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Sharon's defeat of the Palestinians was sealed
in Washington: Not only did he tear up Oslo;
he tore up U.S. Middle East policy and
got the administration to thank him for it
1. Arafat Gone, His Rival Patriarch Leaves the Scene
"History is made by stomach complaints," my friend and colleague Jamil Hamad told me by phone from his home in Bethlehem, on the West Bank about 18 months ago. Having covered the shifting tides of Middle Eastern politics for the best part of a century, Jamil — sitting in his home in a town under siege — had long since eschewed any faith in what is still euphemistically referred to as "the peace process" to deliver his own people, and the Israelis, to a better place. But in all his years covering the region's conflicts and potentates he had divined the reality that the bodily functions of those potentates was often more decisive factor in shaping outcomes than the narratives they proclaimed. Within six months, Yasser Arafat was dead, and over the year that followed the movement he created would collapse quickly in the wake of his passing (a process, admittedly, that had begun even in his final years). Eighteen months after that phone call, Jamil's words seemed almost prophetic, as Ariel Sharon has been removed from the region's political equation by an event in his own body.
There are some remarkable parallels in the political impact of the death of Yasser Arafat and the demise of Ariel Sharon. In both cases, nature has removed from the scene men who had succeeded in making their own personages the organizing principle of their people's national consensus (albeit a substantially more recent achievement on Sharon's part). Although Israel is a well-established democracy profoundly different from the authoritarian personality cult that Arafat built at pinnacle of the Palestinian national movement, Sharon had nonetheless accomplished a remarkable re-engineering of Israeli politics over the past five years to the point that a new party formed in his image and with no policy or position other than a commitment to follow the direction charted by Sharon over the past year (a destination with no publicly expressed endpoint or even next step) looked likely to romp home in the March 28 election with double the share of the vote of either of the two traditional parties of power, Labor and Likud.
Like Arafat, Sharon had achieved this feat through his unique ability (through a complex combination of his popularity, powers of persuasion, ability to manage the most powerful external force and the powers of patronage that derive from incumbency) to forge a working political consensus among fractious fiefs and factions. And this while never making clear where he was taking them. A
perceptive farewell by Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz, a partisan of the Israeli right explains the secrets of Sharon's success in terms that would apply in many respects to Arafat:
"Sharon was on the brink of making history here and winning three successive elections not by following a consistent political path. Anything but. He was striding to victory because, unlike any of his rivals, ordinary men and women with ordinary frailties and flaws, he had persuaded Israelis that he was of a different league, a political superman, immune to the limitations of other mortals. He was by no means universally admired, but he had a vast middle ground of confused Israelis wanting to believe that he knew what he was doing – that he, and only he, could steer the country to security and tranquility.
"He achieved this following despite never fully detailing the course he was pursuing; indeed, that very vagueness was one of the secrets of his popularity. Trust me, the implicit message ran. Keep me in power, and everything will be all right.
"And the Israeli public was ready to do so – notwithstanding that history of zigzagging, and more. By rights, he should have alienated just about every voter by now – the left by invading Lebanon, the right by leaving Gaza, the environmentalists by throwing the bulldozers at every housing problem, not to mention most everyone who expects standards of integrity from their leaders by allegedly playing fast and loose with campaign finance laws and embroiling himself in a series of unsavory financial and influence-trading escapades.
"Despite all that, more Israelis were backing him than any of his rivals – a reflection not only of the power and resonance of Sharon's personality, but of the perceived paucity of the alternatives.
"Had he specified exactly what policies he intended to follow, come cleaner with the electorate, he would have been doing our democracy a service and he would, of course, have left far less of a vacuum now. He would also have dented that extraordinary perception, so widely felt, of his own indispensability."
In his absence, lesser Israeli political leaders — like their post-Arafat Palestinian counterparts — fret over the absence of an heir with the departed patriarch's unique standing. Indeed, the Israelis may well follow the Palestinians into their own version of a period of protracted political paralysis, as the least in the matter of how to manage their primary national conflict.
2. Sharon Won, Arafat Lost
But let's not get distracted by ironic symmetries: There are many important differences between Arafat and Sharon, most importantly, the fact that Sharon appears to have beaten Arafat and the PLO by a knockout. To see the extent of his victory, one need only look at the widespread discussion in U.S. media over what his demise will mean for the peace process. A peace agreement was never Sharon's goal. He believed no such thing was possible, nor did he relinquish his guiding ideological belief that the fulfillment of the Zionist enterprise required the elimination of the Palestinian national movement.
(This in contrast to Israel's ideological drift during the Oslo years, when even Zionists of the center-left began to recognize that the Jewish State had been created on the basis of an epic injustice for the Palestinian people, the acknowledgment and redress of which, in some form, was the key to coexistence: Barak had famously conceded in an interview in 1999, that had he been born Palestinian, he too would have taken up arms against Israel. You could bet that the same would be true for Sharon, which may be why he saw so clearly the need to smash the Palestinian national movement, even the Palestinian national idea.)
For many of us, Sharon will always be, first and foremost, the man who hoodwinked his own government in launching a fullblown invasion of Lebanon, then watched through binoculars as the Lebanese falangist thugs unleashed on the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp butchered hundreds of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children — a massacre for which an official Israeli inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." Nor was that episode necessarily an aberration for the most accomplished student of the Vladimir Jabotinsky, the fascist Zionist (literally — the guy saw Mussolini's blackshirts as a model national movement) thinker of the 1920s still venerated as the founding father of Likud: Jabotinsky believed that the Arab residents of Palestine and its surrounds would never accept the expropriation of Palestine as a separate Jewish state. The only way to fulfill the Zionist dream, therefore was to build it behind an "iron wall," bludgeoning the Arabs into submission and acceptance. Sharon's life's work as a soldier and statesman was premised on the notion that a Jewish state could only be secured by a crushing defeat of the Arabs.
Likud hot-heads criticized his Gaza pullout as a betrayal of Jabotinsky, but the old man knew better. His pursued Jabotinsky's goals by the "art of the possible," seeking the to defeat Palestinian nationalism on the battlefield of the military, political and diplomatic battlefield as he found it. He even gave both metaphorical and physical meaning to Jabotinsky's "iron wall" concept in the way that Lenin did for Marx's "dictatorship of the proletariat."
The difference between Sharon and the Likud rejectionists is that the prime minister had a military man's disciplined approach to politics, avoiding emotionally satisfying mistakes in order to keep his eyes focused on the mission. Typical was his refraining from killing Yasser Arafat when he had him surrounded in Ramallah and his own cabinet was demanding the Palestinian leader's head. Sharon would have enjoyed nothing more than blowing Arafat away, but he knew there was too much to lose by taking that step — and a lot more to gain by letting Arafat's own body do the job.
Sharon must have been laughing when the cynical George W. Bush and the craven Tony Blair dubbed him a "man of peace." That was not why the Israelis elected him, nor did he make any secret of his disdain for the very idea of a peace process: The April 2001 interview he gave to Haaretz's Ari Shavit, a veritable manifesto for his tenure at the top, made clear that Sharon saw no prospect of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the current generation. As far as he was concerned, he was still fighting the 1948 war of independence.
Sharon's Al Aksa walkabout in the wake
of Camp David should be read against
his conception that the 1948 war never ended
Sharon traded not in treaties and promises, but in "facts on the ground." Rather than engage Israel in a discussion over whether to annex the West Bank, he simply went ahead and built settlements there to make that annexation a reality in large parts of the territory. Rather than seek Prime Minister Begin's permission to march on Beirut, he told the cabinet that he was sending his troops as far as the Litani River to create a buffer zone deep in Lebanon's south — and then marched on Beirut, anyway.
3. PLO in Tatters
When he came to power, the Palestinian Authority controlled 42 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. That, too, was an intractable reality, and Sharon recognized it as such. He made clear he might consider recognizing some form of Palestinian autonomy in the 42 percent of the occupied territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority, or perhaps a little more. That would even suit his objectives, since it was not Israel's control over Palestinian land, but Israel's control over Palestinian populations, that had become politically and diplomatically untenable. But he had no intention of completing Oslo, he declared that he had come to bury it.
And in that endeavor he has enjoyed spectacular success. Today there is no peace process; Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza had nothing to do with a peace process — it was, quite explicitly, an attempt to avoid a peace process and resolve the issue of the occupation (the untenable colonial rule over the Palestinians) on Israel's own terms. The world, even the Palestinians, may have been waiting to see whether Sharon planned to follow that up with withdrawals from the West Bank in line with his own "42 percent" map, as described by his iron wall. Only Sharon knew. But there was never any question of his sitting down to negotiate a final-status agreement with the Palestinian national leadership. And his victory has two dimensions: One is visible in Ramallah; the other in Washington.
The Palestinian national movement today is in tatters. Mahmoud Abbas has to decide whether or not to go ahead with elections which, whether they are held or postponed (once again) will confirm the eclipse of his own leadership, and that of the Fatah "Old Guard" nurtured in exile by Arafat, the generation who authored Oslo from the Palestinian side but whose own corrupt and authoritarian grip on power has seen them thoroughly discredited in Palestinian eyes. The only question now is what the balance of power among Abbas's inheritors will be, between the younger Fatah militants, led by the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti, and the Islamists of Hamas who have profited most from the desire of ordinary Palestinians to punish the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. My money is on Hamas winning a plurality of seats in the next Palestinian legislature, an outcome that would have perfectly suited Sharon's diplomatic needs by removing any expectation that he go to the negotiating table with the Palestinians.
Sharon and his flock:
Condi visits Sycamore Ranch
4. Twisted Around His Little Finger
Brent Scowcroft famously upbraided his former protege Condi Rice when she enthused that Sharon's Gaza plan was an important step towards peace, warning her that he was doing that in order to avoid doing much else, and declaring that the Israeli prime minister had President Bush "wrapped around his little finger".
Indeed, it was arguably in Washington that Sharon won his greatest victory, helped by the ascendancy in the Bush administration of an alliance between the Likudnik neocons, the apocalyptic rightwing Christians of the GOP base, and the hardline foreign policy hawks of the Cheney-Rumsfeld stripe who had always deemed Oslo a mistake. And if that wasn't enough to tip the balance in Sharon's favor, the wave of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel's cities came to define the conflict, in Western eyes, by images of terrorism rather than images of occupation. Sharon jumped on the opportunity to reverse decades of U.S. foreign policy that had sought to achieve a balance between Israeli and Arab interests, and had prioritized resolving a conflict that had come to define Arab relations with the West.
Sharon got Washington to agree that there was no Palestinian partner and embrace his demonization of Arafat (based largely on the mythology aggressively promoted by Israel's partisans over what had transpired at and after Camp David, notwithstanding the fact that Sharon had rejected the deal offered by Barak far more vehemently than Arafat ever had). He got the administration to sign onto Israel's insistence that it had no obligations to the Palestinians before the PA had dismantled Palestinian radical groups that Sharon knew could never be summarily dissolved without setting off a Palestinian civil war. He didn't stop there, he even got President Bush to reverse decades of policy that had proclaimed Israel's settlement of the territories conquered in 1967 as illegal — as part of his "reward" for his unilateral Gaza withdrawal, Sharon was given a letter declaring U.S. recognition of Israel's right to keep its major West Bank colonies. (The administration lamely tried to cover itself by saying such recognition had been implicit in the deals being negotiated at the end of the Oslo process, which is correct — but those were premised not only on Palestinian consent, but also on a quid-pro-quo transfer of land from within Israel's 1967 borders.
And he got the Bush administration to accept the principle that Israel henceforth negotiates changes in the status quo not with the Palestinians, but with the Americans. His diplomatic achievement can not be underestimated. It is, of course, a disaster for the Palestinians. And because it does nothing to resolve the basic lines of conflict with the Palestinians, it ultimately condemns another generation of Israelis to continue fighting Sharon's 1948 war.
But it would be a mistake to buy into Sharon's own mythology about his invincibility and ability to sweep all before him. Sharon's achievement is all the more astonishing because of its improbability. The very idea that Sharon could ever be prime minister of Israel would have seemed laughable before the winter of 2000/1.
He only became prime minister because of the disastrous political errors of others. He'd been left for dead politically by the fallout of the Lebanon invasion, and was widely loathed and mistrusted on both sides of the Israeli mainstream. By the late 90s, his inclusion in Likud governments was generally a sop to the radical settlers whose interests he had long championed. After the hapless Benjamin Netanyahu managed to lose to Ehud Barak, Sharon was installed as leader of Likud precisely because there was no election looming. The party believed, like everyone else, that Sharon was unelectable, but it had no stomach for a bruising competitive leadership battle in the wake of Bibi's loss, so Sharon was chosen as a caretaker — the cricket equivalent would be sending in a lower-order batsman as a nightwatchman when your side loses one of its opening batsmen shortly before the close of play.
But then came Camp David (a process for whose collapse Barak and Clinton are certainly as responsible as Arafat, but that's another story), Sharon's provocative walkabout in the grounds of the al-Aksa mosque, and the onset of the Second Intifadah and the collapse of Barak's government. Suddenly, the "unelectable" Sharon became the choice of an Israeli electorate looking for a bully to teach the Palestinians a lesson. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Sharon's stewardship came about as a result of the errors of others — Bibi, Barak, Clinton, Arafat and other Palestinian leaders who seemed to forget the basic lesson of insurgency, that you confront your enemy where he is weakest, not strongest (a military confrontation was always going to be won by Israel, and not only that — it effectively neutralized the Palestinians' advantages in the realm of politics and diplomacy). And his success in rolling back Oslo has been similarly premised on the mistakes and cynicism of others.
But his victories, as profound as they may appear right now, may nontheless prove to be tactical rather than strategic. In the place of Arafat's PLO there will arise a new Palestinian political consensus, established at the ballot box and both more reflective of Palestinian opinion and more accountable to it than the Arafat generation had been — and probably, as a result, less palatable to U.S. preferences. Hamas will play a substantial role in that new Palestinian political order, to be sure, but as much as that fact will remind Israel and the West that Palestinian sensibilities cannot be ignored, it will also acquaint Hamas with the fact that Israel's existence is an intractable reality. And an Israeli society that remains locked into a state of protracted conflict with the Palestinians will accelerate the internal collapse of Zionism. Indeed, Sharon may have convinced the Bush administration, but he has failed to persuade the majority of the world's Jews to sign on to his vision of their future.
So, Sharon may have won the day, and that's bad news for all who believe in justice for the Palestinians — and those for whom the term 'Jewish' is an ethical calling more than a tribal rallying cry. But he has not ended the conflict on his terms. And whether his inheritors manage to complete his work may depend on the ability of all those who seek a just solution understanding how Sharon's victories were achieved.
The great hope of those on the Israeli left who supported Sharon's Gaza pullout was that although Sharon had no intention of pursuing a credible two-state solution with the Palestinians, he might nonetheless set in motion a train of events over which he'd lose control. At the time that sounded like nothing more than wishful thinking. Ironically, his departure from the political scene makes it a more plausible belief. But given the current state of politics on both sides of the divide makes any expectation of movement back towards a peace process in the near term seem giddily optimistic.


