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Kanye West Screw Louis Vuitton
The Louis Vuitton Don is no more ... Kanye West is now trashing the upscale brand for screwing their customers ... and claims he won't design for L.V. again.
Mr. West was on Big Boy's Neighborhood this morning on Power 106 in Los Angeles -- and put Louis on BLAST.
As you may recall ... Ye coined his nickname "Louis Vuitton Don" on his debut album "College Dropout." He also designed a sneaker collection for the luxury brand in '09.
But now Kanye says he'd turn the designer down, if asked again ... mostly because of the outrageous amount they charge for their products.
Check out the video to hear his full explanation.
FYI -- Kanye's Louis sneakers had a price tag north of $800 ... and he once sat front row with L.V.'s CEO during Paris Fashion Week to promote the shoes.
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Which do you trust more – travel marketing or reviews from people just like you? The truth is, the traveler has never been more empowered to make informed decisions. The exchange of travel information on blogs, community review forums, flash sales, mobile apps and many other emerging media experiences have put much more information in the hands of travelers to plan, initiate, track, share and connect. While there's nothing new about friends and family informing and influencing their peers' decisions, what is new is the pervasive integration of consumer recommendations, the connectivity people have that spans well beyond their personal networks, and the fact that all of this happens on channels that scale and facilitate bookings in the travel space.
What's more, the mindset and experience of the traveler (much like participants of social media) is an inherently fluid and gregarious mentality. For this reason, travel marketers aiming to expand their presence in social should start by sparking high quality, engagement-driven relationships. As the metaphor goes: Social media is a bit like a dinner party. If I mentioned at the table that I'm going to San Antonio, how do you think I'd feel if everyone started shouting "book now!" at me? Like any skilled conversationalist, it's critical to build rapport before making the hard sell. Once your brand has established social currency, begin to consider planning how social impacts businesses more deeply and how to gain greater scale.
I've identified five trends in travel social media that were big in 2010 and will be important to track in 2011. At the core of all these trends, social media is less of a broadcast "push channel" and more about loyalty, reputation and advocacy
Five trends to track:
1. Friends get special access to deals and programs:
It's important to remember, relationships are not just about a pat on the back; they also should deliver real consumer benefits. Research suggests that 59% of those who became a fan/follower of a travel company in social media did so for special offers and discounts (eMarketer, "The Impact of Social Media," 9/9/10).
2. Digital travelers never travel alone:
Leisure travel planning is often more fun when it's with friends and family. Recent trends are providing tangible evidence for this basic insight. 20% of Facebook users have asked their network friends for travel advice (eMarketer, "The Impact of Social Media," 1/10). Further, apps and communities are beginning to empower shared planning among friends and connections by taking advantage of "network effect."
3. Loyalty is increasingly about style, not just bookings:
Most travel brands limit loyalty programs to the transaction when in fact travelers are thinking about travel well beyond the swipe of their card. With social media integrating into mobile devices, many hotels and airlines have realized that they can engage a significant number of travelers at touch points throughout the travel journey.
4. What travelers discuss is found and compared:
The release of Google 'Places' and the recent whispers of the forthcoming Google 'Place Recommendations' reflect the close relationship of location reviews and search. What can brands do? For starters, actively engage in 'reputation management', which involves monitoring for issues, responding when necessary and optimizing how both brand sites and brand reviews are indexed in search.
5. Service is extended via connections:
Social media is a "live channel" that can be leveraged for addressing customer issues in real time and for routing customers to service channels directly. 35% of travelers have used social media to interact with a travel company (eMarketer, "PhoCusWright Cross-Channel Survey," 7/1/10).

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|Modern Home Design
This is modern house called Sosnowski designed by Chen + Suchart Studio in Tempe, Arizona. Located on the outskirts of Tempe's urban center, the home exudes an industrial aesthetic. A pronounced steel frame constructed from I-beams is the skeleton for the upper volume, which sits upon a concrete block base. The façade of the upper level is composed of thoughtfully placed windows and naturally weathered corrugated steel panels. The interior pairs concrete floors, exposed ductwork, and industrial light fixtures to create a loft-like atmosphere. Despite its industrial pretense, the Sosnowski Residence remains habitable and inviting thanks to a central gathering space on the ground level that merges the living, dining, and kitchen areas into a single space that fully opens to the surrounding city and desert.


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Now that Harrison Ford's bachelor days are far behind him, the actor no longer has any need for his Manhattan bachelor pad. According to The New York Observer, the "Indiana Jones" star recently unloaded his 5,664-square-foot condo for an undisclosed sum.
Ford's Chelsea bachelor pad had lingered on the market for close to two years after the actor first listed it for a staggering $16 million. The Observer reports that Ford gave the pad a "sleek makeover." The end result? Four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, concrete radiant heated floors, a private keyed elevator, and a home gym. Other amenities of this swanky pad include a laundry room, a private roof terrace, and custom wood cabinetry and soapstone countertops in the kitchen.
Not only is the new owner adopting Ford's cool condo, but he or she will also take on the exorbitant monthly common charges and taxes. $15,269 to be exact.


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The following discussion assumes President Obama was born in Hawaii and is a United States citizen.
The purpose of this article is to highlight judicial and historical evidence suggesting that a "natural born citizen" must be born in the United States to parents who are citizens. By that definition, Obama is not eligible to be president. Therefore, his presidency and official administrative acts remain subject to being rendered void by the Supreme Court.
The relevant Obama admission
At the official Obama campaign website – Fightthesmears.com – just below the Certification of Live Birth (COLB) – the following admission was also published:
When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom's dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.'s children.
This was republished from a Factcheck.org, article which further stated:
In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC.
The constitutional question presented is whether a person born with citizenship in and allegiance to a foreign nation can be considered a "natural born citizen" of the United States as required by Article II, Section 1.
The U.S. State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual discusses problems associated with dual citizenship:
7 FAM 081: U.S. Policy on Dual Nationality: (e)While recognizing the existence of dual nationality, the U.S. Government does not encourage it as a matter of policy because of the problems it may cause. Dual nationality may hamper efforts by the U.S. Government to provide diplomatic and consular protection to individuals overseas. When a U.S. citizen is in the other country of their dual nationality, that country has a predominant claim on the person.
This helps explain why the definition of "natural born citizen" as one born in the nation to parents who are citizens makes perfect sense in that such a person will not be infected by dual-allegiance problems. If the parents are citizens, neither will confer allegiance to a foreign nation. Additionally, if one is born on soil foreign to the parents, that nation is likely to recognize the person as a citizen. Owing allegiance to more than one nation is an unnatural circumstance of citizenship.
While the Constitution requires representatives, senators and presidents to be citizens, Article II, Section 1, additionally requires that the president's citizenship be "natural born." A natural born citizen is not a higher level of citizen. "Natural born" simply describes a circumstance of citizenship.
Now watch the red-hot eligibility story on DVD: "The Question of Eligibility: Is Barack Obama's presidency constitutionally legitimate?"
There are multiple circumstances that create "citizens at birth." Some require a federal statute for citizenship while others rely on the 14th Amendment. Had the framers of the 14th Amendment sought to deem every person born in the United States a natural born citizen, they certainly could have included such plain, unequivocal language. But they didn't.
In 1790, the first Congress deemed all persons born of two United States citizen parents abroad to be "natural born citizens," but the words "natural born" were repealed in 1795. Congress never again legislated the definition of "natural born citizen," and no United States statute currently defines the term or even mentions it.
The citizenship of a person born in the United States to parents who are citizens is self-evident and has never required naturalization, a federal statute or an amendment, and the Supreme Court has indicated that such persons are the only citizens who satisfy the natural born citizen requirement of Article II, Section 1.
Origin of the natural born citizen clause
The strict constitutional requirements were enacted to exclude citizens for the sake of national security in safeguarding the office from inexperience and from persons who may not have sole allegiance. It appears the clause was first introduced for constitutional consideration in a letter from John Jay to George Washington dated July 25, 1787:
Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.
Jay underlined "born" which signifies the importance of allegiance from birth. The "natural born" requirement renders irrelevant that a person – born to foreign or dual allegiance – may not have renewed his foreign citizenship upon reaching maturity. One is either eligible to be president at birth, or one will never be eligible.
An important historical definition of "natural born citizen" comes from a 1797 translation of the "Law of Nations," a 1758 text by Emerich de Vattel, which summarized that body of international law known also as the "Law of Nations":
The citizens are the members of the civil society: bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
Note that a child of former aliens can be a natural born citizen under this standard if born in the United States to parents who were naturalized prior to the child's birth. That was made clear by the Supreme Court's opinion in Perkins v. Elg.
It appears from James Madison's notes of August 1787 that the delegates used the terms "native" and "natural born citizen" synonymously. Additionally, Ben Franklin stated that the framers frequently consulted Vattel's text. Also consider that Article I, Section 8, grants Congress the authority to "punish … offenses against the Law of Nations."
