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- Download Zestia for iOS 9.3.1/9.3.2 to download Paid Apps for free.
- Download FlekStore for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch device to download free emulators and tweaked apps for free.
Using Happy Chick Emulator for iOS, we can paly Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo DS, PSP, iMame Neo Geo Arcade, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance games all at a single place. You can save the state of the game to continue playing it from where you have stopped before. Here is the step by step procedure to install Happy Chick for iOS 10.0.2 ,10.1.1, 10.2.1, 10.2 on iPad/iPhone/iPod without jailbreak.
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Before beginning to download Happy Chick iOS 10.2.1, 10.2 we need to make a few changes in Settings of your iPhone/iPad/iPod.
- Go to Settings -> General -> Date & Time -> Toggle off Set Automatically option.
- Roll back your device's date to July 7, 2016 or any random date in mid months of 2014.
- Open Safari browser on your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch device and visit the link http://www.pgyer.com/2BA4
- Tap on Install button and when asked for confirmation, tap on Install.
- Once the installation is completed, you need to Trust the profile of Happy Chick Emulator. To do that go to Settings -> Profiles and Device Management -> you will see profiles of all the Enterprise Apps, Developer Apps etc.
- Find the profile of Happy Chick Emulator and Trust it.
- You need to trust profile to allow launching of Happy Chick Emulator on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.
- Once you have launched the app, you can revert back the date and Time to the current date by toggling on Set Automatically option. Make sure that you change date to 2014 and toggle off Set Automatically option before launching Happy Chick Emulator.
- After launching the App, you will see a long message, just tap on NO and proceed to download games of various emulators like GBA, ND, SND, SNES, PSP etc.
- After launching Happy Chick Emulator, tap on categories on the bottom menu to see all the supported emulators. Just choose the emulator you wish and download games.
- You will see all your downloaded games in My Games tab.
This is how we can download Happy Chick for iOS 10.2.1, 10.2, 10.1.1, iOS 11, iOS 10 for iPhone/iPad/iPod without jailbreak. If you are facing any issues while installing Happy Chick Emulator you can comment us. Please try downloading NewGamePad Emulator for iOS 9.3.2/9.3.5/10/9.3.1 to play all games which is the best alternative of Happy Chick for iOS 9.3.5/9.3.1/9.3.3/10/9.3.2.
Note: All the pgyer links were blocked a few days back and you don't get the download link of Happy Chick Emulator from the below mentioned pgyer link. I will update an alternative soon to download Happy Chick Emulator for iOS 10.2.1, 10.2, 10.1.1 Without jailbreak.
Update 1: You can try downloading Happy Chick Emulator from its website http://www.happychick.hk/
Update 2: You can download Happy Chick Emulator for iOS 10.2.1, 10.1.1, 10.2 on iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch from iEmulators website. Visit the link http://iemulators.com/happychick


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WHO: A trained chef-turned-rapper from Flushing, Queens, Action Bronson has built up a loyal following in the year and a half since he decided to leave the kitchen for a recording studio. His full-length debut, Dr. Lecter (out now on iTunes and his website, actionbronson.com), is a peppery stew of food jokes, weed talk and pro wrestling shout-outs drizzled liberally over his producer pal Tommy Mas' deft boom-bap loops. (Listen to "Barry Horowitz" below.) For a certain sector of early Nineties nostalgists, it's the ultimate in comfort food with a contemporary twist.
CULINARY ARTS: "My profession is a chef," says the portly 27-year-old. "I just happen to rap." He studied at the Art Institute of New York City's culinary program before working at innumerable steakhouses, a vegetarian restaurant in downtown Manhattan – and Citi Field, where he helped prepare post-game meals for the Mets. (He loved it, even though he's a Yankees fan.) Those experiences lend a unique flavor to his rhymes, where you'll find witty mentions of duck prosciutto, Tunisian olives, smoked brisket and other delicacies. "No one raps about food like I do," he says. "I rap about fine dishes – like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about."
HOLY GHOST: It's impossible to hear Action Bronson's music without noticing that he sounds a lot like the Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. They share not only an insistent, nasal vocal register but a gift for amazingly vivid bullshit. Even though the comparison is flattering, Action's getting a little tired of hearing it. "I mean, of course I'm sick of it," he says. "I'm my own person. I can't change my voice from what it is." That said, he's a huge Ghostface fan, and the two even collaborated recently on an excellent track called "Meteor Hammer." "Ghostface is one of the best rappers ever," he adds. "Wu-Tang is the best. Who doesn't like that shit? If you don't like that shit, then I can't respect you."
KING OF QUEENS: Action still lives in the neighborhood where he spent his childhood – a diverse environment that he credits for expanding his worldview. "I grew up in such a melting pot," says the rapper, whose father is Albanian and whose mother is Jewish. "There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures."
SECRET INGREDIENTS: Hip-hop is Action's only hustle these days – "I haven't cooked professionally since I started getting rap money," he says – but he's still known to whip up a mean entree in his free time. "My go-to dish is a buccatini pasta with olive oil and a little bit of sour diesel [marijuana] mixed into it," he reveals. "I extract the sour into the oil, then I toss it with some broccolini and some red pepper flakes and some toasted garlic. I could eat that every day. It gets me goddamn demolished, man."
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shrimp tempura recipe - detailed instruction with step by step photo on how to make shrimp tempura. Recipe includes how to clean and prep shrimp prior to deep frying.
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The Colorado Center for Hyperbaric Medicine is the premiere institute for hyperbaric oxygen therapy and natural healing in the rocky mountains. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, abbreviated HBO or HBOT, is a unique medical treatment that uses high dose oxygen to speed and enhance the body's natural ability to heal. HBOT is approved by the American Medical Association, FDA, and Medicare. Persons who may benefit from HBOT suffer from various diseases or injuries associated with hypoxia (lack of oxygen on a cellular level). It is at this cellular level where all life takes place.
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Heidi was my german shepherd. She was such a sweet heart and a wonderful dog!! She was also really really funny. She is black with tan markings.View Profile
Monique was heidi's sister even though she was a Saint Bernard. She was a sweet loving girl. She would play but if the play included running she didn't want to...LOL...She loved to sleep and sleep especially in the sun. I wasn't planning on getting her at all that day when I was at the animal shelter and looking for a dog I found heidi, but just before that my mom saw monique and her butt was too big for her bed and she had puppy eyes and my mom just couldn't walk away....I mean who can?....So we took her out to play in the enclosed yard and we opened the gate and just as we did she ploped on the ground right in front of the gate. She didn't run or play the WHOLE time all she wanted was to be pet..LOL.. So we got heidi and Monique. But Monique came home a couple days later because she had like kennel cough, so she slept in our basement which was also our office and play room. We just brush and brush her the whole day. She got better and then she was spayed. And like heidi we had her a year and then had to give her away, but we gave her to a family with FIVE kids that always wanted a dog to love on!! She is in a great home!View Profile


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Kit - Vintage Galaxy - Medium"Galaxy" pattern from Studio 180 Designs; Fabric is "Vintage Onyx" from Marcus Brothers
Approximate finished size: 63 x 81 inches
Galaxy is a beautiful alternating block design using two types of blocks. Because of the color placement and the different angles in the triangles, the interesting interlocking circles appear and the second star block disappears into the circles. It's a fun optical illusion, easy to make and even easier to admire.
Kit includes all fabric for quilt top (including binding) and pattern.
Required tools (sold separately) - V Block and Tucker Trimmer I
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|[URL dibuang, sila log masuk untuk melihat] is running slowly and I want to fix the problem. additionally I want to connect gmail with my domain [URL dibuang, sila log masuk untuk melihat] thanks in advance. the free lancer that fix this job will get additionally many other jobs.
