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Building a LAMP Server
by Bruce Timberlake
Last update: May 10, 2006
This document will walk you through the installation of what is known as a "LAMP" system: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Depending on who you talk to, the P also stands for Perl or Python, but in general, it is assumed to be PHP. I run CentOS on my servers; these directions were written for CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora. I have had requests for SuSE (another RPM-based distribution) as well as Debian-based systems, so I will work on variants of these directions for those distributions in the future (donations might help speed that process up!). The main difference between the distributions is in the paths to the startup scripts. Red Hat systems used /etc/rc.d/init.d and SuSE uses /etc/init.d.
If you are not comfortable with trying this procedure yourself, I am available for hire to install LAMP systems, or assist you with any other Linux-based projects.
You can check my resume for background and contact information, or email brucetimberlake at gmail.com with your project details!
If you need an SSL-enabled server, I have a LAMP with SSL howto as well.
I designed this document so you can just copy/paste each line or block of commands into your shell session and it will "just work" for you. This avoids tedious typing, and the inevitable typos or missed steps that result. These commands work properly via copy/paste. If you are having problems and you are not using copy/paste, please re-check your typing before sending me an email saying "It doesn't work."
Text in a "command" box like this one is a literal Linux commandline, and should be typed or pasted exactly as written.
One note: many many people have followed these directions as written, and have not had any problems.
If you are having a problem, chances are it's something you are doing (or not doing), something different
about your computer, etc.
It is probably NOT this procedure. :)
Initial Steps
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT A SOURCE-BASED INSTALLATION LIKE THIS ONE IS NOT NEEDED FOR A BASIC LAMP SERVER! You should only be doing a source-based installation if you need to alter settings in one or more components of the LAMP stack (e.g., you need a feature in PHP that isn't in the default RPM). If you are just getting started with LAMP, use the binaries provided by your distribution - it is much simpler, and a lot easier to upgrade later.
Most out-of-the-box Red Hat Linux installations will have one or more of the LAMP components installed via RPM files. I personally believe in installing things like this from source, so I get the most control over what's compiled in, what's left out, etc. But source code installs can wreak havoc if overlaid on top of RPM installs, as the two most likely won't share the same directories, etc.
If you have not yet installed your Linux OS, or just for future reference, do not choose to install Apache, PHP, or MySQL during the system installation. Then you can immediately proceed with the source-based install listed here.
Note: to install applications from source code, you will need a C++ compiler (gcc++) installed. This is generally taken care of, but I've had enough queries about it that I've added this note to avoid getting more! You can use your distribution's install CDs to get the proper version of the compiler. Or, if you are using an RPM based distro, you can use a site like http://www.rpmfind.net/ to locate the correct RPM version for your system. (You will obviously not be able to use/rebuild a source RPM to get the compiler installed, as you need the compiler to build the final binary RPM!) On a Fedora system, you can do this command:
su - root
yum install gcc gcc-c++
Log in as root
Because we will be installing software to directories that "regular" users don't have write access to, and also possibly uninstalling RPM versions of some applications, we'll log in as root. The only steps that need root access are the actual installation steps, but by doing the configure and make steps as root, the source code will also be inaccessible to "regular" users.
If you do not have direct access (via keyboard) to the server, PLEASE use Secure Shell (SSH) to access the server and not telnet!! Whenever you use telnet (or plain FTP for that matter), you are transmitting your username, password, and all session information in "plain text". This means that anyone who can access a machine someplace between your PC and your server can snoop your session and get your info. Use encryption wherever possible!
su - root
Remove RPM Versions of the Applications
Before we start with our source code install, we need to remove all the existing RPM files for these products. To find out what RPMs are already installed, use the RPM query command:
rpm -qa
in conjunction with grep to filter your results:
rpm -qa | grep -i apache
rpm -qa | grep -i httpd
rpm -qa | grep -i php
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
The 'httpd' search is in case you have Apache2 installed via RPM.
To remove the RPMs generated by these commands, do
rpm -e filename
for each RPM you found in the query. If you have any content in your MySQL database already, the RPM removal step should not delete the database files. When you reinstall MySQL, you should be able to move all those files to your new MySQL data directory and have access to them all again.
Get the Source Code for all Applications
We want to put all our source code someplace central, so it's not getting mixed up in someone's home directory, etc.
cd /usr/local/src
One way application source code is distributed is in what are known as "tarballs." The tar command is usually associated with making tape backups - tar stands for Tape ARchive. It's also a handy way to pack up multiple files for easy distribution. Use the man tar command to learn more about how to use this very flexible tool.
At the time of updating this, the current versions of all the components we'll use are:
MySQL - 4.1.22
Apache - 1.3.37
Please note: these are the only versions of these that I have set up myself, and verified these steps against. If you use another version of any component, especially a newer version, this HOWTO may not be accurate, and I won't be able to provide free support under those circumstances. Paid support and assistance is always available however.
wget http://www.php.net/distributions/php-4.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://apache.oregonstate.edu/httpd/apache_1.3.37.tar.gz
There may be an Apache mirror closer to you - check their mirror page for other sources. Then insert the URL you get in place of the above for the wget command.
For MySQL, go to http://www.mysql.com/ and choose an appropriate mirror to get the newest MySQL version (v4.1.22).
Unpack the Source Code
tar zxf php-4.4.6.tar.gz
tar zxf apache_1.3.37.tar.gz
tar zxf mysql-4.1.22.tar.gz
This should leave you with the following directories:
Build and Install MySQL
First, we create the group and user that "owns" MySQL. For security purposes, we don't want MySQL running as root on the system. To be able to easily identify MySQL processes in top or a ps list, we'll make a user and group named mysql:
groupadd mysql
useradd -g mysql -c "MySQL Server" mysql
If you get any messages about the group or user already existing, that's fine. The goal is just to make sure we have them on the system.
What the useradd command is doing is creating a user mysql in the group mysql with the "name" of MySQL Server. This way when it's showed in various user and process watching apps, you'll be able to tell what it is right away.
Now we'll change to the "working" directory where the source code is, change the file 'ownership' for the source tree (this prevents build issues in reported in some cases where the packager's username was included on the source and you aren't using the exact same name to compile with!) and start building.
The configure command has many options you can specify. I have listed some fairly common ones; if you'd like to see others, do:
./configure --help | less
to see them all. Read the documentation on the MySQL website for a more detailed explanation of each option.
cd /usr/local/src/mysql-4.1.22
chown -R root.root *
make clean
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data \
--disable-maintainer-mode \
--with-mysqld-user=mysql \
--with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--without-comment \
--without-debug \
18-Jul-2005: If you are installing MySQL 4.0.x on Fedora Core 4, there is a problem with LinuxThreads that prevents MySQL from compiling properly. Installing on Fedora Core 3 works fine though. Thanks to Kevin Spencer for bringing this to my attention. There is a workaround listed at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9497. Thanks to Collin Campbell for that link. Another solution can be found at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=2173. Thanks to Kaloyan Raev for that one.
Now comes the long part, where the source code is actually compiled and then installed. Plan to get some coffee or take a break while this step runs. It could be 10-15 minutes or more, depending on your system's free memory, load average, etc.
make && make install
Configure MySQL
MySQL is "installed" but we have a few more steps until it's actually "done" and ready to start. First run the script which actually sets up MySQL's internal database (named, oddly enough, mysql).
Then we want to set the proper ownership for the MySQL directories and data files, so that only MySQL (and root) can do anything with them.
chown -R root:mysql /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
Copy the default configuration file for the expected size of the database (small, medium, large, huge)
cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf
chmod 644 /etc/my.cnf
If you get an error message about the data directory not existing, etc., something went wrong in the mysql_install_db step above. Go back and review that; make sure you didn't get some sort of error message when you ran it, etc.