In the case of The Venus 12 U.S. 253, 289 (1814), Chief Justice John Marshall stated:
Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says "The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. …"
Chief Justice Marshall relied upon a pre-1797 edition of Vattel's text. The 1797 translation was adopted by the Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), where Chief Justice Waite stated:
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. …
It's significant that this decision was issued six years after the 14th Amendment was enacted. As such, Minor illustrates that the 14th Amendment simply defines who is a citizen, not which citizens are natural born.
If Obama had run for president in 1874 – six years after the 14th Amendment went into effect – he wouldn't have been eligible since he doesn't fit the Minor Court's standard for a natural born citizen.
The strange case of Chester Arthur
The holding in Minor v. Happersett must have given Chester Arthur nightmares when he ran for vice president in 1880, six years after Minor. Arthur, a prominent New York lawyer, managed to conceal from public view that his father didn't become a naturalized citizen until 14 years after he was born. Therefore Chester Arthur was a British subject at birth.
Arthur's deception in concealing this fact involved numerous lies to the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper concerning his father's heritage, immigration and age. He also quite famously burned most of his papers and lied about his own age.
Historical records bear witness that this issue was never discussed in relation to Chester Arthur's eligibility until recently. Helping to cloud the issue all these years was a famous conspiracy theory expounded by a New York lawyer named Arthur Hinman who alleged Chester Arthur was born in Canada and was therefore not eligible. This sensational and unfounded conspiracy theory took the spotlight and unfortunately provided a smokescreen to conceal the true eligibility defect.
Chester Arthur is the only president prior to Obama who – after the grandfather clause of Article II, Section 1, expired – was not born in the United States of two citizen parents. As such, Obama supporters have sought to use Chester Arthur as precedent for justifying Obama's eligibility. Such reliance is unfounded because it wasn't known at the time Chester Arthur held office that he was born with dual nationality. That this was concealed from the general public is confirmed by two important law review articles.
In the September/October 1884 issue of The American Law Review, George C. Collins discussed the citizenship status of persons born on U.S. soil to foreign parents. In the concluding paragraph, Collins stated:
Birth, therefore, does not ipso facto confer citizenship, and it is essential in order that a person be a native or natural born citizen of the United States, that his father be at the time of the birth of such person a citizen thereof, or in case he be illegitimate, that his mother be a citizen thereof at the time of such birth.
It's ridiculous to imagine the sitting president wouldn't be mentioned when the article concerns the issue of whether a person born of an alien father is even a United States citizen.
Chester Arthur's true eligibility defect doesn't appear to have been mentioned in any historical record until December 2008 when it was exposed at my blog. Clearly, Chester Arthur's deception cannot serve to validate anyone's presidential eligibility. He got away with it, but that doesn't make it right.
U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
In 1898, Justice Horace Gray wrote one of the most controversial opinions in Supreme Court history wherein a man born in the United States of Chinese alien parents was held to be a citizen. Wong Kim Ark is the precedent relied upon for the assertion that any person born on United States soil, regardless of parentage, is a citizen. But that's not accurate. The holding in Wong Kim Ark appears to require for citizenship that a person be born on United States soil to parents who are permanently domiciled here. If the domicile requirement is upheld in future cases, anchor babies will no longer be assumed to be United States citizens.
Regardless, the holding in Wong Kim Ark did not state that such a citizen was "natural born." In fact, Justice Gray reiterated the definition of natural born citizen as one born on United States soil to parents who are citizens when he favorably discussed Minor v. Happersett:
That neither Mr. Justice Miller nor any of the justices who took part in the decision of The Slaughterhouse Cases understood the court to be committed to the view that all children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of foreign States were excluded from the operation of the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment is manifest from a unanimous judgment of the Court, delivered but two years later, while all those judges but Chief Justice Chase were still on the bench, in which Chief Justice Waite said: "Allegiance and protection are, in this connection (that is, in relation to citizenship), reciprocal obligations. The one is a compensation for the other: allegiance for protection, and protection for allegiance. … At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens. …"
While the dissent feared the majority holding would make Wong Kim Ark eligible to be president, Justice Gray's restatement of the Minor Court's definition of a natural born citizen as one born in the United States to parents who are citizens stands in direct contrast to the dissent's fear.
A few years after Wong Kim Ark was decided, the Albany Law Journal published an article by Alexander Porter Morse entitled, "NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES: ELIGIBILITY FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT" (Albany Law Journal Vol. 66 (1904-1905)):
If it was intended that anybody who was a citizen by birth should be eligible, it would only have been necessary to say, "no person, except a native-born citizen"; but the framers thought it wise, in view of the probable influx of European immigration, to provide that the president should at least be the child of citizens owing allegiance to the United States at the time of his birth. It may be observed in passing that the current phrase "native-born citizen" is well understood; but it is pleonasm and should be discarded; and the correct designation, "native citizen" should be substituted in all constitutional and statutory enactments, in judicial decisions and in legal discussions where accuracy and precise language are essential to intelligent discussion.
The term "native born citizen" has been erroneously substituted for "natural born citizen" by numerous commentators. Mr. Morse correctly points out that the two are not synonymous. His article also proves once again that Chester Arthur's dual nationality was hidden from the public. There would have been no point in writing the article – which doesn't mention Chester Arthur – had the nation previously condoned a president born with dual allegiance.
The argument against Obama being eligible rests on multiple Supreme Court cases that define a "natural born citizen" as one born in the United States to parents who are citizens. This is not a political issue. It's a legal issue faced by a nation where nobody is supposed to be above the law. As such, it deserves judicial review.


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Here's what you do: Get them to sit down and say, "Listen. Just listen." Then you crank the Dino. I've been getting people to listen to Dinosaur (Jr.) for 25 years now. It used to be my job.
In 1982, when we were in High School, I was the kid who couldn't play an instrument, so I booked the gigs. J told me where he thought it might be cool to play, and then I made the phone calls. Back then, the band was Deep Wound: J on drums, Lou on guitar, Scotty on bass, Charlie on vocals. Hardcore punk: fun, loud, fast as fuck. But I wasn't making people listen to the band then. For hardcore shows at The Guiding Star Grange in Greenfield or Gallery East in Boston, kids just got together and put on a show. Everyone pretty much knew what to expect.
By 1984, Deep Wound had fizzled. The interim band, Mogo, was over after only one gig on the Amherst Common. It featured Charlie screaming "Fuck the cops!" before the plug was pulled, a total high-point in my personal catalog of rock-n-roll moments. Then came Dinosaur: Murph on drums, Lou moving to bass, and J bringing all his inner Moon and Bonham (Keith and John) to the guitar. And with Dinosaur came the tunes.
The first cassette I had to take around to get gigs for Dinosaur was a raw but vital sketch of two tunes, "Forget the Swan" and "Cats in a Bowl," recorded in J's basement on a crappy old tape recorder. J and I were students at UMass but we spent a lot of time at Hampshire College, where the kids seemed hipper and more inclined to dig what Dinosaur was laying down. But this was not always the case. The guy I went to talk to for a slot on Hampshire's Spring Concert line-up, half-way through listening to "Forget the Swan," started talking about how great his own lame 60's retro-poseur band was. In the middle of "Forget the Swan"! I was incredulous. We did not get the gig, but the real disappointment was that this seemingly tuned-in guy didn't get it. Listen to the lead riff on "Forget the Swan" again. If you really listen, it will haunt you. This guy did not listen.
And once you get it, you can't do without it. For me, Dinosaur's tunes are indispensable; they are songs that have been rattling around my head for as long as the band has been playing them. "Repulsion," from the first record, still knocks me out. The second record, "You're Living All Over Me," is an exception in that I can't listen to any one tune on that record without needing to listen to the whole damned thing. J once said that he writes songs that he himself would want to listen to, and he's got great taste. I never took the Cure seriously until I heard what these guys did with "Just Like Heaven," a monster of a cover that hits the level of what Hendrix did for Dylan with "All Along the Watchtower."
When Brian at Bleemusic floated the original Dinosaur line-up reunion idea a few years ago, I was dubious. J, Lou, and Murph never had a "stable" marriage to begin with. But, of course, the tensions within their layered relationships as a band helped to make them so insanely powerful. Kids seeing the band on the YLAOM tour would come backstage after the show, dazed and transformed. It wasn't just the wall of J's Marshall-driven guitar or Lou and Murph locked in as tight as any bass/drum duo ever has been. It was vitality of the tunes themselves, delivered with emotion distilled to rock-bottom rock-n-roll essentials.
After examining it from all angles, the guys decided the reunion thing was worth a try. The thawing out period was especially interesting. At one point I dug up photos from when we were kids, and now, as grownups sitting around at an Indian restaurant with spouses and houses and lives that are more-or-less "established," it felt comfortable and right. And then came the tunes again.