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|Edit 3 pull up banners, Edit 4 brochures, create new banner
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|I have a power point that describes an app that i want someone to build. The target market is 18 and older men and women married or single. The app is to combine something like, dating, sugar daddy, and craigs list. There are many examples, but one example could be a single woman in need of a pool guy and maybe she desires to search for a specific appearance in a pool guy. she can search on GoferM...
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- Large rooms
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- Michelin-starred restaurant by Chef Michael White
- Large, beautiful bathrooms
- Well-respected spa
- Central Manhattan location, near 15 subway lines
- 24-hour fitness center
- Somewhat plain, sparse rooms
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The 214-room Langham New York Fifth Avenue is a modern, luxurious hotel conveniently located close to the popular tourist sites and corporate offices of Midtown Manhattan. Rooms are huge and come with top-notch features (free Wi-Fi, iPod docks, high-end linens and toiletries), but the decor is plain and lacks character. For more striking design, consider the nearby Chatwal or the (slightly less luxurious) Andaz hotels.


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BOOK - Coaching the System
DVD 1 - Understanding the System
DVD 2 - The Fast Break Attack
DVD 3 - Half-Court "Attack" Offense
DVD 4 - The Trap Defense
Complete Set (Savings of $35)
DVD 2 - The Fast Break Attack - $39.95
Fast Break Pros and Cons
3 Psychological Advantages
3 Practical Advantages
6 Fast Break Principles
Answering Criticisms
Creating 3's off the Break
Defining Roles
Initial Options
Offensive Rebounding
Essential FB Techniques
FB After a Rebound/Steal
FB After a Score
FB After a Dead Ball
FB Against the Press
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In Volume 2 of the Attack Basketball Series, Coach Porter discusses a simple, hyper-aggressive Fast Break style that blends the best features of the famous Loyola Marymount fast break with the Grinnell system, two of the highest scoring attacks in college basketball history.
With this unique hybrid approach—based on six guiding principles of up-tempo offense—Porter's gives an inside look at how his ONU women's teams have led NAIA Division I basketball in scoring every season since 2004-05, setting a college women's basketball record with nineteen 100+ point games in 2007-08.
You'll have a front row seat for this detailed step-by-step demonstration of every facet of the transition game, illustrated using marker-board diagrams and game clips. The DVD concludes with a twenty-minute segment of practice clips that includes 15 favorite fast break drills.
This video will give you fresh ideas for developing your own transition attack: an approach simple enough to use at any level from junior high through college, but flexible enough to attack any defense.
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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Libraries that Have It: Workingman's journal. (Newport, R.I.) 1853-185?
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Convincing another person to subscribe to your own beliefs or opinions on a particular subject has to be one of the most -if not the most effective way of validating your own reasoning. People who have confidence in their opinions or beliefs don't necessarily need to convince anyone else of truthfulness or value of their convictions. On the other hand people who may not be 100% sure they got it right feel a lot better when they hear those magic words, you're right!
There are two reasons why Jews were never big on selling Judaism to Gentiles:
We don't believe that we have a monopoly on either truth or God. Every path to God and knowledge that inspires greater moral and ethical behavior is holy and has merits.
We frankly just don't need anyone to validate our faith, heritage, beliefs, culture and values.
The early followers of Jesus Christ were a small, marginal group within the Jewish community. Not only did the majority of Jews at the time reject the idea that Jesus was the foretold messiah, but in time they became leery of and tried to exclude devotees of Jesus from the community.
To keep their young faith alive and flourishing, the followers of the Jewish preacher from Galilee marketed their new religion by promoting some enticing theologies:
Jewish scripture had suggested that the (human!) redeemer or messiah would bring everlasting peace and harmony to a troubled world. Jesus died having accomplished little by way of perfecting the human condition. Oops. How to fix that? The first Christians announced that Jesus was not simply the foretold messiah, but the human incarnate of that God that Jews had been worshipping since Abraham. And God's don't die do they? Ergo, Jesus' death was just a bit of theater with a purpose: God gave the world His son so he could experience the drama and trauma of a human execution. Why? So Jesus could bear all our sins in the process of cleansing our souls for the afterlife. "He died on the cross so you could live. Believe in him and have eternal life." A pretty nifty way of re-packaging the death of itinerant, charismatic preacher, no?
For those Jews and Gentiles who found studying and adhering to the 613 mitzvot/commandments of Judaism something of an inconvenience, the followers of Jesus made the Jews an offer they hoped many couldn't refuse: Accept Jesus as your savior and you don't have to bother with those obnoxious dietary restrictions or all those inconvenient, time-consuming rituals of Jewish life. Belief in Jesus nullifies the rest. Better yet, believe in Jesus and you will have eternal life.
Once you've accepted Jesus and the deed to eternal life has you name on it, you can take possession of it by selling the said formula for eternal life to non-believers.


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'Overtasked and way underpaid,' law enforcement officers need praise
Editor:In the past few weeks, we have seen and read about crime increasing in and around the state. Home invasions have gotten way out of control, as have robbery, carjacking and murder.
Event puts focus on stopping drugs, crime
Grovetown residents can learn a little more about those who protect and serve them at the city's annual National Night Out event on Tuesday.
Some plants bloom until late fall
What can be planted in landscapes that will give color in late summer and fall?
Schools report fewer incidents with discipline
Columbia County schools were safer last school year than the year before.
Firefighters are honored for dedication at annual meeting
Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue personnel were honored at the department's annual meeting Monday.
A long walk
Since September, the Augusta community has walked in support of Fort Gordon's troops deployed in Iraq.
School board mulls paying for PSAT
Sophomores in Columbia County might soon be charged to take the PSAT.
Hobby has paid off for local beekeeper
Deborah Sasser looks after what she calls "nature's tiny unsung heroes."
Unincorporated areas will get lower millage
Columbia County's four government agencies met last week to set the 2010 property tax millage.
Marshall Family Y grand opening
The Marshall Family Y held a grand opening ribbon cutting with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce on July 23. It is located at 1202 Town Park Lane in Evans.
Marriage licenses
Byron David Callahan and Ashley Brooke Williford applied for a marriage license on June 11, 2010, and were married June 24, 2010, in Evans.
The following students were named to the 2010 Spring Dean's List at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Ga.:
Grand opening
SarahCare Adult Day Care Center, 801 Oakhurst Drive, in Evans, held a grand opening ribbon cut with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce on May 19.
On vacation
The Gaston family vacationed in Costa Rica where they went deep-sea fishing, zip-lined through the rain forest and went white-water rafting. Shown are Bobby Gaston (from left), Robin Gaston, their guide, Sam Gaston and Elizabeth Gaston.
Christopher R. Miller and Bobbie R. Miller, July 26, 2010.
Police blotter
Devin Lee Coomer, 17, and Spencer Carino Huff, 18, both of Salem, Ind., were charged with theft by bringing stolen property into the state. They were being held in the Columbia County Detention Center without bond, according to jail records.
School partner award
Stan Shepherd (left), AT&T regional director, accepts the Preston Blanchard Outstanding Partner in Education Award from Columbia County School Superintendent Charles Nagle during the 2010 School Business Partner Breakfast Tuesday. Shepherd was instrumental in securing a $100,000 AT&T technology grant for the school system.
Boy Scout attend National Jamboree
Sixty-six Boy Scouts and eight adult scout leaders from the Georgia-Carolina Council went to the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., for 10 days. The jamboree included 44,000 scouts and adult leaders from across the country and around world, and marked the 100th anniversary of Scouting.
