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(I use a hanging shoe organizer to organize my seasoning packets, snack bars, food samples & more!)
How many of you made getting organized in 2011 one of your top priorities this year?! For me personally, when I get all the different pieces of my life organized (i.e. the checkbook, kitchen, garage, kids' schedules etc.), I feel so much more relaxed and motivated. And this goes for my stockpile as well. Although I am not a big fan of having a huge, grocery-store like stockpile (how many jars of spaghetti sauce does one really need, right?!), I do like to organize all the freebies and grocery items that I acquire through my couponing adventures (and I know that many of you do as well).
Check out this email that I received from reader, Rosanna…
With all the freebies and great deals you stock up on how do you organize/store all your goodies? I would love to know what tips if any others have for keeping the pantry and all the extras organized. I know you have said you have a closet, but do you have it organized or just crammed full of stuff? I am new to couponing and quickly realizing how easy it is to stock up and score freebies and I want to keep up with what I have and where if possible.
Thanks for any tips you might have.
So, here are a few of my stockpile organization tips…
* Every month or so, go through all of the items in your stockpile and be sure that the items that will expire first are located in front of the items that have a longer expiration date (sometimes, I will take a Sharpie and write the expiration date on canned goods so that it is easy to see).
* Keep a pantry list close by your stockpile, so you know when you are getting low on a certain item.
* Be sure that you only stockpile an item that you know your family will use.
How do YOU organize your stockpile? Let us know in the comments below!


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Street Talk
MTM Music/Zink Music
Released 2006
Rating: 2.5/5
The Swedish melodic hardrock act Street Talk have been in the business for quite a while. The guys started out back in 1994, founded by the keyboardist/singer/songwriter and producer Fredrik Bergh. In early 1996 they released their debut album COLLABORATION that was greeted by the media and fans. In 2000 they released TRANSITION, and in 2002 they released RESTORATION with Göran Edman, amongst others, on lead vocals. Other guests on that album were Jim Jidhed from Alien and Tommy Denander. After the release of the band's compilation album DESTINATION, Street Talk were put on ice.
On this comeback album nothing much is changed music-wise. They still play the same melodc rock that sometimes borders on melodic hardrock with really catchy choruses. The main focus lies on keyboard and lead vocals, and unfortunately a few of the songs have the tendency of becoming too pop-sounding for my personal taste.
To no one's surprise, V is produced by Fredrik Bergh, and he's done an OK job I guess. The production sounds similar to the well-established melodic rock/hardrock sound with a lot of space made for keyboard as well as for the guitar to shine. All of the 11 tracks are high-class; a few that stands out are "Responsible", "If I Could", "Family Business", and "Just A Little Appetizer", all of which are purely melodic rock/hardock tracks sung by an always amazing Göran Edman. And even if Mr. Edman is one of the best melodic rock/hardock singers in the world, he shouldn't be singing boring ballads like on this album. He does a great job as always, but the songs don't do as good a job, therefore I won't mention the ballads at all because believe me, they are not that fun at all.
V has its moments, especially when it comes to the vocal department and it's fun to hear the master of melodic rock/hardorck, Göran Edman, in action again. I can think that this is an album that speaks to the already-blessed Street Talk fans because they are going to love it. For all you others you can find many greater bands than Street Talk.
Göran Edman – lead vocals
Fredrik Bergh – keyboards, piano
Sven Larsson – guitar
Björn Lodmark – bass
Christian Johnsson – drums
More info about the band
Don't Believe
If I Could
At The End Of The Day
Family Business
Just A Little Appetizer
Something's Gotta Give
Groundhog Day
Oh Maddy
Brother And Sister Moon

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As promised below, since I wouldn't want Ramesh Ponnuru to come away from the aftermath of his first book with the impression that supporters of abortion rights can't do any better than to mimic Leon Kass, it's worth trying to take a look at the sort of arguments he makes and seeing what kind of responses are available. (Apologies to longtime readers, who will probably have seen a substantial number of these arguments here before.) Now, I haven't read Ramesh's book yet, but I have debated him on the topic and read plenty of his shorter articles on the same theme, so I'm guessing (and the reviews I've seen seem to confirm) that his argument tracks pretty closely the one he develops at the end of this Hoover Digest article. With luck I'll have time to get around to the book itself one of these days, and see if there are major threads I've missed. In the meantime, it's worth a look at the parts of his usual argument that are familiar from these other sources. Advance warning that there will be some very weird thought experiments involved, which I think are sometimes necessary to isolate a particular issue from other confounding considerations.
One thing that's worth noting is that for all his eagerness to cast his opponents on the side of sentiment and intuition and give his own position the mantle of a reasoned system of universal rights, Ramesh typically offers an argument that relies absolutely centrally on intuitive reactions in particular kinds of cases to the principles he believes alternative moral views yield. He assumes that what's most appealing on face is a view that makes moral status depend on some kind of mental features: A capacity to feel pain, or self-consciousness, or some kind of higher rational faculties. (Let's just say "Property M" to refer to any of a range of mental characteristics one might think make that moral difference, and any moral view that makes some Property M the determinant of moral status an M-theory.) For a lot of those candidate properties, I think you can say something interesting and direct about why we might regard that feature as morally salient. But while he might ultimately do it in the book, I've never seen Ramesh offer any direct argument for why we should think his preferred core feature, species membership or genetic structure, is in itself something that it makes sense to believe should give us reasons to treat some organisms as morally special. Rather, the arguments we usually see are indirect, working essentially by process of elimination from the purported repugnant results of the alternative rights-conferring traits. (For example, it is just supposed to be obviously wrong if a view yields the conclusion that very young infants might not have rights.) And that seems like a disadvantage, insofar as you presumably want a view on which your criterion of moral personhood doesn't just avoid having (any? too many?) intuitively repugnant implications, but actually has something to recommend it independently. This kind of direct account might also give us some kind of guidance if we want to know how to treat other species. If I want to know, for instance, whether it is OK to eat meat, whether there might be something to say against torturing a chimp for fun (beyond the idea that we don't want to encourage a disposition to take pleasure in the infliction of pain.) A clearer sense of what was so special about species membership, beyond the brute fact of a human/non-human divide, might give us some insight here. Instead, it looks as though species membership is just what's left when we've (supposedly) seen why no more prima facie appealing Property M will do the trick. So let's review why Ramesh thinks it won't.