"Beyond" was the rejoinder to the worry that Dino was merely flogging the back catalog as a reunion gimmick, and now here's "Farm." I've had this record for a week now, playing it constantly; it's pure Dino, great Dino. These tunes are now in my head for good, along with all their other tunes. This is what these guys do best, and they are really good at what they do. So do someone a favor: sit them down and say, "Listen." Then crank the Dino.
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International Music Fest 2013 scheduled for Saturday, April 27 will include plenty of entertainment, food and local performers — and the entertainment is free.
Local Spanish music band Martiriz, Wild Mountain Celts, which features Irish/Celtic music, and Japanese drumming sensation the Denver Taiko will perform from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fort Morgan High School.
During two intermissions, the festival will feature the local Candy's Dance Academy, the Pioneer and the Marquez Girls, a local duo sharing their singing talents.
This is the first time the music fest will be held at the high school. It began in 2008 and has used the Morgan County Fairgrounds in the past.
Food for sale will include turkey legs, candy bars, Pepsi products, Mexican tamales, Salvadoran pupusas, Ethiopian sambusas, Italian soup, German-Russian cabbage pockets, German brats, German potato salad, Brazilian food, miscellaneous desserts and soup ingredients and recipes from around the world.
Food will be available for purchase on a first come, first served basis, "so be sure to come out early and enjoy a very tasty lunch of food representing our very diverse community," said Brenda Zion, executive director of OneMorgan County.
Guests will be able to enter a drawing for a cash prize. That requires completing a Passport Adventure to be eligible to enter the drawing.
Participants learn about people from "around the world" at booths, and may visit with representatives from several countries. Countries and regions that will be represented include: Brazil, China, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Kayah, Mexico, Ogaden, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda. Representatives will include local youth and adults from the community.
Sales of products at the event will benefit local programs.
Revenue from the sale of Pepsi products will support the Fort Morgan High School "Close Up for New Americans." This program is sponsored by FMHS ESL Instructor Karen Liston.
According to the national website, this program is built on the belief that textbooks and lectures alone are not enough to help students understand responsible citizenship. The PNA program gives recently immigrated high school students the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to become informed and active citizens of the United States.
The FMHS International Club will be on site selling German brats and potato salad as a fundraiser for their club. The club includes exchange students who will be at IMF 2013 to share about Germany and Brazil.
Morgan Community College Adult Basic Education will be on site selling "soups from around the world." This program will be selling jars of the dry ingredients for soups from different countries and selling them along with a recipe. They also will have display boards representing some of the countries and sharing information about their very diverse student population.
Any surplus in sponsorship revenue generated by OMC for IMF 2013 will be donated to support an English as a Second Language project at FMHS.
Zion said OMC will be blessed to have volunteers from the Regis University Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions service learning program, the FMHS National Honor Society, the participation of ESL students and the participation of the FMHS International Club.
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Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi's Assignee Sheikh Ahmet Yasin is talking about Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) -2-
Look, I will tell a couple o important things. There are serious things. Including 1979-80-81-82, Iran – Iraq wars, all incidents satirized; all of these have been realized in the spiritual world and all things have appeared. My request from you is: come to your senses and find Hazrat Mahdi. You have very little time left.
Come to your senses. Give up the lies. Give up the gossiping. Give up going after worhless deeds. Aim being a soldier to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is performing his duty. He is alive. Allah knows the truth; most probably he is 5 or 8 years older than me. I did not meet him in person. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) was a young man when these incidents began some 30 years ago. The job done by his soul and the job done by his body is separate. The soul is a part of Almighty Allah's Self. Almighty Allah makes him perform these duties with His 'Guiding' and 'Direction-Command' names, and in the meantime He turns him into a perfect human being. This also happened with our Prophet (saas). These are important matters. This hijri 1431 year that we currently in, is a very important year, but do not realize it. Are you still going to run after Money? Don't do this. Don't do this. Come and be a soldier to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). When the day comes, he will give you treasures that you cannot even imagine. This is not that far; it is very close. Very close.. That is because it is the time of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) until the hijri 1444. It is a very important period. There are some 10-12 years more. Then if Allah grants, all of these young people, by the leave of Allah, including me, insha'Allah Allah gives us more time, we will see the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). We will kiss his hand and perform salat (prayer) standing behind him. Come to your senses. Try to be a soldier to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). There is very little time. A liar cannot be a soldier to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). A slandering person cannot be a soldier to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh).
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[url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2221]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:It is possible that, some time in 2009 Q2, I shall be returning to the old world. One possibility is that all my port could travel with me. Another is that some of it forms the core of some tastings, here in the new world under its new President(-to-be). Possible themes include:
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There's a Graham vertical coming. I feel it in my waters.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=19925#p19925]Here[/url] jfacciol wrote:There is one more possible theme that comes out of Julian's American stash: a Graham vertical. I have 1a number of the years that Julian does not have starting with 1963. As Graham is my favorite house, this would be of great interest to me.
Preferred dates, excluding the last weekend of January and the first ten days of February? Extra bottles of Graham's? Volunteers?
Edit: on Wed 17th Dec 2008 title changed from "Graham vertical in New York" to "Friday 13th February: Graham vertical in New York".


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Vivantes Hospital in Friedrichshain
Specialist field: Radiology
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wagner
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Am Nordgraben 2
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The Institute for Radiology and Interventional Therapy offers a wide range of diagnostics and therapies meeting the highest quality standards. Headed up by Senior Consultant Professor Joachim Wagner, it is part of the Vivantes Hospital in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. A combination of the latest medical technology and extensive medical experience is particularly important in a radiology department – Professor Wagner and his team have this technology, possess a wealth of experience and have achieved an outstanding level of success.
The Institute for Radiology and Interventional Therapy offers all of the basic radiological examinations, e.g. X-ray, ultrasound, Doppler sonography, CT and MRI – both with and without a contrast medium. Imaging enables Professor Wagner and his team to see every point of the human body and to look for irregularities. Radiologists aim to minimise the impact on the body in all diagnostic procedures. During X-rays and CT scans, exposure to the rays that project the images is kept as low as possible. Ultrasound examinations, in which the images are produced by completely harmless ultrasound waves, are especially suitable for pregnant women and children. Doppler, or duplex, sonography is a special ultrasound scan that measures the speed at which blood is flowing through the veins and arteries, providing information about blocked or narrowed blood vessels – in other words whether there are any circulatory disorders. The Institute for Radiology and Interventional Therapy also uses blood vessel imaging known as angiography. It is used to identify not only circulatory disorders but also changes to blood vessels, e.g. protrusions in the artery wall, known as aneurysms. An ultra-modern 64-slice CT is used to obtain cross-sectional images of every part of the body. In cardiac CTs, this technology is used to view any blocked coronary arteries and veins, and to identify life-threatening situations. Other procedures using ultra-modern-slice CT are the CT colonography (scan of the intestine), CT enteroclysis (scan of the small intestine), CT-controlled biopsy (removal of tissue for analysis) and the establishment of special access to the body, e.g. for chemotherapy (port) and for pain therapy.
Interventional therapies
Professor Wagner and his team offer all of the major interventional therapies that are based on modern radiology. Radiological interventions can be vascular (in a blood vessel) or non-vascular. There are many kinds of vascular interventions, e.g. stent implantation, thrombolysis (dissolving of clots in blood vessels) and implantation of chemotherapy and radioactive material for destroying, in particular, inoperable tumours such as tumours and metastases in the liver or bile ducts. In the abdominal area, stents (wafer-thin metal tubes in the form of a mesh) are also implanted, for example, in the oesophagus (to enable food to be swallowed more easily), stomach, intestine and bile ducts (as drainage) and feeding tubes may be inserted.
The Institute for Radiology and Interventional Therapy, led by Professor Wagner, boasts the most important elements required of a 21st century hospital: the latest medical technology, quality standards of the highest level, doctors with many years of experience, a broad range of specific diagnostics and treatments and a focus on international patient groups.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 7, 2008) - The ETSU volleyball team was defeated by Belmont in four sets Friday night in Brooks Gym, 3-1 (21-25, 25-19, 19-25, 15-25).
"We knew that Belmont was going to be a hard team to figure out," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "I thought we did an excellent job in games one and two of tracking their hitters. This match gives us another look at Belmont before we head to the conference tournament, and we are going to continue to work hard so that we can put it all out there on the court."
The Bucs (9-18, 5-12 A-Sun) were led offensively by Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Erin Ryan (Davie, Fla.) as Cogburn tallied 11 kills, eight digs and four blocks, while Ryan also had 11 kills on the night.
Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) ran the ETSU offense collecting 29 assists. Freshman Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) led the Buccaneers in the back with 18 digs, while Lauren Baufield (Plymouth, Minn.) had 15 digs.
In the first set, the Bruins jumped out to a 5-1 lead after a four-point run. The Bucs went on a 7-3 run to tie the match at 9-all. The score remained close until Belmont took six straight points to take a 19-14 lead. ETSU battled back after a couple service aces by Mallory Kiley (Palm Harbor, Fla.), but it was not enough as Belmont held on to win the first set, 25-21.