Current events
Early and advance voting for the Aug. 10 runoff elections will be held 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday at the Columbia County Board of Elections office, Building E, 500 Faircloth Drive, Evans. Call (706) 868-3355.
Class reunions
The Evans High School class of 2000 will hold its 10th reunion 7-11 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Doubletree Hotel. Tickets cost $45 per person or $80 per couple before Aug. 1. Send contact information to firstname.lastname@example.com, or go to evanshigh2000. blogspot.com/.
Property transfers
Craftmark Builders LLC to Ryan D. Zimmerman, 9505 Berwick Court, $182,000.
Pet adoption spotlight
CSRA Happy Tails Rescue Inc. is a nonprofit licensed animal rescue group committed to the welfare of stray and unwanted dogs and cats in the CSRA. Adoptions are held each Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 p.m. at Tractor Supply on Bobby Jones Expressway in Martinez. For information or to adopt, call Barb at (706) 955-0438 or go to www.csrahappytails.com.
School suffers for crackdown
Here's a convoluted kick in the teeth. Follow along with me.
Vet's staffer goes above and beyond
I just love writing about good people, and the person I'm writing about today is not only a good person but someone who goes above and beyond what is expected.
Spending real money, $13 at a time
Columbia County school officials this past week decided to take a little more time before deciding whether to pay the $13 per student for 10th-graders to take the PSAT next year.
Editorial cartoon
Editorial cartoon for Sunday, August 1, 2010.
Ponytails tourney continues
The Dixie Youth Ponytails World Series continues today at Patriots Park.
Host team
Columbia County is the host team in the Dixie Ponytails World Series, with 10 teams representing 10 states playing through Wednesday at Patriots Park. Players and coaches on the Columbia County team are coach Christy Leeseberg (front, from left), Alexis Wilkerson-Hadley, Kayla Stacks, Jessica Ellis, Brooke Buck, Shannon Cartledge and Ashley Lunz; coach Matthew Leeseberg, Lauren Harper, Jordan Battle, Lauren Barnard, Kallen Leeseberg, Sarah Beth Battles, Julie Underwood and head coach Lester Ellis.
Golf shot of a lifetime comes oh, so close
I was that close to winning a brand-new car.
Ex-Panther pens book about his Florida State days
The Regions Bank Amateur Series will wrap up the 2010 campaign in Columbia County.
Sports camps
A 3v3 soccer tournament will be held Wednesday at Patriots Park with proceeds benefiting Nothing But Nets, an organization dedicated to the eradication of malaria. Teams can have up to five members. Registration is $15 per team. Contact Hilary Matfess at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Two Columbia County squads earn USSSA World Series titles
Two very different Columbia County-based travel baseball teams started play July 21 in the United States Specialty Sports Association Global World Series.
Academy blends mechanics of dancing and martial arts
Jason Herrera found a way to marry salsa dancing and martial arts by not thinking about it.
Columbia County News-Times ©2018. All Rights Reserved.


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Zakaria, Zalmiyah (2010) Genetic-based approaches to predictive-reactive scheduling in flexible manufacturing system. PhD thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Sistem Maklumat.
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Let's call it what it is, shall we? Petrobras is the ugly ducking of multinational oil companies.
Some say it shouldn't be. In 2007, it discovered an estimated 40 billion barrels of oil off shore. New finds are almost annual, though much smaller. It is one of the most savvy deep water drillers in the Americas. And because of that, Rio de Janeiro thinks that its newfound Petrobras oil wealth can one day make their Atlantic Ocean the North Sea of Norway.
Alas, Petrobras has been one big disappointment for investors. If you hold the iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund, much of its losses over the last year can be credited to Petrobras. This year alone, Petrobras shares have fallen 16.92 percent. It doesn't track oil in the Americas, that's for sure. The S&P Crude Oil index is up 7 percent year to date.
What about the competition? Well, for starters, Petrobras really has none in Brazil. But investors looking for oil companies with lots of oil reserves used to consider PBR a favorite. At least that was the case back in the glory days of the Summer of 2008 when Goldman Sachs put a price target of $60 on it. It's now down to a little over $16.
Hey, Chevron (CVX) is in Brazil. They're up 6.67 percent. Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) is too, but they're down around 3 percent. Can you think of a more hated international oil company post-Gulf of Mexico oil spill than BP? It has major investments in Brazil, most of it onshore. Their stock is up 2.79 percent. ExxonMobil (XOM) is up about the same. It is hard to find an oil and gas company involved in both exploration and production that is doing as lousy as Petrobras. Even Repsol, relegated to the pink sheets, is doing better this year for investors, up 3.6 percent.
Last week, Barclays Capital recommended an equal weight position on Petrobras, citing its prospects as a good long-term hold, but warned of short term depression in the stock. BarCap had an overweight on the stock in June 2011. The stock was down over 34 percent that year. The only time Petrobras was worth an overweight was in the fourth quarter. Between Sept. 31 and mid-January, the stock was up over 20 percent.
All that is gone, daddy, gone.
I asked some Forbes readers on Twitter what they thought about Petrobras.
Petrobras is not a profit driven company. But on the other hand, the company is sitting on a pile of oil. We don't have a long term rating for an investment on Petrobras shares. It's neither a buy or a sell. Petrobras is also used as an inflation control tool by government. The gas and diesel prices offered by PBR are decided by the government. And knowing that core Brazilian inflation is topping its maximum target now (over 6%), we figure the government will be reluctant to approve any price increase for Petrobras' products. The government wants Petrobras to do it all. And that's a problem. More specifically, government action has indirectly impacted the company's cash flow, as government incentives have motivated Brazilians to buy more cars and therefore so consume more oil. Problem is, Petrobras production cannot keep up and it needs to import oil to avoid a shortage. No need to say that without price hike, Petrobras is importing oil at higher price than it can charges from its customers. We see this as a speculative investment. The amount of reserves in the pre-salt (Santos Basin, Atlantic Ocean) are impressive, but the matter is when and how these new oil prospects will materialize."
-- Stephan Zanga, Founder Partner at SZA Projeta Ltd., a boutique research firm based in São Paulo. Registered financial analyst with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission.
Apart from its idiosyncrasies -- which are not few -- I believe Petrobras' shares fit in the big picture for Brazilian shares over the past few years: most investors bought them believing in a new era of accelerated growth and large profits in the country, just to be proved wrong in a couple of years. I believe this kind of investor is gradually abandoning Brazilian assets, which of course is driving down the prices. The flip side of this is that I think shares are now in stronger hands, with more realistic expectations and at better average prices. Specific to Petrobras, a ton of bad news is already incorporated in current prices, most pundits are bearish and individual investors are giving up – looks like a classic contrarian case. Also, the government has realized it can't let the country's largest company and biggest investor starving for cash. The most recent rise in fuel prices combined with some currency appreciation should alleviate the company's hardship." -
- Luciano Ribeiro Sobral, portfolio manager at FRAM Capital in São Paulo.
Petrobras seems to suffer from a "stock-profits-as-government-ATM" discount, as the Brazilian government seems keen to tap corporate profits in order to fuel public expenditures. Though this phenomenon isn't news, it may be increasingly priced-in by investors. And global stock markets are in a frothy state and seem due for a correction. Given the correlation among global stocks, Petrobras could be pulled down with international markets.For these two reasons, I would rate Petrobras a "sell" with a $13/share price target."