One central part of the case, perhaps the most direct, runs something like this: We take it as a premise that, say, a young child has rights. You can't kill a toddler just because he's tiny. But as we run back in time, we find no clear moment of sharp transition that seems like it would correspond to a shift from an entity without rights to an entity with them. A newborn is physically pretty much the same as a fetus one day before delivery. And at any time in the gradual development (both physiological and mental) of the fetus, it seems weird to suggest that just at time T, the fetus has rights, whereas at T-minus-five-seconds, it was just a blob of cells with no special moral status. This same argument sometimes shows up in two other forms: As a sociological slippery slope claim ("If we don't say all human organisms have rights, we'll be offing unwanted children someday.") and as a reductio ("If it's permissible to kill a fetus, then we can keep stepping forward in five second increments until we've inferred it's permissible to kill a child, which we know to be false, so the premise must be false."), the latter form of which Ramesh also occasionally invokes. Since conception seems to provide the only such bright-line point, it must be this point at which rights inhere, and biological membership in the human species that's the key to our moral status.
I think we can dub the faulty rule of inference Ramesh employs here the Sorites Fallacy, in honor of the Sorites Paradox, usually attributed to the Greek philosopher Eubulides, and which I've written about elsewhere. Two or three grains of sand are plainly not a heap (runs the argument), and it surely can't be that a single grain of sand makes the difference between something that is and something that isn't a heap. By iteration, we conclude that ten thousand grains of hand are not a heap either. Most philosophers regard this little puzzle as an interesting way to start thinking about the logic of certain of our ordinary-language terms and the vagueness of certain properties. Ramesh, presumably, regards it as a sound argument.
It is not, of course, a sound argument, and I think by extension neither is Ramesh's. What it does point up is the problem of thinking about moral status in strictly binary terms. What I mean is, thinking either that there's some one instant of development where you go from being morally equivalent to a rock to being morally equivalent to Ramesh Ponnuru, or even that the lines between discrete moral classes are going to be brightly marked. (It might, one supposes, be that there actually is some precise moment at which a brain begins to support an experiencing mind—a binary line between consciousness and its absence—though we can't be certain exactly where this happens. My old philosophy advisor Peter Unger thought that a case for dualism could be made on the basis of this supposed either-or nature of consciousness. Though I think a position that specified this as Property M would be more plausible than Ramesh's, I don't find it satisfactory either—for if it's just consciousness, rather than consciousness of a certain sort, we get no moral distinction between persons and, say, squirrels. )
What gives the binary way of thinking about it an appeal, of course, is that the question "is it OK to kill this organism?" seems like a pretty either-or sort of thing, if you want to invoke the language of rights, at least. If we abjure rights-talk, the story is a bit different. You might, for instance, have a view where you think certain animals can be harmed only in the interest of producing some great benefit: You might think it's wrong to do chemical experiments on a chimp to test a new cosmetic, whereas it would be acceptable if the tests were likely to result in a cure for AIDS. But (many of us are inclined to think) that is not how it is with persons, who have a dignity and an inviolability that precludes this kind of instrumental calculus: Humanity, to borrow Kant's formula, should never be used merely as a means. A consequentialist has an easy go of it here: He can just say the mental level of an organism is one more factor in determining how bad it would be to kill it when weighing that against the benefits. But what if we do want to take a more Kantian position? Aren't we then committed to there being some kind of "bright line" of the sort Ramesh thinks only conception provides?
I don't think we are. For it is one thing to say that there is a difference in kind between rational or reflectively self-aware persons (who are owed robust rights) and other merely sentient creatures (who might merely be due some kind of moral consideration), and it is quite another to insist that the threshold actually be precisely specifiable. It had better be, for Ramesh's sake, since this is not, in fact, the case for biological species, which are themselves a topic of rich philosophical debate. A Sorites style argument can simply be repeated at that boundary—if not as regards actual organisms currently living, then certainly in principle. Being genetically human is, as it were, a statistical question: At the boundaries, there aren't going to be any brighter lines than with an M Property. If that is supposed to be fatal to a mental-criteria theory of moral personhood in principle, it will be no less damaging to one based on species membership.
But there is no reason to think that it should be: There is no guarantee that the world is set up in such a way as to make our moral decisions easy. (Are we guaranteed these bright lines when we face other moral dilemmas? Most people, presumably Ramesh included, think it's wrong to kill an innocent person to save three other lives. Is anyone so hardcore as to say we can't break an innocent person's arm to save ten-thousand lives? Is it so terrifying to admit there aren't always going to be bright lines that the appalling extremes here, a crude utilitarianism or a fiat justitia, ruat caelum rights absolutism, are preferable?) Probably there is a moral twilight area where there is no very good way to say whether some organism has reached the level of mental complexity at which we should regard it as having rights. But the worst possible way to deal with this problem is to simply insist there must be such a clean and discoverable line and adopt as your criteria of personhood whatever property holds out the hope of one, like the drunk in the old joke searching for his lost keys only under a streetlight, despite having lost them elsewhere. It is unfortunate if our nature is such that the question "is this a person with rights?" will sometimes be genuinely indeterminate; that does not make it false. Nor do such indeterminacies plunge us into relativism or nihilism. As an old friend of mine used to say, it does not follow from the existence of twilight that there is no such thing as night and day.
A related argument we sometimes get from Ramesh is that since any Property M will vary continuously within the human population, it will be an implication of any M Theory that rights vary from person to person, so that perhaps someone who was as smart as Eugene Volokh and as self-reflective as Marcel Proust would get to treat the rest of us like gerbils. But that just doesn't follow. (And, in fact, Robert Nozick gave a nice account of why in The London Review of Books when Ian Hacking charged him with holding such a view—though their exchange, alas, is not online.) We can have rights in virtue of a Property M without getting more rights when we exhibit the components of that property in greater degree. (Past some threshold, at least: We do typically countenance paternalism toward persons of very limited mental capacity&mash;children, the insane.) Temperature is what makes the difference between ice and water, but a bucket of H20 at 50 Celsius is obviously not more waterish, or imbued with water-ness to a greater extent, than the same bucket at 15 Celsius.
Obviously, in actually developing an M Theory, you'd have to say something about what the approximate thresholds might be, and why a threshold structure rather than a continuous-increase structure makes sense. But there's no ex ante reason to suppose you could only have the latter sort of view. Ramesh asserts that it will be "impossible to say" why the former might be right, but doesn't seem to try very hard to imagine why it might be possible. The conclusive thing to do, of course, would just be to develop one such M Theory that has this structure and see how it fares. This post is too long already, and even I lack the hubris required to imagine I could do an adequate job of that if I had the space, but maybe I can make some quick schematic remarks on that score.
