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Meet DWTS Pros Tristan MacManus and Karina Smirnoff at A Dancer's Story Benefit Performance
For most Dancing With the Stars pros, the summer break between seasons means traveling the country — and sometimes the rest of the world — for various dance shows and benefits. The best part for fans is the chance to have the pros come to you. So if you're going to be in the Cleveland, Ohio area mid-June, you're in luck, 'cause you may get to meet Tristan MacManus and Karina Smirnoff.
Our favorite Irish pro and the Ukrainian winner of DWTS Season 13 are joining forces for A Dancer's Story on Saturday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. at The Breen Center for the Performing Arts in Cleveland.
The show will feature Tristan and Karina alongside local performers and So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Maria Torres to share the story of a dancer's life as told from the perspective of a lifelong lover of the art. According to a press release about the event, "As the narrator tells his story, he will begin to remember the highlights of his vast experience expressed through dance. The dancer's memories will take the audience on a journey spanning forty years and include a variety of dance styles such as Ballet, Contemporary, Cha Cha, Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Theater Arts and more." Proceeds from the event will benefit Guidestone, a Northeast Ohio based non-profit organization serving children and families in need.
Tickets range from $75 to $125 for VIPs. There will be a special after party and meet and greet with Karina and Tristan after the show at La Strada. Visit www.adancersstory.com for tickets and details.
Source: GuidestoneOhio.org
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The Baltimore Ravens joined the NFL in 1996 after the Cleveland Browns left behind their history and became an expansion team in Baltimore. The Ravens immediately started building a winner in its very first NFL Draft, selecting UCLA offensive lineman Jonathan Ogden and Miami linebacker Ray Lewis—two players who will ultimately join the Hall-of-Fame. After being shutout from the playoffs for their first four seasons, the Ravens finally made the playoffs in 2000. With Ray Lewis leading the defense and rookie running back Jamal Lewis carrying the offense, the Ravens knocked off the New York Giants to win Super Bowl XXXV. Since its Super Bowl run, Baltimore has been one of the most consistent teams in the NFL. The Ravens have made the playoffs nine times in the last 13 years, including another Super Bowl title in 2012. The Ravens' Ring of Honor includes eight Baltimore Colts who are enshrined in the Hall-of-Fame, as well as six Ravens and deceased owner Art Modell. Score with TicketCity - the place to go for Baltimore Ravens tickets.
The Ravens couldn't find an offensive identity last season, and it contributed to going 8-8 and missing the playoffs a year after winning the Super Bowl. Ray Rice couldn't find a hole to run through and will start the 2014 season suspended from playing. The Ravens have brought in Justin Forsett, Steve Smith and Owen Daniels to help on offense, and early draft picks C.J. Mosely and Timmy Jernigan to help on the defensive side of the ball. Baltimore has brought in Gary Kubiak to take over the offense, who saw success in Houston before a disastrous performance last season. The Ravens will begin the season at home against the Bengals and Steelers, before their first road game in Cleveland. Baltimore will travel to New Orleans for the first time since winning the Super Bowl to take on the Saints, and will end the season at home against the Browns. The Ravens are in what many see as a wide open division, so the possibility is definitely there for another trip to the postseason in 2014.
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The Ravens play their home games at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore Maryland. M&T Bank Stadium holds more than 71 thousand screaming fans and is one of the premiere venues in the NFL. The Ravens' home offers unique views of the city of Baltimore, massive HD video monitors and depictions of famous moments in Ravens history on the club level of the stadium. The Baltimore Ravens home bench is on the M&T Bank Stadium sideline with sections 123-130, so if you want to be up close to the team, look for Baltimore Ravens tickets near those sections. M&T Bank Stadium parking information is covered in our Ravens event guide.
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These two teams have become the fiercest and toughest rivalry in the NFL. With both teams fighting for a division title on a regular basis and having multiple Super Bowl championships in the last 15 years, it is no wonder that this has quickly become a top rivalry in the NFL. The stakes are often at its highest when these two teams play and the intensity level is always off the charts.
One of the best rivalries in the NFL doesn't involve two teams in the same division or in the same state. These two teams have become of the best rivalries because the stakes are often at its highest when they play each other and players from both teams are usually talking trash to one another. With multiple playoff matchups and classic regular season games including the Ravens almost defeating the Patriots in their undefeated regular season, this rivalry only continues to grow.
This rivalry started before the Ravens became in existence. With the Colts formerly playing in Baltimore before moving in 1984, the hate was already formed between the fan bases. On the football field, these two teams have met many times throughout the years and often times for playoff seed positioning or the right to move on in the playoffs. With the games often times having a lot on the line, this matchup has become of the better rivalries in the NFL.
The Ravens have quickly become one of the better franchises in the NFL since they became in existence in 1996. With multiple Super Bowl titles and AFC Championships in that span, the Ravens will only continue to build off the legacy they have established. The Ravens have made the playoffs 8+ times and will only add to that number in upcoming seasons.
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The Culture 2014 event at Glasgow's Barrowlands Ballroom sought to bring the big band sound back to the dance hall.
It featured 16-piece Glasgow band That Swing Sensation, dance instructors, tea, cakes, guest vocalists "and enough quicksteps, foxtrots and waltzes to satisfy hipsters and the hip- replaced alike".
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A Vision of School Mathematics
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Imagine a classroom, a school, or a school district where all students have access to high-quality, engaging mathematics instruction.
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools supports the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics vision. Our curriculum is aligned to the Michigan Curriculum Framework standards and benchmarks, Grade Level Content Expectations, as well as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. Students will have many opportunities to be engaged in mathematics that reflects real world application.
Connected Mathematics is the official middle school math program in our school district. This program engages students in activities that help them become mathematically literate. Connected Mathematics is a researched-based program that helps students develop understanding of important concepts, skills, procedures and ways of thinking and reasoning in number, geometry, measurement, algebra, probability and statistics.
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I had heard a little about the Mexican celebration called 'Cinco de Mayo', and since I was very curious to learn more about this land I was visiting, I grabbed my smart phone and went online in the restaurant at Playa Azul Tulum.
I read that 'Cinco de Mayo' translates to 'fifth of May', and the day is greeted with fireworks and a day off from work and school to reflect on its meaning. It marks the day of the 'Battle of Puebla in 1862'.
The reason the celebration is so memorable for the Mexicans is it represents their victory in a David and Goliath-style battle against the highly-armed French fleet in 1862.
I discovered that when the ill-prepared Mexican band of 4,500 inexperienced soldiers fought off the brutal attack from 6,500 highly trained french soldiers from sunup to sunset on May 5th, 1862, the sheer bravery, faith and ferocity of the patriotic Mexicans forced the French to return to Europe to reorganize and increase their army to 30,000 for their renewed attack on Mexico the following year.
Even though the French eventually won against the Mexicans and governed the country for 6 years under the rule of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Napolean's nephew, the Mexicans celebrate their victory at 'Battle of Puebla in 1862' as a symbol of the country's ability to defend its independence with faith and bravery.
Later, as I lay in my hammock soaking in the tranquility of the Caribbean, I closed my eyes and imagined what it might have been like to be a young teenager back in 1862, enjoying my adolescence in this idyllic and beautiful country then being called into joining an army for a seemingly losing battle to defend it the next.
The bravery and patriotism of these young men protecting their right to govern their own land against a marauding foreign land set to exploit them is a fine example of what makes a country a home, and the kind of patriotism that the Mexican people stand for.
I am so glad that I am free to come and go in this beautiful land, to appreciate it and love it, as those brave souls did so many years ago; a love and faith so much stronger than their reality that they could not win against the Goliath that came to take it from them.
I love Tulum, and I love this land that welcomes me with the smiling families and dignified souls that have grown from a love of a land and of itself; in the tradition that a proud and dignified nation comes from.