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iDoc is an open source documentation system for community use; to provide help pages and other documentation.
iDoc is more than just a plain old vanilla documentation system where users are presented with help pages written by experts. We believe is important for the users of an application to be able to contribute to documentation and help others to learn to use an application. iDoc enables this in two ways:
- Firstly, users can comment on help pages and elicit further information or suggest improvements.
- Secondly, users can themselves create and edit help pages.
The latter ability is parameterisable, for more conservatively-set-up help systems iDoc's default behaviour can be changed to limit the generation of pages to 'experts only'.
iDoc is particularly media friendly in that it allows the addition of videos and images to help pages and to comments, and there is a variant iDoc that allows for embedded SPARQL queries to appear in the pages in various ways (link to be added here to the fishDelish iDoc). The latter will be important in educational activities around SPARQL.
Why another documentation system?
There were several motivations that inspired this project.
The foremost reason was that we wanted an easy-to-use documentation system for the Manchester PLE, where our desire was to host very short videos to help newcomers use the system. This isn't to imply that the PLE is hard to use, but rather that some potential users will, eg, have no idea what a blog is, nor any idea of how to use a blog. Equally, we don't see ourselves producing all the documentation, rather we expect some documentation to be produced and improved by our communities of users.
Most documentation systems we investigated involved the use of some specialised markup to produce content from some other source. This isn't desirable for a system geared towards non-techie users of an application, and even if the suers were technically skilled, we imagine that they are unlikely to want to learn yet another syntax for creating content. It's for this reason that iDoc provides a WYSIWYG editor to create pages and add comments. Users can even use the same editor to embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo in both help text and comments.
The second reason for iDoc's creation was to test a new development approach for use within Hedtek. This approach is an agile user story-driven approach as part of a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) method. There are various advantages to BDD, but pretty much its a scenario-based design technique, which leverages the automated system development testing espoused by Test Driven Design (TDD) and, with practice, enables accurate estimations of the development resource needed to implement the system under consideration. Also importantly, BDD uses iterations in the development, in a similar way that SCRUM uses sprints to deliver working systems at the end of each sprint. We wanted a smaller (but non-trivial and useful) project to get up to speed and make sure we were comfortable in the process before using the process in larger projects. We are glad to say that BDD worked tremendously well for us and is now our default approach for all new projects we undertake.
Finally, there was the desire to have a non-trivial project developed in a carefully engineered way as an example in a new Software Engineering course we are developing for and delivering in the Advanced Master's programme in the University of Manchester's School of Computer Science. (Update early 2011: unfortunately we had for various reasons to adopt a TDD in Java approach for this course, rather than a superior BDD in Ruby on Rails approach. This somewhat retrograde position is currently being reviewed.)
The current iDoc status
After two of four iterations, iDoc has reached the stage where it provides useful documentation facilities. It provides a clean URL syntax for pages, a WYSIWYG editor for content and comments, and drag-and-drop facilities for positioning pages in a documentation tree. Users can sign up, develop and publish page content, and comment on pages. There are some administration features that can, if so desired, limit who can create and edit help page body content, and there is the ability to select community moderators who can remove unsanitary comments. There is also search functionality help find relevant parts of the documentation; search facilities are capable of case-insensitive searches, wildcards, boolean queries and other niceties of advanced full-text search.
iDoc has been developed with the latest stable Ruby on Rails stack (version 2.3.5). It requires backing by a database, and was developed using a PostgreSQL database. However, iDoc is currently relational-database agnostic. The site uses Haml to provide HTML templates, and Compass to provide semantic CSS. Development made use of several Ruby and Rails development tools, including RSpec, Cucumber and Webrat. For dependency resolution, iDoc was recently migrated to make use of Bundler, a new Ruby system for specifying and installing libraries using the RubyGem package manager. It should be easy to install iDoc onto a system with Ruby and Xapian installed, and deployment can be automated with Capistrano. Current installations of iDoc are served up with Apache and Passenger, although again there shouldn't be any problems with other Rails server technologies, such as Mongrel, Thin, Unicorn or even a plain old FastCGI server.
For Xapian integration, a new Ruby gem, Xapor, was developed to allow for the specification of Xapian indexes very easily through ActiveRecord. The interface is inspired very much by other popular search plugins, such as ThinkingSphinx. Xapor is currently at version 0.1.2, with the features required for iDoc currently implemented. It is intended to continue development of this gem to provide a much more sophisticated search integration with Xapian. Xapor currently also relies on the gem XapianFu, which provides an easier interface for Xapian than the plain Ruby bindings but isn't particularly sophisticated for ActiveRecord integration. We open-sourced Xapor on Github and the gem is available on Rubygems.
Future development
There are several more features that we want to integrate into future versions of iDoc. Some of these include:
- Notifications. It would be highly desirable to have notifications available to users. These would include things such as page additions, deletions, updates and new comments. Currently, it is planned that these would be served as an RSS feed, although other notification systems could also be added (e.g. twitter and/or email)
- Published APIs. iDoc isn't intended as a standalone system, and although it is easy currently to just embed help links or navigate the documentation by hand, it would be much nicer if some degree of automation could be performed.
- An improved user login experience. Login currently relies on registration, but could be extended to include the use of other signup systems, such as Facebook Connect, Twitter OAuth and OpenID, to allow users to re-use their existing accounts on these servers rather than creating a new account.
- Automatic generation of content sections. This is an important improvement, and would improve the navigation of documentation pages. The general principle would be to automatically provide in-page tables of contents at the top of documentation pages, and provide the ability to edit subsections rather than the entire page as a block. [Stop press: Now partially implemented and soon to be rolled out]
- Interface customisation. While this is certainly possible currently, it requires a customiser to hand edit CSS in order to do so. It would be much nicer if there was a web-interface method to customise at least some of the interface elements for an installation, and possibly even on a per-user level at some point in the future.
As iDoc is open source, we hope that others will extend the system in useful ways.

