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More NSA Spying Fallout: Brazilian President Snubs Obama Invitation, May Trigger Internet Balkanization
from the this-is-getting-serious dept
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt noted that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, was angry that the NSA had been reading her private emails and text messages, and that as a result she was contemplating cancelling an imminent high-profile state visit to the US. That was before the recent revelations that the NSA had also engaged in industrial espionage at the biggest Brazilian company, Petrobras, which seems to have been the final straw: Rousseff has now formally "postponed" her trip to the US, according to the Brazilian news site O Globo (original in Portuguese.)
Despite the framing that this is merely a "postponement" until the US has provided satisfactory explanations of the NSA's behavior, it's a real slap in the face for President Obama -- in the past, no national leader would dream of snubbing the US in this way -- and a measure of how seriously the NSA's activities are affecting US standing in the world. But this is not just about symbolic actions like cancelling high-level meetings: there are also likely to be longer-term repercussions for both US companies and the whole Internet.
For example, Rousseff is making a speech next week at the opening session of the UN General Assembly in New York. According to O Globo, she will raise the issue of American spying there, and call for a ban on espionage conducted by means of the Internet. Meanwhile, an Associated Press story published by the Washington Post has some details of other actions that Rousseff intends to take in an effort to protect Brazilians from online snooping in the future:
Most of Brazil's global Internet traffic passes through the United States, so Rousseff's government plans to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to Europe and also link to all South American nations to create what it hopes will be a network free of U.S. eavesdropping.
Of course, the problem is that then it will be the UK's GCHQ and other European agencies that start spying on Brazilian traffic, rather than the NSA. Here's another idea that the President of Brazil wants to see realised:
Rousseff is urging Brazil's Congress to compel Facebook, Google and all companies to store data generated by Brazilians on servers physically located inside Brazil in order to shield it from the NSA.
Whether or not that helps to secure the personal data of Brazilians, such a move will almost certainly increase the costs for US Internet companies operating in Brazil -- more bad news for them, all thanks to the NSA. But there may be even worse in store for the Internet as a whole, as the AP article points out:
If that happens, and other nations follow suit, Silicon Valley's bottom line could be hit by lost business and higher operating costs: Brazilians rank No. 3 on Facebook and No. 2 on Twitter and YouTube.
The effort by Latin America's biggest economy to digitally isolate itself from U.S. spying not only could be costly and difficult, it could encourage repressive governments to seek greater technical control over the Internet to crush free expression at home, experts say.
This is just what many people feared: that the leaks about the NSA's massive surveillance activities around the world -- including economic espionage -- will provide the pretext repressive regimes need in order to take complete technical control of the Internet in their countries, rather than continuing to acquiesce in its global governance, as at present. And so all the efforts by Western countries at the recent World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) to stop precisely that kind of balkanization will have been in vain.
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'Baby Bust' Starts to Ease
America's baby bust may be over. The number of births in the U.S. ticked up last year for the first time in five years, according to early data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Phil Izzo explain on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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There's no ignoring the power of buzz, and no singer this season has yet proved as buzzworthy as Marina Poplavskaya, who recently made her Met debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo and is poised to sing Violetta with the company in Willy Decker's already-famous "red-dress" La Traviata. It's a rare thing — it always has been — for an opera singer to be the subject of a major profile in a mainstream magazine. So when Gay Talese's profile of Poplavskaya appeared in the December 6 issue of The New Yorker, I was happy to see the magazine, which is increasingly weighed down with wobbly fiction and dominated by lengthy political analyses, paying a little more attention to cultural matters, which are, after all, what established its reputation.
Since Don Carlo opened, I have received an amazing number of phone calls from friends and colleagues who wanted to know what I thought about Poplavskaya. What I find interesting is that they don't really want to know what I thought about her performance as Elisabetta, which I heard recently. They want to know what I thought of Talese's profile. "Have you read the Poplavskaya piece? Have you read it? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU HAVEN'T READ IT?" I was beginning to get the feeling that the other things occupying my thoughts — what to get my sister-in-law for Christmas, where to find a contractor to do house repairs, whether to take my cat to the dentist, or finding the time to finish writing my latest book — were all things I didn't deserve to be worrying about. I should instead be experiencing what I was beginning to think must be a milestone in cultural journalism.
This morning, I finally sat down, closed my door, turned off the telephone and read Talese's profile.
It opens with a very New Yorkerish nonfiction trick — the relating of a specific action in the subject's life, told in plangent detail. You know the type: "On a recent chilly morning in September, Estelle Rubin left the apartment she had occupied for the last forty-five years on Manhattan's West Side, on a grocery-shopping expedition. As she approached her neighborhood Food Emporium, she noticed a man she had never seen before standing on the corner, wearing nothing but ankle socks and a surgical mask, loudly singing a ballad from the obscure 1940s musical Ankles Aweigh...."
Talese's article began this way: "On an August night this past summer, the opera singer Marina Poplavskaya lay motionless for nearly three hours on the floor of her mother's apartment in Moscow, having collapsed shortly after 4 A.M. from inhaling noxious smoke from the forest fires that were burning out of control in the countryside...." The author developed this scene at some length, in the process confusing me. I was beginning to wonder what the point of it all was: was he suggesting that Poplavskaya had somehow started the forest fires? But the point eventually became clear. The soprano telephoned a friend: "'Darling, I'm about to die," she whispered into the receiver. 'And so I ask that you help take care of my mother!'" It was Talese's clever way of setting up Poplavskaya as a creature with a truly dramatic nature.