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Hai.. I am mathi (UDHAY FANS CLUB,TRICHY) I like that movie very much bcz the main reason is MOTHER character after that UDHAY u r looking so smart in this movie then ur acting is also gud SANTHANAM comedy is fantastic HANSIKA ur so cute in this movie Finally I thanks to OK OK teams bcz u give a superb movie for us. UDHAY for ur future again and again give a superb film for your fans...
i love the movie and the cute movie team of oru kal oru kannadi[ok ok], the next national award for the best comedian will be given 2 santhanam only for this movie . i like mr.rajesh's 3 movies also (siva manasula shatki,boss[e]baskaran) also i live this movie very much .santhanam , udhay anna suppper machi . hanasika ka lovely
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My three favorite media stories in recent weeks were how Bill "Politically Incorrect" Maher kept his job at ABC-TV, how Ann Coulter got herself fired from National Review and how all the networks simultaneously agreed to the Bush Administration's request that they suppress any future Osama bin Laden tapes.
I also got a kick out of the Dan Rather interview on a cable channel in which he answered questions about whether it's OK for a network in the interests of objectivity to ban anchors from wearing American flags on their lapels, while a simulated American flag flew in the logo on the lower left-hand corner of the screen. (Rather himself prefers not to wear a flag but said nothing about appearing with a flag logo in the lower left-hand corner.)
Bill Maher got into trouble on Politically Incorrect when he correctly observed in the aftermath of September 11 that it's wrong to call the suicide bombers "cowards" and impolitically added, "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away: That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
Two advertisers, Sears and Federal Express, pulled their ads, seventeen stations canceled his program and Maher apologized for being, well, politically incorrect. Or rather for being misinterpreted ("I offer my apologies for anyone who took it wrong," he said), although why he should apologize to people who misinterpreted him he never explained. The defecting advertisers claimed patriotism, but in fact they were the cowards for withdrawing ads from fear of the controversy Maher's remarks might spark.
So what do we learn from this first profile in cowardice? Maher demonstrated that at best he is only incorrect within permissible limits. The advertisers should come back, the seventeen stations should reinstall the show (if they haven't already) and Maher should resign, not for what he said but for flying under false colors. You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
Next case. Ann Coulter, rudely dismissed by the Boston Globe's Alex Beam as "a right-wing telebimbo" for her colorful but intemperate attacks on the Clintons, was fired by National Review after she wrote in National Review Online that "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." My question is, In which order?
Technically, they didn't give her the boot until she wrote a follow-up about requiring passports from "suspicious-looking swarthy males." Now there are two possibilities here: One is that National Review fired her because they didn't like what she said. The other is that National Review fired her because by saying what too many National Review readers believe, she embarrassed the home team. Solution: After Maher apologizes for apologizing and resigns, Politically Incorrect should hire the truly politically incorrect Coulter.
Finally, on the networks, I don't understand why Condoleezza Rice didn't include Al Jazeera in the request to suppress the bin Laden tapes. It's true that Washington doesn't control the Qatar network, but it doesn't control the major US networks either, and surely Al Jazeera has a higher quotient of terrorist viewers. Originally, I thought the Administration's request had to do with not showing enemy propaganda, and I wondered whether this meant that the networks' much-vaunted claims of political neutrality--giving equal time to both sides in a dispute--stopped at the water's edge. But the Administration said the issue had to do less with propaganda than with national security, claiming that bin Laden might be using the occasion to send a message by secret code.
Since potential terrorists can still get bin Laden's message via Al Jazeera and via the Internet, I am baffled as to the networks' true motives, unless, like Maher, his advertisers and National Review, they are also in the controversy-avoidance business.
What this incident does show is that you don't need media concentration to have homogenization of the news. The simultaneous capitulation of all the major TV networks proves that concentration or no concentration, they are perfectly capable of marching in lockstep on their own.
After weeks of evasion and deflection, reminiscent of two illicit lovers keen to avoid scandal, the United States and Uzbekistan announced on October 12 that they had made a deal.
As the war on terrorism gears up, governments around the world are already justifying repression in the name of that cause, while the Bush Administration and its allies send signals that they may look the other way.
As we survey the cultural landscape after the atrocities of September 11, we ought to note the special danger posed to free expression by media concentration.
Patriotism requires no apologies. Like anti-Communism and anti-Fascism, it is an admirable and thoroughly sensible a priori assumption from which to begin making more nuanced judgments. Nor does patriotism need to be exclusionary. I am an American patriot, a Jewish patriot and a New York chauvinist pig. My patriotism is not about governments and armies; it's about unions, civil rights marches and the '69 Mets. It's not Kate Smith singing "God Bless America"; it's Bruce Springsteen singing "This Land Is Your Land."
Of course, not everyone on the left concurs. While many nonpatriots share an idealistic belief in a kind of cosmopolitan, humanist internationalism, some--like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on the right--really do hate this country. These leftists find nothing to admire in its magnificent Constitution; its fitful history of struggle toward greater freedom for women, minorities and other historically oppressed groups; and its values, however imperfectly or hypocritically manifested in everyday life. This became obvious in a few of the immediate reactions we heard in the wake of September 11. How could anyone say with certainty why we were attacked when we couldn't be sure who attacked us? All they could know, really, is why they thought we deserved it.
This "Hate America" left must be rejected for reasons of honor and pragmatism. It is difficult enough to "talk sense to the American people" in wartime without having to defend positions for which we have no intellectual or emotional sympathy. Many on the right are hoping to exploit a pregnant political moment to advance a host of antidemocratic policies. Principled dissent is never more necessary than when it is least welcome. American history is replete with examples of red scares, racist hysteria, political censorship and the indefensible curtailment of civil liberties that derive, in part, from excessive and abusive forms of superpatriotism. We are already seeing the beginnings of a concerted attack on civil liberties, freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Given the importance most Americans place on patriotism as a bedrock personal value, it is folly to try to enjoin them in a battle that fails to embrace their most basic beliefs.
Moreover, the refusal to draw this line invites the kind of McCarthyite thuggishness we see on display in the writings of pundits like Andrew Sullivan and Michael Kelly, and in the pages of (predictably) National Review and (sadly) The New Republic, tarring anyone with a wartime question or criticism as a pro-terrorist "Fifth Column" (Sullivan's term). Casting as wide a net as possible for their poisonous attacks, they choose examples so tiny as to be virtually nonexistent. In defense of his slander of the people of New York as well as virtually everyone else who voted against George Bush in the "red" areas of the nation, Sullivan pointed to an obscure website based in Denmark run by something called United Peoples. To smear opponents of unfettered free trade and globalization, TNR editor Peter Beinart seized on a bunch of anonymous postings to another, no less obscure, website whose name I cannot even remember. Kelly has now devoted two Washington Post columns to attacking all pacifists as "evil," "objectively pro-terrorist" and "Liars. Frauds. Hypocrites." But in neither column could he find the space--or the courage--to name a single one.
Because none of these writers have yet developed the reputation for malevolent hysteria enjoyed by, say, Marty Peretz on Israel or David Horowitz and Ann Coulter on everything, there is a serious chance that the larger mass media, never good at making distinctions on the left in the best of times, will swallow and repeat their reprehensible assertions. The net result will be the exclusion of all progressives, America-hating or no, from the spectrum of "responsible" debate where decisions are made and the nation's future is determined.
The potential for politically motivated official censorship--beyond that which is genuinely necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops--is never far away in wartime. Politicians and generals quite understandably find the temptation to abuse this power irresistible. We saw countless such examples during the Gulf War, and we can discern hints of future threats from the lips of presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer, who endorsed the attempts of a few Madison Avenue mullahs to withdraw advertising from ABC's moronic talk show Politically Incorrect when host Bill Maher used the word "cowards" regarding the US military's use of cruise missiles. "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." (Speaking of cowardice, the White House edited Fleischer's remarks in its official transcript of the exchange.)