-- David Twyford, private investor and former futures broker with PFG Best in Winter Park, Fla. His Twitter handle is @UnlovedMoney
Considering the current share price and environment, I would say it's a buy as long as you don't have any long term intention for the paper. The Brazilian Government sees Petrobras as a public policy tool. Since (ex-President) Lula, it's been a key player in Brazil's 'New Industrialism', and has acted as a driver, at least in theory, for local high tech industry, and in reality as an inflation, forex and investment tool. Remember that in Latin America, governments tend to be overly protective if not paranoid with natural resource industries. Also, deep water exploration is expensive and risky compared to shallow water projects. So on the pro side, proven oil reserves are attractive because oil is always oil. The workforce is generally well qualified, although heavily unionized and also used as a political tool, and Petrobras' proximity to government ensures easy funding. Considering the recently discounted prices and the fact that as a state owned enterprise the Brazilian government will not let its star to go down in flames, I say it's a good short or medium term bet at these price levels."
-- Thomas Tonello, internal auditor at Grupo BB e Mapfre. São Paulo-based political risk consultant specialized in fraud investigations and government interference in Latin America.
More bad than good for Petrobras. Good news would be lower inflation, around 5 percent instead of 6 percent; lower primary surpluses in Brazil, meaning Treasury needs Petrobras dividends to maintain sustainable debt path. This year the government used some creative accounting to reach that goal. And then there is also bad public opinion on Petrobras as many pension funds holding that stock have lost a lot of money. Petrobras' own 'creative accounting' tricks were used to reach higher profit than expected in the fourth quarter, thus inflating ratios as P/E. For example, Petrobras reclassified bonds 'available for sale' into 'held for trading', so the reported gains of about R$1.54 billion ($710 million) are gone through income statements. Negatives can go on forever. Best to stop here."
--Daniel Vilarino, recent MBA grad from Insper in São Paulo.


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Stars in Stereo, 'FireStarter' – Exclusive Video Premiere
Stars in Stereo are continuing their virtual tour in support of the band's upcoming sophomore set, 'Leave Your Mark,' by exclusively debuting their new video for 'FireStarter' here at Noisecreep. In addition, if you're a keen observer, you'll have a chance to win a cool prize from the band.
The performance-based clip finds the band playing in an alleyway, with a high energy performance enhanced by the group's lighting and stage risers. Frontwoman Bec Hollcraft brings the power, playing off guitarist Jordan McGraw and bassist Frogs McCormack, while Drew Langam keeps the beat behind the kit. The track is a definite standout and primed for the concert stage.
Watch the video above and be on the lookout for this tarot card hidden within the video. The first ten people to find and click it on it will gain access to a special prize.
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Love it or Shove it: Mary-Kate Olsen Fashionby Free Britney at . Comments
The Olsen Twins are known as celebrity fashion icons, but sometimes, we gotta admit, we have absolutely no idea why. This is one of those cases.
Celebrity fashion and style critics, chime in: Regarding Mary-Kate Olsen's, um, floral attire in the photo below, do you love it, or would you shove it?
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If you're into juicing or even have just sipped on the occasional green beverage, you've probably noticed that ginger is a common ingredient. It's one of those foods (like kale, lemon juice and blueberries, to name a few) that you frequently see paired with the word "superfood" or included in top ten lists of miraculous foods you just must be eating right this second. But why?
A lot of people go along with health trends without really knowing why they're doing so (see: THIS hilarious clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live of gluten-free people not knowing what gluten is)—and I'm guilty of it myself! (Guilty of blindly going along with trends, that is—I know what gluten is haha.) I was talking my friend's ear off about juice the other day and was asked why I frequently put ginger in mine. I replied that ginger is a natural digestion aid and nausea-soother, but was a little embarrassed that I didn't really know much beyond that. Don't you hate that?? You're talking all passionately about something and then get swiftly reduced from Expert to Queen Bullshitter—the worst. But happens to the best of us, right?…maybe?…humor me? 🙂
Anyway, to add to my limited knowledge of its ability to cure nausea and stomach aches, I did a little research and thought I'd share some fun facts about ginger. It really is a wonderful addition to juice (and regular meals, of course) and packed with health benefits.
Some Health Benefits of Ginger
- It's a remedy for nausea, upset stomachs and cramps. Stomach aches, period cramps, nausea, motion sickness, morning sickness, flu symptoms—if it involves your gut feeling lousy, ginger has you covered. It does this by neutralizing stomach acid and absorbing gastrointestinal toxins and hormones.
- It's a digestion rockstar. Ginger increases the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, improving the absorption of nutrients.
- It's an anti-inflammatory. Ginger inhibits two enzymes that are associated with chronic inflammation (COX and LOX). This applies to all sorts of inflammation—arthritis all the way to inflammation of the colon, which can be a precursor to colon cancer.
- It can help lower blood pressure. The gingerol in fresh ginger cause a widening of the blood vessel walls. This can help improve circulation and lower blood pressure. I had read before that rubbing ginger on my fingers when I'm having a Raynaud's episode can help get the blood flowing again to those restricted blood vessels—now I know why!
- It can help with muscle pain. There was a study showing that taking ginger daily helped reduce exercise-induced muscle pain. In addition to ingestion, you can apply it topically, rubbing it into sore muscles or even arthritic joints (if you have ginger in essential oil form, this would be a great use!).
- It's great if you have a head cold or congestion. The gingerol in ginger is similar to capsaisin in chili peppers and spicy foods in that it has that hot, ok-now-I'm-awake effect when crossed with your respiratory airways. It will break up congestion and open up those sinuses. Ginger is also a good immune system booster, activating T cells (those are the white blood cells responsible for killing off cells carrying viruses) and containing antimicrobial compounds that will help ward off the growth of bad bacteria.
Tips for Juicing Ginger
A little goes a long way when it comes to juicing ginger. It doesn't yield a lot of juice (you probably won't even see any drip out the juicer if you run it through on its own), but you'll definitely taste it. I don't use more than ½-1" of ginger root in a single juice.
I've read that you should remove the skin from the chunk of ginger you're going to put through your juicer, and if it's non-organic, I would agree with that. Being the lazy person that I am, however, I usually just cut off a small chunk from the root, quickly scrub it under some running water, and then pop it in the juicer, outer skin and all.
Ginger is a great addition to just about any green juice combination you can think up, and also wonderful with carrots (carrots + an orange + ginger = delicious!). Here are a few juice recipes I've posted in the past using ginger to get your started:
Do you add ginger to your juices?
Resources: Kimberly Snyder's website and books are always favorite resources when it comes to understanding what certain foods can do to benefit your body. I also found this site helpful. Reboot with Joe is another go-to of mine for juicing info!
Disclosure: The link to ginger essential oil is an affiliate link. I LOVE Mountain Rose Herbs and used them for all my essential oils long before I joined their affiliate program.


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I got in an internet fight a few days ago.
"But Peter," you cry, "aren't you old enough to know better? Are bad knees, poor lung capacity, addled memory, alcoholism, debt, painful memories, hypochondria, PTSD, several scars, a pending lawsuit, wrinkles, mild arthritis in your hand joints, a bad back, an undiagnosed nerve disorder, anxiety, regret, and a jaded sense of entitlement all you have to show for three misspent decades?"
Well, yeah. But in addition to that, I have a nervous tic that fires when people misrepresent and misinterpret poor bastards I don't even know, to push their own issues and hangups. And sometimes that tic makes me forget the futility of punching the ether.
It started innocently enough. I fell asleep to Deep Space 9 on the couch.1[1] I woke up at 8:30 Saturday morning, and since a couch is a non-optimal place to try to get back to sleep, I just made coffee and got on with it, a full six hours before I was due to have brunch with my girlfriend. I hit wikipedia and, for no particular reason, decided to catch up on the last seventeen years of the Marvel universe, since 1994 was the last time I picked up a comic. Eventually this led to some articles about floating timelines, which is how comic books keep the same characters going for seventy years without aging.2[2] This led to some stuff about soap opera relativity and cartoon physics, and by then I was well out of wikipedia and into mainstream blogs with little links on the side of the screen to other articles.
