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Huzur recited the following verse at the start of today's Friday Sermon:
'Believe, therefore, in Allah and His Messenger, and in the Light which We have sent down. And Allah is Well-Aware of all that you do.' (64:9).
Huzur remarked at the tremendous favour of God on mankind for bestowing it with brain-power which enables it to traverse scientific and technological inventions at an astonishing speed. However, is this progress of material nature the objective of man's life? Man of each age and era has been assuming that his wealth and power is everything. In today's age, younger people who are not inclined to religion consider the medium of TV and internet a source of their progress which of course is an extremely erroneous concept. This concept has gone on to give rise to many a great oppressor; many Pharaoh-like individuals. God, Who is the Lord of all the worlds has rejected this concept in very strong terms. This indeed is not the objective of man's life. For God states in the Holy Qur'an: 'And I have not created the Jinn and the men but that they may worship Me.' (51:57).
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) wrote that it is a great pity that upon entering adulthood many people leave God and are inclined to worldliness in which some have only a small portion for God, while others have none, and they are wholly taken in by the world. God has been sending His Prophets in order to guide people away from this mistaken notion and to make them understand the real objective of their creation. When mankind had reached a steady stage of spiritual and temporal development, God sent the perfect man, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) with the final Shariah and announced ' … This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour upon you and have chosen for you Islam as religion…' (5:4). The Holy Qur'an, through which this final Shariah was revealed elucidates the ways to attain nearness of God, ways of touching higher standards of worship, ways of fulfilling social commitments, ways of treating one's enemy, ways of honouring rights of the under-privileged in society, ways of rights of women, ways of benefitting from future inventions and guidance for understanding all that there is in the heavens and the earth. The Qur'an mentions everything; some of which man did not understand 1400 years ago and some of which man is still endeavouring to understand. Although the Qur'an mentions matters that the believer of 1400 years ago did not understand, however, the perception and insight of the perfect man, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) understood it. He was endowed by God with the perfect light (nur) and in turn, his Companions had a share of this light in accordance with their capacities. The Companions then went on to spread this light in the world and thus the light was transmitted. Regarding the matters of which man of that age did not have an insight, it was stated that this perfect Book will continue to illuminate till the Day of Judgement.
A believer's sight is not limited to the material benefit of worldly inventions. Having understood the objective of his creation, he tries to benefit from the true light (nur) that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) brought. Just as, having found the light, the lost people of 1400 years ago touched the heights in every field, similarly until the Day of Judgement whoever will form a true connection with the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be on him) will continue to come out of darkness and into light and will be a recipient of God's Light in this world and the Hereafter.
God states in the Qur'an, 'A Messenger, who recites unto you the clear Signs of Allah, that he may bring those who believe and do good deeds out of every kind of darkness into light. And whoso believes in Allah and does good deeds — He will make him enter Gardens, through which rivers flow, to abide therein for ever. Allah has indeed made excellent provision for him.' (65:12) Attainment of God's pleasure is subject to adherence to the blessed model and teachings of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). In order to partake of the light of God, in addition to belief, attention needs to be drawn to good works and to protect oneself against sin. The verse recited at the beginning [of the Sermon] makes it clear that belief would give one a portion of all kinds of light (nur). God is aware of everything, it is in His knowledge who is doing what to please Him and how much is one following the blessed model of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and whether it is all sincere or merely verbal professing.
It is God's favour on us that He sent the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) in whose teaching is the permanence of this world and the Hereafter. It is, therefore, hugely important that we practise his teachings. Then there is the continuing favour rooted in the Quranic solace of 'And among others from among them…' (62:4) [mentioning the people of the latter days] that the beneficence of the Prophet (peace and blessings on him) and the Qur'an is continual. After a long period of spiritual darkness God sent the true and ardent devotee of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him), the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) who took the greatest portion of the light of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and who once again guided the world to light. While the glad-tidings of Paradise in following the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) is solace for Ahmadis, it is also a matter to reflect on, to always self-examine. The benefit of this light is conditional to belief but along with belief good works are also essential.
Which works are good and which not good? For instance, in life there are happy occasions as well as sad occasions. What are our limitations to celebrate happy occasions and what are our limits to commemorate sad occasions? Influenced by the world, Muslims have included bad innovations and idle practices to their happy occasions as well as sad occasions. Ahmadis need to reflect that whatever they do is within the limitations. One happy occasion is that of marriage. It is an obligation. When the Companions suggested spending their lives solely in worship of God, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) told them that virtue is in following his practice and his practice was to marry as well as worship God. In the sub-continental culture some practices have found way in marriage celebrations which have nothing to do with the teaching of Islam. So much money is spent on marriage celebrations that in places where these rituals are followed people have assumed that these are among the obligations of marriage. For example, there is the Mehndi (Hina) ceremony. It is given the same significance as the wedding day. Invitation cards are printed, stages are prepared and series of parties continue for many days prior to the wedding. Each day a new stage/dais is set up, the lavish meals are discussed and reviewed. This ritual has also grabbed hold of those who do not have the means to afford it and as a result they have to endure debt.
Non-Ahmadis have been following these rituals but now some Ahmadi households are also practising some of these idle matters. Huzur said he had recently drawn attention that we should desist from extravagance and lavish dinners at the Mehndi ceremony. On the day [of the earlier sermon] a family from London were holding a Mehndi reception. Upon listening to Huzur's sermon, they cancelled the reception and instead invited a few friends of the bride to dinner. They sent the food which was prepared for the reception to a function that was being held at Baitul Futuh. Such are the Ahmadis who act immediately upon being reminded and also write in letters of apology. However, Huzur said, he has received some complaints from Pakistan and also from Rabwah. Some people are getting involved in these rituals a little too much. Rabwah is a small town, so everything is noted quite quickly there. Therefore, Huzur said, he was saying it openly that these idle rituals and ceremonies should not be followed and should be brought to an end.
Explaining the futility of wasteful expenses on such occasions through the august writings of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Huzur remarked that in Pakistan on one hand there is an upheaval about lack of electric power, everyone mentions it and there is also regular electrical load-shedding. On the other hand, some households are extremely extravagant in displaying outlandish lights at marriage ceremonies. Not only do they incur loss to the nation, they are also being sinful. Therefore, Ahmadis in Pakistan should take care that there is no overspending and in Rabwah particularly this matter should be paid attention to. It is the responsibility of Sadr Amoomi (head of all the saadran of Rabwah) to keep in view that there is no unnecessary spending and ostentation at marriages.
Huzur said it is with the grace of God that Ahmadis are not involved in bad rituals at sad occasions which non-Ahmadis follow and more than often which are a burden on families. If, influenced by society, one kind of bad rituals are followed, then there is a possibility that the other kind will also set in. This is why Ahmadis should reflect on the favour on them that they are in the Community of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and only follow the true teaching of Islam. In Islam marriage is an obligation and a wedding reception may be held if it can be afforded. Meal can be served at the reception although it is not essential that all the guests are served a meal. If the wedding party is travelling from a long distance, then maybe just they can be served a meal. However, if the law of the land does not permit serving a meal then it should be avoided. At one time serving a meal at weddings was legislated against in Pakistan. Huzur said he was not aware of the exact current restrictions but some restrictions still apply. The authentic commandment in Islam is that of holding a reception for Walima, that too in accordance to one's means. God has told us the objective of our creation and any good work that is done to please God becomes [a form of] worship.
Huzur said, today it is Ahmadis who stand for a society to establish pleasure of God and rights of others. Who else but Ahmadis have pledged that they will give up following idle rituals and greediness, who else but Ahmadis have pledged that they will totally accept the kingdom of the Holy Qur'an, who else but Ahmadis have pledged that they will make the Word of God and the word of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) their modus operandi. It is therefore required of them that they honour these pledges. By doing so they are not restricting themselves, rather they are safeguarding against the entrapment of Satan. They are trying to burnish their perception and insight, preserving their chastity and purity, are raising the standards of modesty/decency, are trying to instil patience and contentment, inculcate piety and taqwa, are trying to fulfil the dues of their trusts and are trying to attain high standards of worship of God by turning to Him out of His love and with sincerity, so that they may attain the objective of their creation.
Huzur said he just referred to raising standards of modesty/decency; modesty is indeed part of faith. The inventions of TV and the Internet have redefined modesty/decency, where blatant indecency is not considered so anymore. The standard of the modesty/decency of an Ahmadi is not what can be viewed on TV and the Internet. This prevalent indecency has also turned around the standards of modesty in some apparently decent Ahmadi household. In the name of progress some matters are adopted which are intolerable for any decent person even if it is [between] husband and wife. Some matters are such that when they are done in front of others, not only are they unwarrantable, they become sin. If Ahmadi families do not clean themselves of such vulgarities, then they have not honoured their pledge and have wasted their belief. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) clearly said that modesty is part of faith. Each Ahmadi young person should particularly keep in mind not to be entrapped by the media and its prevalent indecency or they may lose their faith. It is due to these indecencies that some individuals exceed all limits and as a result have to be ex-communicated. A Hadith relates that indecency makes the perpetrator unsightly and modesty gives a modest and bashful person inner and outer beauty.
Another Hadith relates, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him said), 'Be shy of God as much as is His due.' The Companions present said, 'All praise to Allah, we are shy of Him.' The Prophet said, 'That is not the point. Whoever is shy of Allah should protect his head and the thoughts that enter it, protect his stomach and the food that he puts in it. He who remembers death and trials abandons the adornments of this world. Whoever fulfils these duties has been shy of Allah as much as is His due.' Huzur said this is the admonishment. If certain thoughts come they should be shirked off through Istaghfar (asking forgiveness of Allah). Similarly one's earning should be pure and through lawful means. Huzur cited the example of the practice of bribery in Pakistan which constitutes earning of forbidden means.
Huzur cited a prayer of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) to seek God. 'O my Powerful God, O my Beloved Guide, show us those paths through which the truthful and pure find You. Save us from those paths which only lead to lust, malice, rancour or worldly customs and rituals.'
Stressing the need to follow these teachings and rejecting materialistic tendencies Huzur cited the following verse, '…He enjoins on them good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful for them the good things and forbids them the bad, and removes from them their burden and the shackles that were upon them…' (7:158). Huzur said in order to fulfil our obligation to take the message of Islam to the world we need to cast off the shackles of this world. We need to be mindful that we are the followers of that Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) who taught what was permissible and what was forbidden and thus removed the shackles of erroneous concepts. Unfortunately, Muslims are putting on some of these shackles back on. After coming into the bai'at of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Ahmadis once again came to understand how to remove these shackles. In order to avoid putting them back on we need to exercise caution and be mindful of disregard.
There is need to constantly self-examine. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) who was nur-personified would pray, 'O Allah, place nur in my heart and various parts of my body'. Huzur explained this prayer was actually to teach us how to use our faculties according to the teachings of God. May God enable us to strengthen our faith, to practise the Word of God and His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him), to avoid bad customs, to avoid the sins of this world and may we always partake of God's Nur. May any wretchedness of ours never deprive us of this Nur.
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Now, we've found a quite intriguing bug in it (#552678). Basically, it seems that when an image, say a jpeg, is bigger than the buffer size of the pixbuf loader, the image won't be loaded.
If there are any GDI+ experts around that can figure out what's wrong in our code, the Win32 team would be really greatful. You can find a testcase attached to the bug.