Now we have to tell the system where to find some of the dynamic libraries that MySQL will need to run. We use dynamic libraries instead of static to keep the memory usage of the MySQL program itself to a minimum.
echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
Now create a startup script, which enables MySQL auto-start each time your server is restarted.
cp ./support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
/sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql on
Then set up symlinks for all the MySQL binaries, so they can be run from anyplace without having to include/specify long paths, etc.
cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
for file in *; do ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/$file /usr/bin/$file; done
MySQL Security Issues
First, we will assume that only applications on the same server will be allowed to access the database (i.e., not a program running on a physically separate server). So we'll tell MySQL not to even listen on port 3306 for TCP connections like it does by default.
Edit /etc/my.cnf and uncomment the
line (delete the leading #).
For more security info, check this great tutorial over at SecurityFocus.
Start MySQL
First, test the linked copy of the startup script in the normal server runlevel start directory, to make sure the symlink was properly set up:
cd ~
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90mysql start
If you ever want to manually start or stop the MySQL server, use these commands:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop
Let's "test" the install to see what version of MySQL we're running now:
mysqladmin version
It should answer back with the version we've just installed...
Now we'll set a password for the MySQL root user (note that the MySQL root user is not the same as the system root user, and definitely should not have the same password as the system root user!).
mysqladmin -u root password new-password
(obviously, insert your own password in the above command instead of the "new-password" string!)
You're done! MySQL is now installed and running on your server. It is highly recommended that you read about MySQL security and lock down your server as much as possible. The MySQL site has info at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privilege_system.html.
Test MySQL
To run a quick test, use the command line program mysql:
mysql -u root -p
and enter your new root user password when prompted. You will then see the MySQL prompt:
First, while we're in here, we'll take care of another security issue and delete the sample database test and all default accounts except for the MySQL root user. Enter each of these lines at the mysql> prompt:
drop database test;
use mysql;
delete from db;
delete from user where not (host="localhost" and user="root");
flush privileges;
As another security measure, I like to change the MySQL administrator account name from root to something harder to guess. This will make it that much harder for someone who gains shell access to your server to take control of MySQL.
YOU SEE "root" IN OTHER DIRECTIONS, WEBSITES, ETC.
ONCE YOU DO THIS STEP, THE USERNAME "root" WILL CEASE TO
update user set user="sqladmin" where user="root";
flush privileges;
Now, on with the "standard" testing... First, create a new database:
create database foo;
You should see the result:
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
Delete the database:
drop database foo;
You should see the result:
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)
To exit from mysql enter \q:
Build and Install Apache (with DSO support)
The advantage to building Apache with support for dynamically loaded modules is that in the future, you can add functionality to your webserver by just compiling and installing modules, and restarting the webserver. If the features were compiled into Apache, you would need to rebuild Apache from scratch every time you wanted to add or update a module (like PHP). Your Apache binary is also smaller, which means more efficient memory usage.
The downside to dynamic modules is a slight performance hit compared to having the modules compiled in.
cd /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.37
make clean
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-shared=max \
--enable-module=rewrite \
make && make install
Build and Install PHP
This section has only been tested with PHP v4.x. If you are trying to build PHP 5.x, I do not have experience with this yet, and do not provide free support for you to get it working. Please note that there are many options which can be selected when compiling PHP. Some will have library dependencies, meaning certain software may need to be already installed on your server before you start building PHP. You can use the command
./configure --help | less
once you change into the PHP source directory. This will show you a list of all possible configuration switches. For more information on what these switches are, please check the PHP website documentation.
cd /usr/local/src/php-4.4.6
./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--disable-debug \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mm=shared \
--enable-safe-mode \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--enable-wddx=shared \
--enable-xml \
--with-dom \
--with-gd \
--with-gettext \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-regex=system \
--with-xml \
make && make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini
I like to keep my config files all together in /etc. I set up a symbolic link like this:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/php.ini /etc/php.ini
Then I can just open /etc/php.ini in my editor to make changes.
Recommended reading on securing your PHP installation is this article at SecurityFocus.com.
Edit the Apache Configuration File (httpd.conf)
I like to keep all my configuration files together in /etc, so I set up a symbolic link from the actual location to /etc:
ln -s /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd.conf
Now open /etc/httpd.conf in your favorite text editor, and set all the basic Apache options in accordance with the official Apache instructions (beyond the scope of this HOWTO).
Also recommended is the article on securing Apache.
To ensure your PHP files are properly interpreted, and not just downloaded as text files, remove the # at the beginning of the lines which read:
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
If the AddType lines above don't exist, manually enter them (without the leading # of course) after the line
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
or anyplace within the section of httpd.conf.
If you wish to use other/additional extensions/filetypes for your PHP scripts instead of just .php, add them to the AddType directive:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .foo
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps .phtmls
An example: if you wanted every single HTML page to be parsed and processed like a PHP script, just add .htm and .html:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
There will be a bit of a performance loss if every single HTML page is being checked for PHP code even if it doesn't contain any. But if you want to use PHP but be "stealthy" about it, you can use this trick.
Add index.php to the list of valid Directory Index files so that your "default page" in a directory can be named index.php.
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
You can add anything else you want here too. If you want foobar.baz to be a valid directory index page, just add the .baz filetype to the AddType line, and add foobar.baz to the DirectoryIndex line.
Start Apache
We want to set Apache up with a normal start/stop script in /etc/rc.d/init.d so it can be auto-started and controlled like other system daemons. Set up a symbolic link for the apachectl utility (installed automatically as part of Apache):
ln -s /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl /etc/rc.d/init.d/apache
Then set up auto-start for runlevel 3 (where the server will go by default):
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/apache /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90apache
Then start the daemon:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apache start
You can check that it's running properly by doing:
ps -ef
and look for the httpd processes.


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All tickets can be purchased at the registers (while supplies last) for a $3 service fee. We take cash and credit cards for all ticket sales. Store credit and coupons cannot be applied to ticket sales. Limit 4 tickets per person.
We have a new partnership with Teragram Ballroom, an intimate venue in downtown LA. We are the only place in town to buy physical tickets (aside from the venue itself). We'll have a small amount of tickets for every Teragram show available the day they are announced on a first-come, first-served basis with our low $3 ticket service fee.
For The Novo (formerly Club Nokia) and Shrine Expo Hall shows, we only carry general admission tickets. If you wish to purchase reserved seating at The Novo (where available), you can buy those tickets online here. If you wish to purchase reserved seating at Shrine Expo Hall (where available), you can buy those tickets online here.
Please note that on the day of the show, we will stop selling tickets for that show at 5pm.
Tickets are limited, so please call the store first to make sure they are available: 323-245-6400.

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With its number of disused old buildings, unbeatable low rents and its comprehensive cultural offer Leipzig is definitly one of the hubs of Germany's creative scene.
From 29 – 31 October the 6th Designers' Open will take place at two marvelous venues in the centre of Leipzig showcasing the newest works of almost 250 designers in the field of interior, industrial, fashion, and communication design. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide programme of lectures, film screenings and workshops.
Get some more informaion here:
"Also featured throughout the city of Leipzig are design exhibitions by local participants ("DO/Spots"). For the first time, the Designers' Open fair is divided: into the sections of "DO / Market" and "DO / Industry." "DO/Market" predominantly addresses end-consumers and design fans. Interior and fashion design products can be purchased. The "DO/Industry" part's primary aim is to address professional visitors, entrepreneurs, and representatives of the local industry. Recent interior, industrial and communication design works and projects by design collectives, individual exhibitors and universities will be presented as well. On Friday night, the DO/ Jury Awards will again be presented to the three winners for their excellent design concepts."