Then I clicked on one of those little links on the side of the screen.3[3] The link was to and article called Science Fiction That's Not Only Anti-Woman, It's Anti-Science. I figured it was probably about Heinlein, who even in death is vying for the title of most misogynistic author of all time.
Nope. It was about Womanspace, an essay published in nature. I read the first article, then clicked through to this alleged affront to women everywhere, fully expecting to be outraged and disgusted by some sexist idiot. I read the article with furious indignation.
I got to the end, strangely unoffended.
That can't be right, I thought. I must have missed something. I read it again.
And again.
One more time, really carefully.
Then I was just confused. The original article was "Science Fiction That's Not Only Anti-Woman, It's Anti-Science." But this essay wasn't anti-woman, anti-science, or even science fiction. What the hell was going on?
I went to the comments.4[4] Here things started to get a little clearer: outrage at the suggestion that women shop differently from men. Then Vegard Farstad5[5] started a Facebook petition to force the resignation of the editor who published it.
Clearly, I was still missing something, so I started reading the remarkable number of retorts to the essay.
The main problem, I'm guessing, is the title. Any use of the word woman in a non-post-post-feminist context seems to sour all the pre-pre-post-feminists from the get go. The criticism seemed to focus on two passages in particular, when they weren't just lambasting poor Ed Rybicki's writing style. One seems to be the evidence for Ed being a self-absorbed nazi bastard, and I'll just quote one of the comments quoting the original line:
Amid all the open sexism and stereotypes, probably the most hurtful part was the sentence "Have you never had the experience of talking to your significant female other" as if all Nature readers (or maybe all scientists?) were aged men with housewives at home.
"Significant female other" is probably the least loaded term for a wife or girlfriend of all time. It's almost like someone looked at all the terminology in the universe and found the most literal and least suggestive of all possible terms that could refer to one member of a relationship and still communicate any information at all. There is no logical connection between this term and aged men with housewives. The only way this jump could be made is if the offense was already in the reader's mind and bursting out at any mention of a feminine adjective or pronoun.
In fact, they're both in the supermarket, doing the same thing. But, to his present misfortune, Ed suggests they're doing it differently:
At this point I must digress, and mention, for those who are not aware, the profound differences in strategy between Men Going Shopping and Women Going Shopping. In any general shopping situation, men hunt: that is, they go into a complex environment with a few clear objectives, achieve those, and leave. Women, on the other hand, gather: such that any mission to buy just bread and milk could turn into an extended foraging expedition that also snares a to-die-for pair of discounted shoes; a useful new mop; three sorts of new cook-in sauces; and possibly a selection of frozen fish.
This seemed to be when people turned from sour to rabid. I don't personally have this experience with women, since I detest shopping altogether unless I'm depressed, at which point I spend money to feel better.6[6] The basic outrage is that this essay propagates a stereotype, and makes a joke about it. Well, yeah. Joking about stereotypes is pretty standard. Then somebody said this is the same as all those tired comics who joke about stereotypes. I went and found some of my favorite offensive comics on youtube. None of them seemed tired.7[7] And they were funny. They were funny in particular because I felt the comic trusted me to know there was a joke, and I was educated enough to know that stereotypes are lazy observations, not facts.
The outrage then seems to get muddled in its understanding of irony, since they accuse him of making a joke about it, but then, somehow, seriously asserting—as science but science fiction but not fiction nor science—that women are actually alien beings who access different universes. So Ed can't escape at this point, because he's being accused of doing several opposing things at once, depending on how his attackers want to critique him or fit his work into whichever argument they're making. It's outrage-fueled sophistry at its best, written by people with no sense of humor and an inability to see across stringent literary categories. Or to see the fact that the original piece has a specific category: personal essay. These days, it's more popularly known as "blog post over three hundred words."
Then, of course, having murkily wandered over the possible interpretations of Ed's psyche, they get into the gritty stuff, like income inequality between the sexes and how women are discouraged from science and math, and start citing all the horrors of sexism in the modern world, then, like rabid dogs do, started frothing over everything in sight, moving on to racism and xenophobia in general, and now Ed is a storm trooper in armies of hate.
I started simply enough with a comment about "Humorlessspace"9[9] where people with personal issues turn them inward and it comes out as internet comments. This wasn't enough, however, because this was a sudden hot-button issue and I figured I could satisfy my inner dick, showcase my hypocritical self-righteous attitude toward self-righteousness, and pimp my blog in one fell swoop, so I went through the blogs until I found one that had a space to put my website in the comment and got into it proper.
I failed myself. I got replies so vapid, non-sensical, and presumptuous, I started appealing to some kind of social logic, when I really should have come clean and admitted I was trolling, partly to defend Ed, but mostly for simple, potentially lucrative attention.10[10]
Here's one of the replies to my initial "you're all humorless and insane" posts:
Then maybe you should check out some of the links to male privilege I so handily provided to Ed. Or the very well-thought-out critiques I posted above. You should definitely click the link to "antifeminist bingo," too– the "you can't take a joke" schtick is pretty tired.
I will save you the trouble of investigating the critiques,11[11] and let you know that they are not well thought out. They are reactionary, accusatory, and packed full of free-association anger weakly linking Ed's work to the long hard history of misogyny.
Is it that men are only sexist if they say they are, but they never are if someone else says they are? And any woman can speak for all other women (just as we apparently all shop the same way) and therefore if only one woman is not offended, sexism doesn't exist, even if many women (and men) were offended? That is, sexism can never exist, it can only not exist?
The person who wrote that is a professor, apparently. Professors say things like that. I didn't dig that quote out of the article, by the way, someone else quoted that for the other side, because they weren't thinking straight, and thought that this kind of rhetorical and hyperbolic nonsense qualifies as argument.
Apparently, this is a sex-given talent that has nothing to do with any sort of responsibilities or duties or practice or missing choices—it is inexplicable why women are able to find the cheese and the milk, also known as the female astrophysics. And clearly, "female domains," such as supermarkets, are parallel universes that look like lots of intertwined fallopian tubes, and only women know their way around those, as we all know—why would any man even bother to board that rollercoaster?
This is a weakly ironic presentation of the message everybody inferred, the problem being that Ed didn't imply it. Not because he's privileged, but because he's just commenting on something that happens to him. To claim that the women in his life are better shoppers is not the same as approving, implicitly or unknowingly, of a history of subjugation. I expect if he'd turned it around and said men go into a manspace that deprives them of the navigational abilities upon entering a mall, not a word or comment would have been posted to the contrary, since it would have had the ironic suggestion that men are less than human instead of the ironic suggestion women are more than human, and that's always okay, despite it saying exactly the same thing once you take it to the level of debating social inequality. I also expect to receive angry emails from people telling me they would be just as upset about it, and they'll be deluding themselves, and some emails from people saying it is different, and they'll be wrong. It's only different because it doesn't push their buttons. Also sort of implies that if a woman is good at shopping, it's because she didn't have enough choices in her life. I'd be offended by that if I had a worldview that got offended by inferring nonexistent subtext.
Those women, they just aren't like us real members of the academic world, right? Good thing they take care of our needs so we menfolk can do the hard thinking, eh?
Also nonsense. There is no suggestion that his wife isn't a physicist. This is the writer's hangup, not some slight Ed gave. It reminds me of a recent science article that started with "Neutrinos may have moved faster than light" and ended with "This proves that humans can travel back in time and change the past." Makes you blink.