The Bucs came out hot in the second set winning the first four points. ETSU held the lead until the Bruins went on a 6-2 run to go in front 13-12. The Belmont lead didn't last long though as the Bucs put together a 6-1 run to go back ahead 20-16. Belmont cut the lead to 20-18, but ETSU got four straight points and put the set away on a Cogburn kill, 25-19.
Coming out of the break Belmont regained momentum as they took a 9-4 lead in the third set after a 7-2 run. The Bruins extended their lead to 17-8 after a second 7-2 run in the set. ETSU battled back cutting the lead to 23-17, but Belmont put the set away on kills by Kayla Albritton and Tara Blood to take a 2-1 lead in the match.
In the fourth set, with the Bucs up 6-5 the Bruins went on a 6-1 run to go in front 11-7. ETSU got a point on a Belmont error, but the Bruins then earned the next ten points to take a commanding 21-8 lead. The Bucs went on a five-point run late in the set to cut the lead to 24-15, but Belmont closed out the match on an Albritton kill to make the final 25-15.
The Bucs are back in action Saturday at 2 p.m. as they host conference opponent Lipscomb in Brooks Gym. Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on ETSU volleyball and all other Buccaneer athletic news.


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The cElementTree Module
January 30, 2005 | Fredrik Lundh
The cElementTree module is a C implementation of the ElementTree API, optimized for fast parsing and low memory use. On typical documents, cElementTree is 15-20 times faster than the Python version of ElementTree, and uses 2-5 times less memory. On modern hardware, that means that documents in the 50-100 megabyte range can be manipulated in memory, and that documents in the 0-1 megabyte range load in zero time (0.0 seconds). This allows you to drastically simplify many kinds of XML applications.
[download&install] [usage] [benchmarks]
Download and install #
cElementTree is included with Python 2.5 and later, as xml.etree.cElementTree.
For earlier versions, cElementTree 1.0.5 can be downloaded from the effbot.org downloads site. You also need a recent version of the standard ElementTree library.
If you're using Linux or BSD systems, check your favourite package repository for python-celementtree or py-celementtree packages. Note that some distributors have included cElementTree in their ElementTree package. Mac OS X users may want to check the Fink repository.
To install binary distributions from effbot.org, download and run the installer, and follow the instructions on the screen. If the installer cannot find your Python interpreter, see this page.
To install from sources, simply unpack the distribution archive, change to the distribution directory, and run the setup.py script as follows:
$ python setup.py install
See the README and CHANGES files for more on installation, licensing (BSD style), changes since the last version, etc.
cElementTree is designed to work with Python 2.1 and newer. The iterparse mechanism is currently only supported for Python 2.2 and later. Earlier Python versions are not supported (let me know if you need support for 2.0 or 1.5.2). For best performance, use Python 2.4.
Note: Mandriva Linux ships with broken Python configuration files, and cannot be used to build Python extensions that rely on distutils feature tests. For a workaround, see this thread.
Usage #
The cElementTree module is designed to replace the ElementTree module from the standard elementtree package. In theory, you should be able to simply change:
from elementtree import ElementTree
import cElementTree as ElementTree
in existing code, and run your programs without any problems (note that cElementTree is a module, not a package). (Let me know if you find that something you rely on doesn't work as expected.)
cElementTree contains one new function, iterparse, which works like parse, but lets you track changes to the tree while it is being built. You can also modify and remove elements during the parse, as in this example, which processes "record" elements as they arrive, and then removes their contents from the tree.
import cElementTree for event, elem in cElementTree.iterparse(file): if elem.tag == "record": ... process record element ... elem.clear()
For more information about the ElementTree module, see Elements and Element Trees.
For more information about the iterparse interface, see The ElementTree iterparse Function.
Older versions only supports a small number of standard encodings. For a workaround, see Using Non-Standard Encodings in cElementTree.
Benchmarks #
Here are some benchmark figures, using a number of popular XML toolkits to parse a 3405k document-style XML file, from disk to memory:
library time space notes xml.dom.minidom (Python 2.1) 6.3 s 80000k (1) gnosis.objectify 2.0 s 22000k (5) xml.dom.minidom (Python 2.4) 1.4 s 53000k (1) ElementTree 1.2 1.6 s 14500k ElementTree 1.2.4/1.3 1.1 s 14500k cDomlette (C extension) 0.540 s 20500k (1) PyRXPU (C extension) 0.175 s 10850k (2) lxml.etree (C extension) (4) (4) (3) libxml2 (C extension) 0.098 s 16000k (3) readlines (read as utf-8) 0.093 s 8850k cElementTree (C extension) 0.047 s 4900k readlines (read as ascii) 0.032 s 5050k
The figures may of course vary somewhat depending on Python version, compiler, and platform. The above was measured with Python 2.4, using prebuilt Windows installers (as published by the maintainers) for all C extensions. If you want further details about the tests, drop me a line.
Several other toolkits were tested, but failed to parse the test file (which uses both non-ASCII characters and namespaces). Toolkits that parse namespaces but don't handle them properly are included, though (see notes 2 and 5, below).
For comparision, here are some benchmarks for event-based parsers (using the same file as above, and enough dummy handlers to be able to handle complete elements and their character data contents):
library time throughput xml.sax (Python 2.1) 0.330 s 10300 k/s xml.sax (Python 2.4) 0.292 s 11700 k/s xml.parsers.expat 0.184 s 18500 k/s cElementTree XMLParser 0.124 s 27500 k/s sgmlop 0.092 s 37000 k/s cElementTree iterparse 0.071 s 48000 k/s
Note 1) For these toolkits, the looping variant of my benchmark behaves very badly, resulting in unexpected memory growth and wildly varying parsing times (typically 150-300% of the values in the table). Strategic use of forced garbage collection (gc.collect()) will usually make things better. Be careful.
Note 2) Even with namespace handling enabled, PyRXPU returns namespace prefixes instead of namespace URI:s, which makes it pretty much useless for namespace-aware XML processing. I've included it anyway, since it's often put forth as the fastest XML parser you can get for Python.
Note 3) Tests on other platforms indicate that libxml2 is closer to cElementTree than this benchmark indicates. This is most likely a compiler-related issue (I'm using "official" Windows binaries for this benchmark, but so will most other users).
Note 4) There are no Windows binaries for
lxml.etree (dead link) yet, but
it uses libxml2's parser and object model, so the timings for this
test should be very close to those for libxml2.
Note 5) An undocumented function (config_nspace_sep) must be called to enable namespace parsing. With that in place, the library parses the file without problems, but the resulting data structure depends on the namespace prefixes used in the file, rather than the namespace URI:s (also see note 2).


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Saints rout Cowboys
Nothing like nighttime in New Orleans to inspire a memorable performance from Drew Brees and the Saints.
Playing Dallas' beleaguered defense didn't hurt, either.
Brees completed 34 of 41 passes for 392 yards and four touchdowns, and the Saints beat the Cowboys 49-17 on Sunday night.
The Saints (7-2) had an NFL-record 40 first downs and a franchise-record 625 total yards in their 12th straight prime-time victory in the Superdome. New Orleans had 242 yards rushing, its highest total since 1990.
"Spreading the ball around, getting everybody involved — these are the days you love to have," Brees said. "You strive for efficiency both in the run and the pass game. We had that today."
Brees' touchdown passes went for 52 yards to Kenny Stills, 22 yards to Marques Colston, 28 yards to Darren Sproles and a yard to Pierre Thomas.
Sproles also had a 3-yard touchdown run, and Mark Ingram added a 4-yard scoring run en route to a career-high 145 yards rushing on 14 carries.
"We just wanted to come out here on a national stage and just prove to everybody that we could play smash-mouth football and run the ball," Ingram said. "I've been waiting for a 100-yard game since I got in the league. ... The line just did a great job, just a fantastic job. They were just getting a hat on a hat, creating seams for us to run through. When they're dominating the line of scrimmage like that it makes our job easy."
Brees described Ingram as "a man on a mission," and it came at a good time. The Saints had lost two of their previous three and needed a victory to stay a game ahead of Carolina for first place in the NFC South.
DeMarco Murray had 89 yards rushing and a touchdown on 16 carries for Dallas (5-5), highlighted by his 35-yard scamper on a fake reverse. That set up his 7-yard scoring run that gave the Cowboys a short-lived 10-7 lead early in the second quarter. Dallas did not score again until Tony Romo's 21-yard touchdown pass to Terrance Williams in the last minute of the third quarter.
The loss dropped Dallas into a tie with Philadelphia atop the NFC East.
Dallas was frustrated offensively for much of the game against a defense that has turned around dramatically under coordinator Rob Ryan, fired by the Cowboys after last season. Star receiver Dez Bryant, covered mostly by Keenan Lewis, did not have his first and only catch — a 44-yarder — until late in the third quarter. Jason Witten was held to two catches for 27 yards.