Designers' Open, October 29 – 31, 2010
Opening Hours: Friday/Saturday 11 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Admission: Day Pass 8 Euros (Fair and Lectures), free admission for children under 12
Locations: Hôtel de Pologne, Hainstraße 16/18, Kretschmann's Hof, Katharinenstr. 17, 04109 Leipzig
Both buildings are connected through a passage and they are located in a five minutes' walking distance from the central station.
to the Designers' Open website


text: Opinion A Phony Hero for a Phony War By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV Published: November 16, 2012 FASTIDIOUSNESS is never a good sign in a general officer. Though strutting military peacocks go back to Alexander's time, our first was MacArthur, who seemed at times to care more about how much gold braid decorated the brim of his cap than he did about how many bodies he left on beachheads across the Pacific. Next came Westmoreland, with his starched fatigues in Vietnam. In our time, Gen. David H. Petraeus has set the bar high. Never has so much beribboned finery decorated a general's uniform since Al Haig passed through the sally ports of West Point on his way to the White House. "What's wrong with a general looking good?" you may wonder. I would propose that every moment a general spends on his uniform jacket is a moment he's not doing his job, which is supposed to be leading soldiers in combat and winning wars — something we, and our generals, stopped doing about the time that MacArthur gold-braided his way around the stalemated Korean War. And now comes "Dave" Petraeus, and the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. No matter how good he looked in his biographer-mistress's book, it doesn't make up for the fact that we failed to conquer the countries we invaded, and ended up occupying undefeated nations. The genius of General Petraeus was to recognize early on that the war he had been sent to fight in Iraq wasn't a real war at all. This is what the public and the news media — lamenting the fall of the brilliant hero undone by a tawdry affair — have failed to see. He wasn't the military magician portrayed in the press; he was a self-constructed hologram, emitting an aura of preening heroism for the ever eager cameras. I spent part of the fall of 2003 with General Petraeus and the 101st Airborne Division in and around Mosul, Iraq. One of the first questions I asked him was what his orders had been. Was he ordered to "take Mosul," I asked. No answer. How about "Find Mosul and report back"? No answer. Finally I asked him if his orders were something along the lines of "Go to Mosul!" He gave me an almost imperceptible nod. It must have been the first time an American combat infantry division had been ordered into battle so casually. General Petraeus is very, very clever, which is quite different from stating that he is the brilliant tactician he has been described as. He figured if he hadn't actually been given the mission to "win" the "war" he found himself in, he could at least look good in the meantime. And the truth is he did a lot of good things, like conceiving of the idea of basically buying the loyalties of various factions in Iraq. But they weren't the kinds of things that win wars. In fact, they were the kinds of things that prolong wars, which for the general had the useful side effect of putting him on ever grander stages so he could be seen doing ever grander things, culminating in his appointment last year as the director of the C.I.A. The thing he learned to do better than anything else was present the image of The Man You Turn To When Things Get Tough. (Who can forget the Newsweek cover, "Can This Man Save Iraq?" with a photo of General Petraeus looking very Princeton-educated in his Westy-starched fatigues?) He was so good at it that he conned the news media into thinking he was the most remarkable general officer in the last 40 years, and, by playing hard to get, he conned the political establishment into thinking that he could morph into Ike Part Deux and might one day be persuaded to lead a moribund political party back to the White House. THE problem was that he hadn't led his own Army to win anything even approximating a victory in either Iraq or Afghanistan. It's not just General Petraeus. The fact is that none of our generals have led us to a victory since men like Patton and my grandfather, Lucian King Truscott Jr., stormed the beaches of North Africa and southern France with blood in their eyes and military murder on their minds. Those generals, in my humble opinion, were nearly psychotic in their drive to kill enemy soldiers and subjugate enemy nations. Thankfully, we will probably never have cause to go back to those blood-soaked days. But we still shouldn't allow our military establishment to give us one generation after another of imitation generals who pretend to greatness on talk shows and photo spreads, jetting around the world in military-spec business jets. The generals who won World War II were the kind of men who, as it was said at the time, chewed nails for breakfast, spit tacks at lunch and picked their teeth with their pistol barrels. General Petraeus probably flosses. He didn't chew nails and spit tacks, but rather challenged privates to push-up contests and went out on five-mile reveille runs with biographers. His greatest accomplishment was merely personal: he transformed himself from an intellectual nerd into a rock star military man. The problem was that he got so lost among his hangers-on and handlers and roadies and groupies that he finally had his head turned by a West Point babe in a sleeveless top. If only our political leadership, not to mention the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, had known how quickly and hard he would fall over such a petty, ignominious affair. Think of how many tens of thousands of lives could have been saved by ending those conflicts much earlier and sending Dave and his merry band of Doonesbury generals to the showers. A novelist and journalist who is writing his new book on the blog Dying of a Broken Heart.


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Revelation 20:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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Kurt Nimmo
January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney, the establishment declared GOP front-runner, is the white Obama. He earns this title because on crucial issues he mirrors Barack Obama. Consider:
Climate agenda and carbon taxes:
He has stated that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is real. In 2005, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney imposed strict state limitations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. In a memo issued by Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Hale, the Romney administration bragged that it was "the first and only state to set CO 2 emissions limits on power plants."
In short, Romney did what Obama's EPA wants to do now. It is revealing that Romney was advised on this drastic step by none other than Obama's chief science adviser, John Holdren.
In his book, No Apology, Romney advocates carbon taxes through a "tax-swap plan" and declares that resultant "higher energy prices would encourage energy efficiency." The plan is favored by economist and Romney adviser Greg Mankiw and many other "Republican-leaning economists." In 2007, Mankiw wrote an op-ed for the New York Times entitled "One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax." He wrote that "if we want to reduce global emissions of carbon, we need a global carbon tax."
Obama also wants to push a carbon tax on the American people and declared his intention to do so before he took office. "President elect Barack Obama used his speech at a Los Angeles summit last night to reinvigorate a push for the revival of a frightening proposal to slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict a new Great Depression, cost millions of jobs, and sink America to near third world status," Paul Joseph Watson wrote on November 19, 2008.
Obama's agenda to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent fits right into the globalist plan to attain the ultimate civilization-killing goal of zero carbon emissions, as espoused by the Carnegie Institute.
In December, Romney told Fox News that he stands by the health care at gunpoint plan implemented while he was governor of Massachusetts. "The plan is not perfect, there are things that I'd change in it, but I'll stand by the things we've done," he said, defending the plan.
Obama and the Democrats were so enthralled with Romney's statist health care boondoggle, they based their plan on it.
"Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney's landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney's own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act," NBC reported last October.
Like a good Demopublican, Romney supported a woman's "right" to kill her fetus – that is before, as a "conservative," he changed his mind – or as it is usually called, he flip-flopped on the issue.
He was so adamant about abortion, he attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in 2004, but now supports the Pence amendment sponsored by Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence aimed at eliminating all Title X grants for Planned Parenthood. He even instituted tax-funded abortion on demand two years after his orchestrated "pro-life" conversion.
Obama, of course, is "pro-choice" and has appointed a number of outspoken pro-abortion advocates to his administration. If elected, no doubt Romney will do the same.
Illegal immigration:
Mitt claims to oppose illegal immigration, but does not advocate sending illegals back – or, apparently, even arresting them for breaking the law.
"Those people that are here illegally today should have the opportunity to register and to have their status identified," he said in November.
He said nothing about illegal immigrants paying back taxes, learning English, not having criminal records, or being deported and going through legal channels for immigration.
Romney sounds a lot like Obama, who said: "I think most Americans feel there should be an orderly process to do it. People shouldn't just be coming here and cutting in front of the line essentially and staying without having gone through the proper channels."