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The previous two goalies of the week in the East Coast Hockey League play for the Augusta Lynx. The next one might be the man in net Tuesday night for the Roanoke Express.
The Lynx and their franchise-high winning streak ran into a buzzsaw, as veteran Daniel Berthiaume recorded 31 saves to lift the Express to a 4-2 victory before a crowd of 3,017 fans at Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center.
Despite dominating the contest early and outshooting the Express 8-0 in the opening 7:30, the Lynx had their seven-game winning streak stonewalled by the 35-year-old Roanoke netminder.
"We worked hard, they worked hard, it was a great hockey game, and we just came out on top," said Berthiaume, who posted a 2-0 shutout win against the Lynx in his only other start in Augusta - Jan. 8, 1999. "Some buildings I play well in. Some buildings I suck in. I've done OK in this building. I'm on a roll right now, so tonight I just tried to keep it going."
The Lynx did all they could to keep their streak rolling and they didn't go quietly, rallying with third-period goals by Sandy Lamarre and Paul Vincent to cut the deficit in half. But Berthiaume - the 15-year pro who played 215 games in the NHL - shut the door over the final 13:57. He made a huge save on Lamarre at the left post with 1:05 left in the contest to thwart one last Lynx push.
The loss drops Augusta back to the .500 mark at 24-24-5 with a crucial road swing looming. The Lynx play back-to-back games against Florida Friday and Saturday and take on Tallahassee on Sunday.
"I thought we were past that stage where he have letdowns like that," Lynx coach Jim Burton said. "Until we get the right mix to be able to compete every night, I'm not going to be happy. That was an important game for us tonight with three tough games on the road coming up."
With reigning ECHL goalie of the week Judd Lambert on the bench, last week's top netminder Erasmo Saltarelli probably wished he was the one enjoying a night off. Roanoke jumped to a 4-0 lead at 17:00 of the second on goals by Adam Dewan, all-star defenseman Calvin Elfring, Mike Peron and Jeff Sproat.
The first two - Dewan's at 16:51 of the first and Elfring's at 5:47 of the second - came on Roanoke's first two power-play chances against Augusta's woeful penalty kill.
And for Berthiaume, a cushion that big is like money in the bank - the Express are 24-1-3 when leading after two periods this season.
The 35-year-old veteran, who entered the game third in the ECHL with a 2.21 goals-against average, lowered that mark Monday night in a 2-1 victory over Northeast Division rival Richmond and again on Tuesday.
The victory for Roanoke (29-23-4) ended a six-game road winless skid and kicked off a critical seven-game road trip for Roanoke (29-23-4), which now has won four in a row and eight of its past 11.
Lambert took home co-goalie of the week honors Tuesday after going 2-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average and .974 save percentage, including a 1-0 shutout win over Greensboro Feb. 16. He shares the award with Greenville's Tyrone Garner. Saltarelli took goalie of the week honors for the week of Feb. 5-11. ... Defenseman Likit Andersson did not return after the first intermission because of a stomach virus.
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Ron Glover's NFL Predictions: Week 7 (10/23/11 – 10/24/11)
There are some new faces going under center this week as injuries and decisions have caused some teams to make changes. The Colts and Dolphins are still in pursuit of victory number one this season. LaDanlian Tomlinson faces his ex-Charger teammates for the first time as they travel to the Meadowlands to face the Jets. There are also a couple of recent Super Bowl rematches as Larry Fitzgerald looks to get a win against the Steelers and the Colts travel to N'Awlins to meet the Saints.
Byes this week: Bengals, Bills, Eagles, Giants, Niners and Patriots.
Sunday October 23, 2011
Games with a 1pm start:
Denver Broncos (1-4) at Miami Dolphins (0-5) – Tim Tebow could've been a Miami Dolphin, you won't be able to tell the difference today. A loss today could have Tony Sparano swimmin' with the fishes.
Broncos 23 – Dolphins 13
San Diego Chargers (4-1) at NY Jets (3-3) – The Jets are looking to finally get some steam behind them, while the Chargers look to prove that they can beat a team with a winning record.
Chargers 27 – Jets 21
Houston Texans (3-3) at Tennessee Titans (3-2) – No one thought that this game would mean anything as the Titans were looking to be in transition. The Texans need this win after tough back to back losses.
Texans 24 – Titans 16
Atlanta Falcons (3-3) at Detroit Lions (5-1) – Now we'll see how well the Lions respond to a tough loss.
Falcons 24 – Lions 23
Washington Redskins (3-2) at Carolina Panthers (1-5) – John Beck is at the helm today and will probably be there for the duration. The Panthers should mix it up today against a young, speedy Redskins defense.
Panthers 28 – Redskins 13
Chicago Bears (3-3) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-2) – The Bucs dug down deep last week to pull one out against the Saints. There's no time to slack as the Saints, Texans, Packers and Titans follow the Bears this week.
Bucs 31 – Bears 21
Seattle Seahawks (2-3) at Cleveland Browns (2-3) – Charlie Whitehurst gets the start for the injured Tavaris Jackson as the Seahawks try to stay in the Niners rear-view.
Seahawks 22 – Browns 20
Games beginning at 4:05 or later:
Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2) at Arizona Cardinals (1-4) – The Steelers are gaining momentum, best thing is that the turnovers are down. Did Larry Fitzgerald really sign a deal to stay in Arizona?
Steelers 30 – Cardinals 26
Kansas City Chiefs (2-3) at Oakland Raiders (4-2) – Al Davis may be gone, but the hatred for he Chiefs isn't.
Raiders 30 – Chiefs 13
Green Bay Packers (6-0) at Minnesota Vikings (1-5) – If this gets butt-ugly early (which it potentially could) can/does Leslie Frazier go to the bench?
Packers 33 – Vikings 13
St. Louis Rams (0-5) at Dallas Cowboys (2-3) – I hope the Cowboys aren't taking this one lightly.
Cowboys 23 – Rams 12
Indianpolis Colts (0-6) at New Orleans Saints (4-2) – I think the Colts defense will keep it close for a half.
Saints 31 – Colts 17
Monday October 24, 2011 8:30 pm:
Baltimore Ravens (4-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (1-5) – Even with the Jags record, you can still count on a physical game. Maurice Jones-Drew and Ray Rice will see to it.
Ravens 24 – Jaguars 16
Last Week: 9-4
2011 Season: 46-33


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I Will Bend Over Backwards For Friends When They Are In Need
Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 145 People
Ow, Ouch, Boing!I may not recover physically, but I will always help anybody who asks for my help. My true friends do the same for me. This is what real friendship is about. Mizz
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Every Time Until...You mess me over and then we are done. I said done!
If You Need ItIf a friend is in need and I have it to give, then it is theirs. All they have to do is ask and I will give my last breath to help them.
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The Fake Friendi would do anything for my friends and i recently met someone who said he wanted to be my friend and he need help with a problem so me being me i tried to jump right in and help him with his problem and i thought we were doing ok at laying it out then he just seemed to change...
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Oh My Gosh, Bending Hurts, So...You better bend me back the right way, when you feel better. xx That's all I had to say, really. I care deeply.
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Look at these! If they could only talk they'd be starring in a Pixar film. The top section is a practical table top with a generous open shelf below…that's the 'mouth' part. The abbreviated A-frame legs are as cute as they are sturdy. These are tables with a lot of character.