Romo was 10 of 24 for 128 yards and was sacked three times.
"We have to play better football than this in all facets," Romo said. "We have to figure out what we can do to be a better football team because that obviously was not good enough. It was just difficult. They are a good team. Give them credit. They beat us today. It wasn't a fun game."
The Cowboys' porous pass defense entered the game already having set an NFL record by allowing four quarterbacks to throw for more than 400 yards. Brees was on track to become the fifth, but fell just short after the Saints decided to stop throwing with a big lead in the fourth quarter.
At one point, Brees strung together 19 straight completions, tying his personal best and franchise record.
Making matters worse for Dallas was a hamstring injury to linebacker Sean Lee, the Cowboys' leading tackler.
"There just were very few plays that we stopped. They were able to go to a lot of different things," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. "They ran the ball when they wanted to run it and Drew Brees did a fantastic job reading coverages and finding the right guy."
Sproles, whose concussion a week earlier forced him to miss most of the Saints' 26-20 road loss to the New York Jets, caught seven passes for 76 yards.
Getting Colston involved was another encouraging sign for the Saints a week after the veteran receiver sat out against the Jets with a knee injury.
Colston had seven catches for 107 yards. His touchdown grab was the 60th of his career, all from Brees.
On Colston's touchdown, Sproles made a key block on blitzing linebacker Barry Church, giving Brees enough time to throw over the middle. Colston then slipped safety Jeff Heath's tackle before diving across the goal line.
NOTES: The Saints broke the first downs record of 39 for a regulation game set by the Jets against Miami on Nov. 27, 1988. ... Saints TE Benjamin Watson left the game with a concussion after his head slammed to the turf on a near touchdown catch. ... S Kenny Vaccaro left the game in the second half, but the Saints did not update his condition. ... Cowboys LB Justin Durant left with a hamstring pull and DE DeMarcus Ware said he re-aggravated a quadriceps injury that sidelined him the previous three games.
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OpenStreetMaps in Strava
It would be great to be able to use OpenStreetMaps in addition to the Google Maps. OpenStreetMaps has many more trails identified, and any user can add their own. MapMyRun lets you choose OpenStreetMap, and it is great. Most of the trails I run don't show in Google Maps.
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OSM has a simple API, and should be relatively straight-forward to integrate.
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Topic: Migrate to iredmail-pro.1.4
I have a old iredadmin server with iredadmin-pro-1.2 and other packages(including ftp, ejabber and sogo) installed on ubuntu server. I want to migrate all users and data from these server to our new server with iredadmin-pro-1.4(proposed) and other packages.
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FunStuff: Charlottesville events March 29 and beyond
The scent of a neighborhood
One of Charlottesville's oldest neighborhoods, Belmont is known as one of its most colorful places as well. Now comes photographer Peter Krebs, a recent transplant from Brooklyn who spent two years capturing that color by shooting people and places along Monticello Road from Spudnuts to Moore's Creek. With on-the street portraits and impromptu photo booths set up inside businesses (such as Spudnuts, of course), Krebs created "Monticello Road," an exhibition of about three dozen prints (including Bobby and Buck, shown here at Moore's Creek Family Restaurant). The exhibition's Friday night launch party will be just one event in a month of Krebs-convened Belmont celebrations, most taking place at The Bridge, an Avon Street-facing arts center at 209 Monticello Road. Other events include a morning-after screening of the documentary film Still Life with Donuts and, in conjunction with the upcoming "Architecture Week," an April 17 panel on savvy planning.
April 6, The Bridge, 6-8pm, free
Grill a lawmaker
Every spring, there's a report from local members of the Virginia House of Delegates for a group of not-necessarily-young people (though the event is open to everyone) called the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. Delegates Rob Bell, Matt Fariss, Steve Landes, and David Toscano have each been invited. With such roiling recent issues as the nationally-lampooned pre-abortion ultrasounds, the riot cops who went after those protesting the law, the undoing of one-handgun-a-month, the tepid reform against Biscuit Run-style deals, and Rob Bell's controversial decision to create a mandatory life sentence for every child rapist, this Wednesday afternoon event may be as good a chance as any to personally grill your local lawmaker. Miss this one, and you get another chance in May when State Senators Creigh Deeds and Bryce Reeves are the invited guests.
April 11, The Senior Center, 1:30pm, free
Music TJ mighta heard
We may not know exactly how the music performed for the Sage of Monticello would have sounded, but a visiting act called Harmonious Blacksmith may help us find out. Playing period instruments, they will attempt to recreate an evening of domestic musicmaking at Monticello. They'll perform with members of the venerable Baltimore Consort and with UVA professor David Sariti who plays the violin– the same instrument that Thomas Jefferson played. Organizers have chosen works from Jefferson's own music collection from back in the days when Renaissance and Baroque were contemporary music. Thanks to donors to the McIntire Department of Music at UVA, there's no charge to attend this Friday night spectacular.
March 30, Old Cabell Hall, 8pm, free.
Get buzzed, not beared
You may think you'll feel a little out of your hive at a meeting of Central Virginia Beekeepers, but this one coming up on a Thursday features David Koch, the district biologist from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. He's been invited to enlighten club members and the public about bears, bear habitat, bear behavior, and what beekeepers can do to keep their beehives off-limits to would-be Winnie-the-Poohs. And if you get bored by ursine information, you can lumber off into the woods of the Ivy Creek Natural Area, that little wilderness just half a mile past the Rock Store on Earlysville Road.
April 5, Ivy Creek Natural Area, 7pm, free
Heathen sent
It's not his fault that the frontman looks and sounds just a bit like 1970s icon Michael McDonald, but Band of Heathens is no cheesy retro act. Still, you might be forgiven– as you notice the vocal harmonies and super-clear instrumentation– for thinking of Three Dog Night when you listen to this Austin-based ensemble of relentlessly-touring rock-and-rollers. Veterans of Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and South By Southwest, they're out now in support of a big (two CDs and two DVDs) set of live music called The Double Down: Live in Denver, Vol 1 & 2. See 'em on a Wednesday night.
April 4, The Southern, 9pm (doors at 8), $10
Like a Hopper painting
"This show," warns the press release, "contains explicit language, adult situations, and partial nudity." Another cutting-edge drama at LiveArts, right? Wrong, it's Four County Players, that Barboursville-based bastion of all that would please Norman Rockwell. Only this time the heartland has been ditched for The Food Chain, a witty look at loneliness in the crowd by New York-based playwright Nicky Silver. It's not all gloom and heartbreak, as the New York Times reviewer noted that "priceless" jokes and one-liners come hurtling toward the audience "like tennis balls from an automatic server." This production in "The Cellar" at 5256 Governor Barbour Street is directed by Joncey Boggs and stars Miller Murray Susen along with the two shown here, Marty Moore as "Bea" and Allen Van Houzen as "Otto." (Date listed is opening night. Full run: April 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21.)
April 6, Barboursville Community Center, 8pm, $10
Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc.
Walt Disney's top characters will roll into town for two shows on one day only, as Disney Live! presents three action-packed fairytales for youthful audiences on stage at the giant arena on Emmet Street. With the classic storylines, the songs that made movie magic, and costumes that might have made Walt himself proud, this trio of tales may enthrall your younguns. And don't forget the "glittering special effects" sure to enliven these productions of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
March 31, John Paul Jones Arena, 3pm and 6pm, $22-32
Making a racquet
With sunny skies and temperatures predicted to hit the springy mid-60s, this Friday looks like a superb day to stroll over to the tennis center located behind UVA's two main libraries at the corner of Emmet Street and University Avenue. There, you'll find the #3-ranked Cavaliers, who include #7 in America Jarmere Jenkins and numero uno Mitchell Frank (shown here) trying to keep their team's undefeated record in the ACC as they take on Wake Forest in an afternoon match-up. (If you're one of those people who actually has to work on a weekday, you get a second chance on Sunday when the Cavs play N.C. State at 1pm.)
March 30, Snyder Tennis Courts, 3pm, free
UVA's jazzy guys
You're always talking about seeing the big-time jazz players on the faculty of UVA but other than catching one or another playing solo at Miller's never doing much about it. Now's your chance to hear them together in the University's premiere concert hall, as the McIntire Department of Music presents the Free Bridge Quintet in concert for a Saturday-night show that's low-priced by local standards and can even be heard for free by students who reserve in advance. It features Jeff Decker on saxophones, Robert Jospé on drums, Wells Hanley on piano, Pete Spaar on bass, and the silver-maned John D'earth on trumpet and flugelhorn.
March 31, Old Cabell Hall, 8pm, $15 ($0-8 students)
The Krewe at the Jeff
There's a strong chance that the scent of patchouli oil may waft through the rafters of the Jefferson Theater on Thursday night as Toubab Krewe brings its African dance grooves to Charlottesville. The name means "crew of foreigners," an homage both to Creole and Malinese vocabularies– each of which plays a role in this instruments-only Asheville-based band. But what instruments! They include a 21-stringed cowskin-covered gourd called the kora and a single-stringed fiddle called the soku– and there'll be at least two percussionists. Low-key Wurlitzer master Marco Benevento opens.