Mitt Romney is basically indistinguishable from Obama and supports the same globalist agenda, albeit with "conservative" flourishes. His flip-flopping on key issues is designed to make his pre-arranged agenda more palatable to so-called conservatives, who will naturally be hoodwinked as they are every election cycle.
If elected, Romney will become the white Obama. The only job requirement will be an ability to convincingly read a teleprompter and follow orders handed down form his globalist masters the same as his predecessor.
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"This is definitely the best post I've read on the topic of software and the research process."
"This article is one of the reasons I am a plus subscriber. It has described a complex web activity but broken it down into understandable 'bytes.' Forgive the pun…"
"Once again, I was reminded why I'm often hesitant to open your newsletter. This time I didn't get through the first article before I had to go pull out many of the CD's I'd made of music and photos. Now, some 90 minutes later, I'm playing some of the old music and needing to check to see if I have all the photos on my Google Photo account.
"Now, to get back to the newsletter which often makes me feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose as there's so much useful information.
"I could live with a monthly newsletter, but then I'd be needing to set aside a day or more to follow all the rabbit trails you send me on.
"Thanks anyway!!!"
"Because of your article, I was able to punch through a brick wall on behalf of a friend! Thank you! I found a will that definitively proved that my theory was correct."
"One of your most useful articles Dick. Lots of great information for all of us. Thank you."
"I had no idea that all these resources existed. Can't thank you enough for all your technical articles along with your genealogical expertise. Keep up the good, no, make that GREAT work!"
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"Your newsletter has been a role model in my journey to publish my research on cemeteries as they relate to genealogy. I was originally planned on traditional paper and ink, but realized that this new fangled electronic media is faster, cheaper, and efficient. So taking your lead, I went with a blog centered website. After only one month, it has been wildly successful. I simply want to share years of research. So for you acting as my primary role model, I thank you!"
"I didn't sign up for the paid edition until a couple of years ago when there was an article in the plus edition that I had to read. I should have done it years ago. It's a bargain and no trees are killed. I raise my glass to you and hope there are years of articles left for you to share."
"Your article on the Future of Genealogy Software was excellent!!!"
"Great article, I wish I'd had this information sooner!"
"Great article Dick. Very informative for people like me who are not too computer savvy."
"I have learned more from your newsletter about genealogy than most of the other journals combined that I have taken. An added perk, for me, is all the hardware, software, etc. info you share. I started out as a person with minimal computer skills beyond calling the "IT" guy when I had problems at work. I look forward to reading your EOGN compilations every week and always find something new and challenging."
"I want to thank you personally for your articles on Chromebooks. … My daughter and I both have Apple computers. Hers went belly up recently. She is unable to pull together the monies to buy a new computer. After having read your articles I recommended and helped her select a Chromebook, which she loves. "
"Wow lots of great information. Thanks for sharing so much. Lots to action here."
"Articles like this one–though not full-blown–are exactly why I love your newsletter. Sure, I expect–and receive–genealogy and family history information. But the little tidbits you send on related things are the icing on the cake to we family historians who all love to have something to help us. THANKS!"
"You are very similar to Reader's Digest in the genealogy and other interesting items way that you give us info and links to find out more."
"Thank you for including an occasional 'non-genealogy' article — I subscribe as much for these as for the genealogy specific. You have a talent for making complex things seem easy."
"From the old days of the CompuServe Genealogy Forum to the present I have always learned new computer tricks from reading your articles. Thank you."
"Thanks for letting us know about this, I would never have switched were it not for your article. The savings will pay for my subscription to your newsletter many times over."
"You keep outdoing yourself, Dick! This is one of the best computer articles you have ever written! In fact, it is better that most articles found on the best computing advice websites."
"I've been late in thanking you for telling me about the TNG program and the HP Stream 7. I built my tree using TNG…"
"Dick, I think I joined your newsletter in 1998. Forget Google Alerts, Mocavo or any others that may help to find genealogy items, your newsletter encompasses everything a genealogist may want to know about,and many things unrelated to genealogy we were glad you wrote about, too.
"This one post pays for years of subscription to EOGN."
"Thanks for an article about something so very important but I bet not many of us have thought about. Now I just have to figure out what I am going to do with my online accounts, etc.! Everyone needs to be aware of this so it is up to those of us who are aware to spread the word. I am a new subscriber to your news letter and this article makes me really glad I did. Thanks again."
"What a great article for those of us who have documents and photos that have not be stored properly. I will be one of the first to run out an gather the appropriate tools to try this out."
"I think of you as the Swiss Army Knife of Genealogy."
"I always find your articles interesting and useful, for technology as well as genealogy – thank you for pointing out this particular bargain."
"You truly are a gem! Thanks for all your hard work and Happy Anniversary!"
"Best $20 I have spent this year! I enjoy your posts every day; I'm just sorry I can't travel as you do to all the conferences."
"I was so impressed that I subscribed to the Plus version several weeks ago. I really look forward to it every week. It contains so much good/ interesting information and links to other data. I constantly toggle between the news letter and the linked web sites. Eastman sure has a broad knowledge and useage of so much of the electronic and internet fields. Unfortunately, I get so sidetracked by the content and links, that I neglect or forget what I should be working on. Senior moments I guess?"
"Wow. Although I often marvel at your ability to research and report, this piece exceeds in every category. This is some remarkably important information that very few people know about, that is very important and I'm delighted that I now know."
"As always, a clear and easily understood article. Please keep up the good work. The combination of genealogy articles and computer talk is well balanced and the major reason I continue to read every newsletter and subscribe to the plus edition."
"Thank you for this great post. Tonight I tracked the family of Ole A. Brown for 15 years using the directories from 1873 to 1888. They are one of my brick walls back to Norway.Your newsletter is always a must read every day."
"Once we had the approval to start this project, we contacted Dick Eastman and asked for him to place a notice in his genealogy newsletter, which he was gracious enough to do. As a result we now have 53 volunteers (and counting) who are going to be assisting in this project. This is the largest group of volunteers we have had on any such project in the country. We really believe the publicity Dick provided was instrumental in providing additional volunteers."
"You must know that you are unique in the genealogical field. Your credentials for computer use, futuristic thinking and eagerness to bring the rest of us along for a great ride, and clearity of expression and emphasis on documentation are a wonderful combination for all of us to be exposed to. May you never retire!"
"Thanks for the great article. I've looked at Mocavo before, but your article provoked me to try again. I was rewarded with details on one of my family lines back to 1600 Germany … I've been working on that line for years, so this was a treasure trove of information to me! In these days of belt-tightening I am constantly revisiting my expenditures, and just when I think it's time not to renew EOGN, I find something like this that makes my investment worthwhile."
"I upgraded to the pay-for-plus option today.Thanks- this is a terrific publication. Good for you! (And for us)."
"You remind me of the Lone Ranger, "thundering hooves, and all that". Thank you so much! Keep up the good work! I love your writing!"
"Fascinating! One of the things I really like about EOGN is the incidental technology discoveries. Thank you!"
"I just wanted to thank you for allowing me to receive your newsletters. I have learned a lot from all of your postings. Your information has really helped me in my research into my family's past. Keep up the great work you do! Thank you again!"
"I just wanted to reach out and thank you for your kind words about the new genealogy section on our web site. We have received over 3,000 referrals to the site from eogn.com and it has opened many doors for us. We've heard from the Federation of Genealogical Societies and several bloggers based on your write up."
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"Thanks once again for providing excellent reviews like this! This is the main reason I am a Plus subscriber."
"I have enjoyed every Eastman's newsletter I have ever received, and have been grateful for the lifeline to the world of genealogy at a time when my own life has changed and my research time has diminished. Your information is always pertinent, highly useable, and so well-written. I will continue to be happy to read your newsletter, whenever it arrives, on whatever schedule works for your life. Thanks for your long dedication, and for gathering and disseminating such important information to our work. I also want to comment about how intelligent and articulate your newsletter members always are.