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Washington State: A Planetary Analogue in Flood Basalts and Flood Channels
Fall, 2002
Sep 20-26
Every five years, LPL organises a major, out-of-area fieldtrip. The first, to Yellowstone National Park, took place in 1997. This trip, the second long-range expedition, was directed to three targets in Washington State, Mt. St. Helens, Columbia River flood basalts, and the Channelled Scablands. The trip was led by Alfred McEwen, Vic Baker, and Laz Kesthelyi. Jason Barnes, Windy Jaeger, and Jani Radebaugh organised it all.
Jason, Ross, Oleg, Zi bi, Peter, and Ralph took pictures on our trip to Washington State.
Day 1
|We met at the Delta counter in Tucson Airport at 5am. Those of us on the left side of the plane had great views of the Grand Canyon and the Cascade Range during the flight to Portland via Salt Lake City.
|We then picked up our rental vehicles and drove north to Kelso, where we stocked up on groceries and tried to catch up on sleep.
Day 2
|Our first stop was at the Forest Learning Center on the way up to Mt. St. Helens. From there we had a good look at the S. Toutle river and the way that the lahars and mud flows had filled up the pre-existing river channel. Rachel talked about volcanism in the Cascades Range, Jason discussed the ecological recovery after the Mt. St. Helens eruption, and Mike told us about the lahars (mudflows) that came out of Mt. St. Helens on May 18th, 1980.
|Our next stop was at the Johnston Ridge Observatory, which has a great overview of the remains of Mt. St. Helens.
|We had several talks. Rachel talked again, this time about the seismology of the 1980 eruption, Jim talked about debris flows, then Mandy, John, and Dave delved into the physics of volcanic eruptions.
|Our final stop for the day was at the Hummocks Trail. More talks and yet another view of Mt. St. Helens. Pete and Matt Pasek waved the flag for chemistrywith talks about the impact of emissions on climate and the magma chemistry. We stayed the night in Kelso again.
Day 3
|We stopped at the Bonneville Dam for talks by Sally on the Bonneville landslide and by Ralph on an eclectic mix of planetary hydroelectric power and salmon spawning.
|En route to The Dalles, Ross took a small step away from spheroidal weathering to talk about jointing in basalts. Arriving at The Dalles, we saw a great exposure of pillow basalts, interpreted for us by Laz, and heard Jani talk about palagonite, a basaltic glass, on Earth and Mars.
|The Maryhill stop included a good overlook of the Columbia river. Special guest Jim O'Connor gave an overview of the Missoula Flood that formed the Channelled Scablands.
|Matt Chamberlain, Laz, and Adam talked about different aspects of flood basalts at the Rock Creek stop, aided by convenient road and railway cuts.
|Finally we stopped at the Sand Station Recreation Center for a view of the Wallula Gap, sunset, and a few talks. We stayed the night in Kennewick.
Day 4
|The first stop of the day was with special guest Steve Reidel at the Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory.
|Windy and Zibi talked about folds and wrinkle ridges, then Joe Plassmann related the history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation upon which we were standing.
|We also visited Umtanum Ridge and the Sentinel Bluffs, where Steve Reidel led a discussion on the geology of the area.
|After our stop at Gingko State Park, we stopped at some lava and lake sediments nearby. Abby petrified us with examples of petrified wood.
|Our last stop of the day was at Frenchman Springs Coulee where we saw some spectacular flood basalt exposure and the results of the floods carving the coulee. Matt Tiscareno (Matt the Third in this sequence) told us about the hydrodynamics of forming channelled scabland by wave-vortex scouring. We stayed the night in Moses Lake.
Day 5
|We stopped at a great overlook of West Bar and its giant current ripples, which Adina and Vic explained to us.
|Whilst driving through the spectacular Moses Coulee, Brandon educated us on hanging valleys and other glacial features. As Dave knows, glaciers are more common in this part of the world than in the Southwest regions we usually visit.
|Laz showed us the rubbly pahoehoe at Armour Draw.
|Dry Falls was an excellent example of a flood-carved coulee, and offered a good view and a nice little visitor's center. Abby discussed the very strange rhinoceros mould and Jonathan the geology and history of Dry Falls.
|We visited the rather basic (groan...) Soap Lake and listened to Oleg extoll the virtues of its extremophiles and their possible martian counterparts.
|Our last stop of the day was at the Ephrata Gravel Fan. This is a good analogue for the Mars Pathfinder landing site and it hosted a fieldtrip for the Pathfinder Science Team in September 1995. Upon discovering this giant boulder, we clambered up it and posed for a group picture. Getting camera timers to work slowly enough and people to run quickly enough that everyone was facing the camera for the picture was quite a challenge... We stayed the night in Moses Lake again.
Day 6
|The day began with Jason's presentation on loess deposits in Crab Creek. Moving along to Amphitheater Crater, Devon and Windy discussed the ring dykes there.
|We had a hike through barbed wire, which only attacked Ralph, out to the outcrop at Marengo Siding where Jay then debated the pros and cons of how Lake Missoula ruptured and drained. By the wonders of civil engineering, a loess hill has been cut in two enabling us to l ook at a cross-section. Devon took this opportunity to talk about the formation of streamlined landforms.
|Our final stop that day was at the quaintly-named "Hole in the Ground," which was very pretty. We stayed the night at Spokane.
Day 7
|On the last day we stopped at Hangman Creek to look at the sediments. Note the expensive houses over the fresh cliff face. After lunch we caught our return flight from Spokane back to Tucson via Salt Lake City.


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What is your reaction to a panel's report to the Pentagon Tuesday that remains of some victims from the 9/11 attacks may have ended up in a landfill?
And your boy Rudy ain't the man for the plan, Loner. You said you voted for a man in 2008 because he was black, how about another black man: Let's say; Allen West, Dr. Keyes or Herman Cain? You know, constitutionally inclined men? Tryum, I believe you'd like any of them better than your current usurper.
High on nuts & Barry's the troll posts a bold-faced lie: "You said you voted for a man in 2008 because he was black, how about another black man...?"
I never, ever said that I voted for a man in 2008 because he was black.
Please show me where I said that or anything like that, Yogi....or shut your usurping pie-hole.
Studies show that the wealthy are more like to cheat, lie, AND steal candy from children..... no joke!!!!
Loner - yogi is just playing that "open mouth/insert foot game" again.
By: bfra on 2/29/12 at 1:49
Loner - yogi is just playing that "open mouth/insert foot game" again.
Yogi already has several boots up his booty; it follows that he would insert his own foot, perhaps any foot, into his mouth....he walks that "boots-in-booty" walk and talks that "foot-in-mouth" talk...it looks painful, but he enjoys it.
Not to change the subject on you goofers but my nephew just sent me a email about something scary as hell.
If you have children or grandchildren and take pictures of them on your cell phone with a camera on it, check out www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY
Back on the subject, children:
Loner, it was too long ago when you gave the reason you voted for Obama and the only thing I could figure out that determined why you voted for him was the "first black" president issue. Wrong? Then why did someone as 'smart' as you vote for someone that wouldn't even show his birth certificate to prove he was eligible for the office?
What kind of person with any brain at all vote for someone who wouldn't readily show their birth certificate, school papers and any other personal papers? You know, like their passport to show what nation they was a citizen of when they went to another nation on a visit.
Now, back to another subject, children. Look at this jealous making show of a couple of boys.
Don't you boys wish your daddy had raised you like that?
In 2008, the alternative to Obama & Biden was a war monger & a bimbo...I did not ask Obama or Biden for their Birth Certificates.
Yogi, I tried to be civil with you...that was foolish of me....you are beyond help.....bless your heart.....you are consumed with hate for Barack Obama....I hope the DHS is keeping tabs on you....you're the kind of obsessed mental case that could gun down a "usurper"....you're scarin' me, man...you got issues.
It's 4:20 here....I'm enjoying it.
You can bet I have an issue. The issue is a man sitting in our Oval Office that isn't eligible for that office under the qualifications our founders determined they should be and placed in our Constitution and he obviously knows it.
With you, and so many people with mentalities like yours, accepting a man whom you know nothing about as your President scares the hell out of me. It makes me wonder what kind of idiots do we have in this nation. And if the majority of them factually voted this man in office, that, sir, is scary.
I don't hate Obama as a man as you and your fellow posters conceive, I hate him for intentionally usurping that office. And I base that argument on the fact he has refused to prove his identity from the beginning of this issue to the present time. That doesn't scare you?
Sorry, Loner. I'm me and I'm beginning to think I know you... and I don't think I'm going to like what I see.
LONER.......The 2012 election is over. The winner will be Barack Hussein Obama This election is about two things. (1) People who want more welfare.
(2) People who think Republicans are the root cause of
either their failure or their obscure existence.
These people have always existed but today they make up the majority of American voters. Anyone who thinks any Republican can get elected in November has the "Ostrich syndrome."
For yogi & his new cohort, Raputin72
The Republican primary battle in Michigan was so ugly, ABC's Rick Klein points out, that this critical battleground state seems to have tilted back to the Democrats. All the talk of the auto bailout, opposed by each of the Republican candidates, and the divisive social issues, did damage to the party in Michigan and perhaps more broadly as well, Klein says. "Now you've got Ohio coming up (on Super Tuesday next week). You've got another state that's a lot like Michigan. If the same kind of battle happens over the next week, then they have to worry about another big state potentially tipping to the Democrats."
Another little tidbit:
As Yahoo! News' David Chalian points out, that not only helps the president but also steals the thunder from Romney's main campaign theme. "If Mitt Romney is Mr. Fix It on the economy, but the guy who's sitting in the Oval Office is actually fixing the economy right now, then where does Mitt Romney go from there?"
BFRA.......Remember this. Only Republicans are voting in any of these primaries. The people who will decide who is the President in November are not voting.
The poor Republicans must brace themselves for the reality of the demographics in this country.
People who are successful are out. People who are just passing through are in charge.
People who are successful are out. People who are just passing through are in charge.
Said like a very jealous minded person that really isn't aware of much, outside their own little domain.
Rasp...you mean the riff-raff...the flotsam & jetsam...the rabble....the unwashed masses...the welfare queens...the non-producers....the $150/pair-Air-Jordan-wearing food-stamp recipients...the professionally unemployed....the non-symbiotic parasites in our society? You mean those guys are in charge?
I hope you're wrong, Rasputin72. If you aren't, we can kiss the USA goodbye. If the majority of the people vote for Barry Soetoro (going by the name Barack Obama) because of the welfare they're receiving and the more recipients he's taking into his folder, it will become the CUSA. And by that I mean Communist USA.
But history tells more about the presence with just a look into the past. Welfare has became bigger every year since it was started. And who started it? Congress. Why? It bought them more votes. Wouldn't you vote for someone that's guaranteeing you a handout without having to work for it? (That isn't a personal question, Rasputin72)
Welfare was started as a needed helping hand at a time of depression. It hasn't slowed down since it began.
Why would anyone work for a living when the government will give them welfare for their vote? They don't mind being under government control as long as they're getting their handout.
So consider: What will happen when the government goes bankrupt and has no money for their welfare (handout) programs. I believe there will be one helluva rebellion in the nation by the handout recipients than you can imagine.
LONER.....You have hit the nail on the head! This is a democracy and these people who you mention are allowed to vote. They are the majority. An astute observation by you indeed!
The seer of the doomsday ship has spoken. No knowledge to hand forth, just stupid ideas!
BFRA.......In other words what you are implying to me is that I am like every other American. I don't give a rat's behind about anything other than my own circumstances.
Yes, I am guilty
Rasputin72 - You didn't have to tell anyone that, it comes thru loud & clear by what you post!
BFRA.......Thanks for affirming my position. Maybe you should fess up to your bias as well.
My bragging jacket is in the cleaners! But, you wear yours openly & loudly.
BFRA.......I bet you keep a lot of "jackets" in the cleaners.
Looking for an argument, Rasputin72? Fergit it. The evidence is loud and clear.