Yet another wartime peril to democracy derives from hyper-caution and self-censorship on the part of the media themselves. Why are newspapers like Newsday and the Daily News censoring comics who raise even the gentlest questions about George Bush? Exactly whom does the communications conglomerate Clear Channel imagine it is defending when it instructs its deejays not to play "Bridge Over Troubled Water" or "Ticket to Ride" on the radio? Why do newspaper publishers in Grants Pass, Oregon, and Galveston County, Texas, feel the need to fire writers and editors who wondered why the President "skedaddled" into a "Nebraska hole" on the day of the attack? Most disturbing of all, why has the consortium of national news organizations decided to postpone, apparently indefinitely, the news of who really won the Florida election last winter? The estimated publication date for the collective effort, overseen by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and costing more than $1 million, had been September 17. But New York Times political reporter Richard Berke wrote that the now "utterly irrelevant" report "might have stoked the partisan tensions."
In other words, the threat of "partisan tensions" arising from a potentially stolen election is more dangerous than continuing to live the lie. How wise of our media minders to decide that America needs to be protected--not from terrorists, but from truth.
The press conference that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held shortly after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on October 7 was painful to behold. The questions posed by reporters tended to be either trivial--Did the B-2s involved in the mission depart from the United States?--or thoughtless. Since September 11 Rumsfeld had repeatedly said that he would not divulge any information that might endanger ongoing operations, but that did not stop reporters from trying to elicit it. CNN's Jamie McIntyre, for instance, kept demanding to know whether the United States planned to send ground troops into Afghanistan. Rumsfeld did his best to ignore him, but, as McIntyre persisted, the Secretary finally fixed him with an icy stare and said, "We don't discuss operational details."
The briefing reminded me of the famous Saturday Night Live sketch aired during the Persian Gulf War, in which reporters--despite being warned not to ask about matters that could aid the enemy--posed questions like, "What date are we going to start the ground attack?" and "Where are our forces most vulnerable to attack?" The sketch captured the public's disdain for the media's mindless aggressiveness and reinforced the first Bush Administration's inclination to restrict the flow of information about the war.
Now, with a new conflict upon us, the second Bush Administration seems intent on imposing similar controls. "Although the administration says it is not engaged in censorship," Elisabeth Bumiller reported in the New York Times, "officials throughout the government readily say they have been ordered to be circumspect about their remarks." This is certainly troubling. Without access to battle sites and timely information, the press--whatever its faults--will have a hard time assessing the success of US actions. Accordingly, US news organizations have been pushing the Pentagon to be more open.
That seems unlikely to happen, however. As during the Gulf War, the public seems to support the Administration's approach. Rather than sit around and grumble, though, reporters and editors should rededicate themselves to the real task at hand, which is providing the fullest possible coverage of the complicated new era we have entered. That, in turn, requires journalists to show such qualities as independence, enterprise and, yes, courage. Regardless of how much information the government provides, the press must pose uncomfortable questions, challenge broadly held assumptions and solicit opinion from a wide range of sources.
There are some hopeful signs. During the Gulf War, the press uncritically accepted Pentagon assertions about the accuracy of its missiles. Postwar studies showed those claims to be vastly exaggerated, and many journalists felt burned. A month into the current conflict, some journalists have shown their determination to avoid a repeat. Thus, after the Rumsfeld briefing, Richard Hawley, a former US general turned ABC news consultant, told Peter Jennings that in bombing Afghanistan, the United States was using precision-guided weapons so as to avoid "collateral damage." Jennings immediately pounced. During the Gulf War, he observed, generals "repeatedly talked about precision-guided weapons, and they turned out to be anything but precise. How much better is it now?" Hawley said that US missiles now have GPS-aided navigational devices that make for "far fewer stray rounds." Whether that's so remains to be seen, of course, but the exchange shows how some journalists, at least, have learned from that past conflict.
The current one, however, offers a host of new challenges, especially in covering the political dimensions of the conflict. And here the press could do much better. To cite one example, the Pentagon revealed on October 7 that in addition to dropping bombs on Afghanistan, it was dropping humanitarian food packages. In all, it said, it was delivering about 37,000 packages. Most news organizations accepted at face value the Pentagon's explanation that this showed America's concern for the well-being of the Afghan people. In all, though, millions of Afghans face starvation, and the next day NPR reported that Doctors Without Borders had condemned the US food drop as "propaganda" and, further, that the bombing had caused the UN World Food Program in Pakistan to suspend its daily shipments of 700 tons of food into Afghanistan. In reporting this, NPR did not rely on handouts from the Pentagon; rather, it went into the field and developed its own sources of information. (In fairness, Washington says it plans to increase greatly the size of its food drops once it is safe to do so.)
Another, more serious example of the press's credulity has been its coverage of the US intelligence services. In light of the failures to predict the September 11 attacks, the press has almost unanimously concluded that the United States needs to beef up its spying abroad and to "unleash" the CIA to fight terrorism. In a piece for The New Yorker, for instance, Seymour Hersh, relying heavily on sources within the US intelligence community, lambasted the CIA for turning away from the rough-and-tumble methods it used during the cold war. "Look," one agent told Hersh, "we recruited assholes. I handled bad guys. But we don't recruit people from the Little Sisters of the Poor--they don't know anything." A piece in the New York Times's Week in Review section echoed Hersh. "The CIA's spies are ill-equipped to fight a dirty war in the world's back alleys," lamented Tim Weiner, who went on to cite the need for American intelligence to rebuild its capacity for "old-fashioned espionage" and satisfy the "urge for covert action to combat an invisible foe."
These articles offered no independent assessments as to how much impact such a buildup could actually have in combating terrorism. Even more troubling, they showed no awareness of the serious costs of past US covert operations, from the Congo to Cambodia to Latin America. This omission seemed especially dismaying in the case of Hersh, who over the years has broken so many stories about clandestine mischief abroad.
Clearly, the United States needs to improve its ability to confront invidious groups like Al Qaeda. We are indeed fighting a new kind of war, and it requires new types of responses. Yet the unthinking acceptance of premises like the need to "unleash" the CIA does not advance the discussion. More than ever, US journalists must avoid the temptation to engage in groupthink and--without seeming reflexively adversarial--must ask sharp questions. In the end, the danger they face is not just censorship, but self-censorship.
Just once more, and
then we'll really have to get on with more pressing business. I could
subscribe myself at any time to any of the following statements:
§ An Arab child born in Nablus should have no fewer
rights in his or her homeland than a Jewish child born in
§ The United States of America has been the
patron of predatory regimes on five continents.
§ The
United States of America exports violence by means of arms sales and
evil clients.
You can probably fill in a few extras for
yourself. However, none of the above statements means the same thing
if prefaced with the words: "As Osama bin Laden and his devout
followers have recently reminded us..." They wouldn't mean the same
thing politically, that is to say, and they wouldn't mean the same
thing morally. It's disgraceful that so many people on the periphery
of this magazine should need what Noam Chomsky would otherwise term
instruction in the elementary.
Here are two brief thought
experiments that I hope and trust will put this degrading argument to
rest. Both of them, as it happens, involve the date September
I have long kept September 11 as a day of mourning,
because it was on that date in 1973 that Salvador Allende was
murdered and Chilean democracy assassinated along with him. We know
all the details now, from the way the giant corporations subsidized
subversion to the way that US politicians commissioned "hit jobs" and
sabotage. It took the Chilean opposition many years of patient
struggle to regain their country and their democracy, and the small
help I was able to offer them is one of the few things in my life of
which I can be proud. There was one spirited attempt to kill Augusto
Pinochet himself during this period, with which I had some sneaking
sympathy, but on the whole the weaponry of terror (death squads, car
bombs, the training of special killers) was in the department of
horror employed by Chilean and US officials working for, or with, the
dictatorship. And now Chilean dignity has been restored, and Pinochet
himself is a discredited and indicted figure, spared the rigor of law
only for humanitarian reasons. We may even live to see justice done
to some of his backers in Washington, though the holding of breath
would be inadvisable.
I don't know any Chilean participant
in this great historic struggle who would not rather have
died--you'll have to excuse the expression--than commit an outrage
against humanity that was even remotely comparable to the atrocities
in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. And I think I'll leave it
at that, since those who don't see my point by now are never going to
do so.