After reducing women to a stereotyped shopping monolith, cheekily analogizing women's behaviors as a parallel universe (can someone finally kill the astronomic analogies for men vs women, please? This book is almost 20 years old), and expressing fear over the empowerment of women, he now marginalizes women into superficiality, hazarding that given our newfound knowledge, we will exercise it to get rid of ugly men and select "better-looking" versions.
This is a particularly slanderous implication. "He now marginalizes women into superficiality" is an amazing example of having a preconceived notion of a mechanism and interpreting everything through it. In a college, people would call it over-thinking. Nowadays, I call it conspiracy-theory thinking, which I also call insane.
I took a class on black history my freshman year in college, in which I read a lot of good books on race and failed to do the class project and dropped out midway through the semester. Besides my copy of Why Black People Tend to Shout, the only thing I retain from this class is the memory of the teacher showing us an advertisement in pieces. At first, she just showed us the back half of the ad, of a well-muscled black arm gripping the torso of a white woman. It looked like bad news. Then she showed the rest of the ad, revealing a smiling black man teaching a smiling white woman how to play pool. There was a lot more going on in this ad than race relations, having to do with all the complexities of sex, aggression, and advertising. It was not just a jeans company promoting interracial rape. That limited interpretation came from her predisposition to look for it. My predispositions led me to infer that I should be teaching more girls how to play pool, and to think that the ad represented some progress in mainstream advertising, since being a black man and touching a white woman will still get you killed in some places.
You can reason your way to any interpretation, and people forget that they usually have an end in mind, then they forget that they are reifying their chain of inference into an inherent quality of the impetus for their thinking. It's all very complicated and subjective. The effect of the kind of mass attack being made on Ed is to make people think it's obvious and objective, thus setting the stage for future mass idiocies.
Also, in case you missed it, the book the writer is talking about is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and it's worth reading,12[12] though I recommend anything by Warren Farrell13[13] over it.
I fear for my female students' welfare as I send them off to university each September, and hope that their enthusiasm and optimism for their future isn't eroded away too quickly.
This is the righteous shield that excuses posting all this junk, and I find it particularly offensive. I don't deny there is systemic sexism in our culture, but one of the suggestions behind all this is that 90% of the world can't think for themselves and will be wounded by even illusionary suggestions of sexism. Thank God we're maintaining a culture of fear and blame to protect them.
As a woman scientist reading this article, it seems in every way designed to make me feel othered and excluded from the scientific academy.
"Seems in every way designed" is the key bit here. This just exemplifies all the other points. It was in no way designed to other and exclude; the commenter already feels excluded and built the weapon before the fight.
Enough. The writer of the you-can't-take-a-joke-schtick-is-tired schtick told both me and Ed that we should examine our male privilege before we can have a conversation with her. I'm not going to have this conversation with her because she sounds like a terrible date, but I am fully aware of my male privilege, as how else could I a) say it's wrong, and b) revel in it as blatantly as I do? I also revel in being tall, white, and middle-class. I do all of these things as publicly and ludicrously as possible. Because taking your privileges and treating them like the arbitrary luck they are does a lot more to undermine the notion that they're somehow earned or deserved than finding something new to be upset about. There are social consequences to the physical features we're born with, and that absurd fact alone is the enemy. The only two weapons against it are humor and law. What is not a weapon against it is attacking somebody who dares touch upon a dimly related subject in a droll personal essay. What that does is create a fight, and make the attackers look like touchy people unreasonably jumping down the throat of anybody who dares to suggest the whole issue isn't black and white or enemy and friend. This hurts the attackers. This hurts the cause of anybody who wants to move forward.
There are probably a hundred essays on the internet right now about how Ed's piece was not innocuous, but harmful. But it was innocuous. It was an offhand, not bad piece about how in Ed's life, men and women shop differently. The response to this essay has made it not innocuous, not because of anything Ed wrote, but because a bunch of people dealing with common issues decided to throw a witch hunting party to push their own fame and ego at the expense of someone who did nothing wrong.14[14] A few people who were already so upset about inequality they snap at any imagined slight started a crusade that swept the weak and bleating sheep into another assault on reason in the hopes that nobody will be able to get on with their lives without feeling angry or guilty.
I've never touched on shopping differences, but I'm the first to point out that men and women are different, as does every other relaxed, healthy, liberal and egalitarian man or woman in my life.15[15] We all make sexist and racist jokes at each other's expense because we have a culture of respect instead of a culture of fear and anger. And we talk openly and evenly about the effects of people assuming my Asian friends can do math, my black friends can play basketball, the women are supposed to be size zero and able to cook, and that I'm supposed to work myself to death for six figures to raise two kids and buy diamonds yet still be emotionally available and make time for family. It's an insane situation we approach with a sense of humor, as opposed to, say, creating insane situations because we have no sense of humor.
As all internet quarrels inevitably do, the whole thing has devolved into the impotent recycling of links and jabs. It will end as another useless war that made everybody dig a few extra trenches.
That which you fear enslaves your mind. So lighten up. And have some wine.
1 Many people told me I should watch this show, and that it gets really good later on, so I'm struggling through the second season now. I will say it's really good at putting me to sleep, and I'm getting the first half-hour of most of the episodes.
2 You can see this in Calvin and Hobbes, too. There are references to "last summer" and the year before, but never to a specific year, and Calvin has no birthdays.
3 After this and the Bieber incident, I may have to investigate aversion therapy. Clearly, I'm sick, and can't help myself.
4 My second mistake.
5 Whom I nominate for biggest douche in the universe.
6 Interestingly, many of my girlfriends have told me this is very female behavior. Clearly, I date a bunch of sexist bitches.
7 Except for George Burns.
8 Actually, I could have, but here we are.
9 Which would have been the title of this essay if not for the awkward number of s's.
10 Turning tricks ain't easy.
11 Although you can see for yourself in the links here.
12 Edit + sigh: It's not worth reading.
13 After some recent investigation, I can no longer recommend this, pending further investigation which I'm sure will be horrible.
14 I do this too, but I admit it and I don't pretend it's in the interest of a greater good. Except this time, I actually think I'm better than these people, and you should listen to me and not them. Because I'm a white male. And tall.
15 In fact, figuring this out is the first step toward having healthy relationships. Hormone levels shouldn't have the economic impact they do, but you damn well better recognize in an intimate situation.


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Rabbis, priests and pastors concur on homosexual unions and child sacrifice; Obama's extreme social record exposed
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Over 325,000 USA churches, synagogues get new publication, 'The Judeo-Christian View'
Vista, CA (Monday, October 13) – Over 325,000 rabbis, priests and pastors in every Jewish and Christian congregation in America have received the inaugural issue of The Judeo-Christian View by U.S. mail, according to the publisher of the new periodical. The launch edition deals with the volatile issues of religion, presidential politics, same-sex unions and "child sacrifice." Signed by dozens of clerics who concur that homosexuality and partial birth abortion – plus related policies of U.S. Senator Barack Obama – are at odds with the ancient Biblical faiths, the first edition also went online during Yom Kippur (www.thejudeo-christianview.com) and is heading to another 5 million U.S. clerics, theologians and religious laity via e-mail as part of an ambitious subscription strategy.
Signatories of the ecumenical epistle — rabbis, pastors and theologians themselves — urge congregational leaders to boldly pray, preach and teach "the Judeo-Christian view" on same-sex intercourse while conveying to their flocks where Senators Obama and John McCain stand on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal law that shields states from forced legal recognition of gay unions from other states, such as Massachusetts and California. The "multimedia journal of opinion"– including a graphic DVD "video sermon" for congregations which cites both Jewish and Christian Bible translations — reports that Obama favors full repeal of DOMA and supports same-sex unions, while McCain takes the opposite stand.
