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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy may have avoided the fiscal cliff, but it is not out of the woods. Negative shocks could limit growth in 2013.
The biggest hazard is more fiscal dysfunction. Congress may have passed a deal to avoid the cliff but political leaders left many issues unresolved.
Expect another fight over raising the debt limit, which will likely include a further battle on spending cuts. One glimpse of the coming tension: the House's refusal to pass an aid bill for victims of superstorm Sandy.
What is uncertain is how the credit ratings firms will react to another protracted drama. Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. sovereign debt after the August 2011 debt-ceiling fiasco. A second downgrade could complicate investment decisions especially for funds that can only buy AAA-rated assets.
A downgrade could also dim consumer confidence, which could fall back on buying plans. Households ended 2012 downbeat about the future in large part because of the fiscal cliffhanger. Workers already face smaller paychecks this year, now that the payroll tax holiday has ended. More drama in Washington could worsen the spending outlook.
What would also hurt confidence and spending is a return of 8% unemployment. True, the extension of long-term unemployment benefits--another facet of the cliff bill--provides support for the long-run unemployed.
But not all job seekers qualify and at some point the thousands of discouraged workers will have to return to the labor force. Their re-entry will push up the rate, currently at 7.7%.
In a potential labor force of nearly 158 million, it would take fewer than 600,000 additional unemployed workers to give the jobless rate an 8% handle. An unexpected rise in unemployment would rattle households and make markets more uncertain about future Federal Reserve policy.
Foreign risks also loom. In addition to possible financial-market fallout from the continued euro-zone debt crisis and Japan's stagnation, a risk to U.S. growth from overseas could come from two sources: a trade dispute that blows up into a full trade or currency war or Mideast tensions that cause gasoline prices to spike--again.
Shocks always happen. But the U.S. economy is still extremely vulnerable to negative risks--despite more than three years into recovery. A pothole along the economic road could pull growth closer to 1% rather than the 2.3% expected now.


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Kicksave wrote:I get in 1st and he stops posting the top people.
I'm getting my just due.
enenvee wrote:Kicksave wrote:I get in 1st and he stops posting the top people.
I'm getting my just due.
You've told us you were in first enough times that I felt it would be repetitive to say it again.
Kicksave wrote:Next game, I suggest that we change up Max's multiplier. This is getting redonkulous.
Kicksave wrote:And my reign as #1 shall probably be over.
Kicksave wrote:There is no strategy with picking Talbot. It's all easy points. You should all feel shame.
JeffDFD wrote:Like I was saying, I think its a good idea to change his multiplier if he is on the first line.
JeffDFD wrote:At the very least if Crosby gets 5 goals and Talbot even accidentally touches one before he scores than Talbot gets 6
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thanks for the A.P.B. my grandfather passed and we were at his bed side all weekend, just wasnt around the computer.
Eh it gives me a challenge now!
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- To clarify a cryptic question: Let's face it: Most questions are brief efforts to encompass big issues. If you're not sure exactly what that audience member is asking, ask for more information. "That's a great question. Tell me more about what you're precisely asking so I can be sure to answer you."
- To smoke out a coded viewpoint: If your topic is controversial, or you suspect the questioner holds a particular view that she's not sharing, ask about questions when the viewpoint isn't clear. "Tell me why you ask the question in just that way" invites the questioner to explain more. It may be nothing, or you may learn just what you're walking into...before you answer.
- To encourage other questions and sharing: "I'm curious--how many of you have a story you could share about this issue?" or "Has anyone here seen what I'm talking about in action?" might help a shy questioner open up, by showing what they have in common with others in the audience.
- To focus your answer: If the question's so broad you could drive a truck through it, it might take too long to answer. In that case, feel free to lob a couple of narrowing-down questions: "Do you mean in the past year, or in all of history?" or "Are you most interested in men's responses to the survey or women's?" and similar queries can help you respond briefly and in focus.
- To learn more about the questioner: Maybe the question included specific jargon that's known mostly to specialists, or a political buzzword, or a word with multiple meanings. "Do you have experience with this issue you can share?" or "Have you done work yourself in this area?" help you--and the rest of the audience--understand whether you're fielding an expert's question.
- To defuse a leading question: "Sounds like you have an answer all ready to that one--do you?" lets a questioner who wants to lecture show her hand. Letting her explain also buys you time to respond in whatever way you choose. This works when it's obvious there's a viewpoint lurking, unlike the example in number 2, above.
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Heading to Dancing with the Stars
Good news. Tomorrow my wife and I will be heading to Disneyland for Thanksgiving. Since we're so close, I think we've got a way to get into the finale of Dancing with the Stars tomorrow night. We're definitely going to at least get in behind the scenes. If all goes well, my wife and I will have seats to watch Brooke and Derek crowned champions.
All of this means that you can expect some cool pictures from the show. Let's just hope I don't get stuck in the wretched LA traffic. Anyone know of any problems we should avoid between Disneyland and Hollywood?


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Mapping Challenges
I started working on this project about 3 weeks ago in my spare time. The first few days I spent just trying to make some pretty pictures with some basic data, maybe a DEM, some contours, some summits, etc. Once I convinced myself that what I had in mind was possible I began to work [...]
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Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness]. (ar Ruum : 41)
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why don't you put share button at the end of the entry. it'll give more benefits when someone hit the button,I guess. btw, good job!


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Hum, not much for programming, but let me know if you need anything. I have one of these cameras and would be very interested in flashing it with new firmware. I added the ver.req file in the root of the camera's flash card and got this info: P-ID:3191 NT D; Firmware Ver GM1.00B; No Error; Aug 28 2008 15:15:05;; Adj Ver.008. 009;; Adj Ver.008. 009; IS Firm Ver. 3.00; IS Param Ver. 2.04
Senrich 04:45, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
awww snap[edit source]
Just got one of these, was hoping there'd be an available chdk. Digging through the help files trying to figure out how to port chdk to it. No experience with handling disassembled files though, hope the devs will get to this soon :]
CHDK on A2000[edit source]
pls pls help me to make chdk on a2000is its a excelent camera.i buyt specialy to chdk but never try to see if its any chdk for this model.......
Just make a simple chdk to display "Hello World" on the screen... The simple "Hello World" chdk would make me happy. And, forget about my poor English.
HELP!Interlanguage links[edit source]
I wanted to translate the CHDK wiki into Chinese. But when I added zh: below the codes of the main page, the text "zh:" displayed. How can I add an interlanguage link like the link to the Japanese CHDK wiki? HELP!
Not working on firmware v 1.00B[edit source]
Hi there,
I lept for joy when I saw that CHDK was available for my A2000IS. But despite this article stating it "should" work with v1.00B firmware, I get nothing on mine. I copied all files to the car, locked the card, and reloaded it into the camera - no differenve. Am I missing something?
My firmware actually shows up as "GM1.00B" - are the letteres GM significant?
Fingers crossed that it will work soon!