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Tim Manczko made the big play when Conant needed him to Thursday night.
Facing third-and-4 with four minutes left, Chase Murdock and the Barrington defense knew they needed a stop or Conant could run out the clock.
But Cody Adelizzi and a host of other Broncos combined to stand up Manczko behind the line of scrimmage and force a punt. The Barrington offense took care of the rest, driving 50 yards to set up Daniel Kubiuk's 20-yard field goal as time expired to give Barrington (5-2, 2-1) a hard-fought 29-28 Mid-Suburban West victory over visiting Conant (5-2, 1-2).
"It was a great effort from our defense," Murdock said. "We all huddled up and said that this is it right here. We wanted to get that playoff spot locked up."
Murdock (33 carries, 295 yards) carried the offense as he surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for the third straight year. But it was quarterback Mark Bennett who made the offensive play of the night, connecting with Dylan Zyzda for 36 yards on third-and-15 to get to the Cougar 22 and keep the winning drive alive.
"They made some nice plays and we had some near misses (on deep balls earlier)," said Barrington head coach Joe Sanchez. "We got the big one when it counted."
From there, Murdock ran 5 straight plays to get the ball down to the 3 and set up Kubiuk's heroics. Kubiuk was eager to redeem himself after a missed extra point earlier in the fourth quarter that would have tied the game at 21-21.
"I hit a low ball," Kubiuk said of the missed extra point. "A kid stuck his hand up and I didn't think it was going through anyways. I thought I would have a chance to make up for it."
Murdock, who credited fullback Daniel Davidson and the rest of the offensive line for his big night, scored on runs of 50, 8, 2 and 1 yard.
"I've taken some big poundings before but we are all in it together," Murdock said. "My line was there doing it with me every single snap."
Murdock's performance overshadowed an admirable effort from Manczko (23 carries, 125 yards), who replaced an injured Matt Cullen at quarterback at the beginning of the second quarter.
"We put everything into this game," Manczko said. "We knew this was a playoff game and left it all on the field. I've got nothing left."
Manczko rushed for scores of 8, 35 and 2 yards and added a 45-yard touchdown toss to Cordell Smith that put Conant ahead 28-20 with 7:29 left in the fourth quarter.
"The only thing that I don't like, and I mean this as a compliment, is that he has another year left," Sanchez said of Manczko. "He is one heck of a football player."
And while a rare turnover from Murdock halted a drive in the third quarter and swung the momentum to the Cougars, Sanchez saw a change in his team's response to adversity from last week's loss to Palatine.
"There was a difference," Sanchez said. "This week, we were able to overcome it. It didn't hold us back from finding a way to win, and that's why I'm proud of our kids."


