth.
Then, in 1980, I came into possession of a real bass guitar, which also happened to be a short scale. I was amazed at how easy it was to play. I had been used to stretching my fingers to reach notes on the long scale and pressing down hard on a fretboard that had frets I should have filed down. The strings, aside from having the texture of 16-grade sandpaper, were too tautly strung. This new thing in my hands was a bass? No. This new thing in my hands was HEAVEN! I came to the realization that I had given myself the equivalent of about 5 years training in the space of one year, simply because I had been teaching myself on such a hideous beast of an instrument.
Along about that time, a knock came on my door. It was opportunity, in the body of a fellow named Marty Murphy. I had never met Marty. He was the friend of a guy who lived across the street from me. He had been talking to this friend about how the bass player in his band was leaving to go to college. That friend told him about this guy across the street that constantly played the bass – loud enough for my neighbors to constantly hear it, apparently, and if any of them are reading this, I do apologize - and he said that this guy sounded decent. So, on the off chance that I actually WAS decent, and might be interested in playing with his band, Marty knocked.
I thought I was good enough to play in a band. As is usually the case with me in life, though, I didn't really know where to take my talent to put it to use. I had vague notions about starting my own band, but no definite grasp of what to do to make it happen. About the only way I was going to truly get into a band was if someone knocked on my door and asked me to do it. Since Marty had done exactly that, I was thrilled.
Without so much as listening to me play a single note, Marty arranged that I'd meet the band the next night. I would go to where they were currently rehearsing, in the basement of the drummer's parent's home in Hyde Park. Their departing bass player would be there, playing a few numbers with them prior to leaving for college. Afterwards, they'd run through the same numbers again, this time with me on bass. Then they'd decide if they wanted me. Fair enough.
That night, I dressed in my best black t-shirt, boots and jeans. I drove to Hyde Park. When I got to the street, there was little chance of going to the wrong house. It sounded like someone was using the basement to land a squadron of F-15s, and not always right side up. It was loud, fast, immoral, and destructive. In other words, it was exactly the kind of stuff I liked to play.
I went inside and watched them perform. The name of the group was Live Wire. They were all 17 and 18 – four to five years younger than me – and they were all friends from high school and the neighborhood. It was obvious to me that I was a much better bass player than the guy I was being asked to replace. He wasn't totally horrible, but he had made the right decision to go to school rather than try and make his fortune in music. I knew as soon as I got a chance to plug in and start playing, the gig was mine. And that's what happened. They were all smiles while I played, and they offered me the spot immediately afterwards.
(I later found out they were worried that I wouldn't want to play with a bunch of teenagers. They were afraid that I was going to tell them thanks, but no thanks. For my part, I was worried that they might think I was too old, and not want to play with a guy who was an ancient 23. When one of them asked me how old I was, I shaved my age and said 21. The dumbass I was going with at the time, who had accompanied me to the rehearsal, said, "Jim, what are you talking about? You're 23!"
I shot her a look that said, "Do you have anything approaching a brain in your head?" but since she didn't, the look meant nothing to her. Not having any other choice, I then blushingly fessed up to being 23. Aside from looking like a right idiot to my new bandmates, it didn't hurt. As I say, it turned out we were all worried about the same thing, for opposite reasons, so no harm. We all had a good laugh, except for the girlfriend. She still didn't get it.)
Me, on stage (possibly the Nu Pixie Theater, Hyde Park)
This was about as perfect a band as I would have imagined forming on my own. They were fresh, totally unjaded, wrote decent pop hooks, had some actual talent, and were all truly nice guys on top of it. They played some covers, but wanted to play mostly originals. Since I wanted to play nothing but originals, I was OK with that. I figured we needed the covers to fill out sets in bars – true – and that we could concentrate solely on originals (including my own) as time went on.
The band members, aside from myself on bass, were Ronnie Bower and Ron Frattasio on guitars, Steve Giusti on drums, and Marty Murphy (the fellow who knocked on my door) as the singer. Marty didn't have the greatest voice in the world - not the worst, either, sort of like Bon Scott, sometimes - but he was a hell of a showman. People really liked him. He was also something of a jack-of-all-trades instrumentally, playing a bit of sax, flute, guitar, and harmonica on various songs.