If we want to say that while other animals might be due some kind of defeasible moral consideration, people have these strong rights claims, I think what's motivating the thought is something like this: Whereas other creatures can experience suffering or pleasure, and maybe all we can say there is that it's better to have less of the first and more of the second, human ends are more complex, even for the simplest of us. We don't just have an experiential welfare that can be augmented or diminished, but a set of abstract second order values, many of which have nothing directly to do with our own experience. We have values, what Rawls liked to call a "comprehensive conception of the good." I'm not talking here about anything so grandiose as an overarching, coherent Philosophy of Life; just the ordinary kinds of diverse goals all people have.
A lot of implications might be drawn from that fact, but here are two to start us off. One is that instead of just acting on our strongest urge of the moment, we represent reasons to ourselves by reference to that system of ends. (A gerbil might dislike pain, or act on an impulse to escape pain; it is a little queer to say it has a reason to do so.) Now, when we ask what we're obligated to do morally, we're asking for a certain species of reason for action (or inaction). And it might be that being open to moral reasons involves being open to other people's reasons—that is, letting a combination of facts and values that constitute a reason for someone else (their reasons to attempt to perpetuate their own lives, for instance) count as a reason for you. Animals might have a welfare that can be translated into a reason from one's own perspective; people will have values that yield reasons from their own perspectives.
The other implication is that once you're talking about abstract systems of ends rather than raw feelings of like or dislike, there's going to be a problem of incommensurability. A monk has a set of goals involving living a quiet life of ascetic contemplation; an artist has a series of creative projects he wishes to complete; a bon vivant wants to enjoy good food, conversation, music, and sex. You might have your own opinion about which set of projects is more worthy, but the point is that when we look at human ends, we're not looking (as we might be if we were just thinking about pleasure and pain, say) at some kind of more-or-less uniform quality we can gauge with a common metric. Now if you're looking at a group of gerbils, and it seems like they're pretty much all about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, a moral approach where you act in a way that maximizes aggregate pleasure and minimizes pain might work out: Maybe one gerbil has to die quickly so that a larger number don't suffer at length or something. But that's not going to work—or anyway, it's going to be a lot more complicated—for human ends and values. What are you "maximizing"? Not people's feeling of subjective satisfaction in the achievement of their values, because the whole point is that they (often) care about the value or the end, not just the warm fuzzies they get from having them realized. That incommensurability might be one motivation for thinking about how to express respect for their reasons in terms of boundaries moral boundaries (i.e. rights) within which they can pursue their diverse ends rather than some kind of general good we aggregate and promote.
Take those two together, and you have at least a gesture in the direction, first, of why entities having the kinds of M properties that go with representing reasons to oneself might have a special kind of place in our own moral reasoning, and why they might also fit better into some kind of deontic rights structure than an aggregative one. In both cases, as I've conceded, you might run into some fuzziness about just what properties and in what degree combine to push someone over the line into this category. But in both cases, I hope equally clearly, the way the logic works makes it matter whether the others are thinking and representing this way at all, not how well or to what extent they're doing it. I'm acutely aware of how thin and inadequate what I've just said is in terms of actually getting to a satisfactory M Theory. There are all sorts of obvious objections and clarifications and whatnot you'd have to deal with. But it seems far too hasty to just say at the outset that an account with something like this shape is "impossible."
Note, incidentally, that a view that makes some Property M central to rights, but not necessarily a requisite for any kind of moral consideration might allow us to draw a legal line at birth even if we don't think the newborn has Property M and the rights that go with it. For even if the newborn lacks rights, it might be that, in virtue of being able to experience discomfort and so on, it shares a category with many other animals, such that it would be wrong to kill it except to realize some other substantial good. (As in the case imagined above where someone will accept medical experimentation on primates to cure AIDS, but objects if the point is only to test some new cosmetic.) Even if Property M and its corollary rights accrue only at some point (hard to pinpoint precisely) some months after birth, say, it might at any rate be due some kind of consideration from the point it develops a nervous system sufficiently advanced to support just raw, unreflective experience. And at that stage, the burden of pregnancy on the host mother might be the decisive factor that makes it reasonable to permit abortion at any stage, but begin recognition of personhood and rights at birth rather than picking some later time, closer to when they're probably actually arrived at.
Enough about M Theories. How about species membership, then? As Derbyshire's rather blunt approach brings out, the most obvious problem is that this is just a totally implausible candidate for what's morally important about people. (Though there is also the problem mentioned earlier, that if the Sorites argument goes through, it would cut against this view too.) This isn't, as Ramesh would like to have it, some kind of errant sentimental reaction that needs to be regulated by moral abstraction: To put having a certain kind of genetic structure at the core of morality requires tossing out not just a few intuitive responses to a few particular kinds of cases, but the entire basis of our ordinary moral reactions—which, it's worth noting, predate our knowing that there was any such thing as a "genetic structure." And it entails conclusion that are at least as repugnant—I think clearly more so—than any of the problematic inferences Ramesh thinks follow from alternative positions.
It entails, for instance, that if we were to learn that some sub-population of what we'd previously regarded as human beings actually had a very different genetic structure, their moral status would be an open question. The same would hold if we discovered some species of intelligent mer-creatures who, despite having DNA much more similar to fish (say) than humans, created complex societies, composed music, and wrote polemical books with inflammatory titles.
Now, presumably, Ramesh wouldn't actually want to say there was any such question: He might revise his position to claim that it's not human species membership that confers moral status, but rather membership in or shared genetic structure with any class of creatures that typically have those sorts of features. Even this won't be quite enough, for presumably he'll want the moral embrace of species membership to run in only one direction. That is, imagine that we have a creature that is unambiguously a genetic horse, a clear member of genus Equus, which like Mr. Ed has somehow become just as intelligent and self-conscious as any human. Maybe some freak mutation, maybe some mad neurologist has rewired its brain, whatever. It's a horse, but mentally has all the typical characteristics of a human. (I hope it's obvious that it won't do to try and insist that the horse is now ipso facto a member of a different species.) It would clearly be monstrous to think this creature could be killed with impunity—or, if you think animals oughtn't be killed anyway, generally treated in ways it would be OK to treat a horse.