"I love reading your newsletter. I am especially interested in genealogy cruises, so I love that section."
"Hi Dick, you really hit the economic nail on the head and gave a wonderful explanation. I admire you for that. I have been a faithful reader of your newsletter from almost the beginning and I will continue, you can count me in."
"Thank you for the info on this subject. What I love about your news is that it's not always genealogy, but it's ALWAYS relevant to our lives. Thanks Again!"
"Dear Mr. Eastman; Thank you very much for all the free tips you give about genealogy to beginners like me. I thoroughly enjoy your articles! So many people on the internet are tring to get rich quick it seems and you are so generous with your knowledge; I just wanted you to know that I appreciate all your help!"
"I take the Plus Edition for the MAIN purpose of hearing about new technology as it relates to genealogy or other very small business use. I can't wait to hear about the latest invention which might make my work/hobby better and easier. Thanks, Dick!"
"But the wonder of it all is that I now have the name and location of a living cousin who reported the fate of her grandparents, and her I can find! Thank you, Dick, for helping me hit the 'Easy Button!'"
"This is the kind of article that makes my husband brag about your newsletters to our tech savvy kids. I have learned so much more about technology and genealogy from your newsletters than any other newsletter that I get. Keep up the great work."
"Thanks, Dick. I've now bought and installed [the VPN product you described] and it works great! I had a queasy feeling last week in hotels with free but unencrypted wireless access and this is just what I need to sleep a little better not wondering if someone has stolen one of my passwords or the like. Thanks for all your pioneering work and great advice!"
"Thank you so much for your informative articles. My subscription to your Plus articles were definitely well-spent dollars!"
"The beauty of this newsletter is it's synergy of genealogy and modern data handling information. Genealogy creates data issues, and fortunately for us, Dick is here to be part of the solution!"
"Dick: For many years I have read your column and I just wanted to thank you for what you are doing for the genealogical community. You are a valuable asset and I appreciate your knowledge and expertise, you community service, your time, and your effort."
"Great article whatever level of experience with searching…"
"I just renewed my annual subscription. Just a day or so ago, you gave us the tip on an online service. That was worth the annual subscription. Thank you for being one of the few businesses that provide service at a good value!"
"Hi! I am so grateful for your straightforward, laymans terms and simplicity in both technology and genealogy. I will usually purchase the items you favor because, thankfully, you are willing to do the research and share your results quickly and clearly. I have not been disappointed once. What I see so far is very impressive and already worth the fee. Thank you for your commitment to assisting us better understand these two complicated and interesting subjects, and to the readers who leave their helpful comments."
"Dick, I just want to send along a thank you for all of your great work in compiling the newsletter. You have jump started my genealogy interest and perhaps this time I will get into it with more information and resources than have been available to me in my past efforts."
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"Remarkable. That's twice in one week, Mr. Eastman, that you've pointed me to images of original records pertaining to ancestors of mine. This time, not only one but four! Now I'm too excited to go to sleep."
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"Dick, THANKS, can't believe this. Out of time today to search but found some relatives didn't know what happened to them and anxious to get back to this site.
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU sooooooooooooo VERY MUCH!"
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"I would just like to say "thanks" for all the information that you provide through your newsletter. You are appreciated."
"Thanks for your advice on this and a multitude of other genealogical and computer issues."
"Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all the various subjects you carry in your newsletter. It keeps all of us informed."
"Thanks to your article I was able to make this connection and learn more about my family history."
"Thanks, Dick, for a fascinating synthesis. You are a talented writer. I've heard it said that Lloyd Bockstruck could enthrall an audience as he read the phone book aloud; and you are as talented a writer as he is a speaker. "
"I have subscribed to your newsletter since the early 1990s and have been looking for my maternal grandparents all this time. Bingo! Thanks to your article, I found them in the 1901 Irish census and also then I found them in 1911."
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"Coach Harbaugh is not at the facility today under doctor's orders. He is having a minor procedure done at Stanford Hospital today for an irregular heartbeat. We anticipate that he will be back at the facility tomorrow, but do not have any further information to share at this time. Assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Brad Seely will be overseeing today's practice and meetings. When more information regarding coach Harbaugh is available we will pass that along."
There's not much to add here, outside of the fact that it sounds promising that Harbaugh is expected back at work in some capacity on Friday. Beyond that, we'll just send our best wishes for a quick and complete recovery and express our hope that there isn't a need for more medical intervention in the future to deal with the issue.


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"Just wait–one day you'll wake up, and out of the blue you'll be fat and foggy-menopause sucks!"
"Not me", I assured my jaded friends and family. I would never allow that to happen to me. Never.
Fast forward. I woke up this morning. I am fat. And foggy. Hello MentalPause.
I've been denying my weight gain as "water retention" for too long now. Or blaming it on my new-ish mac-daddy, super-powered clothes dryer. It dries my clothes a little too well. OK, a lot too well. So I've finally started hang-drying my jeans, but, damn, this Georgia heat still shrinks them up too much!
And my bathroom scale is old. Really old, and I am sure that the dust accumulation in the whatchamacallit, innards, has added at least a couple of pounds to it's readings. They do that. It's a gimmick invented by the scale-makers, I'm sure, to get us middle-agers to upgrade to the fancier, more expensive model. The one that speaks out loud like those fancy-schmancy GPS thingy's. "Looking good, gorgeous, now go out and buy yourself a new pair of jeans". Yeah. Right. But instead of going to the boutique that only sells jeans in European sizes, of which I have never figured out which size I am, I must now go to Chico's, the store for the cruise-ship traveler/modern woman wannabe. They have devised a way for even the most pleasingly plump to avoid the dreaded XXL of stretch-pants. Chico's cleverly sizes their wears from 00-4. Yep, the old size 22 is the new size 4!
The fogginess that comes along with MentalPause (MP) is another "gift" to the middle-aged woman. If "brainfart" is a word, then I am the gassiest, fartingest one around. I come downstairs in the morning and can't find my reading glasses to see the newspaper (another gift from the MP gods-failing vision.) I go back upstairs to look for my bedtime reading glasses (I try to keep several pairs stashed around the house) and find them in the bathroom. Back downstairs, HK points out that my morning glasses are on my head. I take a sip of coffee, then go back upstairs to put last night's washing in the dryer (except the jeans). There are still clothes in the dryer from a few days ago, that I forgot to promptly remove as the labels advise, so I will have extra ironing this week. I come down and go back up when I think I forgot to turn the dryer on. (You'd think I'd actually be losing weight from all the stairs I climb every day.)
Today's paper has the food section in it. The Shrimp and Grits recipe looks delish. I go to get my shopping list, which I can't find, so I start a new one. Shrimp. Chicken broth. Grits. Do we have plenty of coffee? I go to look. Oh, there's the Tikka Masala sauce I meant to make last month. Add Chicken to the list. I'm hungry, but we don't have any cereal, so I have a couple of prunes and a piece of chocolate. Add chocolate to the list. Shoot, I forgot to take Roxie to the groomer this morning. Call to make another appointment.
All of this forgetting/remembering makes me grumpy. Oops- forgot my antidepressant. Oh, it looks like I need a refill on my cholesterol meds. God, these calcium pills are huge. Almost out of Vitamin E-better put it on my list. WHERE'S THE FREAKING LIST????
After starting a third grocery list, it's time to walk the dogs, work out and get my day started, since it's nearly noon. By 2:00, I'm at the store. Shit. Forgot my grocery bags. Grabbing a cart, I hit the vegetable aisle. Now, where's my list? I call HK to see if he can find my lists and tell me what we need. He's not answering his phone. I wing it from memory, knowing full-well that I'll be making another trip to the store if not today, then tomorrow. I see a neighbor in the condiments aisle, but I can't for the life of me remember his name, so I avoid any possible encounter. (I hope we don't need ketchup.) The cashier asks ifI qualify for the senior discount. If she actually thinks I look even close to 63, then, by god, yes-give me the discount.