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You may have seen the story of the iPhone which was dropped from perhaps 13,500 feet by a skydiver - it survived.
This made me wonder how to work out the terminal velocity for something like that. Obviously calculating terminal velocity for a sphere can be relatively straightforward, but with a flattened oblong, what factors come into play?
End on will be fast, flat will be slow, but is there a stable configuration?


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HTC had a pretty dismal 2011. First, the company started releasing phones with a locked down bootloader, which led to the company receiving heavy criticism and making an impact on its sales. Secondly, HTC literally spammed the market with Android phones that were hardly different from each other, and all of them failed to make a significant impact – sales wise.
Thankfully, HTC has realized their mistake and will be releasing fewer Android phones this year. For the first problem, HTC released a web-based bootloader-unlocking tool last year, which allows developers or advanced users to unlock the bootloader on their handset. Still, the official tool from HTC only supported a handful of their latest handsets, which was quite a major issue.
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This Article From Issue
November-December 2008
Volume 96, Number 6
Page 443
To the Editors:
I enjoyed reading Normal Cook's article on "Seeing Harmony" (July–August). It's a nice theory, but is there any data to support it? A multidimensional scaling experiment conducted in several different cultures would be worthwhile. Subjects could make a simple "sounds similar" rating for pairs of stimuli and then could rate the pairs for emotional similarity. I know that there is a long-standing impressionistic literature, but that would not be sufficient for a detailed analysis. I have seen two recent papers in the journal Science that treat harmonic relationships as a geometric manifold. I wonder how Dr. Cook's work relates to those papers, which mainly concern chord sequences and voice-leading?
Burt Rosner
University of Oxford, England
To the Editors:
I found Norman Cook's article to be very interesting, and it motivated me to investigate further the findings of Helmholtz. I have a feeling that Helmholtz overestimated the importance of overtones—and underestimated the importance of the fundamental—in the perception of dissonance/consonance. Has anyone studied whether perceptions of dissonance/consonance change when overtones are (as much as possible) eliminated, as with electronic sine-wave oscillators? Does an augmented fourth really sound consonant if the overtones are removed?
Greg Hutton
Falls Church, VA
To the Editors:
Norman Cook's excellent article helped immensely in my own arguments regarding the idea of relationals and their successively higher-order role in evolving man's speech and music. Virtually all successively higher-order evolution has been marked by successively higher-order capability for response to successively higher-order relational properties of the environment. Frequency and rhythm, then, were principals of such relationals in the eventual registration and use of sound as generally manifest from first cold-blooded vertebrates upward. Therefore, the successively evolving, frequency-sensitive cochlea was principal to its co-evolution of meaning—howls, purrs, grunts and so on. The registration and use of the higher-order relationals, such as birdsong, identify successively higher-order responses to relationals in complexes of sound. In hominid evolution, marked by the evolution of distinctly human deliberative capability, it was only a matter of time (for music) before successively higher-order response to relationals in sound was manifest in individuals being able to "hold a note" and others holding different notes at the same time. These still-higher-order relationals—discordant or otherwise—are precisely the half-tones, triads and so forth identified in the article.
Perry Bezanis
San Pedro, CA
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I still run lots of rather simple harmony experiments and will think about an "emotional similarity" experiment for the future. But is my current work a theory without experimental support? Not really. The starting point of my own obsession with triadic harmony specifically is that the rather successful models used to describe interval perception completely fail to explain harmony. Some argue that the typical perception of the augmented chord as being low on "tonalness" is learned, a purely cultural effect. I do not believe this view. If there isn't something acoustical in the augmented chord that gives it its unusable sonority, then what is the point of any kind of auditory psychophysics other than to demonstrate what people in different cultures have learned? What we know both from laboratory experiments and from the incidence of chord usage in classical/popular music is that some chords sound relatively stable (sonorous, beautiful, tonal, strong, resolved) and others less so. There are lots of ways of measuring that and tabulating their incidence as chords or short melodies in classical and popular music. There are of course influences from musical training and culture, but I take that sequence to be an empirical fact in need of explanation. My general conclusion is that the strongly reductionist "summation of interval effects" approach to harmony is too simple. Three tones is not too complex to do controlled experiments with, so, before jumping to the conclusion that everything is context dependent, I think there is a world of three-tone psychophysics that needs to be addressed.
Regarding Mr. Hutton's query about overtones, we have done experiments using different types of tones (sine-wave, grand piano and others) and do not find big differences due to upper harmonic structure. Some problems remain, however, in so far as it is technically difficult to deliver a pure fundamental frequency without some overtones generated in the musical instrument or amplifier. But probably a bigger problem is that, since all musical sounds from real instruments do indeed have upper partials, the typical human listener probably has a strong association between the fundamental frequency and a set of upper partials that usually accompany it. So, even if the signal is "pure," the perception is probably muddied by that kind of inevitable association. I'm not sure how to get around that problem to find out what the perception of pure fundamentals really is. It seems to me that this is a problem for psychology, because we want to reduce stimuli to their simplest form, and yet there are all kinds of contextual cues that do have effects.
From the perspective of human psychology, I think Mr. Bezanis is onto the main issue. The terminology is still debated and uncertain—and worth spending our time on—but it is certainly higher-order relations of some kind. What is amazing to me is that a number of researchers in psychology prefer to rely solely on quite low-level phenomena in trying to explain higher-level phenomena. I am convinced that three-body or three-cue effects need to be specifically addressed and cannot be explained as the sum of multiple two-body effects. I think we have shown that in the realm of harmony perception, but there are many other topics of higher-order perception/cognition that still need to be addressed in a similar manner.


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The Showtime comedy series House of Lies follows Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle) and his team of management consultants, who know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In Season 2, the team will not only be learning to adjust to the new Galweather Stern, after how the company was left at the end of last season, but Marty and his co-worker, Jeannie Van Der Hooven (Kristen Bell), will be trying to figure out exactly what happened during their very drunken night together.
While at the Showtime portion of the TCA Press Tour, show star/executive producer Don Cheadle talked about what's in store for viewers this season, whether Marty and Jeannie will ever know exactly what happened between them, what he learned from Season 1 that has helped him with Season 2, that he enjoys being so involved with the production, and how he's found the experience of getting to explore a character over a longer period of time. He also talked about the challenges of juggling a film career with a TV show, what his hopes are for Iron Man 3, the fact that they'll be doing re-shoots for the film next week in Manhattan Beach, the experience of working with director Shane Black, the surprise success of Flight, the status of the Miles Davis biopic, and what he's currently working on with his production company. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Question: How has it been to juggle your film career with a TV show?