March 29, Jefferson Theater, 8pm (doors at 7), $16-18
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So you've decided to take the plunge and get a telescope. Congratulations! That alone is a big step. But what comes next? Not an impulsive shopping trip to the nearest mall! Choosing a telescope is very different than buying a television, and department-store salespeople rarely understand what amateur astronomers need. This telescope buying guide is meant to help make sure your first scope is best type of telescope for you.
Want to know more than what you find here? Hear advice straight from the experts in Sky & Telescope's Skywatching Video Series: Buying Your First Telescope.
Telescope Buying Guide: Getting Started
Rule Number One: shun the flimsy, semi-toy, "500 power!" department-store scopes that may have caught your eye. Though there are some affordable scopes for beginners, it is important to make sure you're purchasing a quality product - not something you'll find at most department-stores! The telescope you want has two essentials: high-quality optics and a steady, smoothly working mount. You may also want the telescope to be nice and large, but don't forget portability and convenience. Your first telescope shouldn't be so awkward heavy that you can't tote it outdoors, set it up, and take it down reasonably easily.
Those are the telescope buying guide basics. But to choose a type of telescope that meets your needs, you need to ask some questions — of yourself, of other amateur astronomers, and finally, of the people who make and sell telescopes for a living.
Aperture: A Telescope's Heart
All astronomical telescopes, large or small, are designed to do two things: to brighten and magnify your views of celestial objects. Refractors, reflectors, and compound (catadioptric) telescopes do this in different ways, each with its benefits and drawbacks.
Whatever the telescope, its most important spec is its aperture: the diameter of its main, light-gathering lens or mirror. (This lens or mirror is called the telescope's objective.) The bigger the aperture, the sharper and brighter the view will be.
Telescope Magnification
A bigger aperture allows you to use more magnification. You can actually make any telescope provide any magnification at all (just by changing eyepieces), but without large aperture, high magnification is worthless — it just shows a blurry, dim mess. A telescope that can only be pushed to 50x (50 times magnification) before the view goes blurry will reveal Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and some detail in the brightest star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. But to discern Martian surface features or to see both members of a tight double star, you really would like to have sharp views at 150x or more.
Depending on optical quality and observing conditions, you can expect to get anywhere from 20x to 50x of useful magnification per inch of aperture. In other words, a 4-inch scope tops out at 200x under ideal conditions, but a 6-inch scope can work well as high as 300x under ideal conditions.
But that's the maximum; most of the time, you'll find that the best views are actually had at the telescope's lowest power. If the advertising on the box hypes super-high power, the manufacturer is trying to fool you—a good point to note in this telescope buying guide.
(Get expert telescope buying guide advice on eyepieces and other accessories in Sky & Telescope's Skywatching Video Series: A Guide to Accessories for Your Telescope.)
Perhaps one of the more important areas of this telescope buying guide, big aperture also lets you see fainter objects. This is different from providing magnification. In fact, the problem with most astronomical objects is not that they're too small and need more magnifying, it's that that they're too faint and need more light — in other words, more aperture.
For example, several dozen galaxies beyond our Milky Way can be discerned through my 4½-inch (105-mm) reflector. Some are more than 50 million light-years away. Not bad for a telescope I can tuck under my arm and carry on a plane! But with my 12½-inch Dobsonian, hundreds of galaxies are within reach. Even if I use the same magnification on both scopes!
Focal Length
If a telescope's aperture is its most important spec, its focal length comes next. Say you have two telescopes with the same aperture but different focal lengths. The one with the longer focus (that is, a higher-numbered f/ratio) will generally lend itself better to high-magnification viewing. (The f/ratio is just the focal length divided by the aperture.) One reason: you can stick with longer-focus eyepieces, which are easier to use, especially for eyeglass wearers. Another reason: "fast" objectives, those with low f/ratios, are harder to manufacture well, and thus they tend to make fuzzier images unless you've paid a premium for top-quality optics.
Is Bigger Always Better?
"So it's simple: I should go for the largest, longest telescope I can afford." Maybe; maybe not! A long focal length is preferable if your primary targets are high-power objects like the Moon, planets, or double stars. And a large objective is a necessity if you dream of viewing numerous galaxies. But if you want to take in large swaths of the Milky Way or sparkling showpieces like the Pleiades in a wide view, then a short, small, scope is called for — one that works nicely at low power.
"Why's that?" Because high power only let you see a small patch of sky at once. With standard eyepieces (those with 1¼-inch-wide barrels), a focal length of 20 inches (500 mm) can provide a 3° field of view — enough to take in all of Orion's Sword. A scope with a focal length of 80 inches (2000 mm), by contrast, barely lets you encompass M42, the Orion Nebula in the Sword's center.
"What if I want to do a bit of everything?" Don't worry, there are plenty of midway compromises. Many astronomers think of the 6-inch reflector as an ideal "do-it-all" instrument. But even with that aperture, you still face a tradeoff between a wide-field performance (f/5 or thereabouts) and high-power performance (optimal at f/8 and up). And remember that the long-focus unit will be bigger and heavier and so will require a beefier mount — making it harder to carry, set up, and store. Everything's a tradeoff.
Types of Telescope Mounts
Just as a car's engine is useless without a chassis and wheels, the optical tube assembly is only half a telescope. The other half is the mount. It is just as important as the optics if not more so. It has to be steady, sturdy, and smoothly working.
Telescope mounts come in two basic kinds: An equatorial mount allows the telescope to move in the directions of celestial north-south and east-west. This can be a big help. If you align one axis of an equatorial mount on Polaris, you can track celestial targets as the Earth turns by moving the telescope around just this one axis. Many equatorial mounts come with an electric motor to do this for you. Motor tracking is especially useful for high-magnification viewing and for showing celestial objects to groups of people. It's also a prerequisite for most through-the-telescope photography.
An altazimuth (altitude-azimuth) mount, by contrast, moves up-down (in altitude) and right-left (azimuth). A photo tripod is an example of an altazimuth mount. Another is the popular Dobsonian mount, shown below.
Altazimuth mounts are generally lighter than equatorials, in part because they don't require counterweights to balance the telescope. (I hasten to note, however, that the equatorial "fork" mounts sold with many compound telescopes are relatively lightweight, too; the photo above shows one example.) Dobsonian mounts, in particular, can be very stable and low-cost.
But altazimuths do not readily lend themselves to motorized operation, and you have to move the telescope in two directions simultaneously to track celestial objects as the Earth turns. While this becomes second nature to many observers, others find it maddening. (See the section below on "smart" telescopesfor a high-tech way around this problem.)
Your own personality should play a part in choosing a mount. Are you comfortable with instruments that require tools and a head for numbers to set up and use? Or are you looking for the astronomical equivalent of a point-and-shoot camera? A Dobsonian can be set up in the time it took to read this paragraph. An equatorial mount can take a bit longer if you want to get the most out of its features. Computerized "smart scopes," which promise easy object-finding, are actually the most complicated to deploy.
Telescope Accessories
We've already covered a lot of ground in our telescope buying guide, and hopefully the tech talk you may get from a salesperson or stargazer will now make more sense. But a few telescope buying guide topics remain before we can set you loose on your hunt. Most of us picture the big things when we think of a telescope, and those stand out in catalogs and ads. But just as you can't drive a car off the lot without the keys, there are little essentials you'll need to use a telescope to journey among the stars.
By bringing light to a focus, a telescope forms an image — a little picture floating in the air inside the tube. But you need a way to view the image! That's what eyepieces are for. Think of them as like little magnifying glasses for looking at the image. Changing eyepieces lets you change a telescope's magnifying power (which equals the objective's focal length divided by the eyepiece's focal length). Every telescope owner should have several.
Eyepieces come in a bewildering variety of designs with exotic names. Generally speaking, the more expensive an eyepiece, the more lens elements it has. Complex multi-element designs can give a very wide field of view, and they also can compensate somewhat for the aberrations that plague "fast" (low f/ratio) objectives. By contrast, many amateurs find that simpler, older designs like Kellners, Plössls, and Orthoscopics suffice for use on "slow" (high f/ratio) telescopes, such as the once-universal 6-inch f/8 Newtonian reflector.
Most telescopes come supplied with one or two eyepieces. Ideally, you'd like to have a set that spans a range of magnifications. You can expect to spend anywhere from $40 to $250 on a good eyepiece.
A Barlow lens is also worth considering: it multiplies each eyepiece's power by two or three times, effectively doubling your eyepiece collection.
A telescope buying guide tip: avoid buying a telescope that uses eyepieces with barrels that are 0.96 inch (24 mm) wide. This is generally a sign of poor quality. Just about all good eyepieces nowadays are made with 1¼-inch barrels or larger.