Thanks in advance for any help,
Skev email@example.com
- No, the GM prefix is on all firmwares. You've done something wrong. If the firmware version was incorrect, the symptom would be the camera crashing, or behaving incorrectly. Talk pages on this wiki are generally ignored, and are not the correct place to ask for support. I suggest reading the FAQ and the FAQ/Mac if you have a Mac. If you have further trouble, use the forum, starting with the newbies section. reyalp 02:01, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
- Many thanks! It's GOOD news that the error is mine and that it might work if I try something different. I shall investigate. Thanks again, Skev
My camera broke down last night[edit source]
Forget about my poor English.
Yesterday I tried to use chdk's MF function. In alt mode, I pressed up and down button several times,and the value of "Subj. Disrt." changed between 65536 and 0. Then I rotated the zoom lever ,the MF function worked. Several minutes later , when I was looking around the chdk menu ,the camera's lcd went black and it said "lens error,please restart camera" in chinese. I just want to know if chdk caused the problem of the lens.Now the camera doesn't work. The lens goes in and out for several times after swich the camera on ,finally it displays "lens error,please restart camera".
Please help me.
- It is possible that this was caused by CHDK. It is also possible that it was coincidence. If it was caused by CHDK, this would be the first time CHDK was known to cause damage like this. See FAQ#Q._Can_CHDK_damage_your_camera.C2.A0.3F. I'll post a link in the | A2000IS thread. Perhaps other uses will comment if they have used SD override without experiencing this. You may want to try removing the batteries from your camera for some time and then putting them back in and restarting. reyalp 06:24, February 23, 2010 (UTC)
- I've got my camera repaired and it works quite well now. I thought CHDK had caused nothing because I disassembled the camera and found the lens FPC (a soft pcb that connects the pcb and the lens) had been resoldered. I used to throw and knock my camera :)*******
- I've got my camera repaired and it works quite well now. I thought CHDK had caused nothing because I disassembled the camera and found the lens FPC (a soft pcb that connects the pcb and the lens) had been resoldered. I used to throw and knock my camera :)*******


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Tossing their cookies: Harris Teeter food heads to Tennessee
After the smoke cleared from the January 15 potato chip conflagration on aisle 11 at Harris Teeter, a company spokesperson announced that everything in the store would be thrown away and the store restocked in record time to reopen on January 22.
The question for locals was: What's happening to all the food the store's pitching?
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Products said that some items in the store were fine to sell. However, Harris Teeter's Tara Stewart announced on January 16 that because the food didn't meet the company's quality standards, it was being thrown away.
But what about food banks or shelters who depend on food donations?
"We're deeming it inedible," says Stewart. "With smoke damage and water damage, it's not the quality we'd donate."
Still, some area nonprofits weren't put off by food that had survived a fire. In fact, Emergency Food Bank chair Marsha Trimble called the North Carolina-based chain to ask if any of the food was usable and if so, could the food bank have some, according to treasurer Mary Haas.
Food banks do have their standards. "We don't give away any dented cans to clients," says Haas. "If we think we wouldn't eat it, we don't give it out."
The Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank takes canned foods as long as the manufacturers' labels are visible. At the Salvation Army, Major Bruce Smith says, "If the Department of Agriculture says it's okay to use, whether it's from Harris Teeter or any place else, we'd be able to use it."
However, Smith emphasizes that the grocery chain has been good to the Salvation Army. "We would certainly trust Harris Teeter's judgment about the quality of the food," he says.
"In food banking, you have to be careful what you say," says one industry insider, who did not want to be named.
Still, the idea of a whole grocery store full of food going to the landfill raised plenty of local eyebrows.
"It's a shame when food banks are well-stocked on Christmas Eve and that's it," says Jackson Landers. "People in Charlottesville are hungry."
Well, it turns out the all the food in the store isn't going to a landfill after all.
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services spokeswoman Elaine Lidholm reports that six to eight semi-truck loads of salvageable Harris Teeter food are headed to Turrentine Salvage in Nashville, where it will go either to food banks there or salvage grocery stores.
The four truckloads destined for the landfill included all the store's alcohol– because of uncertainty about its quality after it was exposed to heat– and anything with the Harris Teeter brand name on it.
"They own the property," says Lidholm. "We say what can be salvaged, and they choose what to do with it."
Spokesperson Stewart at Harris Teeter headquarters was surprised to hear that some of the food would be saved after all. After investigating, she reported that after the fire, the contents of the store belonged to its insurance company. "We have no say in what happens to it," she says.
And to make sure there are no hard feelings about the food going out of state, Harris Teeter is giving $5,000 to the Emergency Food Bank.
She still has doubts about the suitability of using smoke- damaged food. "One guy took some canned goods from the store to his hotel room," she relates. "When he came back, the room smelled like smoke and that's from cans."
The Emergency Food Bank has no problem with receiving cash instead of food. "This is a biggie," says Haas. "We don't get lots of $5,000 donations."
Local firefighters also benefited. Harris Teeter donated $5,000 in gift cards for charities to be divided among the nine different fire departments that responded to the fire.
One day after the conflagration, the contents of the store were being emptied into trucks headed to the landfill or Tennessee. And over the weekend, more trucks lined up to restock the store. "We've never done this before," says Stewart. "We've wondered how quickly you can restock."
The company will find out– if the Charlottesville store reopens as planned at 8am on January 22.Read more on: harris teeter


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Ashcroft coup: Developer ousts board-- or tries to
Perched east of town on Pantops, Ashcroft is a friendly neighborhood with big houses that can sell for upwards of $700,000.
Make that, used to be a friendly neighborhood. Developerand resident– Rick Beyer's attempt to disband the neighborhood association's board of directors and name his own directors has left the neighborhood with two boards and the possibility of litigation in its future.
It's not clear why Beyer wanted a new board of directors, and he did not return phone calls from The Hook.
"This whole thing is close to litigation," says Fred Payne, Beyer's attorney. "It's not appropriate to discuss this in light of ongoing discussions."
One board member, who declined to be identified, believes Beyer didn't like the board's decision to raise the $480 annual fees residents pay to maintain the subdivision's pool, roads, and lawns– and its decision to raise the assessment paid by new homeowners from $750 to $1,000.
The board hired an engineer to look at the aging private streets. "They're 12 to 20 years old," says the board member. "It's going to cost $40,000 to $50,000 a year to maintain them over the next few years."
On December 10, Beyer sent a letter to members of the Ashcroft Neighborhood Association calling for a meeting on January 6. The letter detailed his intention to remove board members Jeanine Wolanski, Ron Hoffman, Bob Lee, and Lisa Lockwood, and to nominate and elect four people to replace them.
How could Beyer single handedly depose an elected group? His letter claims that his company, Liberty Land Ltd., which developed Ashcroft, controls two-thirds of the votes that would be cast at the meeting under its Class B membership rights.
The neighborhood association did not agree. It hired its own lawyer and sent a December 22 letter to neighbors maintaining that Liberty Land lost its Class B status when it sold more that 66 2/3 percent of the recorded lots in Ashcroft, and in fact is alloted only one vote for each of the 24 lots it owns of the total 161 lots in the neighborhood.
Do developers often fire a neighborhood association's officers? "This is the first I've heard of," says Ben McCauley, owner of Condominium Management of Charlottesville, which manages "quite a few" condo and homeowner associations in the area.