The clerical signers come from Jewish, Roman Catholic, evangelical and "mainline" Protestant denominations, including the United Methodist, Anglican, African Methodist Episcopal, Brethren, Baptist and Congregational traditions. Among them: Rabbi Herzel Kranz from The Jewish Center of Silver Spring, Maryland; Rev. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Father Frank Pavone, Roman Catholic head of Priests for Life; Rev. Rosemary Schindler, San Francisco Board of the Anti-Defamation League and member of the Oscar Schindler family (of Schindler's List); Dr. James M. Hutchens, Brigadier General and Deputy Chief of US Army Chaplains (Ret.); Rev. Ben Kinchlow, former co-host of The 700 Club; Dr. Bruce Fong, president, Michigan Theological Seminary; Dr. Kenneth L. Hutcherson, Antioch Bible Church, Kirkland, Washington; Dr. Erwin Lutzer, senior pastor of Moody Memorial Church, Chicago; and Rabbi Yehuda Levin of the Rabbinical Alliance of America of Torah Loyal Jews and The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada.
On the issue of "child sacrifice," The Judeo-Christian View springboards from Jewish Scriptures (eg., Leviticus 18:21, Jeremiah 32:35) into graphic verbal and video descriptions of partial birth abortion — a late-term procedure that involves piercing the skull and vacuuming the brain of the fetus, something McCain would ban, but Obama would allow. The rabbis and pastors contend that Obama's policy to liberalize the practice, "combined with his effort to kill a bill that would protect babies who survive abortions, tends to gut the USA's moral standing to condemn jihadic use of Muslim children as suicide bombers; both are horrific cases of child sacrifice that support a Culture of Death and demonstrate utter contempt for the Judeo-Christian Culture of Life."
"We don't advise political endorsements from pulpits, but we certainly do urge leaders to teach Jewish and Christian ethics while naming names of politicians who reject aspects of that foundation," said Dr. O'Neal Dozier, General Publisher of the journal and pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. "It is a simple matter of full disclosure and informed consent. Shepherds must lead their sheep." Dozier, an African American and former NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears and New York Jets, said the new publication is unrelated to the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal aid group that recently encouraged some pastors to make express political endorsements from their pulpits.
"We think our readers will appreciate the eloquence and courage of the interfaith signatories who say what so many others fear to say," said Dozier. "Our model is predicated on free, opt-in online subscriptions and eventual advertising support. We hope to hook both the shepherds and their flocks on bold content that emphasizes the common values of Jews and Christians in the USA and globally. Threats to religious liberty and civil freedom here and around the world make it essential that we 'People of the Book' work closely together." Dozier said the next issue will be The Judeo-Christian View on "The Free Exercise of Islamic Violence."
Although juxtaposing Scripture with the two senators' policies, the multiracial signers reject "any kind of hatred, mean-spiritedness or gay-bashing", "bigotry against peaceful Muslims", racism, or mistreatment of "young mothers pressured by boyfriends, parents or society to abort their pre-born infants." Urging "love the sinner, hate the sin", the signers encourage the same "attitude toward erring politicians as well." The publication also reports that the two senators differ on integrating open gays into U.S. military barracks, and urges prayer for ballot measures in California, Florida and Arizona designed to uphold traditional monogamy.
The publication's mission statement says it "is a multimedia journal of opinion for rabbis, priests pastors and religious lay leaders of Jewish, Christian or mixed heritage which seeks to research, report on and uphold the Abrahamic, Mosaic and Judeo-Christian foundations for Creator-endowed human rights, religious liberty, civil freedom and tolerance, respect for women, family structure, American exceptionalism and Western Civilization. We do not endorse, oppose, coordinate with or advocate on behalf of any politician or party; rather, we seek to uphold the Judeo-Christian View."


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Bush weak in the face of Gore attacks
By W. James Antle III
Al Gore's compulsive condescension, deceitfulness, rudeness, pedantry and general obnoxiousness concealed George W. Bush's depressingly listless performance in the first presidential debate of the season. On the merits, Gore won the debate but gained little if any traction in the polls due to his intense personal unpleasantness.
While Bush passed the "drool test," confirming that he is not the woefully unprepared Neanderthal his detractors make him out to be, he bested Gore only in a couple of exchanges and seemed to be struggling to keep up most of the rest of the time. Conventional explanations by Bush supporters attribute this to several reasons. First, Gore is a bully and Bush is a gentleman, which is why the vice-president trampled all over the rules and not only talked over his opponent but the moderator. Second, Gore does have superior verbal skills and a better mastery of statistical detail. Third, Gore has debated far more frequently than Bush and was thus more at ease.
All of these explanations contain more than a modicum of truth, yet none of them really captures the essence of why Bush did so poorly. Indeed, he fared as he did for the same reason many Republicans, including Bob Dole and his own father, do not always come across well in debates. And why some Republicans fare even worse at governance.
Bush accepted most of Gore's premises and attempted to engage him on those grounds, which is a prescription for losing. Republicans have the supremely self-defeating tendency of criticizing liberal proposals and advancing conservative programs while accepting rather than challenging liberal premises. The end result is simply political incoherence.
Consider for example the lengthy exchange about prescription drugs for seniors. Nowhere did Bush question Gore's premise that, in the words of National Review's Jonah Goldberg, "the next president of the United States will be the one who can unload free prescription drugs for old folks the fastest." He did not challenge Gore's notion that all seniors cannot afford prescription drugs and should be entitled to federal benefits regardless of their own income and ability to pay. He did not challenge the idea that it is appropriate to regressively tax the young woman who works two waitressing jobs while attending college part-time to provide medicines for well-to-do seniors who own their own homes and have retired to Florida. Least surprisingly, he did not ask where in the Constitution Gore even found authorization to tax the American people for prescription drug coverage.
The end result was that Bush was forced to argue that his plan was just as generous as Gore's, with passing references to his preference for competition-driven solutions to drug costs as opposed to Gore's more bureaucratic approach. The most obvious argument for the governor's plan, which he of course did not make, is that he would increase prescription drug coverage for seniors (especially poor seniors) beyond its current levels, but in a more fiscally responsible manner than the vice-president, making promises that could conceivably be kept.
When it comes down to who will spend the most money on the most generous entitlement program, Bush cannot win. His plan will not spend the most money, or offer the most complete cradle-to-grave coverage or entail the greatest expansion of the government's role in health care provision. Even if it did, he would forfeit his right to win in any principled sense and probably still would not be afforded the appropriate credit, because Gore is the Democrat in this race. Everyone trusts the Democrats to spend more on these sorts of social programs.
Bush didn't really challenge Gore on abortion either. He muttered about how he hoped that RU-486 would be safe for the women who used it, quietly said he disagreed with the FDA's ruling and then promised earnestly not to do anything about it if elected. He gave his typical vague assurances about the day when everyone is "protected by law and welcomed in to life," without specifying how he as president might hasten that day's arrival.
He allowed the entire discussion to sound like abortion was something remotely unpleasant he disapproved of, like chewing tobacco, without ever explaining why. This enabled Gore to center the debate on the "woman's right to choose" (without ever providing any detail as to what is being chosen, or even mentioning the word "abortion"). Gore even was able to sound somewhat libertarian, by stressing the right of women to control their destinies free of government control.