You've got a telescope set up with an eyepiece in place. Now what? Naturally, you'll want to point it to something! Simply sighting alongside the tube may enable you to find the Moon and a few bright stars or planets. . . maybe. But that's all. An astronomical telescope can't be put to good use without a finder of some kind.
The reason is that even with its lowest-power, widest-field eyepiece in place, a telescope shows you such a tiny piece of sky that you can't tell exactly where you're aiming.
A finder solves this problem. Three types, shown here, are commonly available. A few low-power, wide-field scopes come with simple peep sights; no optics involved. The next step up is the so-called "reflex" sight. This projects a glowing red dot or red circle on your naked-eye view of the sky; to set your telescope on a desired star or planet, you put the red marker on it. But you still have to be able to see your target with the naked eye.
Most telescopes are sold with a real finderscope: an actual little telescope that rides piggyback on the main scope. The finderscope's eyepiece has crosshairs that you set on your desired target.
A good finderscope has several advantages. It brightens and magnifies the view, allowing you to find things beyond the naked-eye limit. When properly aligned, a finderscope also allows you to point a telescope more precisely than do peep sights or reflex finders. This is especially important whenever you're aiming at a blank point in the sky where your charts tell you an interesting, faint object ought to be.
On the downside, most finderscopes turn the view upside down, and many entry-level finders cannot be used by eyeglass wearers.
In fact, all too many consumer-grade telescopes come with cheap finderscopes that are so poor they're useless. Beware of any that has a tube hardly thicker than your finger, or that gives a dim, fuzzy view in the daytime. A poor finder is a critical weak point that can kill the usefulness of the entire scope.
Star Charts.
Once you warm up a new car and hit the road, you need a map to find your way — especially if you're in brand-new territory that you've never seen before! So it is with a telescope. In fact, even the most expert telescopic travelers use the biggest, best, most detailed sky maps they can get.
You may already own a planisphere, a rotating "star wheel" that helps identify constellations. Certainly you should be adept at using a wide-sky constellation map like this before embarking on telescopic astronomy. However, a planisphere alone will no more get you to the Cat's Eye Nebula, say, than a map of the Earth will get you to the shoe store at the corner of Park and Elm. To mine the heavens' riches, you need a set of more detailed star charts.
Most astronomical atlases display all stars brighter than some specified magnitude, along with an assortment of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. An atlas that reaches 6th magnitude (the faintest you can see with the unaided eye under a dark, unpolluted sky) suffices for users of binoculars. But an 8th-magnitude atlas like our famous Sky Atlas 2000.0 (shown at right) better serves a telescope user.
If you haven't used star charts before, there's no better way to get started than with binoculars (see our primer on binocular astronomy). Stargazing with binoculars offers two bonuses: views are right-side-up, and the field of view is wide enough to take in recognizable formations of naked-eye stars. The view in binoculars is very much like the view in a good finderscope.
"Smart," Go To Telescopes
You might think that with computers in everything from dishwashers to cars, someone would be putting computers in telescopes by now. You're right! Actually the computer doesn't go in the scope itself but in the mount, along with electric motors on both axes. A motorized telescope on a "smart" altazimuth mount can track celestial objects as accurately as one on a more bulky and complicated equatorial mount. Even better, once you set up the scope and initialize the computer with the current date, time, and location, it can (if all goes well) automatically point to thousands of celestial objects.
In the past, such futuristic capabilities would set you back thousands of dollars. But a new generation of battery-powered "smart" or "Go To" scopes has brought the commodity to affordable prices. A keypress or two gives the times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, and the dates of meteor showers, solstices, equinoxes, and eclipses. Or choose a guided tour of the best celestial showpieces currently up, complete with a brief description of each on a digital readout. These scopes can literally give you a beginner's course in astronomy.
Still, these scopes aren't for everyone. For one thing, the affordable models have much smaller apertures than similarly priced entry-level scopes with no electronics. Second, a computerized scope can require a lot of careful setup that has to be done correctly at the start of each observing session (in the dark!) to make it work right. Third, these telescopes consume lots of electricity; some will exhaust a set of eight batteries in one night's use. Finally, when your "smart scope" fails to show a particular object, you may have trouble figuring out whether your eye or the scope's pointing is at fault — unless you already know the sky and your charts well enough to confirm that the instrument is indeed pointed to exactly the right spot.
Be An Informed Telescope Buyer
Now that you're up to speed on some of the most important telescope buying guide concepts and terms, take the time to peruse the ads and product reviews in recent issues of Sky & Telescope magazine. Search for additional reviews and opinions on amateur astronomy Web sites and newsgroups. Then go ahead and call or write to makers of instruments you might be interested in. Their brochures and catalogs should tell you much of what you want to know; if not, call and ask.
However, nothing substitutes for firsthand experience. The best way to acquaint yourself with the wide world of telescopes is to ask to join a local astronomy club's nighttime get-togethers — or perhaps attend an even bigger "star party." There, you can try out and ask about a wide variety of telescopes. Find an astronomy club or star party in our club directory. And consider subscribing to Sky & Telescope, where you'll find a wealth of information on telescope equipment.
You may also be able to buy a used telescope from someone in an astronomy club. Used telescopes carry risks, including undisclosed damage and no warranty coverage, but they can also be spectacular bargains. You can also find used telescopes on the Internet. (Be sure to take reasonable precautions if buying from a private party online.)
Of course, many buyers will want a new instrument. This should be bought from a source specializing in astronomical telescopes. Many camera stores are excellent sources of astronomical products as well.
If you're set on buying new, be prepared to spend at least $200 to $400, and even then you have to be careful to avoid junk. If this is beyond your means, your astronomical aspirations will probably be best served by buying a decent pair of binoculars and a lawn chair. Remember that whatever investment you make should be of good enough quality to serve you well for decades.
Testing Out Your New Telescope
You can't test a telescope's optical performance properly in a store, and many of the best telescopes are sold by mail order anyway. So you should ask the vendor to spell out return policies (preferably in writing). Make sure you'll be given enough time to try a scope out under the stars and the opportunity to return it for a refund. (If you buy the telescope mail order, expect to pay for shipping if you return it. In addition, being asked to pay a "restocking fee" is only fair if you want the privilege of being able to test-drive and return a telescope that's not actually broken.)
Once you get the telescope, new or used, scrutinize everything about it in daylight. The mount should be stable enough to remain standing even if someone bumps into it in the dark. Give the scope a gentle tap while viewing some distant target. Does the view jump around only a little, then stabilize? Good! But if it hops around for several seconds or more — or if the view moves so much when you hold the focus knob that you can't focus well — it'll be endlessly frustrating. Finally, you should be able to move the telescope easily and smoothly (whether by pushing the telescope's tube, turning a knob, or switching on an electric motor) without jerkiness or a backlash problem.
Assessing the telescope's optical performance as part of your telescope buying guide is harder for a newcomer to visual astronomy. But even an inexpensive telescope should pass the following nighttime tests.
Point the scope at a starry region in or near the Milky Way. Use a fairly low-power eyepiece. Stars at the center of the view should focus to points without any flares or colored halos. (Flares or halos may appear at the edge of the field of view, but they shouldn't be prominent until at least halfway out.)
Now get aimed at a fairly bright star and switch to high power. Focus the star, then turn the focus knob just a little one way, then the other way. The out-of-focus images that you see when you turn the knob one way, then the other, should be nearly alike. This is a strict test; rare is the telescope that passes it perfectly. But if the either-side-of-focus images are quite obviously different from each other, the optics are poor and the views will never be as sharp as they should be. (Eyeglass wearers with astigmatism should keep their glasses on for these tests.)
The final point of this telescope buying guide is to examine the Moon: it should look crisp, not hazy, and it shouldn't produce distracting ghost images (the result of inadequate coatings somewhere in the optics).
Keep in mind that perfection is expensive, and that a lot can be seen with less-than-perfect equipment. (It's the only kind I've ever owned!) Be patient with your new telescope and with yourself. At the same time, don't be afraid to ask for help and return to this telescope buying guide! As time goes on, the wonders of the heavens will become familiar friends.
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Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space - without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a 12-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests - well, to hell with politics.
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- Jean
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Kris and Vicky work together
This is book eight in the Longknife series. Kris was promoted to Lieutenant Commander at the end of the last book and sent back to the Rim to patrol for pirates and watch the Greenfeld (Peterwald) territory. Kris is still healing from the wounds she received in the last book and Nelly is enjoying her new babies. Kris is disappointed because she wanted to go hunting for what is happening to the lost ships in book 7. She is now in command of a small fleet of pirate hunters.
Kris arrives to help Kaskatos, a planet suffering from a famine but before she can help the inhabitants she must deal with renegade soldiers stealing what little food there is on the planet. To add further problems for Kris the planet is technically in Greenfeld territory and outside Kris's jurisdiction. Now she must carry on political negotiation with the Peterwald, on top of helping the planet dealing with pirates and so on. There is less interaction between crew members in this story and more about the Kris and the Peterwald family. Kris and Vicky continue to work on a friendly relationship. Abby's niece Kara is kidnapped Kris and Vicky join forces to search and rescue Kara.