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Marcy Meffert: Women carry whole life in purse
Published 7:26 pm, Wednesday, June 29, 2011
As I opened the various zippered compartments of my purse, trying to find my wallet, a reader said that I ought to do a column about women's purses. At first I wondered what one could say other than they are heavy, pull on the shoulder and are a part of life for women. Men carry purses, too, but they call them brief cases, gym or messenger bags.
I began to carry a purse in second grade because I needed a safe place to carry a house key and my stack of handkerchiefs or wad of tissues for the cold that was never cured, which I now know was allergies. Lorretta Karpinski stole my purse; my mother told me to get it back and I did. In the eighth grade, I stole her boyfriend in retribution. (But that's another story — about people with long memories.)
Adult women carry purses because our clothing seldom has enough suitable pockets for our necessities. Men stuff their wallets and don't seem to mind the back ailment they get from sitting on a one-sided lump. Women get shoulder pain from shoulder bags or elbow aches from hand-carried ones, which we also accept as one of life's inevitabilities. We could never stuff all our stuff into a wallet or pockets.
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My current purse, made from lightweight nylon, weighs four pounds when loaded. Some purses weigh four pounds when empty due to chains, clasps, buttons, hooks, clips and other heavy metal objects that are supposed to be decorative but just add to weight.
Weight isn't the only issue with purses. Often, fashion requires purses to match shoes, which means you have to change purses when you change shoes; other times matching is passé. If you are like me, you get one you can lift and carry; fashion be damned. Some purses come with different compartments to help organize necessities and catalogs have generic pocketed organizers so you can easily switch all your stuff from yesterday's purse to today's. They work only if you put things back to their designated space, which doesn't happen in my life.
My husband always said it was too scary to dig in my purse when he needed change for the pizza guy; he would bring it to me, holding it as if it contained something live and vicious. Like many women, I carry extra lip gloss, calendar, wallet, comb and brush, medications, band-aids, checkbook, tissues, gum, hard candies (my version of cough drops), hand lotion, membership cards, nail clippers, cell phone, notebook, pens, business cards, book to read when waiting and to-do lists. Mothers carry extras: Wipes, energy bars, snack cereal in plastic containers, plus toys and books to keep kids occupied. It's a wonder we can walk upright with such a load. I see no practical solution to this problem.
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Kaushi is checking the rice and is picking out Kankar (Stones). Nani sits next to kaushi and says "Sambhaal apne aap ko" (take Care of yourself) see you mixed all the stones with the rice again. Kaushi says don't know what'll happen, i'm getting really worried. I pray to god that everything will be fine soon. Ma Ranvir will get the bail na? Nani says don't worry kaushi, vasu and inderjit have hired the best lawyer in town, he'll definitely get bail. Malti calls out to kaushi and says Ma i'm going to have a shower, could you please take care of the baby. Nani and Kaushi go upstairs to the baby.
Ragini and Saadhna rush to the court and see Ranvir coming out of the court. Ragini and Saadhna are happy. Ragini says "Saadhna didn't i say that my ranvir will get bail, see he got bail" ragini sees the Ranvir has handcuffs in his hands. Ragini calls out to Ranvir. Ranvir calls out ot Ragini and is about to go to her, but the police says "Na you don't have permission" Saadhna walks to the police and requests him to let ranvir meet ragini. The inspector let his handcuff go. Ranvir rushes to Ragini. Ragvir are in tears. The media begisn to take photos of them. Ranvir wipes ragini's tears, but ragini can't hold her tears. Saadhna walks up to Ragini. Ranvir says "bhabi, take care of my ragini, make sure she doesn't have a single tear in her eyes. Main apni dono amanat aapke paas chod ke jaa raha hoon." Vasu has tears in her eyes. Ranvir looks at ragini and says 'Ragini why are you crying? you know I'm always with you. Even now i am not far from you, you have my 'ansh'. The inspector comes and says let's go nnow, enough of your meeting. The inspector drags him to the jeep. Everyone watches hoplessly. Ragini begins to run after the jeep, saadhna runs after her. Ragini holds ranvir's hand and is running behind the jeep. The constable pulls ranvir's hand away and the jeep leaves. Saadhna holds on to Ragini, Aalekh comes aswell. Ragini faints. Vinu and inderjit, vasu and all rush to ragini aswell. The media gathers and begins to take photos. DS is watching the whole thing from far.
At home Kaushi and nani are playing with the baby. Nani thinks "chalo thodi der ke liye iska dhyana toh hatta, ranvir aur ragini ki samasya se" The baby begins to cry. Nani says that it's because of the TV, let me turn it off. Nani is trying to turn the tv off but is unable to, the news of Ranvir comes on. And kaushi comes to know that ranvir didn't get bail after proving it was the case of self defence. Kaushi is in shock. Malti comes out and sees kaushi in shock, and then looks at the TV and then at her baby who is in the cot. Malti gets angry and yells"i told you to take care of my child, and you two are watching TV? If you couldn't do this then you could've told me, i would've taken care of him myself.' Nani says "they are showing ranvir's case in the news, he didn't get bail.' Malti yells "to hell with Ranvir's bail, my child here is alone. You put my baby in the wet cot, if he gets fever then who'll be responsible for it? Nani says even we are concerned for your child. Malti yells "concern? Yes i can see that. You are always thinking about other things. Ever since my child was born what have you done for him? When he was coming home for the first time, you weren't there to welcome him but you left the house in a complete mess. Vinu did the aarti of my child. Do you have any idea how inauspicious it is if the child had come home without getting his aarti done. Kaushi is in tears. Nani yells "aren't you ashamed of yourself? Without thinking anything you are blaming my daughter? Just because she is quiet that doesn't mean you take advantage of that. You in laws have done so much for you, they gave you the prize money, for whom? For your child. And what did you do? You went with your mother and bought a necklace with it. Which mother lives for so long in their daughters in laws? But my kaushi tolerated you mothers misbehaviour all the time. She paid the hospital bill by selling her jewellery, if it was your mother will she do it? Here you are saying so much to ranvir, ahve you forgotten when your husband was in jail then ranvir was the one to save him. That time you begged ranvir, now when ranvir is in the same problem you are backing away? malti is really angry, nani takes kaushi away. (wohoooooooooooo go nani
At the court, vasu is getting angry at saadhna, vasu says "what was the need to bring Ragini here? we already have so many things going on. We told you to do one thing, and even that you couldn't do properly." Saadhna is crying and says "mummy ji, jiji was insisting she said that..." vasu interrupts "and what about what i had said to you saadhna? Couldn't you explain it to her? But you brought her here in this condition. Mama ji says 'Vasundra ji, Ragini wanted to take ranvir home himself. She was probably getting worried at home, that why she must've been stubborn to come here. saadhna is not at fault. Vasu says " Sharma ji please, don't interfere in our private affair. Inderjit says 'What are you saying vasu?" mama ji stops inderjit, and inderjit apologises to mama ji. Mama ji says that these media create a big issue out of such small things, you don't have to apologise. Vasu says lets leave inderjit.
Ranvir is in jail, thinking about ragini. The inspector walks to him and says "yadav, come and have a look at My Rajvansh. Agar main iske saath dukh dard nahi batunga toh aur koun baatenga? Get me my chair, i wont be standing here and listening to his pain?' ranvir looks at the inspector angrily. The inspector says 'did you see Mr Rajavansh? Your father got the commissioner to talk to me in a sec. And you mother had hired the biggest lawyer in town. But what was the result? By the way Mr Rajvansh, your wife loves you a lot. I was shocked to see your wife's love for you. Did you see how she was running after the jeep, I have seen such scenes only in films, It was a very emotional scene indeed. Was it a love marriage? Just one question, it's been getting me to think a lot, so i thought i might aswell ask you. When your wife is so beautiful, and loves you alot, then what was the need to go out with your sister in law? Ranvir gets angry, he turns away and tries to control his anger. The inspector says 'there' no need to answer me right now, take your time."
Inderjit and vasu are worried. Inderjit says "i can't understand how can this matter be so serious?" Vasu says "thank god atleast ragini has gained conscious, but MY singhaniya, could atleast tell us how many year will ranvir be sentenced? DS says 'mrs Rajvansh, if Ranvir will be proved as a criminal then he will be sentenced na, why are you thinking so negative? Just because ranvir didn't get bail that doesn't mean he will be sentenced jail. The case hasn't started. But what I don't understand is how did this case get in to court so soon? I'm shocked. It's def because of the media. This rich-poor angle has been created by the media only, they love such things. Even the prosecutor had exaggerated regarding this issue, it seems like she is fighting against all the rich people. I don't get it why when it comes to rich and poor people, why are the rich always considered to be bad? The people that take advantage of the status are the poor, because they have the public's sympathy with them aswell as a the judge's. Aalekh says "Mr Singhaniya, my brother has been in jail for the past two days, i want my brother out." DS says 'don't worry aalekh, I need to speak to the eye witnesses. One was your son Ranvir and the other one was your daughter in law saadhna right? I need to speak to her" aalekh says "i'll just call saadhna" Ragini is screaming "Let me go saadhna" as she is trying to leave the house. Saadhna is not letting ragini go. Ragini is screaming 'i want to go to ranvir." Vasu rushes to Ragini and saadhna and tires to stop ragini, but ragini isn't listening. Vasu says ragini please we will take you to ranvir, but you need rest right now. I promise you i will take you to meet ranvir. But by crying all day and not taking care of yourself won't get ranvir out of the jail, please just wait for a few days. Ragini si crying and says 'Mummy ji, i can't stay away from ranvir anymore. Please bring back my ranvir." Vasu says "Ragini this is not the right time to meet ranvir, Ranvir will be home soon. You come with me to your room." Ragini runs upstairs crying. It ends on saadhna's face.
Precap: Ds asks saadhna if she has given her statement tot he police. Saadhna says no they never asked me anything. DS says you won't give your statement until I tell you to.
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What's up in emerging technology
You Think Silicon Valley Has a Problem with Diversity? China's Is Way Worse
- Chris Marchant | Flickr
Automakers and tech firms want high-definition maps to help robo-cars drive, but the best way to build them remains unclear. So says a new report from Bloomberg.
Two approaches: "One aims to create complete high-definition maps that will let the driverless… Read more
Attempts to lose weight more effectively by choosing food tailored to your genes may be a fruitless endeavor. So says an $8 million study into the concept.
The news: The study assigned 609 people to low-fat or low-carb diets. Analysis of whether those… Read more
Every year since 2001 we've picked what we call the 10 Breakthrough Technologies. People often ask, what exactly do you mean by "breakthrough"? It's a reasonable question—some of our picks haven't yet reached widespread use, while others may be on the...Read the full story →
The social network is working with economists to throw light on America's widening income gap.
The news: Politico reports that Facebook is sharing data with Stanford economist Raj Chetty and his researchers. Facebook confirmed the partnership to Politico… Read more
Pyongyang has a surprisingly powerful cyber-espionage team at its disposal, according to a new report.
The news: Security researchers at FireEye have published research describing a hacking group called APT37, or Reaper. FireEye says that there is "high… Read more
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, some mines known to use child labor are benefiting from the electrification of our economy.
Backstory: The world wants lithium-ion batteries. But one of their key ingredients, cobalt, is in short supply. That makes… Read more
By building up pretend propaganda empires, can we learn how news is weaponized against us?
The game: Players of the new video game Bad News, which has been built by a team of academics and journalists, must win social-media fans, bend the truth, and… Read more
On Toronto's waterfront, where the eastern part of the city meets Lake Ontario, is a patchwork of cement and dirt. It's home to plumbing and electrical supply shops, parking lots, winter boat storage, and a hulking silo built in 1943 to store soybeans—a...Read the full story →
The world's most powerful rocket may be good for more commercial missions than Mars supply trips. One astronomer says it could open access to lots of asteroids on which humans could strike it rich mining metals.
Backstory: Earlier this month, SpaceX… Read more
Permission to excavate in the city could be a first step to building an East Coast Hyperloop—or just an expensive folly.
Backstory: Last July, Musk announced "verbal government approval" for an underground Hyperloop between New York City and Washington,… Read more


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Ah, the federal deficit, the national debt. One day they're so critical that the republic would seem to be on the verge of collapse, the next, Capitol Hill is worried about birth control or pink slime or solar energy. Still, everyone does seem to complain about the federal budget, they just can't seem to agree on what to do about it.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the conservative congressman from Wisconsin, has a knack for releasing budgets and proposals that are lighting rods for controversy. The White House has been blasting it as radical. The Economic Policy Institute calls it "Robin Hood in reverse." Americans United for Change agrees.
Some don't recoil at Ryan's budget. As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says, "Congressman Ryan deserves credit for being willing to get specific about what fixes he favors." It urges Democrats and Republicans to move toward a bipartisan plan.
Ryan's budget is not the only proposed solution however. The "Budget Hawks" Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, of the Simpson-Bowles report fame, had their recommendations put into action — well, onto paper — by Reps. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Blue Dog Democrat, and Steven La Tourette, an Ohio conservative Republican. The Simpson-Bowles plan combined entitlement reform, changes in the tax code, and increases in revenue — the kinds of compromise that moderate voices have urged. The Cooper-La Tourette budget received just 38 votes.
What do you think? Is Congress keeping the issue of the budget around as a chew toy? It's an easy way to make a stump speech, and a balanced budget would force a lot of speechwritersto come up with new ideas. Did Congress make a mistake in not passing the Simpson-Bowles budget? Did President Obama make a mistake for not embracing the Simpson-Bowles concept? Do you think there is potential for compromise in this election year?


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Come to our house or vise versa. Watch little girl for about 6 hours. Possibly a little later due to work. Minor potty problems, but for most part goes every time in potty.
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I have children ages 2 and 1. Looking for someone caring, patient, loving, gentle and very experienced with small children.
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We are needing an occasional sitter to watch our 2 and 4 year old boy and girl. The oldest is potty trained the other is not.