DON CHEADLE: I guess it's always a challenge, just from a time standpoint, when you also want to be a dad and be plugged into your family's life. But, I've been very fortunate. It seems to have been working out in a way that allows me to do [everything]. I was working on Iron Man 3 this summer, and we ran into a little bit of a snafu 'cause Robert [Downey Jr.] got hurt and it pushed production back on House of Lies. We got into a bit of a scheduling thing, but ultimately, we did it and it's fine. We have a few more weeks and it's going to be great.
Expectations on Iron Man 3 are going to be sky high. What are your hopes for it?
CHEADLE: I hope that it performs to those levels. We did a little piece of it at Comic-Con and people went crazy. It looked great. The script is good. We're doing a couple re-shoots next week, but I'm encouraged.
Are you doing the re-shoots here in town?
CHEADLE: Yes, in Manhattan Beach.
Do your kids like having a superhero dad?
CHEADLE: I don't think it matters to them. They still want me to drive them places and go get food and take them to movies. It doesn't really matter. They haven't asked me to fly them there yet.
What was it like working with Shane Black on Iron Man 3?
CHEADLE: It was good. We had a good time. It's a really good cast. It's a very interesting script. It was a lot of fun.
What did you think of the red, white and blue armor?
CHEADLE: Oh, I'll let you react to that when you see it.
How will your character shake things up in Iron Man 3?
CHEADLE: I'm not supposed to say that he kills Robert Downey Jr.'s character. Is that a spoiler? That would be a spoiler. You knew that was coming. You read the comic books. No. I will just say that the buddy relationship that these guys have gets tighter. The third act set piece for the big finale is bigger and badder. It's just a lot more.
What's in store for House of Lies this season?
CHEADLE: There's tons of stuff. We consult a casino owner. That's takes up a large part of it because he's a huge client. Bess Armstrong comes in, and she plays the new head of Galweather Stern, since we got rid of Galweather in the last episode. So, it's just all getting more and more intertwined, especially with my relationship with Kristen Bell's character. It's going further and further.
How long will it be before Marty and Jeannie find out exactly what happened between them?
CHEADLE: I don't know that they'll ever know. They put away two or three bottles of Tequila. They think they know, at some point, but it's never confirmed.
Is Kristen Bell's pregnancy being written into the show?
CHEADLE: I wouldn't assume anything. Watch the show. You'll see.
What did you learn in the first season that helped with the second season?
CHEADLE: To stay healthy and stay present. We work 14-hour days and I'm in 98% of the scenes. You really need to strap it on for a marathon. But, it pays dividends on the set because I'm having such a good time. It's not like I'm pulling a rock over a hill, but it's a grind. It's a lot. And if we didn't have the kind of team that we have, I don't think it would be possible. You have to get sleep, and only beat your kids in the appointed time, so you don't get an emotional hangover. No. I have a family, and I have two teenage daughters. It's a lot to manage. But, their lives are very busy, as well. It worked out in a way that, as they became more busy, this is the busiest I've ever been. We really look forward to the times when we're all off.
Do you enjoy being so involved in the show?
CHEADLE: Yeah. I know what's happening on the ground. I'm seeing all the scripts earlier and seeing all the cuts and every take. I'm doing all of that stuff that the producer's responsibilities include. But, once we get on the set and we're living those characters, it's not me running anything. If anything, I'm trying to push them in front of me and draft them, a lot of times. I think this show can't exist unless it gets richer and deeper, on all those fronts. I'm always encouraging the writers and [the actors] to give input into who they want to be and how these characters will flesh out, over the years. I hope this is something that lasts a long time. I like my day job.
How have you found the experience of getting the time to grow a character over an ongoing period?
CHEADLE: I thought the experience would be great, given the production behind it and the people behind it and the support we always got from Showtime. It surpassed what I believed it could have been when I started working with the people that are now like a second family to me and that I really have a great time with. I couldn't have imagined it would be that kind of a situation where it's so fluid and it's so fast and we have such a great relationship. If there's something we want to try, the writers are right there. It doesn't have to go up the chain, all the way to the head of the network. It's not that kind of situation. It's very fluid. There's a lot of trust amongst us, from the network to us. It's just been a great opportunity to play a wide-open character, and just a lot of fun.
Has doing the TV show affected the amount of work you can do in film?
CHEADLE: It's not over. My movie career is still thriving. I just had [Flight] come out, and I have probably one of the biggest movies coming out (with Iron Man 3). I'm not done. The great thing about this show is that it's three months out of the year, and then we're done. And then, I have nine months to pursue everything else. It's actually perfect. There's been no deficit. Nothing has slowed down. It's also giving my production company a lot of opportunity to develop TV shows and movies. Everything is just chugging on all cylinders, right now. It's all good.
What was your reaction to the success of Flight?
CHEADLE: It was surprising. It was shocking. When I got my first check from the box office bumps, I was like, "Wow, the movie actually did something!" I don't think anyone anticipated the kind of performance that it's had. It's not the kind of fare that usually does well, in American cinema, as we've come to know it. There's one big dramatic piece, but it happens at the beginning of the movie. It's really counter-intuitive to the things you see coming out of the studios, as far as it being successful or setting some sort of box office precedent. But, when you have Robert Zemeckis behind the camera and you have Denzel [Washington] anchoring it, and there's a great cast that fleshed it out, people showed that they were ready to see something a little heavier. So, I'm very surprised.
How is your family dealing with your celebrity status?
CHEADLE: I think they're really healthily embedded in their own lives. What I'm doing is no big deal. It comes up sometimes when we're all out together, but by now, they know how to manage that. They're better about it then I am, a lot of times. I took my youngest daughter to take her permit test for her driver's license and everybody was responding to me. I was like, "This is her moment." They brought us in the back and, after everyone left, I said, "Does it bum you out that people are fawning over me when it's really about you today?" And she said, "I'm used to it. No reason to get mad about it." She's so philosophical about it. I was getting mad, and she was like, "Don't get mad. It's all good."
Any further development on the Miles Davis biopic?
CHEADLE: I'm going to not say anything for superstitions sake, but yeah. I'll leave it there.
What are some of the things your production company is pursuing?
CHEADLE: There are a couple of film scripts that we have, that we're working with. One is with John Sayles, and it's based on a novel. There are things at different levels that I don't want to talk about because, until it's actually something, I don't want to stir the waters.
What is the legacy you'd like to create with your production company?
CHEADLE: I guess the legacy will be what it is. We are always trying to identify things that are surprising and nuanced and interesting to us, in ways that we haven't seen before. It's not always commercial, and often it's not. Those interesting things are not for the mass-produced audience, usually. But, they're pieces that inspire us and that are interesting to us. The kinds of things that we go after are all over the map. The mandate really is for something that makes all of us sit back and go, "Oh, okay, I didn't see that coming." Crash was one of those projects. The Guard was a small movie that I thought was great, and that we had a great time with. There's others that we're putting together right now. The mandate is that wow factor. We want things that make us go, "Wow!"
HOUSE OF LIES returns for Season 2 on Sunday, January 13th