In business since 1988, McCauley can't even estimate the number of local homeowner associations. "Everywhere there's a new subdivision, 99 percent of the time there's a homeowners association," he notes.
Bylaws are all written differently, he observes, and they determine who has the right to do what. McCauley advised the Ashcroft board to "find a competent real estate attorney."
Ashcroftians gathered in the clubhouse meeting room January 6. Estimates range from 40 to 50 people to over 100, according to another resident, who also declined to be named. "It's the most people I've seen at a meeting that didn't involve a party," noted another board member.
Ninety-one votes were cast opposing Beyer's takeover, and six were cast in favor, says a knowledgeable source who adds, "He's entitled to 24 votes because he owns 24 lots. He's claiming 260 votes. That's what's in dispute."
Then Beyer's lawyer voted the two-thirds majority votes Liberty Land claims, and named a new board consisting of Beyer; his wife, Diana; his architect, Ted Cosner; and his real estate agent, Suzy Pace.
The latter two "don't even live here," says a board member. "You don't have to be a genius to figure out who that board represents. Now there's two boards. Somebody has to decide" which is the legitimate board of directors.
"The old board still has the bank account," adds the anonymous director.
Attorney Payne doesn't exactly agree that Ashcroft now has two boards: "I wouldn't say that," he says.
What Payne will say is this: "We have been actively trying to resolve this. The Beyers have lived in this subdivision for 20 years. The last thing they want to do is alienate anyone. They felt they didn't have any choice."
He adds, "We retain hopes we can resolve this amicably."
The attorney for the possibly ousted board, Jim Bowling, declines comment on the unusual situation, but agrees with Payne on one thing: "We've also been working to resolve this amicably."
Certainly Ashcroft residents don't like the sort of internal dissent that could land them all in court. "We'd prefer there be no animosity," says an association board member. "The developer is one of the homeowners, and we're dealing with a neighbor."
And despite the controversy over who at this point actually is running the neighborhood association, "This," the board member maintains, "is a great, close-knit neighborhood."
Things get touchy in dream neighborhood Ashcroft when the developer fires the neighborhood association board of directors and installs his own board.


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Bishop Jovan of Nis at International Conference in Varna
His Grace Bishop Dr. Jovan of Nis participated in the 19th International Conference on the theme Traditional Values and Democratic Freedoms in Modern World, in Varna beginning on 18 February 2013. After the introductory address, in which he conveyed warm greetings from both Serbian Patriarch Irinej and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Jovan delivered a lecture on the theme: Saint John Chrysostom: Liturgical Ethos and Modernity.
Representatives of Local Orthodox Churches, members of parliaments of some European states and employees of many international organizations took part in the work of the conference. The Bulgarian Patriarchate, the International Fund of the Unity of Orthodox Peoples and the City of Varna organized this conference. We publish Bishop Jovan's lecture in its integrity:
Bishop Dr. Jovan Purić: Saint John Chrysostom: Liturgical Ethos and Modernity
Modernity confronts us with many dilemmas. Man must answer challenges, and not only those for which his teachers in his educational-upbringing process prepared him, but also totally new and different problems that life places before us. And it has always been so. Still, sociologists, pedagogues and culturologists generally agree that today's world is changing at a significantly faster pace than before. The technological progress and social innovations of the 20th century have transformed the world much faster than, for instance, the entire process of technological development during medieval times. This tempo of development has continued to this day.
This process is characterized by a loss of values. Today's world functions as a marketplace, meaning that the market economy principle is seeking to impose itself as the general norm. Everything is subject to the laws of supply and demand – or at least that is the standpoint that is being imposed upon us by the global economic elite. Nevertheless, even inside that world there is a hunger for truth, for something that will not bow to the said marketplace logic. Modern man needs something he cannot buy.
What is that? It is life in truth. And where is it possible to find life in truth? Only in the place where truth resides – in Christ's Church, in its dogmas and its worldview that is, before all – liturgical. Truly, as a cosmic event, the liturgy cannot "fail" to witness to the world its true designation in communion with God. It is, thus, no wonder that the Church's most eminent liturgists have always been those that concern themselves with the problem of the relationship between the contemporary and the supertemporal, the cultural milieu and eternal truths. In line with these considerations, we shall strive to show how, through their pastoral sensibility, two glorious Church theologians and liturgists, St. John Chrysostom and Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, grasped the problem of the relationship between the Church and the world, between transformed and untransformed creation. It should be immediately pointed out that there is a strong congruence between the historical and cultural circumstances of later antique and modern civilization, and this congruence may most readily seen in the task of building a Christian identity in an environment that challenges it. However, we shall not concern ourselves here with historical details as such but shall, rather, attempt to posit the Church Liturgy (which rightly bears the name of St. Chrysostom) as the answer to the problems of modernity.
Liturgy, personality and some problems of modernity
The person is the central axiological notion of Christianity, as well as the most important problem of contemporary pedagogy. To be more exact: the person is the measure of all values because it expresses the very designation of the human being, its possibility and its goal to be in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26). To be sure, the concept of the person is not only a Christian category: more precisely, it is possible to also find it in other philosophical and theological conceptions. Nevertheless, only Christianity has produced an integral ontology of personality and established a corresponding personal pedagogy on its basis. It would be wrong to see this personal pedagogy as a theoretical principle; it should be, rather, seen as the living experience of the Church, founded before all in Christ's Theandric personality. If we bear in mind that the mystery of Christ's person, as a Church mystery, is realized in the Holy Mysteries (before all in the Holy Eucharist – as St. Nicholas Cabasilas puts it), then it becomes clear to us that the Holy Eucharist is, in fact, of essential significance to personal upbringing – in all temporal frameworks and culturological environments, since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Heb 13:8). In that way – through a Christological steadfastness of being and faith - as partakers in the new salvational existence of Redemption and Integration we can meet the challenges of modernity.
Before all, Chrysostom lived his soteriological ontology but, in no lesser degree, witnessed it in his divinely inspired writings. Today, the basics of the ontology of personality in contemporary Orthodox theology are identified with the work and deeds of the Cappadocian Fathers (primarily the great ones, although the significance of St. Peter of Cappadocia and St. Amphilochius of Iconium as collaborators of St. Basil and the two Gregories is undoubted). This should be understood in the sense that it was the Cappadocians who theoretically most clearly explained, terminologically specified and theologically integrated the concept of personality that had already been present in the reality of ecclesial life through the ETHOS OF PERSONALITY even before them. Only if we bear this in mind may we clearly understand Chrysostom's concept of personality. Namely, we can make a distinction between two planes that are mutually oriented: the first LEVEL OF TERMINOLOGICAL USE of the terms "hypostasis" and "personality" for the purpose of clarifying then current, primarily Triadological and Christological dilemmas in accordance with the theological attainments of the Cappadocian Fathers. This plane is primarily expressed in Chrysostom's theological writings, before all in his SERMONS ON THE CONSUBSTANTIALITY AND INEFFABILITY OF GOD, which does not mean that Chrysostom's exegetical works are not inwrought with the Cappadocian theory of personality. Still, we are interested in another level, the LEVEL OF THE LITURGICAL ETHOS OF PERSONALITY that can also be found in practical-pastoral works of the Great Saint, in which he touched upon everyday topics and challenges of the time. This level is not of a speculative but, rather, of a pastoral character, that is, it is possible to reconstruct and interpret the understanding of personality at this level on the basis of Chrysostom's pastoral sermons in which his sanctified-in-Grace pedagogical experience is expressed, before all through the text of Chrysostom's Holy Liturgy and Chrysostom's interpretations of divine service practice and Church texts.