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I REMEMBER when I was 29. Kylie was singing about getting people out of her head and Bridget Jones put the fear of God into me that I'd end up a sad, lonely single girl who hated her job, her waistline and her smug married friends.
A few years later I was a sad, lonely, single girl but luckily I loved my job, if not my waistline, and all the smug marrieds didn't talk to me any more because I wasn't in their gang and my single status seemed to scare them senseless.
I realised that in my late 20s I had been just like Bridget, desperate to be one of those people who are part of a happy couple, obsessed by my weight and absolutely terrified of growing old alone.
I regularly examined my face for wrinkles, my thighs for cellulite and my hair for grey.
I was reminded of all this when reading a new survey that said 29 is the age when women start getting anxious about ageing.
After spending our teens trying to look older we suddenly realise we are actually starting to getting older and we don't like it.
And so begins a lifetime of fighting the ageing process through a mixture of creams, peels, exercise, food, supplements and eventually Botox or even the surgeon's knife.
A third of women are worried their bottoms will head south while 29 per cent want to avoid a wrinkly cleavage at all cost (that's easy, just keep it out of the sun).
As much as I hate getting older, I wouldn't swap my 29-year-old self for the person I am now in a million years.
I might have to spend a bit more money covering up the grey roots and the lines around my eyes seem to get more pronounced, but life is about more than a few signs of ageing.
I always dreaded turning 40 but now I proudly tell people that I have managed four decades and come out the other side.
Yes, it takes a bit longer to get ready for a night out but you enjoy it so much more because, well, you just don't get so easily embarrassed as you did when you were 29.
And here's the thing, the older men are ageing, too, and don't just have grey hair but might even be losing it.
And just because you aren't 29 any more you can still end up smug and married – and believe me it helps if you aren't quite so self-obsessed.
So, to all you 29-year-olds out there, embrace your wrinkle-free faces and pert behinds, but don't despair.
Take it from me, there is lots of brilliant make-up to cover the inevitable wrinkles and blonde hides your grey hairs much better. And just because you are not 29 doesn't mean you can't buy clothes in Topshop any more – you just need to avoid the hotpants and cropped tops.


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Letter: Diocese offers placement of urns
Published 3:02 pm, Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Hats off to the Patriot Guard Riders for their program to give proper burial to veterans ("Never forgotten, and now at rest," June 8). Many people might not be aware that the cremated remains of thousands of individuals are stored in funeral homes and private homes all across our region. Often, it's because family members don't know what to do after cremation.
As Catholics, we are committed to the reverence of the body. Our concern for the proper care and handling of cremated remains has led to an initiative to help Catholic families by offering free placement of urns at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands.
On Nov. 1, Albany Diocesan Cemeteries will celebrate its annual committal service from the Rite of Christian Burial and entomb urns brought to us in the All Souls Crypt at no charge to families. Call St. Agnes Cemetery at 463-0134 for more information about the service.
Rick Touchette
Executive director, Albany Diocesan Cemeteries, Albany


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Club News 01-18-15
Published 3:57 am, Friday, January 16, 2015
The Mary McCoy Baines Chapter of DAR met Jan. 14, at the West Texas Wood Fire Grill with Linda Reed and Pam Miller acting as hostesses. After the opening prayer by Chaplain Floy Smith the group enjoyed a seated luncheon.
The program, "Plainview's Main Street Project," was presented by Melinda Brown, Main Street coordinator. She explained that the program is part of the National and Texas Main Street Project. Under the auspices of the Texas Historical Commission, its purpose is to provide economic development through private investment and to enhance and preserve history.
Linda Reed in the absence of the Regent Pam Miller led the opening ritual. National Defense Chairman Shirley Scott gave her report on the Challenge Coin which dates to Roman times. It is a coin or medallion given for outstanding performance and used to boost morale. Modeled on coin used by the military, the DAR will soon have its own Challenge Coin.
In report of officers Registrar Corky Terrell said that Sarah Westmoreland had submitted three supplementals. Librarian Carolyn Courtney reported that she had ordered South Carolina in the American Revolution in memory of Ann Castleberry.
In report of committees, Ramona Roberts, Indian chairman, gave a book report on "Myth, Mystery, and Massacre: the Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker" by Paul Carlson and Tom Crum. She explained that the book uses the historical record to confront inaccurate myths and public memory.
In the Conservation minute, the harvest of rain water was stressed. Linda Reed, Constitution chairman, gave the purpose of the U.S. Constitution which is to provide direction to the three branches of our government. Flag Chairman June Wells said the chapter's gift of flag bookmarks to the public inspired the Tulia RSVP to also adopt this custom.
In new business, Linda Reed announced that Feb. 1 is the last date to elect delegates to the state DAR convention. This year it will be held March 5-8 at the Omni Hotel in San Antonio. The rest of the meeting was devoted to completing the Master Questionnaire.
--Carolyn Courtney
The Plainview Rotary Club's weekly meeting was held at the Plainview Civic Center this past Tuesday. Ted Baker presided over the meeting, John Gatica voiced the invocation, Chuck Starnes and David Hawkins led the singing and Ross Owen directed the pledge. Guests present were Meredith Walley with Ted Baker, Jack London with Randall Roberts, Irma Gatica with John Gatica and Sarah and Abbi Hanoch. Cynthia Gregory introduced the January Student of the Month, Isaac Givens. Other students present were Drew Wilkinson and Laura Beth Earhart. French exchange student Pierre-Louis Perrey was also in attendance.
Charles Starnes won the right to draw the card in the Foundation Dollars game but did not pick the correct card so - Roll It Back In!!
Stan Demerritt read the nominations for the new officers and directors for 2015-16. Positions will be voted on in four weeks.
Lesle Hackett, Chief Nursing Officer with Covenant Hospital, gave a report on the expansion/remodel project at the hospital. This $40 million project will have several phases with the 1st phase starting in the surgery facilities. The hospital will expand to 80-85 beds and the project should take approximately 4 years.
The club was dismissed by Ross Owen to the Rotary 4-Way Test and "Service Above Self." www.PlainviewRotary.org
--Kim Street
The pride of this city convened upon the grounds of the civic center on Wednesday under the influence of frigid cold weather, but mother nature played in our favor, allowing a goodly turnout of feline to join the festivities. Lion Boss James Belk, assisted by our royalty, queen Abigail Maresca and princess Pennington Moore were tending to head table chores.
Bill Cross led pledges, Larry McNutt and Jim Tirey led singing and Mike Melcher gave the invocation. New great uncle, Parson Rey Rodriquez quoted words of wisdom from his little black magic box.
Special guests at the conflab were both our past reigning queen and princess, Meredith McDonough and Michele Waller. Official guests were introduced by Lea Stukey as Chris Leach with Donnie Ebeling, Steven Goetz with Paul Waller, and Jay Ibarra with Kevin Carter. Greg Brown introduced our program, the present track and field coach at PHS, Lee Walker, who has been leading high school runners for the past five successful seasons. He spoke on the ongoing training process of all grade levels in our school system, and what dedication these participants must adapt to maintain the winning attitude required for quality results in life and on the score sheets.
We serve - Ron White
Plainview Area Retired School Personnel Association
The Plainview Area Retired School Personnel Association (PARSPA) met Monday, Jan. 11, at West
Texas Woodfire Grill with president Glenda Feris presiding. Secretary Pam Kendall handed out copies
of written minutes of the last meeting. Minutes were approved as written.
Following the invocation, Beth Finley, Program Chair, introduced Thad Barkley and Blake Coker of
Bartley Funeral Home to present the program on funeral planning.
"The most important part of funeral planning is pre-arranging," said Barkley. "Planning in advance gives
your family the advantage of knowing your specific wishes so they can avoid hasty decisions, often resulting in escalating funeral costs."
Coker encouraged retired personnel to use a funeral home's Memorial Planning Guide to address all
of funeral planning, thus giving the inquiree an opportunity to make choices early on that will lock
in future costs at today's prices. He reminded members that the $10,000 death benefit from TRS could be used for funeral expenses. Any excess can be assigned to a designated person; likewise, any remaining balance can be handled by special arrangements with the funeral home. Coker stressed the importance of knowing which funeral items the family wants covered.
Program Chair Finley then introduced the second part of the program, which addressed financial and
legal planning, presented in absentia by letter by George Meriwether, CPA and Certified Financial Planner. Meriwether suggested that all school personnel, especially the retired, seek early professional help in financial planning and burial assistance to include updating wills and beneficiary designations, distribution of personal effects, instruction on the funeral service, and giving location of important documents, such as life insurance
policies (with policy numbers) deeds, car titles, and lists of bank and financial accounts
Financial advisers could be an attorney, CPA, insurance agent, banker, or investment advisor. Before
the need arises, Meriwether said, one should get a designated person on the signature card of one's
checking account.
President Feris urged members to write letters to state legislators to address the massive budget shortfall facing TRS-Care, the healthcare system that more than 240,000 retired educators rely upon. Quoting from "The Voice," the official news bulletin for TRTA, Feris continued, "Texas ranks dead last among all states in its appropriations of funds for its public workforces' benefits. She observed that if this Legislature does nothing to address this shortfall during this session, she predicts that health premiums will double, or benefits will be cut -- or both. She announced that six members from the local unit will attend the 3-day convention in Austin on April 6-8.
Treasurer Jane Berry reported that an additional $124 had been given to the Post, Texas, Elementary School Teachers' Fund, making the unit's total gift $600. The school was recently destroyed by fire.
Mary Ann McGehee, Chair of Community Volunteer Committee, announced she was collecting volunteer hours to be turned in to the District by Feb. 1.
Sherry Colston, Chair of the Health Care Committee, handed a leaflet to each attendee, outlining steps to weight loss as suggested by the American Heart Association.
The next meeting will be Monday, February 9, with Mark Warren presenting the program on Long Term Care. Area retired school personnel are urged to attend.
Sunny Coffey was recognized as a visitor. Meeting was adjourned.
--Mary Lou Haygood, PARSPA Public Relations, Sherry Colston,
Plainview Kiwanis Club
President Janis Roberson led the Pledge of Allegiance and Charles Lawson offered a prayer at the club's noon meeting Thursday at Plainview Country Club.
J Pat Manning reported that a meeting will be held with the club's partners in the flag program at noon Jan. 30. Details are forthcoming on how to get a flag posted in front of your home or business during eight holidays in 2015. Charles Lawson agreed to schedule programs for the remainder of January.
In lieu of a program, the club played a game of Kiwanis Feud. Thanks to a couple of fine answers by Glenda Bearden, Team Mike Finley pulled out a slight victory over Team J Pat.
- Kevin Lewis