I was expecting this to be a prelude that was going to make the link between the diva's often excessive and outrageous behavior in real life and the spell she weaves on the stage. But that never happened: Talese's piece was really just a catalogue of bizarre personality quirks, ranging from Poplavskaya's tendency as a child to burst into song in the classroom whenever she was bored, through her terrorization of cab drivers and rehearsal pianists, to her insistence on bringing her own towels to her Met dressing room. At no point did Talese attempt to connect all of this with her artistry and musicianship. Nor, for that matter, did his article delve into her singing in any detailed way. Seven pages of text, plus a full-page photo — and no real discussion of her an artist.
I think there's plenty to say about Poplavskaya. Listening to voices is a highly subjective thing, and I don't quite agree with critic Zachary Woolfe that her tone has a "smoldering darkness." The night I attended the Met's Don Carlo, I didn't hear a great deal of color in her voice at all. But she can act, and she has presence — and she was certainly light years ahead of her countrywoman Anna Smirnova, who was vocally the clumsiest Eboli I've ever experienced.
Talese has sometimes not shown the best timing in his career. His 1971 novel Honor Thy Father, about the mob, appeared two years after another book on the same topic, called The Godfather, caused something of a stir in the publishing world. But his article on Poplavskaya never gets out of first gear. It came as something of a jolt, given the magazine's distinguished history of music reporting — from Winthrop Sargeant to Andrew Porter to Alex Ross. Does the Poplavskaya profile represent the standard of cultural coverage we can now expect from The New Yorker?


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Dear Visitors of WiZiWiG
Today is a sad day for all fans of live sports streaming, as we at Wiziwig have to announce that we're forced to close our website, at least for now. This due to new laws in Spain which will get into force starting tomorrow, the 1st January 2015. Failing to comply with the new reform puts us at risks of fines being as high as 600.000,- and also losing our domain, hosting and other necessary stuff to operate wiziwig.
We've decided to join a new project, called GetYourFixtures.com, on which you can find tv listings for many live sports events but also links to official streaming. So please check out this interesting website by clicking the logo or links below:
Time will tell if we can find ways to come back...
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For all those interested in the reasons behind this decision please read further below.
Wiziwig is a free service, which has been started over 3 years ago and for those who always wondered, we will first explain the meaning of wiziwig:
What You See Is What You Get
WYSIWYG, easier to remember we decided to change it into WIZIWIG. The aim of wiziwig has always been to provide you (everyone) with links to watch live and free sports online, whereever you live. We've also chosen to act as a normal company, as we still believe that linking to other websites isn't wrong, isn't against any law and should be possible without having to hide ourselves behind a proxy or fake registrations.
It's therefore that we've chosen to operate from Spain, as several higher court cases there have declared linking to be legal. This has given us the opportunity to run wiziwig for 3 years. Nevertheless it hasn't been easy to operate as since we've started we've been facing a lot of pressure, like fake claims of being unlawfull, being pirates, pressure on hosting, advertising and much more.
Main threat has been the English Premier League, who've tried literally anything to shut our website down, to cease our revenues, spread false accusations and who has constantly been chasing us down. Needless to say that this has cost us a lot of time and money to fight against these fake claims and fake accusations. It also made it more difficult to run advertisements to pay our expenses, and the same applies for donating which has been made impossible. But we still decided to continue to run this website to provide you with the best links to watch live and free sports on the internet.
However, since a year Spain has been working on a new law, later followed by another law and proposals to stop the linking on the internet. Several weeks ago, in November, a main part of this new law had been approved, and it will go in affect as from the 1st January 2015. As you might have heared, 2 weeks ago Google News already decided to close their operations in Spain because of parts of this new law. Several other linking sites in Spain decided to close aswell in the past weeks.
Main reason is the ridiculous part of the law that forces sites to follow a strict DMCA policy, in which you need to act within 3 days after receiving a complaint, failing to do so will result in an adminstrative party (the ministry of culture) judging about the complaint. They can then force your domain to be blocked, make your website inaccesible, hosting to be shut down, ads to be removed and bank accounts to be closed. After a second complaint fines of 600.000 euros will be given. You might think there should be ways to workaround the law, but there's also a part that states that after a complaint of party "x", all possible "illegal" content of that party "x" has to be removed and kept removed, failing to do so makes you again facing all the penalties as decscribed above. As this all goes by bypassing jury or judge (law court), the risks have become too high to continue our website. To fully trust an administrative party judging about complaints is impossible, especially with the pressure we've been facing and the fake complaints and unlawful acting of other parties to get us down. We can't give our faith in the hands of a third party.
In addition to this Spain is also working on a new criminal justice "law", which they expect to be approved somewhere in 2015. In this new criminal law owners of websites who link to other websites, and who get complaints, may face 6 years in jail.
All together this has made us decide to stop with Wiziwig at the end of 2014, before the start of the new year, to be fully safe and to see how things will work out. We will now focus on new things, maybe we will return one day but for now we would like to say once again thank you for your trust in Wiziwig. Despite this bad message we still wish everyone all the best in 2015!
Thanks for visiting Wiziwig and for your loyalty. As said above already, time will tell if we return in the future.
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Today, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, has ordered an emergency reopening of all fishing in 210 square miles of state waters west of Bayou Lafourche previously closed due to the BP oil spill. With today's action, 95 percent of state waters are opened.
Commercial fishing will reopen immediately today, September 24, to the harvest of finfish, crabs and shrimp in all state waters west of Bayou Lafourche and 90 degrees 13 minutes 30 seconds west longitude. The openings also include the recreational harvest of shrimp and crabs.
LDWF Secretary Robert Barham ordered these openings following the completion of comprehensive testing by the FDA. The FDA has advised that following extensive sensory testing and analytical chemistry results, the fish tissue samples tested from these previously closed areas are safe for consumption.
State inside waters in the Mississippi River delta south of the northern shore of Pass a Loutre and adjacent state outside waters south of 29 degrees 12 minutes 40 seconds north latitude westward to the western shore of Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River and portions of state waters in the Barataria Basin will remain closed to commercial fishing until further notice.