In order to be able to say how this other level (the liturgical ethos level) meets the challenges of modernity, we are obliged to identify certain problems that modern man is facing in his striving to realize himself as a person, in the fullness of his being.
One of the most basic and most difficult challenges of modernity is the culture of egotism. In the domain of our home upbringing, we can all testify to the fact that up to 30 or 40 years ago the culture of patriarchal consideration prevailed, in which man as an individual, but also as a person, was encouraged not to advertise his qualities but, rather, to seek certain social confirmation, firstly within the confines of a smaller, basic social environment – the family, and then on a more general plane. Today, on the contrary, man is expected to advertise all his real or unreal qualities and to engage in the "marketing of his abilities." There are a number of reasons for this change, which was the most evident during the 1950s and 1960s (the "sexual revolution," "secularization," and the ATHEIZATION OF EUROPEAN society). Among the basic causes for this is the already quite rich history of Western individualism and rationalism. The legacy of psychoanalysis is also not uninfluential, having opened up new perspectives for understanding human social life but, at the same time, strongly affirming the human ego and self, that is, man's sense of self-sufficiency and individuality. All this is being manifested today through the said culture of egotism, which compels the individual to offer his intellectual and physical potentials in order to survive on the "employment marketplace" and the "social ladder," regardless of the degree to which he is prepared to do so. The other side of egotism, as andragogic-psychological – as well as pedagogic – practice teach us, is chronic depression as the "disease of modern society." Man feels attacked by the society that is supposedly affirming him and powerless to meet the constant challenges of the increasingly harsh and rigorous setting of conditions that he is supposed to fulfill. This leads him to a spiritual dead end, filled with a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness, as the social pace does not leave him enough space for living. Of course, it should not be forgotten that the efficiency of this "culture of egotism" is great precisely because man himself is prone to the sin of pride, i.e., prone to ascribe to himself powers and abilities that he does not possess. This susceptibility of egotism in the field of motivation, however, cannot free man from the disappointments that await him, caused by his powerlessness to establish and explain in real life the self-image he has formed, and which he has also offered to others.
How can man avoid this trap of egotism, in accordance with the God-bearing and life-bearing experience of the Holy Fathers, before all Father Saint John Chrysostom, to whom the Church's central divine service is tied? Before all, we must point out that the social situation during Chrysostom's time was in many ways similar to that of the present, except that the PAGAN HUMANISM of his time was somewhat more open to religious and other, not solely ephemeral questions than today's atheistic humanism. Egotism was quite prominent in pagan culture. On the other hand, although the pagan of that time did not necessarily have to believe in a god or gods, even the lowest social religiousness was oriented toward a belief in the immortality of each individual's soul. The pagan believed in his own immortality, even if he did not believe in gods. Of course, Christian theology did not take an a priori negative stance toward the entire Hellenic legacy, and one of the best representatives of this synthesis is Chrysostom himself. Still, it was not easy even for him to fit the anthropocentric mentality of classical humanism into Christian Theandric realism, in which both God and man are important and, by which, accordingly, both Plato and Protagoras are wrong when they say that either only God or only man is the measure of all things. Truly: who other than the inspired-by-the-Holy Spirit Holy Fathers could perform such a thing?
Egotism encourages us to view the world as an opportunity for acquisition and enjoyment: at every liturgy Chrysostom reminds us to "commend ourselves and each other, and all our life unto Christ our God." The man who is a captive of egotism is not able to build the right relationship either with God or with other people: "when there is a feeling of higher worth, it does not only damage relations between people, it also clouds the relationship with God… egotism undermines all life, which is why it is worth applying oneself towards its eradication." That is why the entire Liturgy is one great reminder to firstly overcome our own "I" in order be achieve communion in the life of the New Creation, in the future Kingdom. The mystery of offering one's own "I" in the Holy Eucharist is not a consequence of some sudden and strange altruism, but of the Christian ontology of personality, according to which a person receives an identity only in communion with other persons. St. Chrysostom splendidly explains this theory of personal relationship as the basis of the event of the Church through the relationship of personal and liturgical prayer: "You may, of course, pray in your own home, but you cannot pray in your own home the way you can in the temple, where there is such a multitude of fathers, where prayer to God is offered with one accord. When you pray to God by yourself, your prayer is not answered in the same way as it is when you pray with your brothers. FOR HERE IN THE CHURCH THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE ABOVE ALL: THE CONCORDANCE AND HARMONY OF THE FAITHFUL, A FIRM TIE OF LOVE AND THE PRIESTS' PRAYERS." Thus, even this principle of church life ("I" in relation to "thou" makes our ecclesial "we") is not a simple theory of identity; rather, it appears in the ethos of Chrysostom's Liturgy as a reminder that "commending oneself to Christ" is in fact only an offering for God-Man's act of redemption. "We do not come to Church FOR OUR OWN SAKE and not to seek our own in it, but for the sake of serving Christ's work in the world. For there is no other path for one's own salvation than to commend one's life to Christ, WHO CAME TO LOVE US AND WASHED OFF OUR SINS WITH HIS BLOOD, MAKING US KINGS AND PRIESTS OF HIS GOD AND FATHER." Therefore, the liturgical ethos of personality represents a walk along the path of Death on the Cross and burial, in order to arrive to resurrection. The presence of the faithful is, thus, their inclusion in the mystery of Christ's death. That is why the Liturgy is the true Table of the Last Supper, as a vestibule of the Kingdom of God. The Eucharist is a double reminder of our existence: a reminder of the Cross and the Resurrection, suffering and celebration, the necessity to leave our "ego" in order to make our being whole. The Liturgy is a HISTORICAL EVENT (Chrysostom quite often compared it to the Jews' Crossing of the Red Sea), but of an ESCHATOLOGICAL character. That is precisely what makes it wholly different from the dynamics of social egotism. Namely, while modernity stimulates us to live in constant frustration between the goals that are constantly placed before us as unattainable, setting newer and newer criteria in the mastering of "skills and abilities," the Eucharist as a FORETASTE represents participation, an anticipation of the Kingdom, with only one precondition: pure love and self-sacrifice for others. Modern man will never be able to meet all the demands that society places before him, or achieve and enjoy all the blessings it makes available to him. He is always torn between the work ethic, a multitude of information and constant offers to make his life easier and more pleasant and, thus, easily loses his identity. Although stimulated to create the illusion that he is master of his own life, he becomes a servant of his desire for comfort and information technologies (which can distort the natural desire for communication in the sense of creating a feeling of a non-existent, virtual reality). All that, however, is unfamiliar to the Liturgy, its immediacy and call to "set aside all the cares of life." For, "if you turn all your cares toward the Kingdom of God, says the Lord, I will not deny you that which satisfies the needs of visible nature and everything will be given to you with the rest, for I will never leave you to fend for yourselves." Thus, in order for man to meet the problems presented to him by modernity, he firstly has to discover this perspective of the Kingdom of God, which is attainable only in the Liturgy by the Holy Spirit. That is why the Eucharist is not a mere "religious custom" or a ritual act, but a "congregation of the Kingdom." Its "purpose" is not merely to fill the "spiritual desert" that modern man feels around himself – although the Eucharist indeed gives fullness to our existence. On the contrary, the Eucharist does not serve so that we might "feel better" on the spiritual plane: rather, it represents the very possibility of transforming our entire being and elevating it into eschatological existence. The Liturgy is the "destination to which we aspire," it is a "liberation of the spiritual paralysis brought unto us by life's cares," however not on the psychological but, rather, on the ontological plane, for the Eucharist is the "Eighth eveningless day." Modern man has become accustomed to such temporary solutions, to psychiatric cures that are, nevertheless, unable to save his being from the root of all problems, which is always on the plane of existence. That is why modern day man has acquired the habit of thinking even about the Liturgy as an "instant solution," of viewing it as momentary relief, a reflection of his "intimate religious needs," which is why he sees it in totally wrong cult-related and psychological categories.