There are others who mourn September 11 because it
was on that day in 1683 that the hitherto unstoppable armies of Islam
were defeated by a Polish general outside the gates of Vienna. The
date marks the closest that proselytizing Islam ever came to making
itself a superpower by military conquest. From then on, the Muslim
civilization, which once had so much to teach the Christian West,
went into a protracted eclipse. I cannot of course be certain, but I
think it is highly probable that this is the date that certain
antimodernist forces want us to remember as painfully as they do. And
if I am right, then it's not even facile or superficial to connect
the recent aggression against American civil society with any current
"human rights issue."
Why not pay attention to what the
cassettes and incantations of Al Qaeda actually demand: a holy war in
which there are no civilians on the other side, only infidels, and a
society of total aridity in which any concept of culture or the
future has been eradicated?
One ought to be clear about
this: The Ottomans who besieged Vienna were not of that primeval
mentality. But the Wahabbi fanatics of the present century are.
Glance again at the trite statements I made at the beginning of this
column. Could Osama bin Laden actually utter any of them? Certainly
not. He doesn't only oppose the entire Jewish presence in Palestine;
he opposes the Jewish presence in America. He is the
spoiled-brat son of one of our preferred despotisms and the proud
beneficiary of the export of violence. Why, then, do so many fools
consider him as the interpreter of their "concerns," let alone seek
to appoint their ignorant selves as the medium for his?
Thanks to all those who demand that I tell them what is to
be done. As the situation develops, they may even ask themselves this
question as if it really demanded a serious answer. We certainly owe
a duty to Afghanistan's people, whose lives were rendered impossible
by the Taliban long before we felt any pain. We might even remember
that the only part of Iraq where people are neither starving nor
repressed is in the Kurdish area, now under international protection
as a result of public pressure on Bush Senior's vaunted "coalition."
(See especially David Hirst's two engrossing reports from northern
Iraq in the London Guardian of August 1 and 2: Hirst himself
is probably the most consistently anti-imperialist journalist in the
region.) But wait! That might mean that one could actually
do something. Surely we are too guilt-stained for
Thanks also to all those who thought it was original
to attack me for writing from an "armchair." (Why is it always an
armchair?) As it happens, I work in a swivel chair, in an apartment
on the top floor of one of Washington's tallest buildings. In the
fall of 1993 the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism
urgently advised me to change this address because of "credible"
threats received after my wife and daughter and I had sheltered
Salman Rushdie as a guest, and had arranged for him to be received at
the cowering Clinton White House. I thought, then as now, that the
government was doing no more than covering its own behind by giving
half-alarmist and half-reassuring advice. In other words, I have a
quarrel with theocratic fascism even when the Administration does
not, and I hope at least some of my friendly correspondents are
prepared to say the same.
all the programs I've seen on Afghanistan, not one was more chilling
than Beneath the Veil, an hourlong documentary that has
appeared frequently on CNN. Its narrator, Saira Shah, a British woman
of Afghan descent, spent five days in the country to see what life
there was really like. Shah managed to penetrate places few
Westerners get to see, including a secret classroom for girls and a
village that suffered Taliban atrocities. She also visited a Kabul
soccer stadium that, she said, had served as a public execution
ground. To back up her point, the documentary featured a clip of a
man putting a rifle to the head of a woman clad in a burqa and
blowing her brains out. In an interview with the Taliban foreign
minister, Shah asked what he thought the international donors who
gave money for the stadium would say if they knew it was being used
for executions rather than for sports. Well, the minister said, if
they didn't like it, they should give money to build a separate arena
for executions.
Shah's report captures just how horrendous
life in Afghanistan has become. The Taliban's police-state tactics,
together with its harboring of terrorists, has fed a groundswell of
support for its ouster. That, in turn, has focused new attention on
the Taliban's main opponents, the United Front, or, as it's more
familiarly known, the Northern Alliance. Eager to report on it, US
journalists have swarmed into the sliver of territory the alliance
controls in northeastern Afghanistan, where they're cordially taken
on tours by rebel commanders.
"We're with the troops of the
Northern Alliance," MSNBC's TomAspell reported on September 27. The
alliance, he said, was eager to act as a guide for American forces
entering Afghanistan. CNN's Chris Burns, gesturing toward a mountain
ridge, said, "Thirty miles beyond that, is where Kabul is. And they
say if they had help from the Americans, they could take that city."
Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to
plead for US assistance.
The print media have been no less
accommodating. "Front-line Taliban Foes Eager to Help U.S.," the
New York Times declared on its front page. Reporter David
Rohde described how a Northern Alliance general "swaggered across the
top floor" of a demolished airfield control tower and pointed
southward. "'On the other side of those mountains,' he said, his
voice filled with yearning, 'is Kabul.'" While the alliance did not
pose an immediate military threat to the city, Rohde noted, it did
have "encyclopedic knowledge of the Taliban and its bombing targets,
units and tactics." The Washington Post has run a series of
glowing reports about the alliance and its grit, savvy and
"discipline." That discipline, correspondent Peter Baker noted in one
dispatch, has survived the September 9 assassination of Ahmed Shah
Massoud, the guerrilla leader who "by sheer force of personality had
managed to hold together this eclectic group of
In death, Massoud has been lionized by the US
press--literally. "The legendary 'Lion of the Panjshir,'" the Los
Angeles Times called him. "A Lion's Death," the New Yorker
declared in a headline atop a one-page eulogy by Jon Lee Anderson. In
1992, Anderson reported, Massoud's "moderately conservative group"
defeated the brutish regime backed by the Soviets, and he served as
defense minister and vice president until 1996, when the Taliban
gained control of most of the country.
What neither
Anderson nor the rest of the press has reported is that during their
time in power, Massoud and his fellow warlords ruthlessly fought one
another, reducing much of Kabul to rubble and killing tens of
thousands of people, most of them civilians. According to a
meticulously documented report by Human Rights Watch (Afghanistan:
Crisis of Impunity, available at www.hrw.org), the front "amassed
a deplorable record of attacks on civilians" between 1992 and 1996.
It was the lawlessness and brutality that prevailed under these
warlords that paved the way for the Taliban. Since then, Human Rights
Watch reports, both the Taliban and the United Front "have repeatedly
committed serious violations of international humanitarian law,
including killings of detainees, aerial bombardment and shelling,
direct attacks on civilians, rape, torture, persecution on the basis
of religion, and the use of antipersonnel landmines."
one of the few departures from the pack, Patricia Gossman noted in a
Washington Post Op-Ed that Afghans have been fleeing Kabul
"not only out of fear of US airstrikes but out of panic that the
[Northern Alliance] might take power there again." Gossman, a writer
whose research has been funded by the US Institute of Peace, wrote
that when she was in Kabul last year, "I was told time and again that
the only thing people there feared more than the Taliban was that the
warlords of the Northern Alliance might return to
Michael Sullivan, in a fine piece for NPR, pointed
out that the Northern Alliance is made up of Afghanistan's ethnic
Tajik and Uzbek minorities, "with only token representation from the
country's ethnic Pashtun majority, who've dominated Afghanistan's
political landscape for most of the country's history." Without
involving the Pashtuns, a Pakistani security analyst told him, having
a stable government in Afghanistan "would be simply impossible." (The
Taliban is made up mostly of Pashtuns.)
What accounts for
the media blackout on the United Front's true colors? As Ken
Silverstein observed in an astute piece for Salon, the front's
many abuses "can't be a surprise" to reporters. Since September 11,
he notes, several thousand people, "presumably many of them
journalists," have requested the Human Rights Watch report on
Afghanistan, but "most reporters and pundits seem to be patriotically
turning a blind eye to our new partner's shortcomings."
The press may at last be opening its eyes. Time, in
its October 8 edition, offered a balanced piece on the United Front,
referring to its "fractious makeup" and "disappointingly thin"
intelligence. And David Rohde, in another front-page piece in the
Times on the Northern Alliance, used the w-word--warlords--and
described their recruitment of fighters as young as
According to the Times, the Bush Administration
has decided to provide covert aid to several groups opposed to the
Taliban, the United Front included. In light of the urgent need to
root out war criminals like Osama bin Laden, it can be argued that
Washington needs every bit of help it can get. But at the very least,
the American public needs to know whom we are embracing. After all,
it was just a few years ago that the CIA--eager to confront the
Soviets--backed the mujahedeen, including many of the same Taliban
fighters we are now seeking to overthrow.