While LDWF continues to work closely with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to ensure the safety of Louisiana's seafood, these openings do not include the harvest of oysters, as this activity is regulated by DHH.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is ordering changes in its sorority system amid charges of discrimination in the Greek-letter organizations, which the president acknowledged Tuesday are segregated by race.
President Judy Bonner mandated that sororities belonging to a campus association composed of white sororities begin using a recruitment process in which new members can be added at any time, and she expanded the maximum allowable size of the groups to 360 people to increase the chances for prospective members.
Bonner, in a video statement released by the university, said people are watching Alabama just as they did when it admitted its first black students five decades ago.
"This time it is because our Greek system remains segregated and chapter members admit that during the recruitment process that ended a few weeks ago decisions were made based on race," she said.
Bonner said "systemic and profound changes" were required for graduates to compete globally.
"While we will not tell any group who they must pledge, the University of Alabama will not tolerate discrimination of any kind," said Bonner, who became the university's first female president less than a year ago.
Bonner enacted the new policy Monday just days after the student newspaper, The Crimson White, detailed allegations that alumnae of some all-white sororities had blocked chapters from adding two black students as new members in August, when the university announced 1,896 new sorority members.
Members of the Faculty Senate, meeting after Bonner's statement was issued, said the new rush rules were a step in the right direction, but many said more action was needed to eradicate racism in Greek-letter groups.
Language and classics teacher Sierra R. Turner, a black woman, said opening up the recruitment process was "rather token" since it wasn't accompanied by any way to measure progress.
"It's not good enough," she said.
Other teachers questioned why action wasn't being taken to integrate men's organizations, and some called for an investigation of a Greek-controlled organization called "The Machine" that influences campus politics.
Faculty Senate President Steve Miller said students and teachers would march from the library to the administration building on Wednesday morning to demonstrate for change.
"We're going to be there awhile," he said.
University of Alabama trustee John England Jr., a state court judge in Tuscaloosa and a former member of the Alabama Supreme Court, last week confirmed his step-granddaughter was one of two young black women who tried to join an all-white sorority but were rejected for membership.
Gov. Robert Bentley and trustee Paul Bryant Jr., son of the legendary Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, are among those who have publicly criticized segregated Greek-letter organizations at the university since The Crimson White story.
The charges of racism are marring a year in which the university is trying to show racial progress in the 50 years since then-Gov. George C. Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" blocking integration at Alabama, and with the school's football team ranked No. 1 nationally.
Allegations of racism at Alabama provided a backdrop over the weekend at ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the 1963 bombing that killed four black girls at a church in Birmingham. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson suggested picketing all-white sororities at the university, and Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell, whose district includes Tuscaloosa, said the situation at Alabama shows discrimination isn't dead.
"When we still have fraternities and sororities in our state that block because of race, we still have work to do," said Sewell.
The university enrolled a record 34,852 students this semester, and about 13 percent of its students last year were black. Its Greek organizations have been segregated by race since the first black students enrolled and established social organizations, with one oversight organization composed of white sororities and another composed of minority sororities.
Only a few blacks ever have attempted to join historically white Greek groups at Alabama, where there are also historically black fraternities and sororities.
University spokeswoman Cathy Andreen said Bonner's order on recruitment applies to 18 white sororities in the Alabama Panhellenic Association, the campus arm of the National Panhellenic Conference. Eight black sororities and fraternities at Alabama are affiliated the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc.
The Interfraternity Council overs 27 historically white fraternities, and an umbrella organization is composed of leaders of all three groups.


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Kelly Anderson
Leading baritone Kelly Anderson has appeared with opera companies across the United States and abroad, most notably with Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Washington National Opera, Arizona Opera, Baltimore Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Opera Leipzig, Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera North, Florida Grand Opera, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Hawaii Opera, Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. Known for having a strong and compelling presence on stage, he has been hailed by critics for possessing a "rich voice and very easy natural phrasing," (Washington Times) as well as having "a football star's sex appeal." (Denver Post).
Mr. Anderson returns to Hawaii Opera Theater in 2011 for the role of Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor. He begins the 2009– 20010 season at Chautauqua Opera where he will sing the role of John Sorel in a new production of Menotti's The Consul. He also sings the role of Ray Cohn in a concert performance of Angels in America with the BBC Symphony at the Barbican Centre in London, which marks the UK premiere of the work.
In the previous two seasons, Mr. Anderson performed the role of Lescuat inManon Lescaut and Escamillo in Carmen with Hawaii Opera Theater. He made his debut with the Tucson Symphony in the World Premiere of Daniel Asia'sSymphony No. 5 where his "resonating baritone was among the highlights of the performance." (The Arizona Daily Star) On the opera stage, he joined the Fort Worth Opera as Roy Cohn in the North American premiere of Angels in America, the Hawaii Opera Theater as both Lescaut in Manon Lescaut and Escamillo in Carmen, the Palm Beach Opera as Don Pizzaro in Fidelio, and the Lake George Opera Festival as Germont in La Traviata where he was praised for his "booming, fatherly voice and his dramatic performance [which] had just the right balance between firm determination and kindness." (The Daily Gazette)
Recent career highlights include the roles of Rambaldo in La Rondine with the Dallas Opera, Omar in L'Assedio di Corinto and Angelotti in Tosca with the Baltimore Opera, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Naples Opera, Germont in La Traviata for his debut with the Fort Worth Opera, and Jochanaan in Salome, Escamillo in Carmen and in the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro all with New York City Opera.