Bush could have asked Gore what new developments had caused him to change his view (written in a 1987 constituent letter) that abortion was "arguably the taking of a human life." He could have asked what about abortion makes Bill Clinton claim it should be "rare" and Hillary Clinton say (as she did in a 1994 Newsweek interview) that it was "wrong." Bush should have at the very least emphasized that the "health exception" Gore insists should be included in a partial-birth abortion ban would, under the terms of Doe vs. Bolton, include criteria so amorphous as to render the entire legislation meaningless. Most Americans on some level see abortion as violently taking the life of a baby a truly pro-life candidate would do well to expose the scientific evidence for that view as well as to stress abortion alternatives that make legal protection for the unborn appear more realistic and less callous to women.
From this discussion came an equally depressing exchange about the Constitution and the rule of law. Bush did not challenge Gore's claim that the Constitution is a document that "grows" and therefore adapts to changing circumstances. A Constitution that changes to suit the whims of the political class and the prejudices of a numerical majority defeats the entire purpose of the rule of law. The written law duly made by elected legislators in our constitutional republic binds judges; judges are not free to read new meaning into the Constitution to make new laws as they see fit.
Perhaps because Bush is no more interested in constitutional principles than Gore, and just as reliant on a "living document" to give constitutional legitimacy to his spending proposals. The majority of Gore's proposed agenda is not just bad policy and sheer folly, but clearly unconstitutional. Bush is only marginally better, which is why he was unable to point out that while Gore pretends to revere the Framers, he has no intention of governing within the system of federalism, separated powers and limited government they devised. Bush couldn't even muster the following defense of his professed preference for judges who will be strict constructionists: While Gore attacks Antonin Scalia for being a "code word" for overturning Roe v. Wade, he voted to confirm him in 1986.
Nowhere was Bush more depressing than in his unconvincing defenses of his tax cuts, which Gore has been attacking throughout the entire campaign just as the Clinton-Gore administration has attacked every serious tax-cut proposal of the past eight years. Gore's assertion that 40 percent of Bush's tax cut would go to the top 1 percent is indeed "fuzzy math" but it also fails to recognize that this same percentile pays 33 percent of federal income taxes.
Bush's tax plan would actually increase the share of the income tax burden shouldered by the top 20 percent of income-earners from roughly 61 percent to more than 64 percent. The top 50 percent of income earners already pay 96 percent of income taxes, with the bottom 50 percent supplying just 4 percent of the revenues.
Moreover, the biggest tax cuts actually go to middle-class Americans. A family of four earning $35,000 would receive a 100 percent reduction of their income tax burden. The bottom marginal income tax rate would drop from 15 percent to 10 percent. The penalty couples pay for simply being married would be substantially alleviated.
Bush's plan is superior to Gore's plan for several reasons. First, Gore would exclude 50 million Americans, more than 40 percent of the entire tax-paying population. His plan is so complex that many of those would qualify would be unlikely to realize this and never reap any benefit (a point that the substantially more able Dick Cheney mentioned while cleaning Joe Lieberman's clock in the vice-presidential debate). Finally, Gore's targeted tax credits provide absolutely no incentive enhancement. Indeed, his means tests would penalize taxpayers who increase their incomes. Bush's focus on lower marginal rates increases incentives to work, save and invest.
Lowering the top personal rate from 40 percent to 33 percent would cause taxpayers in this bracket to take home $0.67 on every additional dollar earned rather than the current $0.60. This is an incentive reward of 12 percent. Similar incentive enhancements across the board could cause gross domestic product to double in 16 years, raising productivity and producing $350 billion in additional revenues.
Boosting productivity and growth will keep the prosperity going that turned our deficits into record surpluses, provide the additional worker productivity needed to finance Social Security and ease the transition to private savings accounts Bush envisions. The percentages of income earners Gore relentlessly talks about are not the same people locked into the same economic status for their entire lives, but constantly changing people, and often the same people at different stages of life.
Gore really seems to believe that raising taxes created our current prosperity (Bush should have hit him between the eyes when the vice-president bragged about his tie-breaking 1993 vote). Only after welfare reform, free trade, discretionary spending cuts and the capital-gains tax cut offset the 1993 Clinton-Gore tax hike did the economy resume its growth potential, putting white-out on billions of dollars in red ink. Gore's statist mentality is betrayed by his reference to tax cuts which allow people to keep the money they duly earned as "spending," another one of the countless statements Bush foolishly didn't challenge.
Too many Republicans pay lip service to conservative ideas without sincerely believing in them or even understanding them. If Bush wants to win this race, he must prove he is not one of these Republicans. Failure to do so will not only make him unworthy of victory, but also make it impossible for him to withstand Gore's distortions so that he may actually achieve it.
W. James Antle III is a former researcher for the Rhema Group, an Ohio-based political consulting firm. You can e-mail comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A Moon for the Misbegotten at ACT Theatre
Also see David's review of Lend Me a Tenor
Having just seen the impressive but lengthy and downbeat Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, I wasn't so sure I was ready for another dose of the great playwright's particular brand of melancholy autobiography. But A Moon For The Misbegotten is O'Neill in a more wistful, playful and unabashedly romantic mood, and ACT Theatre's admirable production has much to recommend it.
Moon follows up on the story of James (Jim) Tyrone, the alcoholic son from Long Day's, several years after the conclusion of that play. His tyrannical father, James, Sr. and his morphine-addicted mother Mary are both deceased, and James is awaiting the financial settlement of her estate. Perhaps what makes Moon a less gloomy affair is that it is much more about the Hogan family, particularly the nearly Amazonian Josie and her father Phil, who are tenants on a piece of Tyrone owned property in Connecticut. Phil is a rascally old reprobate whose drinking and ill-tempered tirades have driven his sons away, leaving Josie to run the dilapidated farm. Though Josie has perpetuated rumors of being a loose woman, she is a middle-aged virgin with a great longing and tenderness for Jim. Jim cares for Josie as well, far beyond the level of the Broadway trollops he has sex with during his frequent, drunken jaunts in New York. Through Phil's machinations, Josie and Jim share an evening of moonlit magic that gives the too lost souls a measure of comfort and happiness in their otherwise bleak lives.
Director Kurt Beattie does some of his finest recent work on this production, capitalizing on its humors and savoring its romantic soul, at a pace that feels neither rushed nor languid. Best of all, he has a leading lady who takes the role of Josie, most famously essayed by the great Colleen Dewhurst, and embraces it for all it's worth. Jeanne Paulsen gives a salty, vibrant, deeply felt performance as Josie and has been convincingly done up to approximately the physical girth of her mountainous character. John Procaccino as Jim is not as successful as Paulsen in making O'Neill's language his own, but he and Paulsen have good chemistry and Procaccino negotiates Jim's big act two monologue fairly well. Seán G. Griffin is absolutely right as the rough and tumble Phil, and he and Paulsen, so at ease with each other onstage, make a wholly convincing father and daughter team. Scoring in what amount to cameo roles are Galen Joseph Osier as the Hogan's obnoxious wealthy neighbor T. Steadman Harper and David Gehrman as Mike Hogan, Josie's brother who bolts from the farm early on.
Shelley Henze Schermer's farmhouse set is impressively distressed looking, though a more suitable Tobacco Road perhaps than Moon. Geoff Korf's lighting design is especially skillful in the evening scenes and the subtle coming of morning, and Deb Trout's costumes never strike a false note.
Even if O'Neill isn't to your taste, Paulsen and Griffin's performances make this Moon shine brightly enough to warrant your time and attention.
A Moon for the Misbegotten runs through September 28, 2003 at ACT Theatre, 700 Union Street, in downtown Seattle. For further information visit ACT on-line at www.acttheatre.org.- David-Edward Hughes