The Liturgy's therapeutic character, thus, is not of a psychological but of an ontological character and, as St. Chrysostom emphasizes, in order for a man to be able to set off on the path of salvation in the first place, he must take the path of purification. It is here that the patristic experience of graceful pedagogy once again encounters the challenge of modernity. Namely, modern man's upbringing does not teach him to distinguish between passion and virtue, as both of these categories have been categorized under "psychological motives" or "affects". Of course, patristic psychology was well familiar with the fact that the same human urges can be, depending on whether they are appropriately used or abused, either good or bad – but that does not mean that one should not battle against the negative aspects of psychological motives, as modern popular psychology often suggests. On the contrary, PURIFICATION FROM PASSIONS is implicit in Chrysostom's liturgical ethos. "Do not allow any of the slavish and viperous passions," says Chrysostom, "to appear together with you at the place of Holy Elevation… let nothing stand in your way at that hour." The path of liturgy is the path of liberation, and man is not truly free until he frees himself from passion, i.e., until he acquires the fruits of virtue.
More precisely: purification is not a matter of therapeutic treatment of negative affects, but an integrated process of ATTAINING VIRTUE, which the glorious Shepherd of Antioch and Constantinople often addresses: "The one that seeks to hasten on the path of virtue and to ascend from the earth to heaven, leaves aside all that is visible and strives with all his powers to overcome everything that stands in that path, does not stop and nothing deflects his attention, until he is on a clear path to Heaven's very pinnacle." To be sure, the concept of "virtue" itself is today subject to the relativism of social norms and no longer stands at the center of modern man's interest, for which partial blame can be laid at the door of the moralistic consciousness, which equalized virtue with the attainment of norms and not the achievement of our final designation – the Kingdom of God. Here, thus, we must reemphasize that only the LITURGICAL VIEW of virtue represents an answer to modern man's lack of a clear ethical basis of support.
We would like to point out two additional important aspects of man's graceful realization of liturgical consciousness: the integration of man's being and the finding of spiritual peace. Namely, although traditional dichotomous (and trichotomous) anthropology has long since ceased to be current, modern popular views pose no less a challenge to the wholeness of man's being. Today\s man is mainly faced with two cults: the CULT OF THE BODY and the CULT OF INTELLECTUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ENTERTAINMENT, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive but which are dominant through their imposed prototypes. The dichotomy of these two dominant social models, which represents a true challenge for modern pedagogy, is based on a shallow insistence and one-sided unification of only a single aspect of the diune human being. Once again, it is the liturgical ethos that offers the possibility of overcoming this division, i.e., the Holy Liturgy as a "mystery of union" also restores the wholeness of the human being. First of all, the liturgy is an event in which the entire man participates, with his soul and body, with everything that he is, should be and can be. With all his senses, transformed, in every way, into the likeness of God-Man. "Think about the fact, my dear, that you are touching this with your hand and, hence, never raise it to strike anyone… Be conscious of the fact that you do not touch Christ solely with your hand but that you also draw nearer to him with your mouth and, hence, do keep your tongue pure, do not utter shameless and rude words, slander and curses… And when you once again recall that it is your heart that receives that terrible mystery, you will see that you must never cultivate within it conspiracies against your neighbor, but must keep your heart pure from all malevolence. That will allow you to keep secure both your eyes and ears… You have been invited to a wedding feast, my dear!" A man can truly be what he eats but, along the lines of Father A. Schmemann's convincing use of Feuerbach's ironic observation, that does not mean that man is condemned to be a banal slave of his own natural urges. A man is both what he hears and what he sees, which does not mean that he is inevitably a slave to what is presented to him. For man always has that one possibility of integrating his being, by participating in the joy of the Kingdom and freeing himself from death, the greatest enemy of the wholeness and existence of our being. And that is the Holy Eucharist.
Let us conclude this brief review of what the liturgical ethos of the Orthodox Church, expressed through the mouth of the Golden-Mouthed theologian and pastor, can offer to man's person by emphasizing that, before all, the liturgy offers peace and Christ's peace. Through his very life's path and spiritual experience, Chrysostom often had the opportunity to feel disturbed due to the malice of evil spirits and evil people. Still, his last words were, "Glory to God for all things!" This is not a matter of stoical humility, or of apathy before the inexorability of the kind of life that is quite often propagated today as the sole solution for the problems of life's vortex, but of Chrysostom's rootedness in the divine service of the Church, his realization that Christ and His Coming Kingdom are the only new things under the sun. Chrysostom knew that man's disturbed state comes from his mind and is indeed "a sickness of our mind, for if we are to be disturbed by what is happening (i.e., if events rather than we ourselves were the cause of our disturbance), then all people should be disturbed, for we are all sailing on the same sea (of life)." Nevertheless, Chrysostom ceaselessly speaks of "serenity of mind and soul," of course, "if we prepare our mind to bear all troubles easily." Still, this is not a matter of simple psychological accommodation, such as that found in today's psychiatric practice, nor of ignoring the real scope of human disorientation in this world. On the contrary, Chrysostom is aware of the fact that "we all have the sickness," which is precisely why we should all approach the communion cup, for "if those that merely touched his clothing were cured, how cured shall become those that take all of Him inside?" Thus, the peace that we receive from Christ in the Holy Eucharist wholly corresponds to the cure that we receive from Him there, and is indeed an integral, ontological peace, peace as a new way of being. "For nothing brings peace to your soul like the knowledge of God and the attainment of virtue." To be sure, this path of virtue seems terminologically and conceptually obsolete today, for we have grown accustomed to the path of immediate cures for our "complexes" and "difficulties." However, only an all-encompassing immersion in the mystery of purification, integration and peace, which we have in the liturgical ethos, can represent a lasting answer to the problems of man as a godlike and God-desiring being, of a man as a person.
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WASHINGTON — CHELSEA CLINTON never acted out during the eight years she came of age as America's first daughter.
No ditching of her Secret Service detail. No fake IDs for underage tippling. No drug scandal. No court appearance in tank top and toe ring. Not even any dirty dancing.