He sang Michele in Il Tabarro with Arizona Opera, Marcello in La Boheme with the Florentine Opera, and the title role in Don Giovanni with Florida Grand Opera, Hawaii Opera, Opera Colorado, and the Washington National Opera. He sang Ping in Turandot and Basil in the United States premiere of The Picture of Dorian Gray both with the Florentine Opera, Achila in Julius Caesar with the Florida Grand Opera and Portland Opera, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Florida Grand Opera and the Opera Festival of New Jersey, and Escamillo in Carmen with Oper Leipzig.
A sought after soloist on the concert stage, Mr. Anderson has performed with the symphonies of Chicago, Boston, Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Evansville, West Virginia, Florida, Phoenix, Kentucky, Indiana
and Berlin, among others. Highlights include performances of Don Pizzaro inFidelio and a program of Beethoven with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Iago in Otello and Scarpia in Tosca both with the Kentucky Symphony, and Escamillo in concert performances of Carmen with the Imperial Symphony in Florida.
Mr. Anderson's recordings include Hans Foltz and the Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger with Sir Georg Solit and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London/Decca) and the role of Golfredo in Bellini's Il Pirata (Berlin Classics).
He is a 1994 winner of the George London Award, the winner of the 1993 McAllister Opera Singer Competition, and one of the winners of the Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He received the 1993 Robert Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the 1993 Catherine Filene Shouse Study Grant from Wolf Trap Opera, and the 1993 Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. A native of Chesterton, Indiana, he received his Bachelor of Music in Voice from the New England Conservatory and a Master of Music in Voice from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He began his career as a young artist with the Deutsche Opera Berlin and was a member of the Houston Opera Studio of the Houston Grand Opera.


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Each week, I receive between 400-700 comments on the blog, a small percentage of which are critical. Every day, one or two people will take to Twitter, Facebook, or their own blogs to tell me I'm doing something wrong. As someone who has always struggled to receive criticism graciously, without throwing things, blogging has been an instructive endeavor, a refining fire of sorts. And so, for those of you who find yourself in heated conversations online, I offer a few tips I've learned along the way:
1. Wait. No criticism seems constructive at first, so step away from the computer before responding. Go on a run, practice centering prayer, throw something across the room, hang out with friends, bake a freaking cake if you have to. Then, when you come back, the constructive criticisms will surface as such, and you can respond with openness and grace instead of getting defensive.
2. Engage the positive. If, out of 200 comments, 199 are positive, encouraging, and constructive to the conversation, and 1 is negative, my natural tendency is to go to bed that night stewing over the single negative comment. (Same goes for book reviews. If, out of 70 Amazon reviews, 68 are 4-5 stars, you better believe I'm going to click on the two three-star review to see what the heck that's all about.) This is human nature, of course, but what I've been telling myself lately is it's not fair to the 199 readers who took the time and effort to add something personal, thoughtful, wise, and encouraging to the conversation when I only remember and engage that single negative comment. I am essentially giving the one negative person more power than the other 199 people combined! When I allow myself to be as connected and engaged with the positive comments as I am with the negative comments, it's amazing how my attitude changes. Suddenly I become deeply appreciative of my readers, ready to engage in the most constructive elements of the conversation. I go from being Cruella de Vil to Ann Voskamp in a matter of seconds.
3. Don't feed the trolls. A troll is a supernatural being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore who lives in rocks and caves and is at enmity with mankind. A troll is also an angst-ridden 18-year-old who dumps nasty comments on your blog that are so mean, so off-topic, and so totally out of left field, they're not worth engaging. These comments are meant to incite discord, and often they work. As a blogger, the very worst thing you can do is encourage this sort of behavior by arguing with a troll. My advice is to delete trollish comments right away before they hijack the conversation. Remember, no one has a "right" to post on your blog. It's your space; you want to make it as welcoming to guests as possible, and sometimes that means sending the drunk uncle out the back door.
4. Leave space in your heart and mind for constructive criticism. Like it or not, sometimes your critics are right. Sometimes they see something in your attitude, your assumptions, or your position that needs adjusting. Through the years, my readers have pointed out several blind spots in my life, and I am incredibly grateful for that.
5. "Always assume there is someone in the room who knows more about the topic at hand than you do." I put this in quotes because it's something Dan always says. (Dan's a super-smart guy, by the way. In fact, I daresay he's likely to be the person in the room who knows more about the topic at hand than you do.) In addition to leaving space in your heart, mind, and blog for constructive criticism, be sure to leave space for folks with more expertise to refine and augment your ideas. When I first started blogging, I felt like I had to be the authority on everything I wrote about, and when that authority was "questioned" by someone who knew more about the issue than I did, I freaked out. I got defensive. Now, after a few years of trial and error, and after realizing my readership includes astrophysicists, anthropologists, Hebrew scholars, actual pastors, and actual parents, I've learned to step back and learn from the best. Your goal as a blogger is to START conversations, not finish them. Now I consider it an honor to have people who are significantly smarter than me weigh in in the comment section. In fact, one thing I love about our online community is that the comment section is often a better read than the original post!
6. Memorize this prayer from St. Teresa of Avila. I say it almost daily.
7. Disarm critics by being nicer than they expect you to be. Once, a blogger writing for a complementarian organization wrote a scathing critique of my next book....back before I'd even sent the final manuscript to the publisher! The article included several factual errors and a lot of assumptions about my motives for taking on the year of biblical womanhood project. I was mad at first, but then I realized that the woman writing the piece, and the readers chiming in in disgust, were simply defending against what they perceived to be an attack on their lifestyle and choices. No wonder they were upset. So I left a gentle, gracious comment correcting the article's mistakes, apologizing for not making myself more clear, and clarifying my intentions in taking on the project. It was amazing to watch as the tone of the comments took a dramatic turn for the positive. You never lose ground by being kind. If anything, you give yourself a better chance at actually being heard.
8. Apologize. I've felt compelled to issue an apology a couple of times on the blog, and often in the comment section....because, you know, sometimes I'm wrong...and mean.