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It's not often that I have an entire post writen in my head as I drive to work. But the topic of this post has been gnawing at me since last night, ever since I stepped foot into the Plagueworks. We ran 10s last night, being an off night. We manage two field two strong groups for the zone. The goal: learn everything we can about the 3 new bosses to prepare ourselves for the 25.
I had three reactions to the new content: Confusion, Frustration and Happiness.
Let's start with confusion first. Last night we went into the Plagueworks to face Festergut and Rotface. We were able to get Festergut without too much trouble, but I am not sure how much you should read into that with us being a 25 man heroicly geared guild doing 10 man normal content. I am not sure how 10 man guilds in 10 man gear will feel about the 5 minute enrage timer and I can't offer an accurate gauge at this time. However, as long as you play smartly I don't think this fight will be too bad. It does, however, require a lot of coordination.
Then we got to Rotface. Both of our groups wiped enough times on this encounter that we had to reclear the trash (which is no joke). Not only is the encounter challenging, but it is, not surprisingly, bugged. I think it took my group 11 pulls to net our kill, and the other group ran out of time, but got him down to 9%. Almost every pull made it to 30% and then wiped spectacularly as we tried to work out how to handle the increased infection rate.
However…here is where my confusion comes in: In the same week they made an (unessecary) nerf to Lady Deathwhisper, they release a wing where the trash is more difficult that some of the first four bosses. No, I am not joking. It's not going to be the new bosses that kill "everyone gets to see the content", because people aren't going to even get to the bosses. Hell, I wiped four times on "Precious".
To be quite frank, if you were not able to kill Lady Deathwhisper before a nerf, you have got no chance in hell of downing Rotface and Festergut in their current iteration. Period.
And this is why I'm confused, is the content for everyone or not? This new content is clearly not. Although I, personally, am happy to have challenges again, it seems to me that Blizzard is sending a bit of a mixed signal to the community. In one breath they say "content is for everyone" but then they release content that is so clearly not going to be accessible to those they have promised it to. Festergut…maybe. Rotface? No. Putricide, unknown.
Honestly, if they toned down the "enrage" that he does somewhere between 20% and 30% it would probably put the fight in line with where it would need to be for "everyone" to experience it. But that isn't what they released. And while I think that focused progression guilds will be able to tackle this sucker, the masses will not.
My Prediction: Rotface will see a swift nerf. It will sound something like this "The rate at which Rotface infects players with Mutated Infection at 30% has been significantly decreased".
While I did enjoy the challenging new content, I find myself increasingly frustrated with the "unfinished" buggy product that we have been receiving this expansion. It's one thing to wipe on encounters because you are trying to learn the nuances of them, but it's quite another to wipe because the mechanics of the encounter aren't working as intended.
As an example, last night on Rotface I had a slime that just wouldn't behave as it was supposed to, regardless of what I did. We tried everything. We had people cleansed right on top of me in an attempt to get my slime to merge. I ran to unmerged slimes in an attempt to get it to merge. I all but stood underneath the giant ooze, trying to get my damn slime to be eaten. Nothing worked. Eventually I gave up, and just continued the fight keeping myself fully HoTed and letting the fucking thing beat on my for the duration of the attempt. I am fairly positive that the other group experienced the same bug as well.
As best we could tell, what was causing the "rogue slime" was when you had multiple people infected, and a third slime was introduced into the picture before two slimes had merged. While this is easy to manage for most of the fight, post 20-30% when he's infecting almost every second (which may be a bug within itself), it's almost impossible to do without getting one bugged. We might be wrong about what is causing the bug, but when we made a concerted effort to just heal through the infection, and wait until we had a merged one before cleansing people, we no longer had "rogue slime".
Now, it was almost midnight on the nose when we got our Rotface kill last night, so we did not get an opprotunity to pull Professor Putricide. However, as I understand it, he is bugged to hell. This does not surprise me in the least, as he was so bugged 100% of the time that he was on the PTR that he was untestable. And the way that the instance was rushed out to us, I fully expected this bug.
However, what really chaps my hide is that Blizzard has determined that we only get 10 attempts to kill him…yet they presented us with an encounter that they screwed up. This does not seem fair to us. Actually, it seems pretty fucking unjust. "Hi, we are going to give you limited attempts, but we aren't going to have our shit worked out and you will likely waste attempts as a result of our poor planning. Good Luck!".
Blizzard used to be infamous for taking forever to finish a product, but people waited because they knew when they got it, it was going to be quality. As far as WoW goes, you may say "what about Rag and C'thun", and my reply isn't that those encounters weren't "bugged" they were purposely made "unbeatable" until Blizzard wanted you to kill them. I don't know if the slick, rushed content that we have seen most of this expansion is a result of Activision's heavy hand, or if Blizzard is playing fast and loose with their standards. But, I have seen more shit bugged out content in this one expansion than I saw in the previous 4 years of WoW combined. And it's disappointing.
I would have much rathered that they had held off releasing Ice Crown Citadel until after the holidays, and took the time to polish what was to be presented to us. Perhaps they could have given us the 5 man content prior to the holidays, and then pushed out Ice Crown after. I don't know. What I do know is that I would have much rather have waited a few more weeks for quality content than to have to find work arounds to kill bugged shit.
Fleeting Happiness
Regardless of all of my complaints, I really am truly happy to have content that is innovative and reasonably challenging again. But sadly, I don't think it will last in its current iteration. Just over a year ago, the mentality of the game was that you needed to spend time to learn fights and kill bosses. I mean, think about how many weeks you spent trying to get everyone down those damn portals on Kalecgos! Now people expect to sneeze on a boss and have him shit out epics.
While I don't think that encounters should be slamming your head into a brick wall hard, I think that they should provide a challenge, and I think people should have the expecation that you should have to work at something to reap its reward. Sadly this mentality was largely lost in this expansion by a majority of the people. In a community where everyone considers themselves a "raider", the act of "raiding" itself has almost been lost and raid instance are almost 10/25 man dungeons.
I have no doubts that the Plagueworks is going to be heavily and swiftly nerfed. I have no doubt that I probably will never have to wipe to "precious" 4 times again. I have no doubt that the cries of those that are used to being coddled and handed what they want are going to be heard, not because they should, but because it is the mentality that Blizzard is largely responsible for creating. They said "You can see it all", and that has largely been implemented not by making "everyone" play smarter, but my making the offerings more "idiot-proof".
Here's hoping I'm wrong 🙂
What are your thoughts and experiences so far with The Plagueworks?