If Ramesh doesn't want to say that, he has to allow that M Properties might give grounds for affording an organism more rights than the modal adult member of its species, but maintain that species membership provides some kind of moral floor such that lacking M Properties will never be a reason to treat an organism as having fewer rights (or at least not as lacking certain core rights?) than that modal adult member. Maybe such a view can be made to work, but I hope it's starting to become clear that there are going to be some serious difficulties making species the fundamental category.
Say Ramesh does make the move I suggest, granting that it's not just human species membership that confers moral status, but rather membership in any species that typically has certain M Properties. If he does not make this move, he is in what looks like the very ugly position of suggesting that it might be OK to kill someone just like you—with all your desires and goals and thoughts and so on—if your mind were housed in the wrong sort of body. But if he does want to make that move, he's got to concede what he seems to generally want to deny: That these kinds of mental traits really are at the core of interpersonal morality after all, and species membership is, at most, a way for certain kinds of similar creatures who lack these morally central traits to "hitch a ride" on the moral status of their relatives. That would be an importantly distinct position—albeit a less weird one on face—from the one he seems to take. His arguments are not for why individual creatures lacking the morally central Property M should be able to hitch a ride on the status of similar organisms who lack it; they are arguments for why a Property M is not central at all.
If Ramesh is willing to move to this kind of hitch-a-ride position, we actually have a much narrower debate. We no longer have something that looks like a fundamental dispute about what is ultimately morally valuable, but a scope dispute about the extent of, if you'll forgive the phrase, the penumbras and emanations from an agreed upon source of value. This would involve different kinds of arguments. Some of them would be empirical arguments about neurological development. Some would be moral arguments about the specific components of Property M. Some of them would be hybrid epistemic/moral arguments about how to deal with uncertainty in face of the inevitable fuzziness surrounding those properties. The problems here would be thorny and difficult, and grappling with them much less fun than declaiming in ringing terms about "parties of death" and the intrinsic value of life. But we would at least be started off on the shared project of approximating a correct view.
Addendum: Ross Douthat gamely e-mails an offering in this vein. While I doubt that the sort of argument he's proposing will ultimately work, I do think it's the right kind of argument to be making, so I'll just offer it without rebuttal for now as an instance of what seems to me like a much more sensible approach to the pro-life case:
I think a pro-lifer might accept that some "Property M" other than species membership is at stake in deciding which organisms qualify for human rights, but counter that rights accrue to organisms that have "Property M" even when they aren't displaying/experiencing that property, because an organism doesn't exist in a moment, but over a lifespan, and you can't judge a creature's rights-worthiness on a moment-to-moment basis, since creatures pass in and out of different states. So let's say that "Property M" is consciousness: it wouldn't be okay to kill me while I'm in a dreamless asleep, or if I went into a coma for a few weeks, because you know that eventually, if left alone, I will begin experiencing "Property M" again. Similarly, an embryo is an organism that will experience "Property M" eventually, so it ought not to be killed (whereas a sperm would have to undergo an ontological change, and become a different organism, in order to experience "Property M", and so it doesn't qualify for legal protection).


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Frisée and Arugula Salad with Persimmon Vinaigrette
Yield: Makes 2 to 4 Servings | Total time: 15 min
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This is my first recipe I made and posted for Food52, the brilliant brainchild of Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. If you're not familiar with this inspiring community of amazing cooks, you should definitely check it out as soon as you can.
Back to persimmon. There's something about this fruit--its rich jewel-like color, the delicate floral flavor and silky texture that I can't get enough of in fall and winter. In the South, where I grew up, persimmons are baked into puddings and stirred into ice cream. Make sure to choose them ripe, otherwise they can be astringent and inedible. A very ripe "hachiya" variety is best with the top removed and the sweet jelly-like flesh scooped out with a spoon or, better yet, a thin sugar cookie or almond biscotti.
As for this salad recipe, I'm not a great fan of sweet or fruity vinaigrettes, but wanted to experiment with persimmon. Paired with hardier greens, like frisée, endive, spicy arugula, and escarole or treviso, persimmon really shines. Use a ripe fuyu for the salad itself and a very, very ripe Hachiya for the purée that will go into the vinaigrette.
- 1/3 cup very ripe persimmon purée*
- 2 to 3 cups baby frisée
- 2 to 3 cups baby arugula, sliced endive, escarole, or treviso
- 4 slices thick-cut bacon
- 1 shallot, chopped
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar, divided
- 3 tablespoons walnut oil, such as La Tourangelle
- Flaky sea salt, such as Maldon and Fresh ground black pepper
- Garnishes: Toasted walnuts, celery leaves, fresh mint leaves
- 1 ripe persimmon, sliced thinly
- *To make persimmon purée: Remove top of very ripe persimmon and scoop out flesh with a spoon; purée in a food processor; place in a medium bowl and set aside. Place washed and dried lettuces in a large bowl; set aside.
- Cook bacon until crisp. Remove all but 1 tablespoon bacon grease from pan. Turn off heat but while pan is hot, add shallots and stir. Add 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar. Pour hot bacon-shallot mixture into persimmon purée. Add remaining tablespoon vinegar and whisk in walnut oil. Drizzle lettuces with vinaigrette and toss gently.
- Divide salad among 2 or 4 plates. Garnish with fresh celery leaves, mint leaves, and toasted walnuts. Top with a slice or two of bacon, depending on how many servings you are making, and some persimmon slices. Season with flaky sea salt and a few cracks of fresh ground black pepper. Serve at once.
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The Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon, said the campaign called Your Life, Your Culture, YOU CHOOSE! has been designed to bring Indigenous youth together at events with their local communities and health professionals to promote alternatives to binge drinking. "Communities need to work together to address binge drinking - but we need to support those communities," he said. The campaign is one component of the Rudd Government's plan to tackle binge drinking nationally, and includes the distribution of information kits at events (consisting of posters, fact sheets and case studies) and radio and print advertising.
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Utica (NY) Blue Jays vs. Auburn (NY) Astros
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The Utica Blue Sox were the only independent ball club in America in the summer of 1983. In the 1990's a rash of wholly independent baseball leagues would spring up all over the United States. But back in 1983, playing independent ball wasn't a choice – it was a sentence. Playing independent meant that no Major League organization was willing to entrust you with their prospects. And it meant that there was no one to backstop your payroll and expenses, beyond your own stockholders.
Under normal conditions, the Blue Sox would have bumbled along in obscurity until the owners moved or went bankrupt. But prior to the 1983 season, Boys of Summer and baseball romantic Roger Kahn bought a controlling interest in the Blue Sox for around $25,000. Kahn got into his Blue Sox adventure with the intention of writing a book. In the meantime, his personal notoriety generated considerably national coverage for the 1983 Blue Sox. Even People Magazine got into the act – a magazine that typically showed as much interest in minor league baseball as it did in Utica, New York.