9. Ask yourself why some criticisms hurt and others don't. Criticism can play an instructive role in your life when you pay close attention to your reaction to it. For example, I am not at all phased by an email informing me that I am headed straight for hell for believing in evolution and "worshipping at the monkey god's feet." (Actual email, folks.) Why not? Well, because I know for a fact I do not worship a monkey god, (except during the new moon festival, of course), and because I am not afraid of going to hell for believing in evolution. (Maybe I should be, but I'm not.) However, a comment critiquing my writing style or challenging me for struggling to find a church will send me to my pouting chair in a matter of seconds. Why? Because I am insecure about my writing and about my search for a faith community. Those critiques touch on actual fears, actual frustrations. They hit closer to home. So if you want to learn something about yourself, pay attention to the criticisms that affect you most deeply, and make an effort to start praying through those insecurities and fears.
10. Don't let the praise carry you too high or the criticism drag you down too low. The truth is, excessive praise can be just as destructive as excessive criticism. The more popular your voice becomes online, the more likely you are to build up a fan base that includes a few readers who think you can do no wrong. Handing over your heart to either the lovers or the haters will turn it into a football, fought over between two "teams." Here's my advice: The minute you feel you are losing ownership over your emotions by handing them to your fans or your critics or your Google Analytics, STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER. Instead, spend some time with people who actually know you, like, people who live in your hometown and know what your laugh sounds like. As much as I value and appreciate my online friendships, the most important people in my life are the ones who know me outside of my writing. These people know about my tendency to exaggerate, my messy house, my super-ugly glasses that I have to wear when my contacts dry up, my inability to solve very basic math problems, my bleeding heart, my baking skills, my cooking disasters. And they love me anyway. These people love me for who I am, not what I write down or how I "perform." And so they are the best ones to tell me when I've gone off track, to offer advice, encouragement, and constructive criticism. Listen to those trusted people, even if they are just a few. Never allow your online supporters or critics to gain a louder voice than they have.
See also: "On Growing Thick(er) Skin"
So, what would you add to this list? What have you learned about dealing with online criticism? Got any questions about online dialog for a seasoned blogger with a pouting chair?
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Dearest Sallie, I am glad to say that I have just returned from Tupelo on fatigue duty and read your very kind letter of last Saturday, the 26th and as I will have a chance tomorrow to send a letter to Oxford, I will write some this eve - and finish in the morning. I have no doubt that you were sadly disappointed when you met your Uncle John at the fence thinking it was I. OH! dear, how glad I would have been, if it had been I. I know you could not have been gladder to see me than I would to see you, but alas! alas! This is a world of disappointment. If I had known certainly that we would have stayed here this long, I would have met you that day instead of your Uncle John, but was afraid to risk it as your uncle would not agree to leave with it if the regiment left. I am surprised that you were still up last Saturday, but you certainly have taken down ere this. I hope you have had an easy time and will be up again ready to write me another sweet letter in a few days. I am really glad that you have got company to stay with you all the time - hope she will prove a pleasant companion and fill my place till I get home and I hope that will not be very long, although the prospect of getting home soon now looks very gloomy indeed. I deeply sympathize with you in the very restless night you had last Monday night a week, but hope ere this that that little president has made his appearance and that he and you are both getting along finely. I will try and wait patiently till I get your next letter, although I can't say where I will be when I get it, we expect to leave in a day or two.


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Stepping Out of Legal Limbo: Key Points for Cohabiters
by Danielle Dresden
December 19th, 2011
You're living together, but you're not roommates. You're a whole lot more than friends, but you're not married. What in the world are you? You're part of a growing trend. The percentage of 30- to 44-year-olds living as "cohabiting couples" has more than doubled since the mid '90s, according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study. Most adults today have lived with an "opposite sex unmarried partner" at some point, according to the National Survey of Family Growth. These numbers, reflecting changes in American attitudes toward marriage and sex, have been linked to economic pressures, late-life couples avoiding marriage, and evolving notions about how we pair up. Although the reasons for a couple's living arrangements vary as much as their love stories, most share a common characteristicthey live in legal limbo. Rights and responsibilities aren't automatically assigned when couples move in together; it's important to consider how cohabiting affects your finances.
Savers, spenders, artists, and actuaries
Along with the romance, Debra A. Neiman, certified financial planner and co-author of "
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Financial agreements can help prevent arguments, protect your credit, and strengthen relationships.
"You can discuss your financial goals," she says. "Couples will talk about whether they want kids or pets or if they want to live in the city or country, but what goes unsaid often has to do with finances." Marshall Miller, co-author of "
Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple
," says, "It's important to be really clear on why you're moving in together. Are you on the way to marriage or are you looking for a way to save on rent?" Diverging expectations do crop up, but Miller says it's more common that couples don't even have such a conversation.
Maybe you do need a piece of paper
Whether or not they're planning marriage, Miller says cohabiting couples are shifting from individual to shared expenses. Neiman says, "There are shared liabilities and responsibilities involved with living together. You become dependent on someone the minute you co-sign a lease." Establishing financial agreements can prevent arguments, protect your assets and credit rating, and strengthen your relationship. "It gives you a chance to say, 'What are our shared values?' " Miller says. The key financial issues for cohabiters are:
Day-to-day expenses
This includes rent, utilities, food, entertainment, and more. Do you split costs down the middle? Does one pay more because she or he makes more? "I'm a big believer in there's no 'right way,' " Neiman says. "Just be mindful of who is paying for what."
Many unmarried couples live in legal limbo.
Separate or combined
Some experts recommend avoiding joint checking accounts or credit cards to protect individual finances and credit.
Property brought into the relationship
Does what was once "yours" become "ours"?
Property acquired during the relationship
Whether it's a toaster or a house, spell out ownership and maintenance, especially with items like cars or houses.