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NEW YORK (AP) Derek Jeter cheerily posed with four student leaders from his Turn 2 Foundation who were wearing Yankees jerseys and elf hats and asked a question to the group of photographers snapping away.
``Who's going to blow up this photo?'' he quipped.
Looking trim in a form-fitting shirt and wearing a protective boot on his surgically repaired left ankle, Jeter was in a jovial mood Wednesday night as he returned to the Bronx to surprise more than 500 children from New York City at his foundation's holiday party. It was his first public appearance at Yankee Stadium since that operation in late October, and he used the opportunity to joke about a photo published last week in a New York tabloid that made him appear overweight.
Jeter broke his ankle lunging for a grounder in Game 1 of the AL championship series against Detroit on Oct. 13. He had surgery a week later and the Yankees said recovery time would be four to five months.
The 38-year-old Yankees captain insists he's on a path that will allow him to be New York's shortstop on opening day, April 1.
``I feel good. It was a tough first five, six weeks where you sit on your couch with your feet elevated but now I feel as though I'm moving around pretty good,'' he said. ``I think I'm right where I need to be.''
One thing Jeter wasn't doing while resting was paying close attention to the offseason rumors about free agents and potential trades. That's not his style. Still, he was sad to see infielder Eric Chavez agree to a deal with Arizona earlier Wednesday and catcher Russell Martin leave for Pittsburgh.
``I check the name tags when we get into spring training,'' Jeter said about discovering who his new teammates will be.
He does know that with Alex Rodriguez out until possibly early summer because he needs left hip surgery ``other guys are going to have to step up.''
``You can't sit around and hang your head. You have to move forward,'' Jeter said.
Jeter wasn't aware that A-Rod expressed discomfort in his right hip during the playoffs. He said he was dealing with his own pain.
An All-Star for the 13th time in 2012, Jeter had a resurgent season. He led the American League with 216 hits and batted .316 with 15 homers and 58 RBIs. He first injured his ankle in mid-September and then fouled balls off his foot several times after that. But he wanted to play.
``It was sore. You don't really talk about it. You play or you don't play. I felt as if I can play on it. I played on it for some time,'' he said. ``I guess I pushed it a little too much.''
In the holiday spirit with his foundation - it has doled out more than $16 million in grants since 1996 to organizations that help steer young people away from alcohol and drugs - one thing Jeter didn't need to do was dress as Santa Claus for the event.
``The (New York) Post put me into a Santa suit a few days ago,'' he said.