Despite a tough role as the go-between in the highly public and embarrassing marital contretemps of her parents, Chelsea stayed classy.
So it's strange to see her acting out in a sense now, joining her parents in cashing in to help feed the rapacious, gaping maw of Clinton Inc.
With her 1 percenter mother under fire for disingenuously calling herself "dead broke" when she left the White House, why would Chelsea want to open herself up to criticism that she is gobbling whopping paychecks not commensurate with her skills, experience or role in life?
As the 34-year-old tries to wean some of the cronies from the Clinton Foundation — which is, like the Clintons themselves, well-intended, wasteful and disorganized — Chelsea is making speeches that go into foundation coffers. She is commanding, as The Times's Amy Chozick reported, up to $75,000 per appearance.
Chozick wrote: "Ms. Clinton's speeches focus on causes like eradicating waterborne diseases. ('I'm obsessed with diarrhea' is a favorite line.)"
There's something unseemly about it, making one wonder: Why on earth is she worth that much money? Why, given her dabbling in management consulting, hedge-funding and coattail-riding, is an hour of her time valued at an amount that most Americans her age don't make in a year? (Median household income in the United States is $53,046.)
If she really wants to be altruistic, let her contribute the money to some independent charity not designed to burnish the Clinton name as her mother ramps up to return to the White House and as she herself drops a handkerchief about getting into politics.
Or let her speak for free. After all, she is in effect going to candidate school. No need to get paid for it, too.
There was disgust over Politico's revelation that before she switched to a month-to-month contract, Chelsea was getting wildly overpaid at $600,000 annually — or over $25,000 per minute on air — for a nepotistic job as a soft-focus correspondent for NBC News.
Chelsea is still learning the answer to a question she asked when she interviewed the Geico gecko: "Is there a downside to all this fame?"
The Clintons keep acting as though all they care about is selfless public service. So why does it keep coming back to gross money grabs? It's gone from two-for-the-price-of-one to three-for-the-price-of-20.
Hillary's book — which feels like something she got at Ikea and had someone put together — is drooping because it was more about the estimated $13 million advance and the campaign ramp-up than the sort of intriguing self-examination and political excavations found in the memoirs of Timothy Geithner and Bob Gates. If she had had something to say, the book might have been shorter.
Hillary doesn't see the disconnect between expressing grave concern about mounting student loan debt while scarfing six-figure sums from at least eight colleges, and counting. She says now that she's passing the university money to the foundation but, never Ms. Transparency, has refused to provide documentation of that. (She's still pocketing other huge fees for speeches like her April talk in Las Vegas to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.)
Chozick estimated that the lucrative family speechmaking business has generated more than $100 million for the former president and first lady, whose fees range from $200,000 to $700,000 per appearance. Bill alone earned $17 million last year doing what he likes to do best — talking.
"The issue is that the philanthropic beneficiary of the speeches is a foundation, structured as a public foundation but clearly synonymous with and controlled by the Clinton family," Rick Cohen writes in Nonprofit Quarterly, adding: "Donors and institutions that are paying them and their daughter huge sums for their speeches may very well be buying recognition and face time with powerful political leaders who they hope will be able to deliver political favors in the future.
"It is troubling when corporate donors give to political charities with a more or less obvious expectation that softer and gentler treatment will ensue in the future. It is also troubling when some of the payers are public or nonprofit entities themselves such as colleges and universities, converting taxpayer funds and tax-exempt donations into signals that could end up in positive treatment when these institutions are themselves seeking access and favors, even if it is only a good word put in by one of the Clintons to a federal agency providing funding or to a regulator who might be taking a critical look at university tuitions and endowment payouts."
The Clintons were fiercely protective of Chelsea when she was a teenager, insisting on respect from the media and getting it. They need to protect their daughter again, this time from their wanton acquisitiveness.


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UnNews:World cowers in horror at Paris's return
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
26 June 2007
THE VIPER ROOM, Los Angeles, Tuesday (U! News) — Paris Hilton left jail Tuesday after a bizarre three-week stay in which the fabric of the Universe briefly warped to release her to her Hollywood Hills home, then warped again to send her screaming and crying back to a county lockup.
The 26-year-old celebutarde levitated out of the all-women's jail in Lynwood to an enormous horde of Center for Disease Control scientists after midnight. Hilton smiled as she left the jail, her eyes and left nipple radiating sickly green laser beams and small sparks coming from her fingertips. Her parents, Kathy and Rick, met her in a black armored cattle truck as scientists took measurements and Hilton, wearing an off-the-breast gold blouse, waved to the crowd, killing three and injuring seven.
Hilton began her 45-day sentence for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless superhero combat incident after a night on the town with Britneyzilla and Mecha-Lohan, in which large swathes of Hollywood were destroyed, raising property values. She was mostly confined to a radiation-proof diamagnetic adamantium isolation chamber away from the other 2,200 inmates.
A few days into her stint at the Twin Towers medical ward, the heiress revealed in a phone call to Barbara Walters a new outlook on life. "I used to, like, act dumb. LOL! It was, like, an act. Well, duh. Honest.
"With great power comes great respuh— respondah— stuff, y'know, like the Spider guy said. It's time for me to be, like, a role model. Imagine thousands of young girls wanting to be just like me."
- Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell "From Hell". America's Best Comics, June 26, 2007


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The United Nations today celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day which seeks to spotlight the historic influence the jazz music genre has had in connecting people and igniting social change.
"Jazz makes the most of the world's diversity, effortlessly crossing borders and bringing people together," said the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova. "From its roots in slavery, this music has raised a passionate voice against all forms of oppression. It speaks a language of freedom that is meaningful to all cultures."
Born in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, jazz is rooted in African traditions, draws from European musical forms, and has evolved into various styles across the globe.
At the UNESCO General Conference in November last year, the international community proclaimed 30 April as International Jazz Day, with the intention of raising awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.
Herbie Hancock, the legendary American jazz pianist and composer, is the force behind UNESCO's International Jazz Day. Asked what were the values of jazz, Mr. Hancock said: "Living in the moment, working together and, especially, respecting others. Music, and jazz in particular, is an international language that represents freedom because of its origin—growing out of slavery."
Some of the biggest names of jazz have celebrated the international day with concerts in Paris, New Orleans and New York, and others will be held in more than 100 cities around the world including Moscow, Muscat, Havana, and Yerevan.
In New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, UN Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock was joined by other jazz luminaries in a performance in Congo Square at sunrise. Students and schools from around the world have been invited to play the song "Watermelon Man" along with Mr. Hancock and upload their performances online through YouTube.
Tonight on the international day, UNESCO, along with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, will host a concert at UN Headquarters which will feature an all-star cast of performers, among them Tony Bennett, Chaka Khan, Angélique Kidjo and Romero Lubambo, as well as Mr. Hancock. Co-hosts include actors Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Quincy Jones. Both concerts will be broadcast live on the UN's YouTube page and will be available to the public.
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Among the most ancient and important Lycian cities, TLOS stands beside modern Asarkale village. Hittite records from the fourteenth century BC refer to it as "Dalawa in the Lukka lands", and the local discovery of a bronze hatchet dating from the second millennium BC confirms the long heritage of the place. However, little else is known about its history.