On the field, the Blue Sox were led by 31-year old manager Jim Gattis, himself a veteran of several independent ball clubs of the 1970's. Gattis' team of unwanted players surprisingly won the New York-Penn League championship in 1983, adding a little extra drama to Kahn's book-in-progress. Nevertheless, none of the 29 players who saw action for the Blue Sox that summer ever made it to the Major Leagues.
Kahn's book, Good Enough To Dream, came out in 1985 to generally positive reviews. By then Kahn was out of the business – he owned the Blue Sox for only the one season. He was a dabbler – unlike many of his fellow stockholders. The '83 Blue Sox had more than a dozen investors, including many of the men who went on to lead independent baseball movement of the 1990's – Durham Bulls owner Miles Wolff, actor Bill Murray, New York Yankees minority partner Marv Goldklang and the investor/recruiter Evander Schley, who specialized in recruiting independent players and helped Gattis assemble the championship team.
The book reportedly aggravated some of those associated with the Blue Sox and required extensive legal wrangling to make it into print. Blue Sox manager Jim Gattis told The Los Angeles Times in a 1994 retrospective that he "hated" the book for years, before later making peace with it.
Another member of the Blue Sox prominently featured in Good Enough To Dream was 29-year old player/coach Barry Moss, a 12-year minor league veteran and the oldest every day player in the New York-Penn League in 1983. Moss went on to a long and respected career as an scout, manager and recruiter, particularly in independent leagues. In the 2011 film adaptation of Moneyball, Moss has a brief speaking role alongside Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill as an Oakland A's scout identified simply as "Scout Barry".
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Here's a radical idea: put some peanut butter and jam between two slices of bread and eat it. It's delicious!
There was a time (112 years ago to be exact) when a PB&J sandwich did not exist. It was first written about in 1901 in The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics. The specific recommendation was to put "peanut paste, whatever brand you prefer, and currant or crab-apple jam" between three very thin layers of bread. Salt, sugar and fat all in one bite – who could resist.
I get really tired really fast of the same old stuff and so I often wish that someone would present me with the equivalent of the 1901 peanut butter and jam sandwich.
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fraud."An undercover warehouse called "D.T. Trading" was the centerpiece
of Operation Hook, which began in July of 2001. Detectives from the NYPD's
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bought shipments of goods from known counterfeiter. The warehouse, which was on
220 Pacific Street in downtown Brooklyn, was wired with cameras, and
transactions were recorded. Officers documented at least three purchases from
every person arrested. The nine arrested include Isaac Gadeh, Daniel Garfinkel, Yun
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Dong Ko Cho. All were charged with Trademark Counterfeiting in the Third Degree
-- Cho was charged with a C felony, the rest were charged with an E felony. During the takedown, nine search
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addition, a variety of counterfeit merchandise was recovered with an estimated
total street value of more than $700,000 dollars. This
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brands were counterfeited. Some of the items counterfeited include: Tiffany
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I have body art on the mind. I've made an appointment, met with an artist that came highly recommended, and chatted about specific designs I want done. No, this wasn't a consultation for my newest tattoo– this is the normal routine for Toronto's hottest and busiest luxury nail art studio, Pinky's Nails. Located on Richmond St., their tiny space houses seven artists and more decorative tchotchkes for nails then you'd find on the set of Art Attack.Pinky's Nails Lizzie Renaud with shop dog Wilma. Photo Credit: Maxwell Lander
Pinky's owner Lizzie Renaud is not who you'd picture behind the city's newest luxury nail art studio. Short and tiny, she's covered in tattoos. Neck, knuckles, elbows, chest…you name it. We met for coffee on a rainy afternoon for an all-out girly gabfest about art, nails, tattoos and shopping. Not coincidently, Lizzie also owns Speakeasy Tattoos on Church and Harbord. While you might think her two businesses couldn't be further apart, Lizzie has quietly upped the nail art game by treating her salon like a tattoo parlour.
"A lot of places have a set menu of designs that they do and redo all the time," Lizzie says. "I wanted it to be like a tattoo shop where everyone has their own specialties and designs that they do. I want customers to be like 'I hear Jen does great leopard print, I want to go to her' or 'Justin is amazing at doing a galaxy design so why would I try anyone different?'"
Pinky's Nails seemingly appeared overnight. After a trip to England where Lizzie saw legendary nail art from WAH Salon, she decided to take her savings and open up her own spot where she could have free range over customers' nails. When her sister Nikki heard the idea, she promptly quit her job to help manage the new business. Weeks later, Pinky's was born with Lizzie and Nikki at the helm. Tattooing for just under ten years now, Lizzie has a strong design background and can occasionally be found funking up clients' nails when she's not inking at Speak Easy.
Further separating herself from the nail salon pack, Lizzie employs an unusual staff rather than your run-of-the-mill nail technicians. Most of them come with a fine art schooling background, with others running personal blogs about their love of nail art. One in particular, Justin, has a Tommy Ton-like quality of being able to name the shade and label of almost any nail polish he spots (as Ton does with designer shoes). Artists are given free range over their designs and each comes equipt with a dozen nail wheels depicting samples of their work for clients to choose from. When she first opened her doors, Lizzie divided her stash of 150 nail wheels to her artists….and a month and a half into it, realized she needs to order more.
Both Lizzie and Nikki recognized very early into their business that social media prowess is a must. After tweeting constantly about their designs, Pinky's is currently armed with 2,781 Instagram followers.
"Our Twitter presence is definitely a huge group effort," Lizzie said. "They [staff members] all have the apps on their phones so they're constantly manning the account. What blows my mind is the amount of people who come in because they've seen something on Twitter or Instagram that they loved and just had to come in to request. It's opened us up to people we didn't specifically target. We get a lot of girls coming over from Buffalo who have seen the pictures."
Nicole and Liz's nails
It always helps when some Toronto-famous faces tweet in support of a local business. MuchMusic's Liz Trinnear and MTV's Nicole Holness and Sharlene Chiu recently tweeted their own nail art courtesy of Lizzie's artists.
During Pride week, Pinky's offered special deals for any drag queens who came for a mani and currently maintains a very strong gay male clientele. Their first month also Pinky's provide nail art services for the maximum price of $30. Prices have since changed to reflect each individual design, but clients can still get a discount if they opt for a design of the artist's choice.