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Brenda Villa is a water polo attacker who won the silver medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the bronze medal at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
We Inspire the President?
September 14, 2012
He had me at "I will shake everyone's hand." Can you believe that he delayed part of his schedule to have the opportunity to personally meet all of us? This was my third trip to the White House and most likely my last as an Olympian. It was everything I hoped it would be and more.
It all started the moment I arrived at the hotel, I was directed to the lower lobby to get my White House gear. We all received a cool Nike letterman jacket, a tee with the American flag on it (my favorite), and a pair of capris. Then I rushed upstairs to change for the athlete party hosted by BP. Half of my team was already there because they were on earlier flights and kept calling to see when we would reunite. Luckily, I was on the bus with members of the men's Olympic water polo team and the royalty of taekwondo, the Lopez siblings. We entertained ourselves with stories and a few YouTube videos and that helped me not feel too lonely without my teammates. The moment we arrived at Union Station, where the party was being held we rushed to get food. Yes, athletes love to eat. We ate, we danced, we took pictures, we ate dessert and we had so much fun.
It was great to see both teams of Team USA. There haven't been that many opportunities to meet the Paralympic team. It was great to mingle with Paralympians and hear about their stories. I even got a glimpse at their medals that are slightly different and equally beautiful. The evening had to come to an end but I was ok with that, I still had the next morning to hang out with Team USA.
The early wake up call did not faze me. I was excited to get this day started. I was so curious about the program at the White House. The moment we arrived we had to go through two-security check -points before we could enter. Once inside, we were able to wander around the South Lawn of the White House and take pictures of the Washington Monument, each other and the White House itself. After they arranged about 400 athletes into our seating arrangements, we all waited anxiously for the President.
One of my hopeful wishes was to get to meet the First Lady and I did!! She came in first and spoke to us! It was great to hear about her experiences in London. She then introduced us to her husband. I got goose bumps when President Obama began to speak. It was great to hear about the stories that touched him. He mentioned that he had to figure out the DVR to watch us all compete. He even mentioned that we inspire him to go faster on the treadmill. We inspire him?? That is pretty cool. The best part of the day was when the First Lady announced that her husband would stay and shake every Olympian's hand. The crowd went WILD. This caught all of us by surprise. What a wonderful surprise. Not only did he meet all the Olympians individually, he hugged everyone.
I can say that the President, Vice President and First Lady hugged me. That was definitely a highlight!!!
Thank you to the USOC, the White House and the President for organizing this event. DC, thanks for the hospitality it was GREAT! Go Team USA!
A Journey of Joy, Tears, Doubts and Triumphs
September 13, 2012
DC here we come! I am so excited and fired up to hear our President speak to us. It is pretty special to have our Commander in Chief address us personally. It reminds me of a post-Olympic pep rally. I'm going to go out on a limb and be a little selfish and hope he brings the whole Obama family to this event. The First Lady has some great initiatives that resonate with all Olympians. Her "Let's Move" campaign is creating more awareness about the importance of fitness and healthy eating for kids. This is something we all believe in and preach. Oh and I would love to chat with their two daughters, maybe convince one of them to try the wonderful sport of water polo.
Another reason I am so excited for this trip to DC is I get another opportunity to see my GOLDEN teammates. I want to keep adding to our golden memories of 2012. I want to be inspired with them by my side as we listen to our President. I want to feel the connection we had for the last 16 months one more time. I don't want our time to together to end. I had the privilege to train with these ladies 10 times a week for 6 hours a day and now all I can get is a text message, a phone call and if I'm lucky maybe a 5 minute Skype call. Yes, I am having withdrawals from my team. Is this normal?
Since our return from London we have all gone our separate ways. We all went back to our hometowns and received amazing receptions. Jessica and Maggie Steffens were honored with the keys to their city, the city of Danville. Courtney Mathewson was greeted at the airport by the Anaheim Ducks mascot; she loves her city of Anaheim and her ducks. I was surprised and brought to tears at my own home celebration. The city of Commerce decided to rename the Commerce Aquatorium the "Brenda Villa Aquatics Center". I was overwhelmed at the ceremony by watching a highlight video the city put together. I saw a clip of a younger me talking about her experiences in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Can you believe that was 12 years ago? This reminded me that the last 12 years have been an incredible journey, a journey of joy, tears, doubts and triumphs. We were able to bring home the first gold medal for USA Water Polo in over 100 years. The tears needed to fall. I always imagined myself crying like a baby on the podium as our national anthem played loudly, but when, I was finally in the moment, the moment I had always imagined, all I could do was smile, smile and smile. I'm thankful that I got another opportunity to compete in an Olympic Games and that we were finally able to realize the goal and dreams of many before us. It was very fitting that I finally cried in my city because the city of Commerce has been so instrumental in my path to becoming an Olympian. The tears I cried were tears of joy! I was so proud to make my city proud!
Oops, I have to go now, I hear the United representative calling my flight and I can't help but smile. I will be seeing my teammates soon and I will have the honor of hearing our President speak. Pretty cool to think that this will be the third President I get to meet at the White House. We USA Olympians are presented with many amazing opportunities and I am SO grateful and honored to be part of TEAM USA.
Stay tuned! More to come tomorrow! I have an athlete's dinner to get to and a President to meet. There will be some great stories to share tomorrow.
Go USA!


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Analytics are one item that every site owner should be looking into to find out where traffic is coming from and how users are interacting with the site. However, analytics can sometimes be to much to consume with to much information or a cluttered interface.
Fortunately there are many analytics packages available that make reading and understanding your site's stats pretty simple. You shouldn't need to be a geek to just pick out the basics.
Here are 5 analytics packages that are easy to understand and mostly free.
Clicky – Free to $20/month
Great user interface with graphs, bar charts and color coded %s to make understanding the information quick and visual.
Clicky also integrates Twiter and FeedBurner stats to monitor the growth of those services.


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Concord is a popular destination for retirees looking to settle into Continuing Care communities. An Continuing Care community is ideal for seniors who want to maintain independence while having professional assistance on-hand to help with everyday tasks such as medication management or bathing.
Continuing Care facilities in Concord, NH each offer different levels of care. There are 2 Continuing Care homes to choose from in the wider Concord area. Explore our listings to compare the amenities, walk score and services available at each residence.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) are residential campuses that provide a continuum of care from private units to assisted living and then skilled nursingcare, all in one location. CCRCs are designed to offer active seniors an independent lifestyle from the privacy of their own home, but also include the … Read More >


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DURHAM — Usher in spring with a visit to the University of New Hampshire Macfarlane Greenhouses during the annual open house Friday and Saturday, March 28-29.
This year's event will again provide displays and plenty of information to help chase away winter blues and welcome spring. The greenhouses will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.
UNH faculty, staff and students will present colorful displays and educational lectures of interest to home gardeners and landscapers. Visitors can attend lectures to explore new gardening ideas, including seed saving, sustainable weed management, drip irrigation for the home garden, and soil testing. The very popular seminar on cooking with herbs returns again this year. Garden show-quality displays will showcase vertical gardening, and New England — Farms to Forest. Poster displays will detail the latest in UNH research on cutting-edge genetics, vegetable and fruit breeding, tree disease research, and more. Visitors will also learn about new hydroponics research and can participate in a hands-on study of the botany of much-loved plants.
UNH experts and master gardeners will be on hand to help get gardens off to a great start. Publications by UNH authors also will be available for sale.
Other open house activities include a plant sale hosted by the Thompson School horticulture program and tours of both the Macfarlane Greenhouse and the UNH high tunnels, two greenhouse-style structures associated with the sustainable agriculture and food systems program where students produce greens for on-campus consumption. The popular scavenger hunt and coloring activity for children also return again this year. The Greenhouse Café will serve coffee, lunch, and delicious homemade treats. The café, hosted by the Thompson School Horticultural Club, helps fund the club's spring trip to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.
The UNH open house is free and open to the general public. On Saturday, March 29, the open house coincides with the Seacoast Home and Garden Show at the UNH Whittemore Center Arena and the Little Royal Livestock Show held at the W.C. Skoglund Riding Arena.
The UNH Macfarlane Greenhouses (part of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station) are located off Main Street on the west end of Durham. Seminars will take place in Putnam Hall across the parking lot from the greenhouses. On Friday, metered parking is available at the UNH Visitor Center across from the greenhouses; parking on Saturday is free. Handicap parking spaces and short-term parking for plant pickup will be available near the main greenhouse entrance. The greenhouses are also served by Wildcat Transit's free shuttle service: www.wildcattransit.com.
For more information, please visit http://www.thompsonschool.unh.edu/events, https://www.facebook.com/UNHMacfarlaneGreenhouses, or call 603-862-2061.
The UNH Greenhouse Open House is sponsored by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, the Thompson School of Applied Science, Biological Sciences and Sustainable Agriculture programs of the College of Life Sciences & Agriculture, and UNH Cooperative Extension.