The ruins themselves, while reasonably abundant, are often densely overgrown or even farmed, so precise identification of buildings is debatable. The setting is undeniably impressive, a high rocky promontory giving excellent views of the Xanthos valley. The acropolis bluff is dominated by an Ottoman Turkish fortress, home during the nineteenth century to the brigand and local chieftain, Kanlı ("Bloody") Ali Ağa, who killed his own wayward daughter to uphold the family's honour. Now used as a football pitch and pasture, it has obliterated all earlier remains on the summit. On its northeast side, the acropolis ends in almost sheer cliffs; the eastern slope bears traces of the Lycian city wall.
The site
Entry to the main site at Tlos is via the still intact northeastern city gate, next to the guard's portakabin. Cobbled stairs climb to the main necropolis with its freestanding sarcophagi and complex of rock-cut house-tombs, one of which was discovered intact in 2005 yielding treasure kept at the Fethiye museum. If, however, you walk along a lower, level path from the gate, outside the city walls, you reach a second group of rock tombs. Dip below and right of these along a zigzagging trail to reach the temple-style Tomb of Bellerophon, at the hill's northern base. Its facade was hewn with columns supporting a pediment, and three carved doors. A relief on the left wall of the porch represents the mythical hero Bellerophon (from whom one of Tlos' ancient ruling families claimed descent), riding Pegasus, while facing them over the door a lion symbolically stands guard. It's a fifteen-minute scramble down requiring good shoes, with a ladder ascent at the end, and both figures have been worn down by vandals and the elements.
Between the east slope of the acropolis hill and the curving onward road, a large, seasonally cultivated open space is thought to be the agora. Close to the base of the hill are traces of seats, part of a stadium which lay parallel to the marketplace. The opposite side of the agora is flanked by a long, arcaded building identified as the market hall.
Well beyond this, reached by a broad path off the eastbound road, lie the baths, where the sound of running water in nearby ditches lends credence to its identification. This atmospheric vantage point is perhaps the best bit of Tlos: three complete chambers, one with an apsidal projection known as Yedi Kapı (Seven Gates), after its seven intact windows, which provide a romantic view of the Xanthos valley. Sadly, it's closed indefinitely for excavations that aim to uncover the fine marble floor and have also revealed a large, possibly Christian, cemetery.
Just north of the modern through-road, 34 rows of seats remain intact in a magnificent second-century AD theatre. The stage building holds several finely carved blocks – including one with an eagle beside a garlanded youth – and its northern section still stands to nearly full height, vying with the backdrop of mountains.
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Full Tilt Poker CEO Pledges to Return Player Money, Delaware Is First to OK Online Casinos
Online poker players still await refunds as Delaware tests gambling waters.
July 3, 2012 -- Full Tilt Poker CEO Raymond Bitar says he will do "whatever is required" to return millions of dollars to online poker players who lost access to their cash after the site was closed down by the government.
Bitar, 40, was arrested on Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Bitar was charged last year with gambling, bank fraud and money laundering in connection with the operation of Full Tilt Poker.
Bitar is charged with promising players that their funds would be protected in "segregated" accounts when the company used the money to pay for Full Tilt operations and to pay Bitar and other owners over $430 million, according to Bharara. Full Tilt Poker was unable to pay the about $350 million it owed to players in the U.S. and around the world.
On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freedman agreed to release Bitar on $2.5 million bond secured by $1 million in cash or property and the signatures of five financially responsible people, Business Week reported.
On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Attorneys Office said Bitar remains detained because has not yet satisfied his bail conditions.
In an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, Bitar and Full Tilt Poker were charged with violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, enacted by Congress in late 2006, which made it a crime to "knowingly accept" most forms of payment "in connection with the participation of another person in unlawful Internet gambling."
But the battle to keep Americans from gambling online seems to be a losing one for the feds.
Last week Delaware Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed into law the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012, which will allow the state's three casinos to offer casino games online to those within state borders. The bill passed the state Senate 14-6 on Wednesday.
"We're talking about a couple thousand jobs," Markell told USA Today. "The competitive landscape for this industry has changed dramatically."
Delaware will be the first state to allow full-service casino gambling online as it faces stiff competition from nearby Pennsylvania and Maryland. By 2013, Delaware residents and visitors will be able to play roulette, blackjack and other casino games online and most likely on their smartphones, bound within state borders by geolocation services.
The online gambling space has been void of competition since April 15, 2011, when the three largest online poker companies operating in the U.S. were shut down by the Department of Justice, cutting off a source of income for online professional gamblers across the country.
In a statement, Bitar said he "voluntarily" returned to the U.S. from Full Tilt's headquarters in Ireland to face the charges against him:
"I know that a lot of people are very angry at me. I understand why. Full Tilt should never have gotten into a position where it could not repay player funds. For the last 15 months, I have worked hard on possible solutions to get the players repaid. Returning today is part of that process. I believe we are near the end of a very long road, and I will continue to do whatever is required to get the players repaid, and I hope that it will happen soon. Thank you."
Full Tilt Poker, a company founded by professional poker players in the U.S. in 2004, offered Internet gambling to U.S. residents, and took in an estimated $1 billion from U.S. residents through April 15, 2011, according to the indictment.
The U.S. Attorney's office said, "Because U.S. banks were largely unwilling to process payments for illegal Internet gambling," Bitar and co-defendant, Nelson Burtnick, the head of Full Tilt Poker's payment processing department, "relied on fraudulent means designed to trick U.S. banks by disguising payments to Full Tilt Poker as payments unrelated to Internet gambling."
John Bauhman, an attorney for Bitar and a partner at Paul, Weiss, said he and his client "had previously informed the United States Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Ray and I would be arriving at JFK this morning on a flight from Europe, and Ray's surrender took place at the airport in my presence and without incident."


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MySQL Connector/NET Release Notes
This release fixes bugs since 6.2.4.
incorrectly returned
false when testing
whether a keyword was part of the connection string.
(Bug #11766671, Bug #59835)
SchemaDefinition-5.5.ssdl was modified to
CHAR(36) columns as a GUID.
(Bug #61657, Bug #12708208)
SqlFragment.QuoteIdentifier was modified to
add MySQL quotes around identifiers.
(Bug #61635, Bug #12707285)
MySqlConnection.BeginTransaction to
throw a
NotSupportedException for
Snapshot isolation level.
(Bug #61589, Bug #12698020)
MysqlDataReader.GetSchemaTable returned
incorrect values and types.
(Bug #59989, Bug #11776346)
All queries other than
INSERT were executed
individually instead of as a batch even though batching was
enabled for the connection.
(Bug #59616, Bug #11850286)
MySQL Connector/NET generated an exception when executing a query consisting of ';', for example:
mycmd(";",mycon) mycmd.executenonquery()
The exception generated was:
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.TrimSemicolons(String sql) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteReader() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
(Bug #59537, Bug #11766433)
Membership.ApplicationName had no
(Bug #59438, Bug #11770465)
NullReferenceException was thrown on
disposal of a
TransactionScope object.