Lizzie has begun to ask clients to email pictures of outfits they hope to match their nails to for special occasions. Send your photo and a few design ideas, and personalized nail art will be waiting for you at your appointment. This unique service is just another way she's bridging the gap between nails and tattoos. Her strongest innate quality, bred from her years working with needles and sterilization, is her attention to cleanliness. Lizzie can't stress enough how clean she needs her work spaces to be.
Interestingly, widening the gap between her salon and others, Pinky's doesn't offer the usual menu of services. No pedicures will be found here and manicures are kept as basic as possible. Arcylic tips are available though, especially with the new craze of severely pointed nails.
Lizzie and Nikki are still evolving Pinky's Nails and are hard at work trying to think up new indulgences for their clients. A liquor license may be in the works for groups of girls interested in getting beautified while pregaming a night out. Since Pinky's shares a floor with a hair salon and a spa, Lizzie hopes to start offering bachelorette packages to include massages, hair, nails, booze, and even a limo.
"It's so funny to see how quickly the gestures of our clients' change as soon as they get their nails done," Lizzie laughed. "It's such a fun business to run. I let my artists go absolutely apeshit with their designs and, in return, they blow my mind with what they come up with."
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Economic and Social Council
|Problem of the coca leaf119/
The Economic and Social Council
1. Takes note of the report124/ of the United Nations Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf, of the opinion125/ expressed thereon by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs during its fifth session, and of the Commission of Enquiry's additional observations126/ on the opinions expressed on the report by the representatives of Bolivia and Peru during that session;
2. Expresses to the Commission of Enquiry its appreciation of the work accomplished, and to the Governments of Bolivia and Peru its satisfaction at the co-operation given to the Commission;
3. Decides to forward the report and the said additional observations of the Commission of Enquiry to the Governments of Bolivia and Peru, with the request for the communication of their observations thereon to the Secretary-General before 1 December 1951; and
4. Requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to examine the problem of the coca leaf during its seventh session, taking into consideration all available information, and to submit its recommendations on the matter to the Council as soon as may be possible thereafter.
9 August 1951
119/ See 494th meeting of the Council.
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Cultural Marxism: This is essentially the battle plan of the regressives.
When people "wake up," or are questioning the differences between what they see, and what they have been taught, they frequently ask, "How did this happen?"
People see others being rewarded for failure, or penalized for success. Politicians lie, and lie egregiously. People that tell the truth are vilified. Professors and public school teachers consistently and persistently teach against our nation and heritage, and penalize those who do not "go along." Too many of our citizens believe that it is appropriate to confiscate the wealth of another to subsidize their own failed lifestyles. Our president apologizes for our nation's defending freedom, and others blame us for terrorist attacks that take the lives of thousands of innocent people. Our children are not educated-they are indoctrinated. Our children are over sexualized, by their schools, by their peers, and by the entertainment industry. They know little of our nation and government, but they know how to put a condom on a banana. The list could go on and on. One thing is clear, our nation has changed, and it continues on a frightening course.
To describe what has happened to our nation, and more importantly, our culture, we have to look at the architects of that change. The fact is that our culture has been targeted for decades, and most Americans are completely unaware of the nature of this attack. It has been incremental, and has impacted all of our institutions. To examine all of this, I will be quoting "The Culture-wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World."
First, we have to look at the term "Cultural Marxism."
Before World War I, Marxist theory said that if Europe ever erupted in war, the working classes in every European country would rise in revolt, overthrow their governments and create a new Communist Europe. But when war broke out in the summer of 1914, that didn't happen. Instead, the workers in every European country lined up by the millions to fight their country's enemies. Finally, in 1917, a Communist revolution did occur, in Russia. But attempts to spread that revolution to other countries failed because the workers did not support it.
After World War I ended in 1918, Marxist theorists had to ask themselves the question: What went wrong? As good Marxists, they could not admit Marxist theory had been incorrect. Instead, two leading Marxist intellectuals, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary (Lukacs was considered the most brilliant Marxist thinker since Marx himself) independently came up with the same answer. They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interests, that a Communist revolution was impossible in the West, until both could be destroyed. That objective, established as cultural Marxism's goal right at the beginning, has never changed.
Now, the meaning of the term "Western Culture" is not made explicit here. To elaborate, here is a definition:
Western culture is a body of knowledge derived from reason.
This foundation of reason has made possible a vast accumulation of understanding related to reality or nature, including human nature.
This understanding is represented in several core ideals and values, which include individualism, happiness, rights, capitalism, science and technology.
Western culture can also be referred to as advanced culture; this is because its ideas and values promote the development and sustainment of advanced civilization.
So, when offered Communism, the workers rejected it. Western Culture interfered. The ideas of individuality, self reliance, success, work, owning property, the ability to rise above one's origins, all give hope to the people, especially when the people can act upon and achieve these hopes. The ability to earn, and keep what you earn; all lead to resistance to Communism. After all, why would you give up the ability to earn and be successful to join a de-humanizing collective?
Christianity has another powerful role on resistance to Marxism. Marxism is "Godless," by it's own description, however, I have often postulated that this is an incorrect. I believe that in a Marxist state, God is replaced by the state as the giver of life and all things material. Religion, and its reliance on a higher power creates a situation in which loyalty to the state is secondary to the loyalty to God. This is intolerable to the Marxist.
Gramsci famously laid out a strategy for destroying Christianity and Western culture, one that has proven all too successful. Instead of calling for a Communist revolution up front, as in Russia, he said Marxists in the West should take political power last, after a "long march through the institutions" – the schools, the media, even the churches, every institution that could influence the culture. That "long march through the institutions" is what America has experienced, especially since the 1960s. Fortunately, Mussolini recognized the danger Gramsci posed and jailed him. His influence remained small until the 1960s, when his works, especially the "Prison Notebooks," were rediscovered.
Georg Lukacs proved more influential. In 1918, he became deputy commissar for culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik regime in Hungary. There, asking, "Who will save us from Western civilization?" he instituted what he called "cultural terrorism." One of its main components was introducing sex education into Hungarian schools. Lukacs realized that if he could destroy the country's traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying its traditional culture and Christian faith.
Please realize that Mussolini was not a good guy. The fascists, particularly Hitler, viewed Marxism as a related, but inferior system to fascism. Mussolini was simply imprisoning another political opponent, one from a related, but competing ideology.