This being 1980, and somewhat the tail end of the original punk movement – Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, et al - Marty had decided to take the stage name "Marty Sucks." He explained that this way, when the audience might say it, instead of insulting him, they'd just be advertising him. Made sense to me. As we became somewhat popular, people would often shout it out between songs – "Marty Sucks!" - always with a smile and some sincere love. It was pretty cool, actually.
Now, my given name is Jim Sullivan, and I'm glad I was given it, too. It's a good solid name. No problems with it, really. However, at that time there were at least two other people named Jim Sullivan with some small measure of fame. There was a guitar player with Tom Jones's band named Big Jim Sullivan. Of more import to me, there was a local writer in Boston, doing concert reviews and such, named Jim Sullivan. I didn't want to be sharing a name, and since he had gotten it into the spotlight first, I decided to change mine. I went with Jimi LaRue. I thought that it came off of the tongue nicely, had a slightly ambivalent sexual feel to it (I grew up listening to Alice Cooper and other such androgynous freaks, so…) and I had a mistaken understanding of French, so I thought that it meant "The Street", which was certainly a decent bit of cred to shoot for. The affectation of "Jimi," as opposed to "Jimmy" or "Jim," was a fairly obvious rip-off, but what the hell. So far as I knew, I was the first person to rip it off, so it was somewhat original in it's non-originality.
I could go on for quite some time with stories about this band, and I'll definitely tell more of them someday for sure, now that I've given you the background, but right now I want to eat dinner, so I'll get to the point of this post and then start cooking my macaroni.
We were solid, we developed a loyal following in the neighborhoods we came from, and we played some semi-big venues around Boston - The Beachcomber in Wollaston, etc. We earned a small-but-steady check as the sort-of house band at a bar/club in Mattapan Square called McCarthy's. It was a decent-sized joint, holding maybe 200 when filled to capacity, and we did fill it whenever we played there, which was pretty much two weekends a month.
As we gained some fans, we decided to do some self-promotion. We had t-shirts made, the possible only surviving example of which can be seen on this rather large and dirty white teddy bear.
In case you can't quite make out the lettering, here's a closer shot.
The tag line is "High-Voltage Rock 'N Roll."
We sold a few. After we had done so, however, there arose an argument in the band concerning our name. It seems that one of the guys – I forget who – had come across an album by another group named Live Wire. They were no longer in existence, but they HAD been popular enough to have actual recordings, so this led to an argument concerning whether or not we should change our name. I was of the belief that it didn't really matter. These other guys weren't around any more, so who cared? In the end, though, the opposite opinion – that we should be totally original - carried the day, so we discarded Live Wire. We wanted to have something similar, with which we could use the same tag, so we finally decided upon POWERLINE.
Once we changed the name, we had bumper stickers manufactured. We gave these away at our first couple of gigs at McCarthy's following the name change.
McCarthy's – now defunct, in case you're wondering - was located almost directly across the street from Mattapan Station, a trolley and bus terminal. Many of our fans, after seeing our show on a Friday or Saturday evening, did the right thing and took public transportation home, rather than drive drunk. So, they'd roll themselves down to the station and wait for the bus or the trolley. As you might imagine, some folks taking a trolley won't have any real use for a bumper sticker, or at least no car to put it on. So, not wanting to waste it completely, one of them did something that has turned out to be the only remaining public vestige of our former semi-stardom. He (or she) climbed a pole and put our bumper sticker on a street sign at the River Street bus ramp to the station.
For the past 27 years, it has remained on that sign. Rain has beaten it, snow has frozen it, sun has faded it, and thousands upon thousands of people have passed by it, some on foot, some on busses, some in cars. These days, most have no more clue concerning who the group was than I would if asked about a Taiwanese oompah band. The most amazing thing, to me, is that nobody from the T (the Boston transportation system, owners of the station and, of course, the sign) has ever seen fit to try and remove it, or to even replace the sign. There's at least one person who's glad they haven't. I find it comforting to know it's still there.