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On Sunday, December 5th, starting at 4:30/3:30c, AMC will air the entire first season of "The Walking Dead", culminating with the season finale at 10/9c.
More info at Dread Central.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
God Forgive Us
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9 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
This turned out to be a really great show. Can't wait till the new season and hopefully they bring it to blueray ASAP!
- November 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Rot said...
We're hooked.
That last episode was AMAZING.
- November 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM
- Arcane said...
This show keeps getting better. So glad they renewed for a second season.
- November 30, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- JD said...
Love this show, but I don't have cable. Watched the first episode on hulu but that's it. Do you know where I can find the other episodes?
- November 30, 2010 at 7:50 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Haven't seen the last episode yet since I am at work at that time,so I record it so I can watch on Friday night.
3rd shift sucks....
- November 30, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
and to our fellow blogger Sara....stick with us, we will have you loving zombies in no time.....;)
- November 30, 2010 at 7:59 PM
- Shannon said...
Love, LOVE that show! It is so well done.
- December 1, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Dio said...
I love this show - it's like a roller-coaster ride!
And I don't have cable, either, so I watch it on Monday mornings on Amazon.com - you have to pay $1.99 an episode, or $2.99 for HD, but then it's yours to download or watch right there!
- December 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- The Gill-Man said...
This show just keeps getting better...every single episode! I'm sad that the season is already coming to an end, but I take consolation in the fact it will be returning with new episodes quite soon.
- December 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM


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The experiences of dozens of countries offer lessons for U.S. officials as they prepare for the presidential election during the coronavirus pandemic.
As countries consider how and when to vote in the coming months, here's what experts recommend for holding safe and secure elections during the coronavirus pandemic.
CFR is following the presidential candidates on the major foreign policy issues. Dive deeper below.
Climate Change
Fires in California and Oregon have been more devastating than ever before, but climate change means the worst is yet to come. Here's how officials can prepare.
Although negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government are historic, they are unlikely to result in a quick breakthrough.
The Center for Preventive Action has compiled an accessible overview of the Afghan peace negotiations, including the U.S.-Taliban agreement, the U.S.-Afghan government joint declaration, and the ongoing intra-Afghan process.
The Taliban insurgency remains resilient nearly two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled its regime in what led to the United States' longest war.
United Nations
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Council of Councils global perspectives roundups gather opinions from experts on major international developments. In this edition, members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it looks toward its next seventy-five years.
The United Nations is turning 75 but there is little to celebrate as the organization has fallen well short of its goals.
Beijing has increased its manipulation of information as well as disinformation efforts around COVID-19 to damage democracies and boost itself, but its strategies have had mixed results.
John Campbell discusses Nigeria, its history, colonial legacy, and strategic importance to the United States. Ambassador Campbell argues that Nigeria is the African country of greatest strategic importance to the United States, but it remains poorly understood. Unlike a conventional nation-state, Nigeria is run by a small cartel of self-serving elites who cooperate just enough to divvy up state oil revenue among themselves and their clients, but otherwise do little to improve the lot of the vast majority of Nigerians. How did it get this way? The answer lies in British indirect rule, a half-baked independence movement, a deadly civil war, and a generation of rapacious military rule that coincided with the oil boom. The CFR Master Class Series is a weekly 45-minute session hosted by Vice President and Deputy Director for Studies Shannon O'Neil in which a CFR fellow will take a step back from the news and discuss the fundamentals essential to understanding a given country, region of the world, or issue pertaining to U.S. foreign policy or international relations.
Russia interfered with the U.S. presidential election in 2016, and in 2018, internet trolls again spread disinformation during the midterms. Intelligence officials warn that interference in this year's presidential election may already be underway.
The effects of climate change, from higher temperatures, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms, have harmed communities across the globe, and will continue to cause significant damage if we fail to prepare for the consequences. In this meeting, panelists discuss climate change adaptation and the solutions being deployed to mitigate its effects.
Panelists discuss the Iranian hostage crisis and the implications of the failed rescue attempt for U.S.-Iran relations for the next forty years. From two-time Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple, Desert One tells the story of America's secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Expert Spotlight
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Featured Publications
An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and nonexpert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders.
The United States should respond to the COVID-19 reordering moment and stop deterioration in the balance of power with China, bolster relations with India and Europe, and reform the way it deals with allies and partners.
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Is America's alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted?


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April 12, 2011 — The U.S. government has introduced a new approach to fight barriers to good health care faced by many minorities.
Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to suffer from serious illness, like diabetes and heart disease, and less likely to have access to quality health care than white Americans.
To reduce those health disparities, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released what it's calling the most comprehensive action plan and strategy yet to expand health care access and improve minority health.
"While some have benefited from tremendous medical advances, the health and wellness of the entire nation will not improve until disparities and inequities have been eliminated," said Howard Koh, MD, assistant secretary at HHS, in a conference call.
"Our goal as a nation is for each person to reach the highest attainable standard of health, which is currently out of reach for many," says Koh.
Road Map for Reducing Health Disparities
The HHS action plan has five broad goals:
- Transform health care by expanding health care coverage and increasing access to care.
- Strengthen the health care workforce by recruiting more minorities for public health and medical careers, improving health care interpreting services, and supporting more training of community health workers such as promotoras (Spanish-speaking community health workers) to help people navigate the health care system.
- Improve the health of minority communities through community transformation grants to target heart disease, childhood obesity, tobacco-related illnesses, maternal and child health, flu, and asthma.
- Improve data collection and research involving racial and ethnic minorities.
- Increase transparency and accountability of HHS programs with respect to reducing minority health disparities.
"For the first time, the United States has a coordinated road map designed to give everyone the chance to live a healthy life," says HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a news release. "We all need to work together to combat this persistent problem so that we can build healthier communities and a stronger nation."
In combination with the HHS action plan, the agency also unveiled a new National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity.
The strategy provides a common set of goals and objectives for public and private sector involvement in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities.
These goals include increasing awareness of the significance of health disparities and improving the cultural and linguistic competency and diversity of the health care work force. The HHS will also offer community organizers a toolkit to help them make use of provisions of the new plans.
Officials say funding for these plans is already provided in the HHS budget, largely through the Affordable Care Act.