By the time I get home, I'm ready for a nap. Did I mention another effect of MP? Tiredness. Daytime-not nighttime- tiredness. During the night, I find it difficult, at best, to get to sleep without a little help from Ambien. When I do finally get to sleep, I often wake up swimming in a pool of sweat, and have to change into dry pajamas. After changing, it's hard to get back to sleep. I am not a daytime napper, though, as I consider it a huge waste of my valuable time, so I sit, finally, at my computer and stare at the screen. What was I going to work on today? After commenting on friend's facebook pages, adding a few images to my Pinterest board and forwarding emails, I study the recipe for Tikka Masala. Damn-I forgot to buy chicken. We have soup and sandwiches for dinner.
After a few hours of catching up on Downton Abbey and Survivor, I'm ready for bed. Where are my glasses? Good night, MentalPause. See you in the morning.


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It looks like KCMO is gearing up to start the construction that's referenced in this press release sometime soon. Southbound Broadway between 6th and 14th is getting torn up, and it could last well into December. The city's been doing the same thing to 10th St, and that's apparently close to being done. Broadway, however, is a much different beast. If you have to get out of downtown and rely on Broadway, I might suggest cutting over to Wyandotte or Baltimore. Baltimore is one-way (north only) north of 11th Street or so, but I often use Wyandotte to get down to 14th before cutting to Baltimore. Both roads are lightly trafficked in comparison to Main and Broadway.
I must say that I like the new streetscape aesthetically, but I'll have to see what effect it has on traffic.
Photo: unrelated construction on Turkey Creek seen on my way home Thursday evening.
Speaking of Turkey Creek, the Turkey Creek trail is getting extended from Antioch to Metcalf by City of Overland Park, then being taken further by City of Mission. I can't find all the details yet, but it looks like Turkey Creek Trail will eventually become a thoroughfare that stretches from 75th and King's Cove all the way to Kansas City, MO.
I like the fact that the trails are going in, and that they're becoming popular among bike commuters as a way to get around. The longer ones in the area (Particularly Indian Creek Trail) often make up the majority of bike commuters' journeys. I have mixed feelings about riding on the trails, but as you can often see from my commuting photos, I do ride Turkey Creek Trail frequently.
Reasons to ride the trails are numerous. To name a few:
- To get out of the wind or the sun
- To slow down and take it easy away from traffic
- To get some photos
- To take it as a detour when the trail's shorter/easier than the road (i.e. to The Trek Store)
- Narrow and curvy paths make it harder to see oncoming cyclists
- Narrow and curvy paths require you to go slower than you might on the road
- Often crowded with pedestrians and pets
- Winding, scenic paths often require you to ride a longer distance than using the roadways
It looks like the Let's Go KC bicycle count has been postponed until Spring. This was going to be an effort to quantify the number of cyclists on the road. Downtown, I still see quite a few bikes in use. According to my friends, Midtown and other parts of KCMO are no different. The number of cyclists I see making the trip between KCMO and Johnson County, however, has dropped off severely. In July and August, I was personally running across as many as 10 bicycle commuters on each way of my trip. Now, I always see one or two others, but rarely more than that south of Boulevard Brewery.
The evenings have been really pleasant for riding, but the mornings have been brisk and the fuel prices are at a one-year low. It's amazing to think that I was slightly miffed when gasoline hit $1.50 per gallon. Now I barely pay the fuel prices much attention. Also, bus ridership is waning considerably. For more than a month, many of the buses in my area were standing-room-only. Now, the busses are in heavy use, but certainly not full to seating capacity much less standing-room-only. I'm sure that it's a combination of weather and fuel prices that are driving these trends. Regardless, I think it's for the best that the bicycle tally gets postponed. This is definitely no-one's idea of peak riding season, no matter how nice the afternoons are.


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Vampires have walked among us for thousands of years. These reanimated corpses survive by draining and consuming the blood of the living, and their threat to humanity cannot be ignored. Throughout the centuries, professors and peasants have offered their own vampire-fighting tips, but these were often old wives' tales, based more on superstition than on fact. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive vampire-fighting guide for the 21st century.
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Vampires are found in every country in the world - not just in Eastern Europe and Sunnydale, California. With the human population expected to reach over 9 billion by the year 2050, confrontations between men, women, children, and vampires are increasingly inevitable. This guide is the human race's best hope.


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Simply put, sous-vide cooking employs the use of vacuum sealed plastic pouches, submerged in temperatures below the boiling point (usually between 104°F to 190°F), and kept for over 24 hours. This unique slow-cooking technique is used to marinate and cure foods by using pressure to steep flavors into foods with the vacuum packing process. The sous-vide cooking method cooks food evenly throughout; so boneless chicken breasts are silky; carrots are tender and sweet and retain their bright color; lamb is delivered smoothly textured, and evenly rare and flavorful with a subtle, light taste. Just clamp it on a stock pot or a large container and tough cuts of meat like beef chuck are transformed into meat as tender as a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.
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I've never been a huge fan of yellow but in small bits I think it's a great way to bring some of those autumnal colors inside. These tiny flowers are my favorite too, like little wildflowers.
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i'd love some wildflowers right about now thank you!ReplyDelete
Wow, and the globe!ReplyDelete
I love yellow. It instantly brightens.ReplyDelete
beautiful picture, love the flowers and the globe!ReplyDelete
I think as you. I'm thinking of buying a yellow lamp!ReplyDelete
I'm not a big fan of yellow either but the striped vase and the background are perfect for the splash of color!ReplyDelete
And wildflowers.. I'm captured!
Love your pictures and black and whit style!ReplyDelete
I love Yellow and think it fits perfect with this black and white style, not too much, but just a hint of yellow like your flowers.
I think neon yellow would be a perfect pop of color in your home too ; )ReplyDelete
I love the globe! Where did you get that? It's amazing!ReplyDelete
I love the globe too! I wanna buy one!ReplyDelete
I think a bit of yellow makes these photos alive. But I love yellow :)ReplyDelete
I collected a little bucay of flowers every time I took a walk this summer to bring more colors and summer into the apartment. Yours look beautiful and I love that globe!! Where is it from?ReplyDelete
I really love the angled "globe".. /tiReplyDelete
How great!ReplyDelete
Love the yellow :)
oh, I love yellow flowers. they make my flat my home.ReplyDelete
I am not a fan of yellow either - as in bright, basic yellow. But I do love muted, mustard-y yellows. Those wildflowers have lovely faded tones though! And psst, my blog link has changed:)ReplyDelete
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Pacquiao shows once again he's a headline act
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Manny Pacquiao was always going to get his $20 million. That was part of the deal that lured him to this gambling city, where wealthy whales and B-list celebrities gathered ringside to watch him beat up yet another pretender to his crown.
On this night his opponent was a reluctant combatant, there seemingly only to get his own big payday. But Pacquiao wasn't about to let that ruin his plans for a big evening on the Las Vegas Strip.
He fought poverty, beat Shane Mosley, and shared a dais with Paris Hilton. The president of the Philippines called to chat, then it was off with his massive entourage for a concert at a neighboring casino.
All in a night's work for the little fighter who can.
"People know I'm trying to do my best," Pacquiao said. "I think they're satisfied."
Hard not to be when the most entertaining fighter since Mike Tyson worked as hard inside the ring as he did later in a concert that stretched into the wee hours of the morning. It wasn't Pacquiao's fault that Mosley spent most of Saturday night trying to find a spot between the ropes where Pacquiao couldn't hit him rather than try to put up a good fight.