Hey, you take your glory where you can get it. That person could have scrawled "Black Sabbath Rules!" on the station wall with a magic marker, or perhaps spray-painted "Ramones!" Instead, there's our bumper sticker.
God bless you, anonymous despoiler of public property! You've made my day, more than once, for 27 years now.
By the way, just as the original bass player had given me an opening by leaving for college, in 1982 the drummer decided to go to college and that's when the group disbanded. Higher education giveth, and higher education taketh away.
Soon, with more better stuff.


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TechRadar Verdict
A polished and unique phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini pro manages to outdo a lot of its more expensive rivals
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Extremely responsive
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Solid build
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Great battery life
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Highly intuitive UI
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Large number of home screens
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Android 2.1 is a welcome, but ageing, update
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Numeric keypad text entry in touchscreen mode
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320x240 display not great for web
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No trackpad
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Exchange support only via an app
Why you can trust TechRadar
UPDATE: We've now published our test of the X10 Mini Pro's successor - so check out the more efficiently-monikered Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro review.
The Xperia X10 Mini Pro has recently been updated to Android 2.1, with Sony Ericsson finally getting around to modernising the antiquated Android 1.6 OS that powered the little Android QWERTY phone when it launched last year.
The changes are slight, but with an improved web browser, more Bluetooth connectivity and enhanced social network integration, the X10 Mini Pro is certainly a better phone with the update than it was when it first launched.
But is an upgrade to the already-outdated Android 2.1 enough to stay competitive in the cut-throat Android scene of 2011? Read on to see what difference Android 2.1 has made to this sweet little phone.
You might get a slight sense of déja vu while reading this review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro – because it's virtually the same phone as the extremely nice little Xperia X10 Mini we reviewed previously.
Only there's one rather obvious and glaring change – the addition of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that's been bolted onto the underside of the X10 Mini Pro, for the benefit of those yet to take the brave leap into entirely touch-based mobile phone operation.
Amazingly, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro manages to remain the same physical size as the non-QWERTY X10 Mini – which leads us to presume the X10 Mini was filled with plenty of foam padding to make it bigger than actually necessary.
The Xperia X10 Mini Pro's QWERTY keyboard adds extra weight to the phone, giving us a handset that feels much heavier than the slightly lightweight X10 Mini, which somehow tricks the brain into thinking it's a more solid, high quality device. It's lovely in the hand. People will pass it around in admiration.
The keyboard flips out with a heavy clunk and is backlit, with light twinkling out through its keys to guide your thumbs when the automatic sensor thinks it's dark enough for you to need a bit of help finding the right buttons.
The keyboard is solid, doesn't bend or flex, and while it's obviously a little cramped given the minuscule nature of the phone itself, there's enough of a gap between the slightly raised buttons to ensure typing is possible to a good degree of accuracy.
There's actually a pretty big internal difference between this and the X10 Mini – the Mini Pro features a removable battery, while the regular X10 Mini's came sealed into its case. The Mini Pro's battery offers a rather tiny 930mAh capacity – but you wouldn't know it. It lasts for ages.
The USB connector has been placed along the side of the phone so it pokes out between your hands when you've got it connected, meaning it's easy to hold the phone easily when it's plugged in – nice thinking there, Sony Ericsson boffins. The 3.5mm headphone jack and power/lock button sit on the top edge.
There's a custom button for the camera along the right-hand edge, beneath the rocker button for volume. As with the X10 Mini, there's no optical button or trackpad. The QWERTY keyboard has a left and right cursor button placed either side of its keyboard's space bar, enabling users to page quickly through typed messages to repair typos and save embarrassment.
Inside the box came the phone, battery, charger, USB cable, 2GB micro SD card and charger. And you're ready to go.
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10 Professional Teams So Embarrassed By Losing That They Apologized to Fans
In a letter published in newspapers and on the team website on Monday, Toronto Maple Leafs chairman Larry Tanenbaum admitted that "the way this year ended was unacceptable."