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The Price of Fuel and "Catch 22"
When I learned
that the price of coal to generate electricity would go up because the
cost of natural gas went up because the industry had shifted from coal
to natural gas to hold down the cost of generating electricity, I was
reminded of the book "Catch 22," authored by Joseph Heller.
The main character
in the book is Yossarian, a bombardier stationed on the island of Pianosa
in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. He has flown too many bombing
missions, considers himself crazy and wants out.
This is where
he first runs into the Catch 22 rule. You can get out if you are deemed
crazy but if you want out you are deemed sane so if you say you want out
you are not crazy and therefore you must stay in!
A sub character
in the book is Milo Minderbinder. Milo is a pure opportunist. He didn't
start the war but is simply trying to put it on a business-like basis.
He worships supply
and demand and the right of free men to pay as much as they have to for
the things they need. His schemes to make money deny his own troops the
supplies they need to defeat the enemy. His objectives to corner the market
and jack up prices on needed commodities are accepted by his superiors
because they share in the profits.
Those who wonder
what happened to Milo might find him at the center of the California deregulation
scheme. We can also look
for him at the table with those saying: "We are moved to charge more for
coal used to generate electricity because the price of natural gas has
gone up because we now use more natural gas to generate electricity to
hold costs down."
They would probably
say they didn't start the price escalation but are simply trying to "Milo
Manage" it so consumers can pay as much as they want for something they
In the end Yossarian
concluded there was no official Catch 22 rule but everyone thought there
was so there was one. He accepted Milo's extreme business practices because
he and his comrades faced daily annihilation. Their very survival called
for extreme measures.
If Yossarian
were to return, he would be surprised to find the Catch 22 rules he endured
under an all-out war are with us yet and again. He wouldn't understand
our move toward mega-mergers and unregulated monopolies that encourage
price gouging.
In these more
civil times, he would be totally flabbergasted to find that the Milo Minderbinders
are writing the rules of deregulation economics.
Stork was executive
vice president of the Association of Missouri
Electric Cooperatives and a member of Three Rivers Electric Co-op.


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RV Parts Store Enjoy Six Years on the Road to Ecommerce Success with 3dcart
American RV Company brings 50+ years of combined RV experience to the recreational vehicle parts market. The online store features more than 12,500 RV related parts, including antennas, hitches, kitchenware, lighting and more. It started as a manufacturer in 2005 before transitioning into a full-time parts provider.
An RV Start-Up Salvages Its Pieces
Way back in 2005, American RV Company's founder had worked for another major manufacturer, a business that had made more $270 million annually at its peak. He struck out on his own to establish American RV as an up-and-coming RV manufacturer.
In 2007, the RV industry crashed. The company's leadership decided their current business model wouldn't work. They rushed to sell off the parts they'd acquired for building.
Enter eBay, the popular auction website. American RV Company listed its parts—water heaters, electronics, batteries—and sold out in a matter of days.
Time for a Tune-Up
By 2011, American RV Company had grown to accommodate a catalogue of more than 12,000 products. They had come a long way from 2007. With growth came complications. QuickBooks just wasn't cutting it for us anymore," explains John Nelson, general manager of American RV Company.
So they decided to do it again. They bought more RV parts wholesale and turned them around through eBay. They had a viable concept. The business started to grow. It grew so large over the course of the year, in fact, that they knew it was time to create their own online store. An evaluation of ecommerce software platforms revealed 3dcart as the front-runner.
American RV Company opened its online store with 3dcart. The growth didn't stop. But one day down the road, the organization would reach a point where it would need to take a step back and reevaluate its choice of shopping cart.
• Would 3dcart make the cut?
"We needed something more robust, so we decided to implement an ERP system. Forecasting, inventory planning, automation, coordination—these were features we needed to help us upgrade our business."
American RV decided on SAP Business One, a popular ERP suite. Now, with 3dcart running the online store, they had to answer important questions like:
• Can we integrate SAP with 3dcart?
• Will an SAP integration with 3dcart be the best option? Or is there a better ecommerce platform out there for working the new ERP into the system?
• Is 3dcart still the best option for selling online or has it fallen behind?
"We pitted options like Magento against 3dcart," John says. "In the end, 3dcart's advanced API won the day. It gave us the flexibility we needed to build a completely integrated technology backbone for the company." According to John, the other options on the market were more expensive and still couldn't top 3dcart's functionality. The software suite would remain the core of the organization's ecommerce activity. John describes the integration: "It was like we were taking a very expensive ERP software and plugging it into our shopping cart—rather than the other way around, which is what you would expect."
American RV Company successfully launched its new custom-built integration a few months ago.
A Smooth Ride for Online Business
Before and after the Business One integration, John believes 3dcart has proven itself to be a powerful system for the company's business. "One of the factors that really sets 3dcart apart is its third-party integrations," John explains. "The company is willing to play nice with other solutions. 3dcart's leadership knows that some businesses need functionality beyond the scope of an ecommerce solution."
It's that openness that gives American RV custom functionality in specialized areas. The company's third-party integrations include:
Product information from the American RV store funnels through GoDataFeed to comparison shopping engines run by Google and Amazon.
Lexity Live
John and his teams can monitor customer activity in real-time with the ability to open a quick chat window or crunch numbers on the fly.
Amazon & Google Checkout
By offering more ways to pay, American RV simplifies payment processing for customers, giving them trusted portals to establish immediate trust.
The organization also enjoys features native to 3dcart's platform. Some of the most important parts include:
Everything from customer tracking to support ticket communication feeds through 3dcart's CRM system. It helps the business track its relationships with customers, ensuring return business through great customer service and continued marketing.
American RV Company stays out ahead of its customers with newsletter emails using 3dcart's built-in newsletter builder. Through these emails, customers receive coupons created through the software. They also use the blogging feature to share news and discounts.
Customer Support
John and his teams reach out to 3dcart customer support on an almost daily basis. According to John, they always get prompt responses and resolve issues in a timely fashion.
The hard work and business sense of the American RV Company is the driving force behind the organization's success. Since it teamed up with 3dcart, the organization has amplified that success.
"We still push products through eBay, who we've been with since the beginning. They process around 15 percent of our total sales, and we pay fees on all of it," John says. "But we do eight times the sales with 3dcart than we ever could have done with eBay—and we keep all of that revenue. What we save on fees is huge. Learn more today on how 3dcart can help you to grow your auto business online"


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Think Yourself Thin
Section 1
Welcome and Introduction (3:24)
Section 2. What Does My Thinking Have to Do With My Body?
Thoughts are Things (3:26)
Put on a New Hat (2:58)
Think Like a Thin Person (2:28)
Tell Me About Your Epic Moment (5:01)
It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You
It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You (2:14)
Embrace Your Weirdness (3:39)
Mothers, Fathers, Teachers, and Preachers (3:53)
Resistance, Forgiveness, and Holding On (7:41)
Call BS on Your Limiting Beliefs (4:56)
What Problems Will it Cause You to Get Thin? (4:03)
Section 3. Mindful Eating
What is Mindful Eating and Why Does it Matter? (2:26)
Putting Mindful Eating into Practice (3:10)
Decide Where Your Comfort is Going to Come From (4:26)
Functional Imagery Training (F.I.T.)
Functional Imagery Training (F.I.T.) Part 1 (2:16)
Functional Imagery Training (F.I.T.) Part 2 (7:31)
Ready, Set, Action! Create Your F.I.T. Mini-Movie
Bonuses! The Manifesting Power of Visualization
Bonuses! (1:12)
N.L.P. Push the Plate Away Visualization (5:48)
Throw Away Your Scale (2:15)
Write a Letter to Yourself (3:33)
The Final Word on Some Food Myths
These Food Myths are Hurting Your Health (1:29)
The Fat Free Myth (7:05)
The Cholesterol Myth (5:27)
The Juice Myth (3:59)
Ready, Set, Action! Clean Out Your Kitchen with this Checklist (5:11)
Wrap it Up
Wrap it Up (2:28)
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