When it's over
It's hard to imagine endings during beautiful beginnings, but it will help, whether the end of life or love terminates your relationship. Specifying who gets what or lives where can ease breakups. Establishing health-care power of attorney and durable power of attorney for financial management will give you the legal authority to care for each other in emergencies. Writing a will helps you provide for your loved ones.
Writing it down is recommended, but you can make your "cohabitation agreement" as formal, or not, as you choose. Couples with ex-spouses, children, and more assets may need an attorney.
It's up to you
No matter how long you live together, your partner is legally a stranger to you, despite what Miller calls "the myth of common law marriage." The notion that cohabiting couples acquire legal standing after seven years is an urban legend.
A practical approach can help you implement personal choices.
Only 15 states recognize common law marriage, and they require couples to file joint tax returns, call themselves married, and more. "The good news is almost all the financial protections that come from being married, you can still have as an unmarried couple," Miller says. "You just have to work a little." Miller recommends drafting a cohabitation agreement, durable power of attorney for health care and financial management, and a will.
Complications and considerations
Cohabiters still can face challenges, especially with real estate and insurance. Neiman says a common problem develops when one partner owns a house, and the other moves in. "Only one person's name is on the deed. Who gets the mortgage deduction?" she asks. If the homeowner dies without a will, the surviving partner can get kicked out, and she's seen it happen. "But you can't just put someone's name on a deed without implications," she says. Professional help can address those risks. Health insurance also causes hassles, even with domestic partner benefits. While married people can simply add spouses to an insurance plan, unmarried couples can't. With cohabiters, the working partner gets taxed on what the company pays for the domestic partner. Married couples, but not cohabiters, receive survivor benefits from Social Security. "Certain companies mandate that a pension can only go to a spouse," Neiman notes. What's a couple to do? Same-sex couples can only marry in a few states, but some straight couples look at the complexities of cohabiting and decide to get married. Others still resist such formality. Ultimately, these decisions are personal, but keeping in mind the practical aspects can help you make your choices work for you.
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Manufacturing is GDP star performer
GDP figures are like "Match of the Day" - recorded highlights of what's already happened.
In fact, it's worse than that: the publication of figures for national output every three months is like watching recorded highlights on a faulty television, that shows only three-quarters of the action and sometimes misses what's really been going on.
That said, they are certainly a very worthwhile measure of economic progress, even if these days, there is a growing consensus that they are not the be-all and end-all.
And the big simple story of the latest figures is not contentious: the economic recovery is picking up a bit of momentum.
So in the three months to the end of March, GDP increased by 0.8%, compared with 0.7% in the final quarter of last year.
This is a bit slower than the 0.9% the City expected and the 1% the Bank of England was predicting at the time of the last meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee.
But the shortfall against expectations is less significant than the direction of travel, which remains positive.
On an annualised basis, the economy is growing at a rate of 3.1% - which is back to the kind of growth rates the UK enjoyed before it all went splat in 2008.
As for contributors to the continued recovery, it is inevitable that services - representing three-quarters of the economy - are the driver.
The output of the service industries rose 0.9%, which in turn contributed 0.7 percentage points of the 0.8% increase (or most of it).
But the current star of the UK's economic performance is the small manufacturing sector (roughly a tenth of the economy) - whose output jumped 1.3% and is growing at an annual rate of 3.4%.
The government's longed-for and fabled rebalancing of the economy - towards making things - may at last be happening.
All that said, the economy is still 0.6% smaller than it was at its peak size, before the crash, in the first quarter of 2008 (which of course implies that, barring a calamity, I will be telling you in three months that the UK has at last regenerated all the income wiped out by the Great Recession).
And only the service sector is actually bigger than it was six years ago (2% bigger in fact).
Also, as recent research by the Office for National Statistics shows, if GDP is divided by our population, we are still quite a lot poorer - because lacklustre growth has been accompanied by a rising population.
At the end of last year, GDP per head was still more than 6% below where it was in 2007 - and GDP per capita will still be more than 5% smaller than before the deluge, even after these latest positive figures.
This is what you might call the UKIP paradox.
On the one hand, our rising population is one reason why our economic performance in gross terms is better than some other developed economies: immigrants coming here, working cheaply, and buying stuff stimulates output.
But economic growth that leaves indigenous citizens typically only a bit better off isn't the most popular form of growth.
As for our national obsession, possibly more pervasive than handwringing about the plight of association football - to wit, when will interest rates go up - the latest GDP figures perhaps indicate, as I mentioned recently, that the timing of the first tiny rise may be deferred a bit.
How so? Well, it is because the good or bad news - depending on whether you are borrower or saver - is that the economy is growing a touch slower than the Bank of England had been expecting.
But these are fine judgements. And more relevant than the fuzzy pictures shown in the GDP announcement will be the finer detail available in coming weeks of whether the labour market shows signs of tightening in a way that could stoke inflation.
I should have mentioned that consumption and shopping appears to have spurred service-sector performance - with the output of distribution, hotels and restaurants (or shopping and leisure) 1.5% higher in the quarter, and a remarkable 4.9% higher year-on-year.
So the cherished rebalancing of the economy has some way to go (ahem).
We are still more a nation of shoppers than makers, and we may be losing the savings habit we acquired after the Crash.
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ATLANTA – Filterfresh Coffee Services, Inc., violated federal law when it discharged a female employee because of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.
According to the EEOC's suit, Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-3331-HTW-GGB, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, Filterfresh fired Business Development Representative, Kelli Easterling, after she purportedly failed to reach the company's profit goals. However, a male counterpart, who was also having difficulty reaching the company's profit goals, was afforded greater opportunities by management to ensure his success.