I think it's easy to see that the long march through the institutions has been largely completed, and the steps to taking political power are well underway. They have education, law, media, and many other related fields. Considering that they want to do away with alternative media, ban home schooling, and use law to accomplish both, the intent becomes clear.
Also, what conclusions can we make regarding the sexual revolution? Is it about "liberating people," or was it just about getting people away from religion? After all, most religions teach sexual restraint. This is taught in the home and at church. However, if the media, and later the schools, teach the opposite, and literally encourage sexual experimentation, a disconnect with the religious instruction and belief is created. This worked incredibly well in Communist states.
Here's another quote that shows that perhaps I'm on the right track…
P. Blanchard, in 'The Humanist" 1983, continues: "I think that the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny how to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average American child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history."
As time wore on, these men formed what was to be called the Institute for Marxism. Realizing that people would be alarmed by that name, they instead called it the "Institute for Social Research." Colloquially, it was referred to as the "Frankfort School." I guess that this is the first example of "CALLING IT SOMETHING ELSE?"
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With the help of this new blood, Horkheimer made three major advances in the development of cultural Marxism. First, he broke with Marx's view that culture was merely part of society's "superstructure," which was determined by economic factors. He said that on the contrary, culture was an independent and very important factor in shaping a society.
Second, again contrary to Marx, he announced that in the future, the working class would not be the agent of revolution. He left open the question of who would play that role – a question Marcuse answered in the 1950s.
Today, when Hollywood's cultural Marxists want to "normalize" something like homosexuality (thus "liberating" us from "repression"), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual. That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.
Brainwashing, pure and simple. Denigrate the culture, and make this denigration appear everywhere. Schools, media, even some churches, all promote Cultural Marxism. The sad thing is-they don't even know they're doing it! Of course, we know, because they said what they were going to do, and it's being done!
To serve its purpose of "negating" Western culture, the Frankfurt School developed a powerful tool it called "Critical Theory." What was the theory? The theory was to criticize. By subjecting every traditional institution, starting with family, to endless, unremitting criticism (the Frankfurt School was careful never to define what it was for, only what it was against), it hoped to bring them down. Critical Theory is the basis for the "studies" departments that now inhabit American colleges and universities. Not surprisingly, those departments are the home turf of academic political correctness.
Studies in prejudice
The Frankfurt School sought to define traditional attitudes on every issue as "prejudice" in a series of academic studies that culminated in Adorno's immensely influential book, "The Authoritarian Personality," published in 1950. They invented a bogus "F-scale" that purported to tie traditional beliefs on sexual morals, relations between men and women and questions touching on the family to support for fascism. Today, the favorite term the politically correct use for anyone who disagrees with them is "fascist."
This is one of the big lies of the left. Anyone who believes in freedom is a "fascist." Anyone who believes in doing what the Marxists or Fascists actually did, are progressives! This doesn't actually present a way of thinking and doing that might be better, it's about silencing and discrediting dissent. If you can discredit a person, than you discredit their ideas. The progressives have to avoid discussing ideas, especially when the ideas are superior to what they are trying to do.
The Frankfurt School again departed from orthodox Marxism, which argued that all of history was determined by who owned the means of production. Instead, they said history was determined by which groups, defined as men, women, races, religions, etc., had power or "dominance" over other groups. Certain groups, especially white males, were labeled "oppressors," while other groups were defined as "victims." Victims were automatically good, oppressors bad, just by what group they came from, regardless of individual behavior.
I remember having a discussion with a group of people that claimed that I have had some level of success in my life due to "white privilege." Now, this claim intends to do a few things:
- It attempts to negate the influence the actual effort and work. This is a part of Western Culture. I actually made a great effort to get educated, and then I worked hard at my career. However, this is contrary to Marxism, so it must be discredited by claiming that anything I have came about because of my race. Frankly, I don't particularly like my efforts being discredited.
- The ability to succeed gives hope to others. To keep their victim classes on the "plantation," the progressives must convince the "victims" that they are kept at a low level due to others having this "privilege." Victim classes can only be kept victims if they are thoroughly convinced that they cannot succeed. What better way to do that than to convince them that successful people are only successful because of "special advantages?" They also claim that any minorities that achieve success have "sold out." Remember Clarence Thomas's confirmation?
- Many people are prompted to feel guilt when they are brought to the understanding of their "privilege." Don't laugh! I've literally heard people say this! After all, if you are feeling guilty about having things because the culture is so totally in your favor, you might not feel very bad about giving up some things to make it all right, like, for example, your freedom?
In the end, I didn't cave in to the Marxism, so I was accused of being a racist. In typical progressive fashion, I had to be discredited. Facts were irrelevant, and what I said had to be discounted. The smear is the last defense of the progressives.
Though Marxists, the members of the Frankfurt School also drew from Nietzsche (someone else they admired for his defiance of traditional morals was the Marquis de Sade). They incorporated into their cultural Marxism what Nietzsche called the "transvaluation of all values." What that means, in plain English, is that all the old sins become virtues, and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an evil "fascist." That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America. (The Frankfurt School wrote about American public education. It said it did not matter if school children learned any skills or any facts. All that mattered was that they graduate from the schools with the right "attitudes" on certain questions.)
Well, it had to bring us to education eventually. This is what we have been talking about for years now. Scores are down, graduation rates are down, and illiteracy is up. But this is acceptable, as most of the children reject God, and embrace Marxist teachings!
Marcuse also widened the Frankfurt School's intellectual work. In the early 1930s, Horkheimer had left open the question of who would replace the working class as the agent of Marxist revolution. In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question, saying it would be a coalition of students, blacks, feminist women and homosexuals – the core of the student rebellion of the 1960s, and the sacred "victims groups" of political correctness today. Marcuse further took one of political correctness's favorite words, "tolerance," and gave it a new meaning. He defined "liberating tolerance" as tolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the left, and intolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the right. When you hear the cultural Marxists today call for "tolerance," they mean Marcuse's "liberating tolerance" (just as when they call for "diversity," they mean uniformity of belief in their ideology).
The student rebellion of the 1960s, driven largely by opposition to the draft for the Vietnam War, gave Marcuse a historic opportunity. As perhaps its most famous "guru," he injected the Frankfurt School's cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation. Of course, they did not understand what it really was. As was true from the Institute's beginning, Marcuse and the few other people "in the know" did not advertise that political correctness and multi-culturalism were a form of Marxism. But the effect was devastating: a whole generation of Americans, especially the university-educated elite, absorbed cultural Marxism as their own, accepting a poisonous ideology that sought to destroy America's traditional culture and Christian faith. That generation, which runs every elite institution in America, now wages a ceaseless war on all traditional beliefs and institutions. They have largely won that war. Most of America's traditional culture lies in ruins.