Are there any people
on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty,
hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis
weren't bad enough, under Taliban rule they can't work, they can't go
to school, they have virtually no healthcare, they can't leave their
houses without a male escort, they are beaten in the streets if they
lift the mandatory burqa even to relieve a coughing fit. The
Taliban's crazier requirements have some of the obsessive
particularity of the Nazis' statutes against the Jews: no high heels
(that lust-inducing click-click!), no white socks (white is the color
of the flag), windows must be painted over so that no male passerby
can see the dreaded female form lurking in the house. (This
particular stricture, combined with the burqa, has led to an outbreak
of osteomalacia, a bone disease caused by malnutrition and lack of
Until September 11, this situation received only
modest attention in the West--much less than the destruction of the
giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan. The "left" is often accused of
"moral relativism" and a "postmodern" unwillingness to judge, but the
notion that the plight of Afghan women is a matter of culture and
tradition, and not for Westerners to judge, was widespread across the
political spectrum.
Now, finally, the world is paying
attention to the Taliban, whose days may indeed be numbered now that
their foreign supporters--Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Pakistan--are backing off. The connections between religious
fanaticism and the suppression of women are plain to see (and not
just applicable to Islam--show me a major religion in which the
inferiority of women, and God's wish to place them and their
dangerous polluting sexuality under male control, is not a central
original theme). So is the connection of both with terrorism, war and
atrocity. It's no accident that so many of the young men who are foot
soldiers of Islamic fundamentalism are reared in womanless religious
schools, or that Osama bin Laden's recruiting video features bikinied
Western women as symbols of the enemy.
But if
fundamentalism requires the suppression of women, offering desperate,
futureless men the psychological and practical satisfaction of
instant superiority to half the human race, the emancipation of women
could be the key to overcoming it. Where women have education,
healthcare and personal rights, where they have social and political
and economic power--where they can choose what to wear, whom to
marry, how to live--there's a powerful constituency for secularism,
democracy and human rights: What educated mother engaged in public
life would want her daughter to be an illiterate baby machine
confined to the four walls of her husband's house with no one to talk
to but his other wives?
Women's rights are crucial for
everything the West supposedly cares about: infant mortality (one in
four Afghan children dies before age 5), political democracy,
personal freedom, equality under the law--not to mention its own
security. But where are the women in the discussion of Afghanistan,
the Middle East, the rest of the Muslim world? We don't hear much
about how policy decisions will affect women, or what they want. Men
have the guns and the governments. Who asks the women of Saudi
Arabia, our ally, how they feel about the Taliban-like restrictions
on their freedom? In the case of Afghanistan, the Northern
Alliance presents itself now to the West as women's friend. A story
in the New York Times marveled at the very limited permission
given to women in NA-held territory to study and work and wear a less
restrictive covering than the burqa. Brushed aside was the fact that
many warlords of the Northern Alliance are themselves religious
fighters who not only restricted women considerably when they held
power from 1992 to '96 but plunged the country into civil war,
compiling a record of ethnically motivated mass murder, rape and
other atrocities and leaving the population so exhausted that the
Taliban's promise of law and order came as a relief. It's all
documented on the Human Rights Watch website
Now more than ever, the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), which opposes both
the Taliban and the Northern Alliance as violent, lawless,
misogynistic and antidemocratic, deserves attention and support.
"What Afghanistan needs is not more war," Tahmeena Faryel, a RAWA
representative currently visiting the United States, told me, but
massive amounts of humanitarian aid and the disarming of both the
Taliban and the Northern Alliance, followed by democratic elections.
"We don't need another religious government," she said. "We've had
that!" The women of RAWA are a different model of heroism than a
warlord with a Kalashnikov: In Afghanistan, they risk their lives by
running secret schools for girls, delivering medical aid, documenting
and filming Taliban atrocities. In Pakistan, they demonstrate against
fundamentalism in the "Talibanized" cities of Peshawar and Quetta.
Much as the victims of the WTC attack need our support, so too do
Afghans who are trying to bring reason and peace to their miserable
country. To make a donation to RAWA, see www.rawa.org.
* * *
I got more negative comment on my
last column, in which I described a discussion with my daughter about
whether to fly an American flag in the wake of the WTC attack, than
on anything I've ever written. Many people pitied my commonsensical,
public-spirited child for being raised by an antisocial naysayer like
me. And if The Weekly Standard has its way--it's urging
readers to send young "Miss Pollitt" flags c/o The Nation--she
will soon have enough flags to redecorate her entire bedroom in red,
white and blue, without having to forgo a single Green Day CD to buy
one for herself. (See this issue's Letters column for some of the
mail on the flag question.)
Fortunately, for those who want
to hang something a bit more global out their window, there are
alternatives. The peace flag (www.peaceflags.org) reshapes Old
Glory's stars into the peace sign; the Earth flag (www.earthflag.net)
displays the Apollo photo of the Earth on a blue background.
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While she has her own story of being trafficked, she's had help and moved on with her life. Now she is a survivor....Read More
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The ABC chapter of the League of Women Voters will host "Human Trafficking: A Community Conversation at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14 at the Andover Senior Center....Read More
Joy Friedman was raped when she was 15 years old. Although she escaped from the home where she was held captive for more than 24 hours, it took her 22 years to get away from the grasps of men who profited from her being forced to strip for or have sex with multiple men....Read More
James Stuart said not long after he was elected Anoka County Sheriff in 2010, Det. Thomas Strusinski approached him to make him aware of the serious problem of human trafficking. ...Read More
Children who are pulled into sex trafficking often experience 30 or more sexual assaults per day. On average, this goes on for two weeks and starts when they are 12-14 years old....Read More
Local anti-human trafficking advocate and North Metro TV public access television producer Bukola Oriola was invited to the White House Jan. 14 to speak as part of a special survivor forum....Read More
A former Blaine resident and current St. Cloud State University student will be joining five others in running 230.2 miles across Minnesota June 23 to July 5 to raise awareness of the problem of forced-labor and sex trafficking....Read More
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I am looking at setting up a PC for emulation of some great games - no matter what the system. I downloaded a bunch of emulators, all working great, but just dunno what games I wanna play. Systems can be MAME, SNES, Genesis, whatever. Just fancy some old-school gaming
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(Proliferations) special: Planned Parenthood Aurora
Today I'd like to draw attention to pro-life blogs that have been covering the Aurora Planned Parenthood scandal….
Today I'd like to draw attention to pro-life blogs that have been covering the Aurora Planned Parenthood scandal….
Veronica at the
Well, just because it's the weekend doesn't mean the news stops. First, Eric Scheidler's delayed appearance from last week's pro-life libel suit against Planned Parenthood has been delayed, I hear, because additional plaintiffs are continually being added. Look for that to be filed early next week. Finally, here's the report of another sort of delay […]
It's the weekend and time to regroup, right? With that in mind, here is my 7-year-old grandson Gabriel's current favorite song. His Vacation Bible School version was a lot less rock and roll, but this is the same inspiring tune. I love to hear him sing it in his small, clear voice… "Tell the world […]
Barack Obama, who never saw a reason to abort he didn't support, has not surprisingly signed a press release PP wrote for him on the Aurora situation. According to the
From the "My Grandfather's Son." CBS advance story yesterday: In his first television interview, in which he discusses his childhood, his race, his rise to Supreme Court Justice and his job on the nation's highest court, Clarence Thomas says the real issue at his controversial confirmation hearings 16 years ago was abortion….