Hilton certainly seemed happy about it all. The faux celebrity joined Pacquiao and his wife at the post-fight news conference to give her analysis of the fight, and the verdict was, well, favorable.
"It was a very amazing fight," she said.
Others who might know boxing a bit better would probably disagree, but there wasn't a lot Pacquiao could do about it. He floored Mosley with a left hook in the third round and spent the rest of the night chasing after him despite a cramp in his leg that made his opponent even harder to catch.
Much like with Tyson in his prime, though, Pacquiao mostly got a pass for his choice of opponent. Though the 16,412 fans at the sold-out MGM Grand arena booed in the later rounds, they were booing Mosley, not Pacquiao, for a fight that dragged on for 12 full rounds before coming to a predictable end.
Indeed, most fans - Hilton included - seemed to be happy just to see Pacquiao in action. That's the lure of the Filipino phenom, who continues to be the biggest draw in the sport even while being fed a questionable diet of opponents in recent fights.
Mosley was the latest, a fighter who looked shot in his bout last year with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and looked even worse against Pacquiao. Once a great fighter, Mosley at the age of 39 lacks the reflexes to compete anymore even if he refuses to recognize it.
"I don't think he tried to win the fight, he just tried to survive," said Freddie Roach, who trains Pacquiao. "When you get to that point in boxing it's time to call it a day."
Promoter Bob Arum tried to defend his pick of Mosley as Pacquiao's latest victim, saying Pacquiao is so good that no fighter can look good against him. That's bogus, of course, because there are certainly other fighters out there who could not only give Pacquiao a challenge but could conceivably beat him.
No. 1 at the top of that list, as everyone in boxing knows, is Mayweather, who seems as reluctant to sign for a fight with Pacquiao as Mosley was to actually fight him. But the clamor for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight has died down with Mayweather inactive and facing legal problems that could land him in jail, and that fight seems even longer away than it was before.
Next up for Pacquiao will likely be a third fight against Juan Manuel Marquez, who fought to a disputed draw with Pacquiao in 2004 and then lost a split decision to him two years later. But, while that fight is somewhat intriguing, Marquez is basically a lightweight while Pacquiao has grown into a full-blown welterweight who would have a big size advantage.
Pacquaio will make another $20 million regardless of who is in the ring with him. That's big money for any fighter, even if a fight with Mayweather could conceivably double that purse.
Before that happens, though, Pacquiao has stuff to do back home. The biggest sports hero the Philippines has had is also a congressman trying to build a hospital in his province, and the yellow gloves he wore in the fight were, he said, a symbol of the fight to end poverty in his native country.
He may or may not go down as one of the greatest fighters ever. That will be for boxing historians to decide when his career is finally over.
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Obama set to go big on guns… But the opposition will go equally big… NRA -- with its new web video -- brings a sledgehammer to the fight… Sandy relief passes the House (but with just a minority of the majority)… And that's instructive for the upcoming debt-ceiling fight, because the GOP isn't united here… Salazar to leave administration in March… And Obama and meeting the press.
*** Obama set to go big on guns: According to sources familiar with the gun-control recommendations President Obama will unveil today at 11:55 am ET, those recommendations will include a universal background check, prohibition of high-capacity magazines, an anti-trafficking law, and a renewal of the assault weapons ban. In addition, he will announce executive actions such as enforcing the laws already on the books (like prosecuting those who fail background checks), as well as restarting federal research of firearm deaths/crimes. And, the sources say, the recommendations also will touch on mental health, school security (though NOT arming guards), and entertainment/video games.
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Bottom line: Obama is going about as big as he can go, realizing there's little political downside (at least in the short term). One gun-control advocate tells First Read that the recommendations would be "the most significant reform of our guns laws since MLK and RFK were assassinated" in 1968.
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President Barack Obama speaks during his final news conference of his first term at the East Room of the White House Jan. 14, 2013.
*** But the opposition will be equally as big: Yet as NBC's Savannah Guthrie pointed out on "TODAY" this morning, there's a reason why you have to go back to four decades for the last time Washington tried to go this big: The politics of gun control are incredibly hard. Given that reality, which component becomes the priority for the White House? The background checks, magazine clips, and anti-trafficking might be the ones with the best chance of passage, while the assault ban could be the hardest. So what is the order? And what does the president and congressional Democrats really lean on? Also, what is the president going to say about culture? And finally, does he say anything about the new NRA video that injects his daughters into the debate? "Are the president's kids more important than yours?" the video asks. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school?" This video seems oddly timed and screams "insular."
*** The NRA brings a sledgehammer to the fight: Indeed, over the past 30 days since the Newtown shootings, the NRA has brought a sledgehammer to the debate, not even attempting nuance or persuasion. First the combative Wayne LaPierre press conference at the National Press Club. Then LaPierre's uncompromising appearance on "Meet the Press." And now this web video. The NRA is acting as if this were 2001 -- after beating Al Gore and facing a cowed Democratic Party. Instead, this is 2013 -- after the NRA was unable to beat Obama and after Democrats expanded their majority in the U.S. Senate. The danger the NRA is facing, especially after releasing this new video, is that it's potentially alienating the handful of Democratic allies it has. The Harry Reids, the Joe Manchins, the Jon Testers. While the NRA has always had a deeper reach within the Republican Party, what has made it particularly powerful is its influence inside both parties (a la AIPAC). But how the NRA has reacted to Newtown may very well have reduced its influence to just one political party. And if they decide to keep their attacks focused on the president, they will end up alienating the rest of the Democratic Party -- and that will cost them down the road. Right now, they are acting like an ideologically driven cog of the conservative movement rather than attempting to persuade or keep its Democratic supporters.
*** Sandy relief passes the House -- with just a minority of the majority: Last night, the House passed legislation providing an additional $50 billion for Hurricane Sandy relief by a 241-180 vote, according to NBC's Frank Thorp. But the real story is the vote breakdown: Only 49 Republicans voted for the measure -- so just 20% of the caucus -- while a whopping 179 Republicans voted against the measure. By comparison, 192 Democrats voted for the legislation, and just one (Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper) voted against. So for the second time in the last two weeks, we've seen the House pass legislation that isn't supported by a "majority of the majority." And what we've learned is that House Speaker John Boehner is willing to bring such legislation to the floor if 1) Senate Republicans are nearly unanimous in favor of it, and 2) if a Republican like Chris Christie has access to the New York-area megaphone.
*** GOP isn't united on the debt ceiling: So the fiscal-cliff and Sandy-relief votes point to how the debt ceiling might ultimately get raised. During the fiscal-cliff debate, you had Senate Republicans and key conservative opinion leaders arguing that the GOP should cut a deal with the White House. During the legislative fight over Sandy relief, you had Christie and other New York-area Republicans howling. And now with the debt ceiling coming into focus, you're already seeing some prominent conservative voices -- Peter Wehner, Ross Douthat, Matt Lewis, National Review (to a point), and Americans for Prosperity -- recommending that Republicans shouldn't wage a battle on this terrain. In addition, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), per the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, believes the debt ceiling must be raised. "Sen. Collins recognizes that the debt ceiling is going to have to be raised because the U.S. cannot default on its obligations to pay for spending that has already occurred," her spokesman said. "But she is frustrated that the administration, time and time again, keeps putting off the hard decisions on spending that our country must confront." These are all significant developments, because they suggest the GOP isn't united in waging a battle over the debt ceiling. And when the GOP isn't united, Boehner has now shown that he's willing to break glass and allow legislation to pass without a majority of the majority. Perhaps we've seen the near future and how the Republicans end up agreeing to a debt ceiling raise without a battle.