So, when we are referred to as racists for questioning Obama's policies, we know why. When there is no outrage when Van Jones is an avowed Communist, we see through the ignorance. When an untold number of protesters swarm Washington DC, and the MSM minimizes it, we see the cause. When our children are indoctrinated, we see the purpose.
They infiltrated the institutions, just as they said they would. They have since trained/indoctrinated generations of people. Think for a moment… why are so many in the MSM are ignoring Obama's lies, his czars, and the ACORN story? They were indoctrinated! They went to the universities! The Cultural Marxists occupied them first! Why are so many public school teachers towing the line? Same thing! They went to the universities! The list is virtually endless. They have turned education into a leftist indoctrination machine, allowing them to then infiltrate every other institution in our nation.
This ties together with other topics that we have discussed. For example, the Alinsky Method seems to be nothing more than a playbook for Critical Theory and tolerant repression. It is a method to achieve the end. The media's ignorance and lies serve as well. All of the indoctrinated institutions seem to act in the same way to work towards the goals, and circles the wagons for defense.
Where does this leave us? We are in a precarious situation. Our institutions are in the possession of people that would fundamentally change our republic. The vast majority of them have no clue that they are working towards Marxist goals. That is the evil brilliance of cultural Marxism. The minions work towards the end goal, one of which they unaware. But, we are aware, and that is a start.
For more, here is a video from the author of the book I quoted for much of this post.
Update: This is also posted at Western Front America & Currents (WARNING: Here there be trolls)


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William Bay,
Mastering the Guitar:
Technique Studies:
A Comprehensive Method
for Today's Guitarist
(Mel Bay, 1997)
This book is meant to be an additional source of study for the first and second volumes of the excellent Mastering the Guitar book-and-CD series. (This is the only one in the series that does not come with a CD.) However, it can be used in addition to any beginning guitar method as a source of additional study and songs. It begins with an introduction to traditional music notation, rhythm and some basic music theory.
There are plenty of studies for plectrum picking, crosspicking, fingerpicking, chords, moveable finger patterns, finger-agility studies, etc. After the studies are songs for applying the skills learned in the studies. The studies and tunes are all grouped according to keys. Thus, for example, the first key introduced is C and it has all of the studies I mentioned above followed by several songs. The tunes represented are of several styles of music. Everything from folk and classical to rock and blues is here.
The majority of studies are presented only in music notation but all of the tunes are presented in both standard music and tab. I realize this was done as a concession to the marketplace as there are many guitarists who don't want to know how to read music. However, for anyone with even the slightest curiosity, I would encourage you to give learning how to read music a go. For only a bit of effort at the beginning the later rewards are considerable. This book certainly makes learning to read and play standard music notation fun. The tunes are fun to play, cover several popular music styles and a beginner will have complete numbers to add to their repertoire to play for family and friends. Don't be like some folks I know who can only play bits and pieces of their tunes! In my opinion, a beginner who can play even one single piece well is actually more truly deserving of the title "guitarist" (and is definitely the better musician) than such dime-a-dozen guitarist wannabees.
If you love the guitar and don't want to be a wannabe, this book will definitely help you on your way to that goal.
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Like how, India is surrounded by Oceans and Sea, the Bhakti is also spread throughout our Country. Emperumaan Sriman Narayanan who is the Paramathma is found in all of the minds and heart of the Jeevathmas, is found from Kanyakumari to Himalayas in various Thirukkolams (posture or position) in various Sthalams.
Out of these Sthalams, Alwars, who are said to be the Hamsam of Sriman Narayanan, have sung Mangalasasanam (praising of the Perumal) on the Perumal and there are totally 108 Sthalams where Alwars have done Mangalasasanam on the Perumal. These 108 Vishnu Sthalams are called as "Divyadesams".
Emperumaan, Sriman Narayanan is found in various Thirukkolam. The Thirukkolam in 108 Divyadesams
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Finance's Purpose and Outcomes
As one of the Australian Government's central agencies, Finance helps the government to shape and deliver its agenda, particularly in relation to its fiscal and economic agendas, better practice regulation reform and the operations of the government. This is reflected in Finance's Statement of Purpose:
We provide high quality, strategic policy and financial advice to support government decision-making and improved Australian Government financial management.
We deliver professional support services to our Ministers, Parliamentarians and their staff, and the government as a whole.
Finance assists the government to achieve its policy objectives by contributing to the following four outcomes:
- Outcome 1 – sustainable government finances – assisting the government to meet its fiscal objectives by providing whole-of-government advice on expenditure, helping prepare the Australian Government Budget, producing whole-of-government financial reporting, and advising on the Australian Government's Asset Funds and on best practice regulation.
- Outcome 2 – improved and more efficient government operations – providing advice on procurement policy including public-private partnerships, providing shareholder oversight of GBEs and other commercial entities, undertaking major construction projects that are assigned by the government for management by Finance, managing the non-Defence property portfolio within Australia, administering the Australian Government's self-managed general insurance fund, and advising on Commonwealth land and public works policy.
- Outcome 3 – an efficiently functioning Parliament – providing advice to Ministers on parliamentary entitlement issues, providing facilities and services including electorate office facilities, travel and accommodation entitlement support, personnel-related services and VIP car hire services to current and certain former Parliamentarians and their staff, and providing secretariat support for the Australian Political Exchange Council.
- Outcome 4 – effective and efficient use of information and communication technologies by the Australian Government – providing advice and service to government to improve the delivery of government information and services online, to obtain value for money in government ICT procurement and project management, and to develop the capacity of the APS workforce to deliver ICT programs and address ICT skills shortages.
A diagrammatic representation of Finance's outcomes and outputs structure at 30 June 2009 is at Figure B.
Figure B: Structure of Finance Outcomes and Outputs at 30 June 2009
Text description of Figure B: Structure of Finance Outcomes and Outputs at 30 June 2009
Changes to Finance's Outcome and Output Structure for the 2009-10 year
No changes were made to Finance's outcomes and outputs during the 2008-09 year. However, on 1 July 2009 as part of the Operation Sunlight Outcome Statements Review, Finance's outcome statements changed. Finance's 2009-10 Portfolio Budget Statement outlines the new outcome structure and this will form the basis of performance reporting for that year's Annual Report.