I have actually said every one of these except, "No texting at the table." That nuisance came after my kids were grown… lol…. [HT: reader rosie]
From the
If you are a pro-lifer with a residence or business within one-quarter mile of the Planned Parenthood Aurora site, please email me. Click to enlarge:
Weitz Company Wednesday. Weitz is currently the general contractor for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains' planned 50,000 sq. ft. mega-mill in Denver. Pro-lifers held their picket during Weitz's lunch hour. It included graphic signs and a touring Truth Truck (sans the


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Homecoming Parade 6 PM Friday
The GAA and the Carolina Athletic Association invite you to attend this year's Homecoming parade. In supporting the spirit of Homecoming and assisting with festivities across campus, the GAA and CAA are working to instill enthusiasm and participation for parade goers and participants alike.
The parade will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17 at the Bell Tower, where parade entrants will assemble in the Bell Tower Parking Lot. The route will turn right onto South Road, left onto Raleigh Street, then turn left at Cameron Avenue and end at the Old Well.
With the help of Chapel Hill police and traffic control, the entire parade route will be closed to all other traffic, and parade entries can be viewed from both sides of each street. Please show your support for Homecoming by finding a spot along the route to cheer and greet those who have worked hard to bring you a campus parade.
Entries include student and community organizations, the UNC Marching Tar Heels, and Homecoming king and queen contestants. Creativity should be at a peak since prizes will be awarded in various categories.
If you are remaining on campus for "Late Night with Roy Williams," please stop by the Alumni Center for our Countdown Party, 7:30-9:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available for purchase, and the Alumni Hall will play host to former athletes, games and door prize giveaways, including tickets to the UNC-Duke men's basketball game. DJ Skip Ellis will be on hand to provide additional entertainment. The Countdown Party is serving as a great meeting spot for friends walking over to the Smith Center for the debut of Roy Williams at Carolina and the 2003-04 women's and men's basketball program.
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Check out all of the posts tagged with 'Music Festivals' below. If you still can't find what you are looking for, try searching using the form within the right side navigation of this page.
Tips on the Street
Wednesday, 1st Jun 2011
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Available now is the first preview clip of "Campione!", a series which based on the PV, looks to be no different than any other generic fantasy anime about a busty heroine and sword wielding male protagonist.
Now the PV is certainly not lacking, rather what it does have simply isn't so great – another anime with a highschool male lead who is invincible and girls want to mate with, only difference is here he has magic powers and a sword. Essentially, the concept itself is all around weak. The video does not leave us wanting to watch the anime series – however it does leave us wondering if they purposefully imitated the Fate series with their scene of unlimited blades.
Unfortunately, if we turn to the official synopsis in hopes for a clearer idea of this anime, it just turns out that we were correct – it is literally just a "harem love comedy plus magic battles" as we determined from the PV:
A harem love comedy plus magic battles. Kusanagi Godo is a 16-year-old high school boy, who once killed the god "Verethragna" and acquired the title of "Campione (god killer)" when he was 15. Erica Brandelli is a 16-year-old Italian girl, who is a "Great Knight" of the magic society "Bronze Black Cross" and had fought together with Godo to defeat Verethragna. Godo doesn't like fighting but his title of "Campione" makes him get involved in battles against other Campiones and uncontrollable gods.
Adding another conventional element to an already overdone mix does make it any less generic – and that holds true here, this series isn't looking anything above average, and that's only if one would be kind enough to consider it average to begin with. Yet in any case, at least the visuals and animation seem ever so slightly better than standard.
Campione's release date remains unknown – although it's doubtful many are looking forward to this to begin with.


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BJP natural choice for nationalists: Dr. Jitendra
Filed Under: Media & Tech, World | Posted: 08/18/2012 at 3:16AM
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Reasi/Jammu, August 18 (Scoop News) – In a bid to carry the BJP's ongoing week-long special membership drive to the remotest corners of the state, the BJP National Executive Member & J&K State Chief Spokesperson Dr. Jitendra Singh, who is also District Prabhari (Incharge) for Reasi, today visited village Netar in Bhamla area located at the extreme periphery of district Reasi to lead the party activists for the same .
Addressing the party workers, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that BJP is the natural choice and political option preferred by nationalist citizens of
Dr. Jitendra Singh said that while the BJP Mandal and district office bearers from the region will take up with the administration some of the general demands like upgradation of the village school to Higher Secondary level, improvement in power supply and drinking water facility, the village leaders will also have to learn to protest against the Ministers from the region who got elected with their vote and then chose to discriminate against their own people simply in order to please their Kashmir-centric masters by whose goodwill they had become ministers.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the party had decided a target of over twenty thousand new members from District Reasi and to achieve this, District President Kabla Singh, Mandal President Sheel Mangotra and district membership Incharge Chain Singh had been working day and night. He said the membership week being observed from 17 to 24 August also offered an opportunity for mass contact with people.
Pandit Hem Raj, Master Sunder, Capt. Daya Ram and Thakur Baldev Singh also spoke on the occasion while those present included Capt. Chaman Lal, Capt. Kher Singh, Karnail Singh, Narsingh Dayal, Lal Singh and others.


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Discover PS.org's Framing and Tactical Assault Projects!
Just as Bush blundered into the Balkans to deliver his history-mangling rhetoric on minority rights as a benchmark for democracy, Frist was maneuvering eliminate them back home. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
Frist to headline radicals' telecast on nuking the filibuster to take over the courts.
Today the repugnant bankruptcy bill cleared several hurdles and Democrats broke ranks in order to vote for cloture, ending debate on the bill.
While the vast majority of Democrats behaved normally, like Stepford Wives in accordance with their corporate programming, by voting in step with the Republicans, a *whopping* thirteen Senators actually voted against her nomination.


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Jamie Redknapp
Football Expert & Columnist
Looking for a spark: Jamie Redknapp says Suarez and Sterling must shine for Liverpool at Everton
Liverpool need Luis Suarez and Raheem Sterling to unlock a talented Everton side, says Jamie Redknapp.
Last Updated: 27/10/12 11:55am
Merseyside derbies are usually great encounters with plenty of passion. Goodison Park provides a brilliant atmosphere and with Everton off to a great start in the Premier League this season this will be a really interesting clash.
We all know what an incredible job David Moyes has done at Everton; he's forged a togetherness and team spirit which has ensured the club have continued to deliver good results in recent years, despite the limited resources at his disposal.
However, looking at the Everton squad now, it's clear he has more than just team spirit in that camp - there's real quality there too. The likes of Steven Pienaar, Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines have taken the headlines with their outstanding form so far this term which has helped propel Everton to fourth in the league, but there is talent right through the squad.
After doubts about whether Phil Jagielka could step up to the top level after his move from Sheffield United, he has turned into one of the best defenders in the country, then there's Nikica Jelavic up front looking sharp, Leon Osman, who is so underrated in midfield, and Tim Howard solid in goal.
This is the best squad of players Everton have had for a long time and they've flown out of the blocks this season.
However, they'll be without Fellaini, who's got a knee injury, and Pienaar, who's suspended after his red card against QPR - and Liverpool will be delighted with that news because Everton will miss them. Fellaini's a huge presence in the middle of the park - both literally and figuratively - and Pienaar is a quality footballer whose relationship down the left with Baines has been fantastic.
I'd have made Everton favourites for this one if they had those two in their side but I think now we'll be in for a very tight affair.
Liverpool are currently exactly where I expected them to be at this stage of the season. People have said it is taking time for them to adapt to Brendan Rodgers' philosophy of football - but unless I'm reading it wrong, Liverpool have always played a nice passing game. Even back in the 1980s I remember watching players like Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson passing it out from the back.
The problem at Liverpool is they are so dependent on Luis Suarez - and that's nobody's fault except the management, who have left them as short as they have by not moving to bring in some support during the summer. They must be desperately hoping he stays fit because without him they're just relying on young players.
The youngsters are getting great experience, of course - and some of them have really bright futures in the game - but you still need players who know the game, know the Premier League and who can make a difference, especially in tight games like this one against Everton.
Unless someone like Suarez can turn the game for Liverpool, I feel they haven't got the capability to go and beat a team like Everton comfortably at the moment.
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However, one player who has really benefited from Liverpool's thin squad is Raheem Sterling - and I'm a huge fan of the 17-year-old.