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The gold and the black
What happens when the most perfect military prodigy sets her sights on capturing the most wanted criminal in The Republic (and they are both 15-year-olds and super hot)? I'll tell you what happens: a book you cannot put down. Legend by Marie Lu takes place in a future Los Angeles that is flooded, poverty stricken and divided into Sectors based on the results of military trials. The elite citizens of The Republic (those that did well on the trials) live in relative comfort while the poor (those that failed the trials) are starving and fighting off the plague.
Handsome, charismatic, rebel Daniel "Day" Altan Wing breaks into a hospital to steal plague vaccines for his sick family. An event occurs that sets beautiful soldier June Iparis after Day, even though she's not sure he's committed a crime. As June investigates, she uncovers lies, jealousy, and murder. Does she stay loyal to The Republic even when her instincts tell her to question everything? Can she trust Day? Or does their powerful attraction cloud her judgment?
Legend is the first in a series of books loosely based on Les Misérables that explore the ongoing battle between The Republic and The Colonies in a sort of Pan-Asian world ravaged by extreme weather and oppressive military rule. June and Day tell their version of events in alternating chapters, in black ink for June and gold ink for Day. It's a very cool looking book and I'm excited to learn more about these characters and their amazing abilities.
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While reading this review, I saw HUNGER GAMES! blaring the whole way... I mean really. In future Los Angeles, there is a boy and a girl who are rebels and criminals, and there's a place called the Republic divided into Sectors?? I'm sure it's well written and everything, but I don't really like the idea.
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Hi Lilly, I initially thought the same thing about Legend being another dystopian Hunger Games knock-off, but it's really not. If I had to compare it to another series, I would say it's more like Matched, because there is a lot of science involved. Also, the Los Angeles setting is not at all like Panem. Sectors are just neighborhoods in Los Angeles, not completely different geographic parts of a country. I am really looking forward to reading book two, Prodigy, and am curious to see if two colors of ink are used, again, for the alternating chapters.
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BUENOS AIRES (Aug. 21)
About 2000 people attended a public meeting last night addressed by Pinhas Sapir, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives. The meeting, which marked the 80th anniversary of the Buenos Aires Jewish community (kehilla), was also addressed by its president, Chaim Rajchenberg, and Israeli Ambassador Ram Nirgad.
Sapir, fully recovered from the flu that had caused him to cancel a tour of provincial center, declared that in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War the Arabs will listen to Israel's peace proposals and expressed hope that a peace agreement will be reached soon. The former Israeli Finance Minister said that Israel desired economic independence, even from the Jewish people abroad. He stressed that efforts must continue to further the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel.


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Manager Ron Washington had seen four plays of late that Elvis Andrus should have made but didn't, and he didn't want to see a fifth. So, Andrus gets a day off in the finale of the homestand to rest his mind more than his body. When Andrus' mind is sharp, said Washington, he makes the plays in question. Adrian Beltre also gets a break, sort of, as the Rangers' designated hitter. With a day off Thursday, Andrus and Beltre are getting two days off while missing only one game.
Mariners lineup vs. LHP Derek Holland: Dustin Ackley, 2b; Chone Figgins, rf; Kyle Seager, 3b; Jesus Montero, dh; Justin Smoak, 1b; Alex Liddi, lf; Miguel Olivo, c; Michael Saunders, cf; Brendan Ryan, ss.
Rangers lineup vs. RHP Blake Beavan: Ian Kinsler, 2b; Michael Young, 3b; Josh Hamilton, cf; Adrian Beltre, dh; David Murphy, lf; Nelson Cruz, rf; Mike Napoli, c; Mitch Moreland, 1b; Alberto Gonzalez, ss.
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Hey folks!
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And check this shit... episode TWELVE is up and atom!
Fourteen is here:
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Sounds good, dude! Cheers for playing the "rare" track. Weird hearing that stuff.
'Within the imagination, there is no law'
Cheers to you for sending it, dude! If you find any more, please send them my way
thanx for playing shitreign on # 13
Hey, killer fucking track - don't suppose you have any releases available?
I've just listened to the last 3 shows back-to-back, nice work I particularly like the fact you often choose something for the backing track that is quite out of keeping with the feel of the rest of the show
I've got everything I need to knock up a podcast, maybe I should investigate this further...I've got the perfect face for radio!


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Heres how I first started believing. I had made a rune sequence for good luck on a test I wasn't prepared for, and then I felt this incredible swoosh in my body. The next day the teacher's computer had crashed and I had an extra day to cram.
Then after losing my aversion to casting spells on other people but before I learned that love magic could be evil, I tried making a rune sequence to help a friend get together with this girl who he liked for a really long time. He and another boy in class had the same initials and I noticed this during the spell and I lost a bit of focus. Again I felt a swoosh and the results weren't pretty. That boy developed a serious crush on the girl out of nowhere. I must have put the runes in the wrong order and the lack of focus didn't help. I destroyed the amulet and did spells to get rid of it. It took a week for the spell to pass. I've never done that kind of magic again, but I'm pretty sure it works.
Also I never believed in divination until I started doing it for myself. My cards are simply uncanny.
My advice is doing everything possible to boost a spell before you cast it. It forces your mind to believe it'll work after all the effort. That means keep track of the day of the week, the moon phase, add your candles, meditate and center yourself, and cast a circle. Then do your spell. At the end say "So mote this be" or if your working with runes chant ALU(Ansuz Laguz Uruz). I just love that tingle of power when the spell starts working. Of course by the end of your spell open your circle


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The iconic I heart NY campaign has been back in the news with Gov. Cuomo last week saying they planned to revive the 70s-era logo, with some updated twists including an option that allows everyday New Yorkers to offer drawing about what they like or love about the Empire State.
On Wednesday, the state's pro-gas fracking lobby joined in the art festivities by offering up their version of an I (fill in the blank) New York logo:


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A health-insurance cooperative that gives members baseball tickets and a horse-racing club that offers discounts on western wear are two of the many types of extra benefits that come with joining some associations.
Offering the discounts can be good for business.
"You can get more customers because of the discounts," said Mark Benson, store manager at the Goodyear Tire and Service Center in Augusta. "It helps with the business relationships in the community."
Goodyear's corporate office set up discounts with several state associations that have members in Augusta.
Gauging the effectiveness of member discounts can be difficult for some businesses. John Watson, co-owner of Speed Car Wash on Wrightsboro Road who gives $1 discounts to Realtors, said: "It's an intangible-type thing because you can't pinpoint it. I wouldn't offer the discounts if I didn't think it was good for the company."
Executives at many associations seem to agree that side benefits may not be the reason members join, but they can be one reason members renew.
"I don't think these freebies are what people join for," said Jim Fuzy, executive director of the Greater Augusta Aiken Area Healthcare Coalition. His members can get Augusta GreenJackets baseball tickets and a 10-percent discount at La Maison restaurant. He speculated that member seminars on health-care issues were more valuable.
"These are the types of things that might help keep people in the coalition," he said.
James Lyle, president of Health Consultants of America, said doctors join the five medical societies his company manages to also attend seminars where they can earn credit needed to renew their licenses to practice. On the other hand, members of the Greater Augusta Association of Realtors get discounts on their continuing education seminars through contributions from their affiliate members.
"A lot of the stuff we couldn't do if it weren't for the affiliates and the things they do for us," said Beverly Pardue, executive director of the Realtors association.
Sponsor fees, like those from a member credit card, help the National Barrel Horse Association keep dues low, according to Ty Hoff, special projects manager.
"Members perceive that as an extra benefit. They think it's neat to have the association logo on their credit card," he said. "NBHA members buy what has been `endorsed' by the association."
Such endorsements help members narrow product choices to companies worthy of their colleagues' approval, said Diane James, executive director of the Georgia Society of Association Executives in Atlanta. "That certainly beats the Yellow Pages."
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Patrick Blahosky – A $2.5M Deal, Guiding Principles to Success, and Breaking the Internet
Patrick Blahosky has been a high tech sales rep since 1996 and has consistently been a top producer. During the time I worked with Patrick at HP, I was in a unique position to observe how he successfully ran his business and how he had a ton of fun doing it.
In this conversation, Patrick shares about the training he got at the beginning of his career, details of a $2.5M deal, and the guiding principles that have kept him a top sales rep for the last two decades.
Patrick also shares some practical strategies including:
- How to provide value to customers and become a trusted advisor
- Ways to manage difficult customers and complex deals
- The skill set required for effective customer presentations
If you only have 5 minutes, you have to hear this story: *[25:08] $10M Sale = Worst website crash in history
I feel fortunate to have had such a great mentor in Patrick. I have called on my friend to share his thoughts on what has made him successful so that you can do the same.
- Listen to it on iTunes. (Coming soon!!)
- Stream by clicking here.
- Download as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing "save as."
- QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
- Scroll down for show notes…
Book Recommendations:
The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
Spin Selling Training
Dale Carnegie Training
Show notes:
[3:12] Patrick's background
[5:00] Dale Carnegie Training success story
[7:00] What to look for in a company when searching for your next career opportunity
[9:04] The importance of finding a good mentor
[12:00] Having a good team
[13:28] SaaS vs Perpetual, $2.5M deal
[17:40] Long term customer relationships
[19:30] Challenging customers
[23:35] Make yourself valuable to the customer
*[25:08] $10M Sale = Worst website crash in history
[27:00] Guiding values
[29:00] End of the year karma
[31:00] Rapid fire questions
[33:30] Staying current – Industry Trends & Networking
[36:15] Actual Goals & Activities
[38:00] Advise to younger self
I hope you enjoy the podcast. I would love to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment!
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Happy Selling,
Arlina Allen