The alleged conduct of Filterfresh Coffee Services, Inc. violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The EEOC is seeking back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Easterling. The lawsuit also seeks injunctive relief designed to stop the discrimination and prevent it from recurring in the future.
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ou've probably been exposed to teaching about sanctification suggesting that believers ought to be totally passive in their quest for victory over sin and simply trust God to take the evil desire or temptation out of the way. The idea is that since human effort is fleshly and our efforts are always flawed and imperfect anyway, we should just "let go and let God."
Here's what D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said about that:
I do not know of a single scriptureand I speak advisedlywhich tells me to take my sin, the particular thing that gets me down, to God in prayer and ask him to deliver me from it and then trust in faith that he will.
Now that teaching is also often put like this: you must say to a man who is constantly defeated by a particular sin, "I think your only hope is to take it to Christ and Christ will take it from you." But what does Scripture say in Ephesians 4:28 to the man who finds himself constantly guilty of stealing, to a man who sees something he likes and takes it? What am I to tell such a man? Am I to say, "Take that sin to Christ and ask him to deliver you?" No, what the apostle Paul tells him is this: "Let him that stole, steal no more." Just that. Stop doing it. And if it is fornication or adultery or lustful thoughts, again: Stop doing it, says Paul. He does not say, "Go and pray to Christ to deliver you." No. You stop doing that, he says, as becomes children of God.
From D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Sanctified Through the Truth: The Assurance of Our Salvation (Wheaton: Crossway, 1989), 54.


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Taylor County Middle School PTSO will host the Harlem Wizards and Wildcardz in a basketball match up on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. at Taylor County High School gymnasium.
Advance tickets are $8 for students and seniors. General admission is $10.
At the door, tickets will be $10 for students and seniors and $12 for general admission.
Tickets are on sale at the Taylor County Board of Education office, Wise Dentistry for Kids, United Citizens Bank, L and P Bait and Tackle and from any TCMS PTSO member.
Dove Award-winning Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Plumb will bring her "Need You Now Tour" to Campbellsville on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m.
She will be accompanied by eight-time Dove nominee Mike's Chair and Josh Wilson, recipient of the 2012 Christian Songwriter/Artist of the Year award from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
The concert, sponsored by Elk Horn Baptist Church, will be at Living Grace Church.
Campbellsville University theater will present "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a musical comedy, on Oct. 11-13 at Russ Mobley Theater in the Alumni Building.
Show times are Oct. 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 13 at 2:30 p.m.
The play was also presented Oct. 3-6.
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Dr. Wesley Roberts, professor of music, will be presenting the first program for this year's Noon Organ Recital Series at Campbellsville University with the dedication of the newly acquired 1875 Pomplitz organ at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Campbellsville.
The organ recital is free and open to the public. It ends at 12:50 p.m. to allow those attending to return to their schedules before 1 p.m.
Taylor County Retired Teacher's Association officers for this year are Elise Mohan, president; Anita Smith, secretary; Joyce Dunlap, vice president and Carole Whitley, treasurer.
This year's first meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Creek Side Restaurant at 10:30 a.m.
Any Kentucky retired teacher living in Taylor County is welcome to attend and can pay the $10 annual dues at the meeting.
The Oak Ridge Boys will perform at Campbellsville University Monday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. in Ransdell Chapel as part of their 40th Anniversary Tour.
Buzz Cason, a member of the CU Board of Trustees and American rock singer, songwriter, producer and author, will perform a pre-concert before The Oak Ridge Boys take the stage.
Proceeds from the concert will go to CU's Scholarship Fund to benefit students' educations at CU.
Special VIP tickets are available at $125 each and will include a meet-and-greet session before the concert.
Campbellsville University and Town Hall productions presented "Annie Get Your Gun" recently at CU's Russ Mobley Theater, with several Campbellsville residents participating.
Campbellsville University's Theater Department and Town Hall Productions have announced the cast of "Annie Get Your Gun" for five showings on July 4-7 at CU's Russ Mobley Theater in the Alumni Building.
The show will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 4, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 5, at 2:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7.
KJ Richerson of Campbellsville, who is undergoing treatments for a brain tumor, will celebrate his 12th birthday Monday, June 24.
Friends and family members have set a goal to see that Richerson receives 1,000 birthday cards.
Those who wish to send Richerson a card can write to him at KJ Richerson, Ronald McDonald House, 1907 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030.
Taylor County 4-H hosted a free woodworking shop on May 23.
Using wood and soda cans, students built and painted wren birdhouses with the option of entering them in a Taylor County Fair competition.
To learn how to get involved in 4-H, contact Amanda Sublett, county extension agent for 4-H youth development, at 465-4511 or visit the 4-H Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TaylorCounty4h.
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A healthy diet can help protect you from heart disease, bone loss, colorectal cancer, and diabetes. If you eat a healthy diet and exercise, you can keep your body strong and fit.
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These tips can help you cut back on the sodium (salt) in your diet.
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Use these tips to start a conversation with a loved one about eating healthy.
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Use these easy snack ideas to keep your kids eating healthy between meals.
Use this list to help you shop for foods low in sodium and high in fiber.
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Next time you go grocery shopping, take this list to help you choose low sodium foods.
To stay at a healthy weight, balance the calories you eat with the calories you use up (burn) by being active. Staying at a healthy weight can help prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and disability.
Learn the facts about vegetarianism and how switching to a vegetarian diet may benefit your health.
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Learn the health effects of consuming too much salt, the recommended amount of sodium for adults, and what you can do to limit your intake.
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Make Your Calories Count is an interactive learning program that provides consumers with information to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake.
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Learn what foods or substances impair or enhance iron absorption in your body.
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You can do many things to help your children develop healthy eating habits for life. Here are some tips for setting good examples.
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A clear liquid diet helps maintain adequate hydration, provides some important electrolytes, such as sodium and potassium, and gives some energy at a time when a full diet isn't possible or recommended.