Since I left Liverpool, I can't remember the last person at Anfield who played in wide areas, dribbled the ball and took on opponents but also had the presence of mind to cross the ball at the right time and pick out a man.
Rafa Benitez tried to fill that role with all sorts of players - and many I'd never heard of before or since - and it didn't work out for Stewart Downing in that role last season. But Sterling has the dangerous combination of lightning pace and a footballing brain - and if you've got that then you're going to be a real asset to your side and a player the opposition rightly worry about.
Sterling doesn't just get into wide areas and thrash the ball across as so many wingers seem to do these days; his quality in wide areas is very good and he knows when to stand one up to the far post, pick someone out or whip it across the face. He's a real player and he's an exciting player of the kind Liverpool haven't had since Steve McManaman was playing. He's been a revelation for Liverpool this year.
The Anfield fans love a player who can do something different and understand the game. For someone so young his game belies his tender years and he's got it all in front of him; he'll be an England regular in a few years and in Brendan Rodgers he's got a manager who will relish the opportunity to work with him and develop him as a player.
Liverpool will be looking to him and Suarez to pull something out of the bag on Sunday because to me this Merseyside Derby looks like it will be a tight 1-1 draw, a result which will probably suit both managers, considering their respective starts to the season.
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A new trial show that green and black tea extracts can reduce cholesterol levels in people who have high cholesterol.
Previous research has suggested that green and black tea might be useful in helping improve people's cholesterol profiles. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report, that capsules containing an extract of compounds from green and black tea has a dramatic cholesterol-lowering effect.
They studied a group of 240 people in China, all of whom had high cholesterol levels and were on a low-fat diet to lower cholesterol. They were given either the tea extract or placebo. The 375 milligram capsule contained 75 milligrams of theaflavins, from black tea, 150 milligrams of catechins, from green tea, and 150 milligrams of other tea antioxidants called polyphenols.
During the 12 week trial, those on the tea extract experienced an average 16 per cent drop in low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol – otherwise known as 'bad' cholesterol. This is a far greater effect than the researchers had been expecting.
The capsule represents a lot of tea-drinking – 35 cups of high quality black tea and seven of green tea. So don't expect this cholesterol-lowering impact from everyday tea consumption. The research is in its early stages but it will be interesting to see if this tea extract can play a role in reducing cholesterol levels.


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Cimarron Firearms is here in Fbg. I think they moved from where they used to be, though.
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Being from Texas, have you heard of Cimarron Firearms somewhere around there ?? I just purchased a 1878 Stage Coach Gun (double-stove pipes - 12 ga.) like the old west days !! This company manufactures vintage firearms, like Wyatt Earp's old revolver, old Winchesters, and many others. You might like this... http://www.cimarron-firearms.com Be well, and stay safe !!!!!!
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Take care David and have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday
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Hey David--Thanks for the add. Nice to meet you. Be safe up there in Fredericksburg and have a great Thanksgiving Holiday. Carl
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THANKS FOR THE FRIENDSHIP AND MANY GREETINGS FROM AUSTRIA IN EUROPE. Please feel free to visit my patch collection website and don't hesitate to leave a comment in my guestbook:
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Good morning.Thanx for accepting my invite,have a great week.
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"Just Another Man"
He looks in the mirror every morning and night,
Does he see what I see, it would be nice if he might.
He sees a rude man as he stands there,
I see someone who needs someone to care.
He sees a mean man, because he has to be tough,
I see someone who deals with more than enough.
He sees how he tries not to cry and feels he has no heart,
I see someone who has to keep his feelings and work apart.
He sees a murderer because he shot someone last night,
I see someone who saved someone else from a fight.
He sees a failure because he did not arrive in time
I see someone who did his best and needs peace of mind.
He sees just another man as he enters the day,
I see a special man who does his best in every way.
For all the years, he has put on the uniform of blue,
He has never realized how much he protects me and you.
But, as he starts the day again, I just wish he could see,
What he really is and how much he means to you and me.
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Good Lighting for Photographing Paintings
I'd use the search feature, except I'm search feature retarded because every time I use it I get random results having nothing to do with what I'm looking for. So I apologize, I'm sure this has been asked before!
Anyways! I've been trying to accurately photograph my paintings for years now. I've gone through four cameras in the process and I still can not accurately photograph a painting larger than 16 x 20. The colors come out wrong. My camera will fish eye. It's just a huge headache. I did find an older post on CA suggesting to use a gray scale card, and set the camera on a timer. Awesome advice! I'll be doing that for sure. PS I found that through google, not the search.
Now I need some decent lighting. My largest sized canvas is 3ft by 5ft. I need a really awesome picture because - I want to make prints. So how do I go about lighting up this sucker, and other larger canvases?
I know that I'm supposed to have two lights at an angle....but...I don't know where to get the lights. And I'm poor. I can't afford something that's going to cost hundreds. I'm trying to MAKE money. Is there an inexpensive way to get some good lighting for your canvases?
BTW, I've tried the whole take your painting outside and set in the shade deal. But that means to place my camera on the ground and my tripod doesn't go low enough for some of my paintings :b
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Look at this tutorial by Dan Dos Santos, in the last part he explains how he photographs his paintings, he gives some good tips:
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- James Shields pitched a three-hitter, B.J. Upton drove in two runs and the Tampa Bay Rays broke out of their prolonged offensive slump to beat the Oakland Athletics 8-0 on Tuesday night. Sam Fuld had three hits, Upton added two and six different players drove in runs for the Rays. Tampa Bay went into the game last in the majors in hitting and had scored only nine runs in its previous four games before knocking A's starter Tommy Milone around for two runs in the second and three in the fifth. That was all Shields (9-7) needed to secure his seventh career shutout. He gave up a one-out single to Chris Carter in the second, a leadoff single to Jemile Weeks in the fourth and a two-out single to George Kottaras in the eighth.
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Witch's Will For A March Morning
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Not-So-Smooth Operator
Obama increasingly comes across as devious and dishonest.
by Peggy Noonan
Something's happening to President Obama's relationship with those who are inclined not to like his policies. They are now inclined not to like him. His supporters would say, "Nothing new there," but actually I think there is. I'm referring to the broad, stable, nonradical, non-birther right. Among them the level of dislike for the president has ratcheted up sharply the past few months.
It's not due to the election, and it's not because the Republican candidates are so compelling and making such brilliant cases against him. That, actually, isn't happening.
What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who's not operating in good faith. This is hardening positions and leading to increased political bitterness. And it's his fault, too. As an increase in polarization is a bad thing, it's a big fault.
The shift started on Jan. 20, with the mandate that agencies of the Catholic Church would have to provide services the church finds morally repugnant. The public reaction? "You're kidding me. That's not just bad judgment and a lack of civic tact, it's not even constitutional!" Faced with the blowback, the president offered a so-called accommodation that even its supporters recognized as devious. Not ill-advised, devious. Then his operatives flooded the airwaves with dishonest—not wrongheaded, dishonest—charges that those who defend the church's religious liberties are trying to take away your contraceptives.
What a sour taste this all left. How shocking it was, including for those in the church who'd been in touch with the administration and were murmuring about having been misled.
Events of just the past 10 days have contributed to the shift. There was the open-mic conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in which Mr. Obama pleaded for "space" and said he will have "more flexibility" in his negotiations once the election is over and those pesky voters have done their thing. On tape it looked so bush-league, so faux-sophisticated. When he knew he'd been caught, the president tried to laugh it off by comically covering a mic in a following meeting. It was all so . . . creepy.
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Another Legislative Defeat For Obama
Another (not totally unexpected) defeat for one of President Obama's legislative proposals today. This time, the Senate rejected a measure to repeal oil company tax breaks, which the president urged them to pass in a stern speech this morning. The vote wasn't completely split along party lines, with two Republicans supporting the measure and four Democrats opposing it.
Obama will continue to frame this as the GOP protecting the interests of Big Oil, but the fact that it failed in the Democrat-controlled Senate takes the edge off that slightly:
Obama has sought to deflect blame for high gas prices, in part by casting Republicans as allies of big oil companies. He used a Rose Garden speech to urge lawmakers to back the plan.