*** Salazar to leave administration in March: NBC's Kristen Welker is reporting that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the administration in March, according to a senior administration official. So to recap, here are the cabinet secretaries who are remaining:
Napolitano (DHS)
Duncan (Education)
Vilsack (Agriculture)
Holder (Justice)
Sebelius (HHS)
Shinseki (Veterans Affairs)
And here are the cabinet members leaving, plus their nominated replacements, if applicable:
Hillary Clinton at State (John Kerry nominated)
Leon Panetta at Defense (Chuck Hagel nominated)
Tim Geithner at Treasury (Jack Lew nominated)
Hilda Solis at Labor
Lisa Jackson at EPA
Ken Salazar at Interior
*** Obama and meeting the press: Earlier this week, Politico noted that the 79 Obama news conferences during his first term (including joint appearances with foreign leaders) are less than every modern president's since Ronald Reagan. George W. Bush had 89 press conferences during his first term, Bill Clinton had 133, George H.W. Bush had 143, and Reagan 27. In addition, Obama's had 107 short Q&A sessions with reporters -- versus George W. Bush's 354, Clinton's 612, George H.W. Bush' 313, and Reagan's 158. What jumps out at us is the comparison between Obama and Reagan; both had fewer press conferences and interactions with reporters. And Josh King, who worked for Clinton, writes that the short interactions with reporters weren't always helpful. President Clinton loved to talk. Answering questions was to him a balm for whatever press might have gone in a wayward direction during the previous news cycle... In communications parlance, he was 'stepping on his message.'" But King later observes that, over time, those interactions may have ended up serving Clinton better. As for the Obama and Reagan comparison: The two most disciplined presidents of the last 30 years both believed that the best way to communicate is to TRY and go over the media.
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Google, Facebook and Microsoft want feds to release more data about spying
Stung by criticism of their role in newly revealed government surveillance programs, Google (GOOG) and other leading Internet companies responded Tuesday by calling on federal authorities to let them tell the public more about the National Security Agency's secret efforts to gather data on Internet users.
The new response from Google, Facebook and Microsoft came as a coalition of civil liberties groups urged Congress to conduct a broad investigation of the government's data-gathering, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging a separate surveillance program involving phone records and a poll showed that Americans are sharply divided over whether such surveillance is justified.
Being required to keep government requests secret is helping fuel speculation that Google is giving the government "unfettered access to our users' data," complained David Drummond, the company's chief legal officer, in a blog post. He added that news reports to that effect "are simply untrue."
Civil rights activists called the Silicon Valley companies' statements "a good start," but some said the companies should do more to support a full investigation of the data-gathering efforts.
Apple (AAPL), Facebook and Google denied knowledge of the NSA program known as PRISM when it was first disclosed last week, while acknowledging they comply with what they consider lawful government requests for information.
Google followed up Tuesday by announcing it has asked the FBI and Department of Justice for permission to begin reporting how many data requests the company receives from the government under the Foreign Intelligence Security Act, which currently requires companies to keep those requests secret.
Facebook and Microsoft later echoed Google's request, saying they want the government to allow more disclosure about data requests. Google and Microsoft already report how often they receive certain types of requests, such as law enforcement subpoenas, without disclosing specifics. Facebook said it would issue a similar report if it could cover all requests.
Among other Silicon Valley companies named in initial reports about PRISM, Apple and Yahoo (YHOO) declined to comment on Google's letter.
Twitter general counsel Alex Macgillivray, meanwhile, posted a tweet saying he agreed with both Google and Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, who is pushing to declassify rulings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Twitter wasn't named on a list of companies participating in PRISM and has declined to discuss the program.
The companies' statements were greeted with faint praise by civil liberties activists, who said the companies should join their coalition in calling for a Congressional investigation and broad reforms of intelligence laws.
"They have an obligation to their users, whose privacy has been compromised," said Eva Galperin. a policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of Google and the other Internet companies. "This is the only way they can clear their name, given the scandal and lack of clarity over what kind of information they have been giving up to the NSA."
The companies and the government have denied initial news reports that said the PRISM program gives intelligence agencies "direct access" to the companies' servers. Instead, U.S. officials said the program operates within federal law to request information from the Internet accounts of foreign terror suspects and their contacts, although experts say that could include contacts in the United States.
Google went further on Tuesday, offering its first explanation of how it actually provides data that the government requests.
"When required to comply with these requests, we deliver that information to the U.S. government -- generally through secure FTP transfers and in person,"said Google spokesman Chris Gaither, referring to File Transfer Protocol, a method of sending encrypted files over the Internet. "We refuse to participate in any program -- for national security or other reasons -- that requires us to provide governments with access to our systems or to install their equipment on our networks."
In a poll over the weekend, the Pew Research Center found 56 percent of Americans would accept government tracking of phone records, but only 45 percent would allow monitoring of emails, if those efforts protect national security. About 41 percent rejected tracking phone records, and 52 percent opposed monitoring emails.
A leading tech trade association also voiced "grave concerns" about the government's data-gathering efforts.
"In the effort to gather security data, the broader picture of the damage to the Internet was lost. Somehow the Internet as a global tool, a trade tool and a trusted communication tool for people around the world was not adequately weighed into the cost benefit analysis," said Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, which counts Google, Yahoo and Microsoft among its members.
While none of the big Internet companies joined the civil liberties groups in calling for a broad investigation and overhaul of surveillance programs, the coalition includes a few smaller firms, including the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which maintains the Firefox Internet browser.
The ACLU, meanwhile, said in its lawsuit that the NSA's collection of phone logs from companies like Verizon, "is akin to snatching every American's address book -- with annotations detailing whom we spoke to, when we talked, for how long and from where."
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Fire rips through duplex at 34th, Wright
Two firefighters hurt
Two firefighters were hurt in a duplex fire at 34th and Wright streets Wednesday night.
A woman who lives in the duplex, Joslyn Lewis, said the fire started in the basement and spread to all three levels.
The fire started at about 8 p.m. and crews started to clear the scene at about 10:15 p.m.
The firefighters were taken an area hospital with heat exhaustion and burns.
Lewis said a lot of children live in the duplex, including her own, but they all got out safely.
"The fire was in the back room, and the younger son was trying to put the fire out with some water, but that's when we grabbed the kids," Lewis said.
Lewis said she moved into the duplex less than a month ago and hadn't even unpacked all of her belongings. She said she is getting assistance from the American Red Cross.
The duplex suffered extensive damage.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.


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At the very top of the page you see nine tabs: IYHA Association, Our Teams, Hockey Parents, Tournaments, Volunteer, Team Coaches. Team Managers, Team Treasurers and Admin. After you click on one of these tabs, the menu on the left edge of the page changes to show the options available for that tab.
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This is where you′ll be able to view the schedule, roster, and bulletins for your specific team. Use the drop down menus at the top to find your team. First use the "League" drop down menu to select the level your team plays at: Mite, Squirt, etc. Next use the "Team" drop down to choose the team you wish to see.
The left-edge menu options for the Team tab give you a variety of ways to look at your team's schedule. If you click on "Schedule" it will list each practice and game, in a day-by-day tabular fashion. Make sure that you click "Show Non-Games" and the schedule will include all practices as well. Click "Calendar" if you would rather view the schedule in a calendar form. The "Results" option shows results for games that have already occurred, but only if your coach or team manager enters the results. The "Multi-Schedule" feature allows you to see the schedule for several teams at one time.
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This section specifically addresses some of the information that Hockey Parents want to know. The includes the most "Frequently Asked Questions" regarding our program and various hockey articles that are of interest to hockey parents.
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This sections lists the information about the 2 tournaments that we host each year. As tournament time gets closer, volunteer assignments will be posted there as well. Anyone asking about our tournament should be directed to that spot for information.
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