As with the prior books in the series this book has lots of action, suspense and witty dialogue. The pace is very fast and Shepherd is good with the battle scenes. Kris has my favorite character in the book her personal computer "Nelly" and now the addition of "Nelly's babies." The personal computers are designed by Nelly for Kris's key crewmen. Dina Pearlman continues her excellent narration of the series.
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- Solomon
- 08/11/2013
Call it a "bridge" in the series
While I love the Longknife series and will listen to every one, I felt this book did nothing to really stand out. Each of the previous books hooked you with some defining trauma or decision. This book, while it had the potential to create some real controversy between Kris and the Peterwalds, of heart-wrenching between the slavers and their teenage captor, took the easy road. Everyone's nice; every battle won without controversy. Overall, I felt like it was a bridge between Book 8 and what's to come.
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- Phyllis
- 29/07/2012
I can't believe I enjoy this series so much
Would you listen to Redoubtable again? Why?
I am always looking for entertaining series that are easy to listen to and provide some escapism from academia and the evening news. The Kris Longknife books, while not cerebrally demanding are fun, creative and just good value for one credit. They are light but don't insult my intelligence and provide a nice balance of political intrigue, action, romance, and good characters. I will buy them all.
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- Brian
- 03/02/2011
Classic or reduntant?
If you have read previous books in this series, which I recommend, then you should know that book follows the overall storyline but doesn't really make much of an impact. If you have enjoyed the planetary drama of previous books, then you will probably love this one. Personally, I feel that Kris's willingness to stick herself in boiling kettle repeatedly despite everyone's urging not to ... is unrealistic and crazy - Longknife or not. However, I'm still looking forward to Kris's adventures beyond the rim and into unknown space.
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- MrBoobo
- 26/02/2012
Kinda Just Filler
Overall this is an enjoyable book but it does not really move the plot forward at all.
The entire story pretty much has that been there done that feel to it. It took me two tries to get through it because nothing new ever seems to happen. It is just another story where Kris saves people and a planet or two from the bad guys. Not much more of the universe or the people in it is fleshed out, not even any new tech. The story just feels phoned in.
Pearlman is the same as always. She has a lot of voices and brings personality to each character.
I have enjoyed the Longknife series and already own the next book. While going through this one is not bad it is seemingly totally skippable (though I doubt anyone this deep into the series would do that) and not as good as really any of the others so far.
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- Melissa
- 23/05/2011
What is up with the narrater??????
Someone needs to hit the FF button, if you have listen to this series you will know what I mean. I do not know if the narrater is trying to fix what others have complained about in her reading, but she should have left well enough alone. Now it seem as if she is in slow motion or really tired, not shore. I have only listened to about an hour, and I am hopping that she get faster as she goes.
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- DocJim
- 27/02/2012
Another Great in the Series
Some reviewers have said or implied that the story is "ho hum" or the narration is "sub-par". I disagree. The narration of this book was just as good, or better than the rest of the series. The story has many twists and turns. I will finish the series and expect from a sci-fi series that looks at gun control, lack of gun of control, democracy, noblesse oblige, adolescent rearing, theocracy, aliens, war, peace, among other ideas via the science fiction forum.
Of course, if the worst thing they can pick on are such lowly things, it is a positive recommendation in itself. One more to go in the series and I am looking forward to it!
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- Bob Nelson
- 06/06/2011
Same old same old
Mike and Kris run out of steam. Same old same old.
They were fun while they lasted, but they're long gone.
Not recommended.
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- Debra Thomas
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still a great listen
loved it. this is the 8th book and continue to enjoy the story and how the characters grow with the things that happen.
- Darry
- 14/02/2013
Awesome Sci-fi series
I am writing this because i think it is one of the best series books out there. Mike Shepherd always tells a good action packed story. This one has a female lead and she has some great friends that are willing to die for her and what she stands for. The narrator Dina Pearlman is also one of the best !!


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LONDON, July 26 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney came in for stern criticism for suggesting Thursday London is not ready for the Olympics but said the day "has been marvelous for us."
In an interview with NBC, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee suggested London might be "unprepared" for the games, which start Friday. A senior British government source said officials were stunned, The Guardian reported.
"What a total shocker," the source told the newspaper. "We are speechless."
London Mayor Boris Johnson, a Conservative, was far from speechless, calling out Romney by name as he spoke to a crowd estimated at 60,000 as the Olympic torch arrived in Hyde Park.
"I hear there's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready," Johnson said. "He wants to know whether we're ready. Are we ready? Are we ready? Yes, we are."
Prime Minister David Cameron responded initially with a joke about the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which Romney managed: "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."
The joke prompted a rebuke from Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, whose office said in a statement to BuzzFeed: "While those of us who have had the fortune of visiting London know it is certainly a wonderful city, Prime Minister Cameron's comments likely reflect his lack of familiarity with Salt Lake City.
"He can stop by any time. We'd love to have him and are happy to send a map so he doesn't run into any trouble locating the middle of nowhere."
After spending 45 minutes with the prime minister at No. 10 Downing Street, Romney said he expected the games to be "highly successful."
Romney also met Thursday with former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Labor Party leader Ed Miliband in London. The former Massachusetts governor focused on the Olympics, rather than policy issues, in his meeting, The Washington Post reported.
"The athletes have arrived, the torch is about to come into London ... My experience is that this event will change the hearts of many, many people," Romney said.
Romney raised eyebrows among U.K. political analysts when he told reporters he had met with the head of the MI6 intelligence agency.
He finished the day with a fundraiser that brought in an estimated $2 million for his campaign, co-hosted by executives of banks being investigated as part of an interest rate-fixing scandal, the Post said.
"It has been a marvelous day for us," Romney said.
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Two top Romney campaign surrogates -- Virginia Gov. Bobby Jindal and Virginia Bob McDonnell -- told reporters in a conference call they don't think the candidate's missteps in London will be a problem for his campaign.
"We're not worried about overseas headlines," Jindal said. "We're worried about voters back here at home in America."
Romney aides had said prior to his overseas trip U.S. Republicans were irked with Cameron's embrace of President Barack Obama.
Cameron, who visited the White House in March, joined the Democratic president on a visit to a college basketball game in Ohio -- a key swing state in November's presidential election -- and was later honored with a White House state dinner.
Cameron declined to meet any Republican leaders during the visit, the Romney advisers -- who requested anonymity -- told the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Senior advisers to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee expressed similar criticisms to the British newspaper The Guardian in May, calling Cameron's White House visit a "love-in" with Obama.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
"Hey, this Mu Shu pork tastes like..."
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11 comments:
- bobbie said...
- October 1, 2012 at 9:52 PM
- Ivan Ilyich said...
Ironically, he harvesting of roadkill was just legalized in Illinois.
- October 1, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Library-Gryffon said...
Deer is tasty. And if your car is the one that killed the deer, it owes you for the damage!
- October 1, 2012 at 10:26 PM
If it is freshly killed, roadkill deer, or antelope, are given to our local Native Americans by the Fish and Game Department. As are, deer / antelope confiscated from poachers.
- October 2, 2012 at 12:28 AM
"will eat anything that flies except a boeing" what specific chinese kitchen was that again?
- October 2, 2012 at 9:24 AM
- Packer said...
There was a true story out of cape cod a few years back detailing how one restaurant of the same flavor prepared shreadde cabbage. They would put the cabbages between two sheets of plywood and drive the car back and forth over the plywood. So I am not surprised.
- October 2, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Everyone's horror of this is sort of ... how shall I say it... Cute? Provincial? Ethnocentric? White collar and/or first world problem?
- October 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM
@anon2:04: I don't care if people decide for themselves to eat meat of unknown origin and from animals with an unknown healthstatus. But not in a restaurant and without my knowledge,let alone consent. And no to the crosscontamination caused by unsanitary handling of dead animals/meat.
- October 3, 2012 at 6:28 AM
For the most part, I like all my meat "dead"....
- October 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM
When I was a student the local ethnic restaurant to match was found to have dogs and rats inthe freezer...
- October 4, 2012 at 4:29 AM
- Lil mighty RN said...
I'm loving the "recommended articles" section at the bottom. "Man kills masked teen, realizes its his son. 15 Celebrities Who Don't Have a High School Diploma (Not Like They Need It) (Styleblazer)" etc. This is what southern folks put in their newspapers? Tell me this is not a legit site!
- October 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM


text: FreedomVoice Systems' CEO, Eric Thomas informed his company that development on Newber app will stop. Apple have neither rejected nor approved approved it for the App Store after making FreedomVoice wait more than six months for an answer. "We followed all guidelines set by Apple", says Thomas, "and never received comment from Apple as to why Newber application has not even been reviewed". FreedomVoice have spend more than six months developing Newber and incurred 600 000$ in associated costs.