"Today, members of Congress have a simple choice to make," Obama said. "They can stand with big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people."
I know this fits nicely with Obama's class warfare strategy, but it sounds completely counterintuitive. Even if there's no hard evidence that repealing these tax breaks would raise the price of gas at the pump, it still sounds like a reasonable outcome to the average voter. And that's the argument the GOP has been making:
Republicans alleged the Democratic proposal would hit struggling consumers.
"That was their brilliant plan on how to deal with gas prices: raise taxes on energy companies; when gas is already hovering around $4 a gallon, then block consideration of anything else, just to make sure gas prices don't go anywhere but up," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the floor.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said the bill "is not a policy that will do anything but increase the price at the pump and decrease supply."
"That is the opposite of what we need," Vitter said on the floor ahead of the vote.
So there is honest disagreement about whether repealing tax breaks for oil companies would raise gas prices. But everyone can at least agree it certainly won't lower the price at the pump. Which is why this is a puzzling and politically stupid move for the Democrats. Their plan to deal with high gas prices isn't even designed to lower high gas prices.
The "flexibility" doctrine
by Charles Krauthammer
You don't often hear an American president secretly (he thinks) assuring foreign leaders that concessions are coming their way, but they must wait because he's seeking reelection and he dares not tell his own people.
Not at all, spun a White House aide in major gaffe-control mode. The president was merely explaining that arms control is too complicated to be dealt with in a year in which both Russia and the United States hold presidential elections.
Rubbish. First of all, to speak of Russian elections in the same breath as ours is a travesty. Theirs was a rigged, predetermined farce. Putin ruled before. Putin rules after.
Obama spoke of the difficulties of the Russian presidential "transition." What transition? It's a joke. It had no effect on Putin's ability to negotiate anything.
As for the U.S. election, the problem is not that the issue is too complicated but that if people knew Obama's intentions of flexibly caving on missile defense, they might think twice about giving him a second term.
Court defeat will hurt Obama
In the wake of the Supreme Court's hearings on the constitutionality of ObamaCare this week, speculation is now rife about the impact of a defeat for the president's signature legislative achievement. Arguments are being marshaled that claim an overturning of the legislation will help the Republicans, while others insist it will rally the Democrats. That all of this is a bit premature is a given. No matter how the question and answer session with the justices went, we still don't know for sure how they will vote. But even if we are to assume, as panicky liberals and triumphant conservatives are saying today, that the bill is headed to the dustbin of history, the ultimate impact of such a decision can only be guessed at.
The issue can help and hurt both the Republicans and the Democrats. Each party has something to gain and something to lose from the outcome. Nevertheless, the two main points to be derived from a defeat is that it will diminish President Obama and get Mitt Romney off the hook for his own Massachusetts health care bill. Seen in that light, if the judges vote the way so many people seem to think they will, the decision may well be a harbinger of defeat in November for the president.
Media Behaving Badly:
For Two Straight Days, CNN Harps on Romney's Wealth as Potential Voter Turn-Off
Worth reading :
We Will Battle Obama With The Candidate We Have – Not The Candidate We Might Want
New York being stupid again
DOE 'thought' police
by Michael Goodwin
Romney's Labor Pains
Republican GOP Primary takes back seat in Wisconsin
54% Expect U.S. Supreme Court To Overturn Health Care Law
Most voters continue to believe the federal government does not have the authority to force people to buy health insurance, and they expect the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Obama's health care law that includes that mandate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters would like to see the Supreme Court overturn the health care law, and 54% predict that that's what the court will do.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) would like to see the high court uphold the legality of the law, but just 26% think that's what the court will ultimately decide. Thirteen percent (13%) are undecided about the law, and 21% aren't sure what the Supreme Court will do about it
Four in 10 Americans Say Energy Situation Is "Very Serious"
Americans are divided as to whether U.S. will face critical energy shortage in next five years
PRINCETON, NJ — As gas prices continue to rise in the United States, 42% of Americans describe the energy situation as "very serious," slightly above the historical average of 38%, but lower than at several other points since Gallup first asked the question in 1977.
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> In reply to Lucifer Gloria @ 2010-03-17 23:21 from w4jh - click to readi want this phone
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This is a very interesting concept of a cellphone, once I had in my hands I couldn't avoid to think that it was more like an mp3 player, coz it's tiny! seriously! it has a lot of limitations, being a 2010-cellphone, it has a small display, and it's kind of tricky to find how to use it completely, I didn't get the bluetooth device to work, it works like a usb storage device when u plug it into you pc, but it has a horrible speed transfer, It took almost 30 minutes to copy 900 MB of mp3.
Well about its "pro's", its battery last very long, it has a powerful speaker, and with earpieces you got a good sound, these "jackets" are pretty much cool, I mean, being able to morph your cellphone is just awesome, it's tiny and that's just cool, it doesn't weight a lot, almost I'm not able to tell if I have it with me.
To remove the sim card is tricky also, but after reading the manual (duhh) you realize that it's really simple to do it. It has 1.6 GB of internal memory.
My final word, a excellent mp3 with the plus that it can make/receive calls, read sms, small, light, nice colors. Its a fair trade, because, it's cheap and you got something cool.
sorry about my English.
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> In reply to Lucifer Gloria @ 2010-03-17 23:21 from w4jh - click to readDo you smeeeeeel!!!! what the rock is cooking? the rock says that this phone is ugly, the Rock says that it doesn't matter that you where the first.Do you smeeeelll!!!!!!
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W. TX A&M's Erwin, Fort Hays St.'s Holub Earn Louisville Slugger NFCA Div. II Nat'l Honors
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Renee Erwin of West Texas A&M and Maddie Holub of Fort Hays State have been selected as the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division II National Player and Pitcher of the Week for March 13, respectively.
A sophomore outfielder for the Lady Buffs and reigning Lone Star Conference Hitter of the Week, Erwin helped her squad to a perfect 5-0 week by hitting .645 overall with three doubles, two triples, three HR's (including a pair of grand slams) and 17 RBIs, while successfully reaching base via hit in all five contests. In the opener against Northwest Oklahoma State on March 5, the Anna, Texas, native went 3-for-4 with a triple, a grand slam and seven RBIs as West Texas A&M crushed the Lady Rangers, 13-1 (5 inn.). She continued her prolific production into the series against Tarleton State, going 2-for-3 with a HR and three RBIs, 1-for-2 with a grand slam and four RBIs, and 2-for-4 with a double, triple and a RBI in the series' three contests, respectively.
Senior pitcher/outfielder Holub starred in both the circle and at the plate for the Tigers this past week, going 4-0 with four complete-games, a 0.75 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 28 innings of effort while hitting .464 overall with eight runs scored, three doubles, a triple, five HR's, a 1.179 slugging percentage and 10 RBIs. The Hays, Kan., native recorded pitching victories over then-No. 11 Tampa (1-0) and No. 24 Winona State (12-2, 6 inn.), while contributing a double and scoring the game's lone run in the former. She totaled at least 10 K's during each of her four starts during the week, and at the plate her finest effort was a 4-for-4 performance with a pair of two-run HR's in the victory over nationally ranked Winona State. Holub also received nods as both the MIAA Player and Pitcher of the Week for her outstanding efforts.
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2013 Louisville Slugger Division iI National Player of the Week
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Feb. 27 – Veronica Alred – Rollins – Jr. – UTL – Royal Palm Beach, Fla.
March 6 – Ancia Purdy – Sonoma State – So. – SS – Huntingdon Beach, Calif.
March 13 – Renee Erwin – West Texas A&M – So. – OF – Anna, Texas
2013 Louisville Slugger Division iI National Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 20 – Jacee Bennett – Southeastern Oklahoma State – So. – P – Colbert, Okla.
Feb. 27 – Hanna Gill – Southern Arkansas – So. – P – Albany, La.
March 6 – Katie Warrington – Wilmington Univ. (Delaware) – Sr. – P – Townsend, Del.
March 13 – Maddie Holub – Fort Hays State – Sr. – P/OF – Hays, Kan.