(Bug #59346, Bug #11766272)
MembershipProvider did not generate hashes
correctly if the algorithm was keyed. The Key of the algorithm
should have been set if the
HashAlgorithm was
(Bug #58906)
Code introduced to fix bug #54863 proved problematic on .NET version 3.5 and above. (Bug #58853)
MySqlTokenizer contained unnecessary
Substring and
Trim calls:
string token = sql.Substring(startIndex, stopIndex - startIndex).Trim();
The variable
token was not used anywhere in
the code.
(Bug #58757)
threw a
NullReferenceException when being
called with
if the SQL statement contained a syntax error, or contained
invalid data such as an invalid column name.
(Bug #58652)
ReadFieldLength() returned incorrect value
BIGINT autoincrement columns.
(Bug #58373)
MySQL Connector/NET did not support the
utf8mb4 character
set. When attempting to connect to
tables or columns, an exception
KeyNotFoundException was generated.
(Bug #58244)
A typed dataset did not get the table name. (Bug #57894, Bug #11764989)
MySqlCommand.CommandTimeout to 0 had
no effect. It should have resulted in an infinite timeout.
(Bug #57265)
When performing a row-by-row update, only the first row was updated and all other rows were ignored. (Bug #57092)
Setting the
Default Command Timeout
connection string option had no effect.
(Bug #56806)
When an output parameter was declared as type
MySqlDbType.Bit, it failed to return with the
correct value.
(Bug #56756)
MySqlHelper.ExecuteReader did not include an
overload accepting
MySqlParameter objects
when using a
MySqlConnection. However,
MySqlHelper did include an overload for
MySqlParameter objects when using a string
object containing the connection string to the database.
(Bug #56755)
Default values returned for text columns were not quoted. This
meant that the
COLUMN_DEFAULT field of the
GetSchema columns collection did not return a
valid SQL expression.
(Bug #56509)
MySQL Connector/NET for .NET/Mono attempted to dynamically load the assembly
Mono.Posix.dll when a Unix socket was used
to connect to the server. This failed and the connector was not
able to use a Unix socket unless the
Mono.Posix.dll assembly was previously
loaded by the program.
(Bug #56410)
ProviderManifest.xml to map
TIMESTAMP database columns to the
DateTime .NET type.
(Bug #55351, Bug #12652602)
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model could not add stored procedures from MySQL Server 5.0.45 but worked fine using MySQL Server 5.1. (Bug #55349)
Fixed Entity Framework provider
clause generation by adding all group-by keys to the
SELECT statement.
(Bug #46742, Bug #12622129)


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The flow velocity of a liquid in pipes varies across the cross-section of the pipe. The flow velocity profile depends on whether the flow is laminar or turbulent.
With laminar flow, the velocity close to the pipe wall is close to zero, while relatively high in the middle of the pipe. With turbulent flow, the velocity is more even over the entire cross-section, however still a bit lower at the pipe wall. Friction losses are generated at the pipe wall. Velocity profiles of the two forms of flow are shown in the illustration.


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Malloy issues health care challenge to NRA
HARTFORD -- Commemorating Connecticut's first anniversary of tougher gun laws, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy didn't mince words on Thursday, challenging the National Rifle Association to support the federal Affordable Care Act and help expand opportunities for mental-health treatment.
Speaking in the same spot in an ornate Capitol meeting room where last April 4 he signed gun restrictions in response to the Newtown school shootings, Malloy said that while the NRA professes to support enhanced mental-health services, it doesn't.
"There are those who will say this is not a gun problem, it's a mental health problem, and today I want to challenge that," he said. "If it's a mental-health problem, NRA, why aren't you advocating for the ACA? Why aren't you criticizing governors who will not allow Medicaid to be delivered to their citizens, with its mental-health component? NRA, if you're serious about making America safer, you would join Connecticut, as we have had one of the most successful rollouts of the ACA, bringing mental-health treatment to tens of thousands of people who might not otherwise have it."
The NRA did not return a request for comment. A pro-gun rally sponsored by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League is scheduled for noon Saturday on the state Capitol grounds.
During a 45-minute news conference, Ron Pinciaro, president of the umbrella group CT Against Gun Violence, announced that 20 participating activist would form a so-called super PAC to support politicians who work for tighter gun laws and who voted in favor of last year's bill to create further prohibitions on military-style weapons and ban large-capacity ammunition magazines.
Social media, billboards and other support activities are to be part of the political action committee's tactics.
"We are united in our commitment," Pinciaro said. "For those who thought the 'Connecticut effect' may have worn off by now, that is absolutely not the case. Our members are every bit (as) committed as they were a year ago, when the landmark bipartisan bill was signed. And now, working with this coalition you see here today, we will show our gratitude, our commitment and our support for those who stood with us."
About 100 people heard Pinciaro say that Wednesday's shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas underscored the prevalence of violence in the nation, despite Connecticut's efforts last year that gave the state the second-toughest gun control laws in the nation.
"They say that lightning doesn't strike twice until it does," Pinciaro said.
"Gun homicides in Connecticut have fallen from 115 in 2012 to 72 in 2013," he said. "That's the lowest rate since 2002."
In the big cities of Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, where 75 percent of Connecticut gun homicides occur, such deaths dropped from 75 in 2011 to 50 in 2013.
The Rev. Max Grant, of the Greenwich Council Against Gun Violence, said there is a conscious choice for people.
"As a nation, we must choose who we will serve," he said. "Will we serve the merchants of death who make profit from destruction? Will we serve those who say 30-round clips and an assault weapon are vital for hunting? Will we serve those who say it is fair and right that driving a car or getting on a plane should be harder to do that it is to purchase a handgun?"
Dr. William Begg, of the United Physicians of Newtown, who was in the Danbury Hospital emergency room during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, said that the weaker gun policies are, the higher the number of gun-related deaths will be every year.
"The Newtown tragedy of 2012 was the tipping point," Begg said. "It was the time America said enough is enough -- we cannot continue to allow 30,000 to die from guns each year."
David Stowe, a co-founder of the Newtown Action Alliance, said violence continues.
"Strong gun laws will not stop all gun violence, but they are important, key parts to the solution," he said.
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I was waiting for a DavidxFlowerGirl meme. Nice work.
I was waiting for a DavidxFlowerGirl meme. Nice work.
The first picture looks Dr. Suess-ish. I like how Mike is your favorite but also your least favorite.
This is a good meme.
Wow, I love the style!!
And I... like Poland POLSKA!!!!!!
You had every opportunity for Mike x Mike.
And you passed it up...
If only there was a question "Which character do you wish appeared more" or something where the answer could be Mike. And then have all three make out for Mike x Mike x Mike
@Ace: Seriously? I finished the drawing. It was gross - therefore I eresed it. And now I can't get the image of 'human Mike being blown by human Mike' out of my head. Guuuhhbdgh.
Pfft~ ALL THE MORE REASON YOU SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED IT
MikexMike(xMike) lives on apparently.
It never died.
música macabra ruinruinruinruinruinruinruinruinruin aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa el que dibujo eso tiene razón miguel cambio cuando tenia la otra bufanda ya no quiso a lucy y se lo dio tess de seguro le puso un chip para que ya no amara a lucy con la azul si la quería aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
lol 10
siema ;D aa i fajnie zrobiles to gj


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