The Leafs collapsed down the stretch and have the longest current playoffs drought of any team in the league. But Tanenbaum isn't the first team representative to issue a sorry after a disappointing end. Here's a look back at 10 owners who told their fans that their teams should have delivered more:
Owner John H. McConnell was in the sorry seat when his team got off to a slow start in January. "Unfortunately and surprisingly, we opened the season terrible and have struggled ever since. Disappointing is not a strong enough word," he wrote in a letter. They finished with a league-low 65 points this year.
After the Braves blew an eight-and-a-half game wild-card lead over the last month of the season, President John Schuerholz did some damage control by sending a letter to ticket holders letting them know that it didn't sit well with him. "While there were many exciting moments during our 2011 season, unfortunately, we fell short of our ultimate goal. Together, we share in the disappointment and frustration of how and when this season ended," he wrote.
A month after the Braves reached out to fans, it was the Dodgers' turn. But in that case, owner Frank McCourt's apology had a bit of a personal note to it. His much-criticized and very public divorce led to the Dodgers' bankruptcy and the league taking over the organization temporarily. "I'm very, very sorry about that. We're going to move forward and handle the situation now in as professional a way as possible and make sure the baton is passed here in a classy way," he said.
Wild owner Craig Leipold expressed a "lot of disappointment" with the team's late-season collapse that left them in 12th place in the Western Conference after they went just 2-10-1 to the final horn. "We let our fans down, and we have to now reach back out and find a way to re-engage them," he said. "We have to convince them that we are committed and serious about winning, and we hope to do that by communicating to them what we're doing with our prospects and our new players and where our future is."
After the Caps' playoff loss to Tampa Bay in the first round, owner Ted Leonsis penned an apology on his blog where he told fans that the team didn't live up to his expectations. "Little things seemed to bother us this series. We weren't resilient and we didn't get over obstacles placed in our way. We are all accountable on this performance starting with me," he said.
Owner Pat Bowlen wrote in a letter to ticket holders that the 2010 season was his hardest of his 27 years at the helm. The team finished 4-12 and dealt with several off-the-field distractions. "You deserve more from this franchise than what we saw in 2010, and you have my word that I will restore the culture of winning, trust and integrity within the Broncos," Bowlen wrote. "There is a Bronco Way that exists, and it entails success on the field, honoring tradition and maintaining the highest level of character."
Anticipating a revolt from PSL owners over his team's poor play, owner Jerry Richardson sent out a letter to his biggest spenders. "I know how difficult the season has been for you. As the person ultimately responsible for putting a team on the field, I take full responsibility for our shortfalls. It is agonizing that we have not performed at the level we had planned for and expected." The missive was a good idea, considering the team was 1-11 at the time. The only problem? Richardson didn't tell coach John Fox he did it. "I have no idea what you're talking about," Fox said when asked about the letter. Fox was fired later that month.
He's outspoken, even about his losses. Owner and general manager Jerry Jones didn't wait until the end of a terrible year to apologize to Cowboys' fans. "There's no question that I have the plan and executing it to have the best players and the best coaching that we can have. I'm dumbfounded that we are 1-7," Jones said. The only problem? The team was 1-6 at the time. Still, "I'm very, very, very sorry to our fans. You should have better than this," he continued. They did in fact fall to 1-7 in their next game, after which they fired coach Wade Phillips. The team wound up finishing 6-10.
Bob Irsay apologized to season-ticket holders in a letter that stated he had no intentions to move the team, contrary to rumors. "We want to play here, and we want to give you the kind of team you can be proud of again. This is our commitment…I've said some things maybe I shouldn't have. If I have offended the fans here, I apologize," he wrote. Three years later in the middle of the night he moved the team to Indianapolis. This past fall he was apologizing again, though, after the Colts' 0-7 start to the most recent season.
At the team's home debut, Ray Kroc, then the new owner of the Padres, let the fans know how he felt with a tirade. Down 9-2 in the 8th inning, Kroc took the public address microphone and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you." A streaker then ran across the field, according to reports. Kroc apologized to the fans, saying, "This is the most stupid ballplaying I have ever seen."