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Fill out this simple chart to learn how much of each food group you need every day.
Search for heart-healthy recipes--from appetizers to desserts--that you and your whole family will love. You also can browse by category, main ingredient, cooking method, or special diet.
Review Date: Friday, April 03, 2015
American Heart Association
Diet is one of several factors that can promote or inhibit kidney stone formation. Learn what types of foods and drinks you should avoid to help prevent kidney stones.
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
A diverticulitis diet gives your digestive system a chance to rest while your doctor treats your diverticulitis. A diverticulitis diet is not a treatment for diverticulitis.
Discover the effects that food, fluids, potassium, phosphorous, protein, sodium, and calories have on patients undergoing hemodialysis for the treatment of kidney disease.
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NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - NIDDK
Your diet is an important part of your treatment for cancer. These tips help you manage manage eating problems before, during, and after cancer treatment.
Review Date: Thursday, April 02, 2015
NIH National Cancer Institute
Many appetizing foods are actually great sources of fiber — from fruits to whole-grain cereals. Learn how to add fiber to your family's diet.
Review Date: Monday, October 29, 2012
The Nemours Foundation
Whether you're a consumer looking for personal assistance, or a business looking for nutrition consulting, use this search tool to identify a nutrition provider for your specific needs.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Calorie counting can help lead to successful weight loss. Use the Food Calorie Calculator to find calorie counts for common food items.
Calorie Control Council
Learn about how to get started on a gluten-free diet, including information on reading food labels and cross contamination.
Review Date: Saturday, January 23, 2016
Celiac Sprue Association/United States of America, Inc.
A gout diet helps to control the production and elimination of uric acid, which may help prevent gout attacks or reduce their severity. Find out what foods to avoid to better manage your gout.
Review Date: Monday, December 01, 2014
Diet, food and eating can affect symptoms in IBS. Many people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) notice that their symptoms appear to get worse following a meal. Find out what foods are best to avoid if you have been diagnosed with IBS.
International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Try this menu planner for healthy meal ideas.
Review Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - NHLBI
In preparation for a radioactive iodine (RAI) scan or a RAI treatment, thyroid cancer patients are usually asked to go on a low-iodine diet. Here is a combination of diet guidelines from several ThyCa medical advisors.
Review Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.
Learn to use the Nutrition Facts label to help balance your calories as you manage your weight.
Review Date: Friday, July 11, 2014
The Mediterranean diet is inspired by foods eaten in the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea, such as Greece, France, Spain and southern Italy.This diet is similar to other heart-healthy diets in its emphasis on fish, fruits and vegetables, beans and whole grains.
Review Date: Sunday, January 04, 2015
American Academy of Family Physicians
This tip sheet, designed especially for African Americans, offers more than 50 ways to prevent diabetes.
Review Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013
National Diabetes Education Program
Want to know the amount of each food group you need daily? Create a profile to find out and receive a customized Daily Food Plan.
Review Date: Friday, October 31, 2014
Learn to create meals that may lower your risk for cancer and other chronic diseases, and manage your weight at the same time.
Review Date: Thursday, October 30, 2014
American Institute for Cancer Research
Shape Up & Drop 10™ is a weight management program that helps you get serious about weight management without resorting to strategies that will defeat you in the long run. Information is provided on how to take the weight off safely and keep it off.
Review Date: Monday, July 14, 2014
Shape Up America!
The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a balanced eating plan that your family doctor might recommend to help you lower your blood pressure.
Small steps can help your family get on the road to maintaining a healthy weight. Choose a different shopping or food preparation tip each week for you and your family to try.
Reducing sodium (salt) in your diet can help lower your blood pressure. Read these tips.
Review Date: Sunday, December 28, 2014
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
Use this tool to help plan healthier meals for your family.
Research has shown that following a healthy eating plan can both reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure and lower an already elevated blood pressure. Read on to learn about the DASH diet plan.
Review Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2015
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TOKYO (AP) — Many in Japan are hoping that the landslide victory of the opposition Liberal Democrats and trouncing of the Democratic Party in Sunday's parliamentary election will help the country break out of a 20-year economic slump. Here is a summary of the possible economic implications of the coming change in leadership:
— ECONOMIC STIMULUS: Liberal Democratic Party chief Shinzo Abe, who is almost certain to replace Democrat Yoshihiko Noda as prime minister, favors raising spending on public works and setting a 3 percent economic growth target. He has lobbied for stronger action by the central bank to create more demand and break Japan out of its deflationary trap. Critics say that boosting deficit spending too aggressively, though, could undercut confidence in the government bond market, destabilizing Japan's finances.
— TRADE: The Liberal Democrats back Japan's involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a region-wide free trade initiative backed by the U.S., but demand protection from foreign competition for farmers and other traditional supporters. The party's nationalist policies could hurt exports and industries with heavy investments in China, but powerful business interests — and the Liberal Democrats' coalition partners in the Komeito — will likely push Abe to cool tensions with Beijing.
— REFORMS: The party says it will revamp Japan's economic strategy but offers few details on overhauling the bureaucracy and other institutions. It plans corporate tax cuts to help make Japan the "most business-friendly country in the world," but is conservative on such issues as labor market and social reforms offering more opportunities for women.
— ENERGY: Under pressure from the electricity lobby, the Liberal Democrats want to defer decisions on long-term energy strategy for a decade, raising questions over Japan's commitment to using renewable energy to offset capacity lost with the closure of most nuclear plants following the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in March 2011.
— COALITION: The Liberal Democrats' likely coalition allies, the Komeito, are backed by small businesses and the lay-Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. Komeito's peace-oriented, anti-nuclear weapons stance could help balance Abe's hawkish views. Komeito favors phasing out nuclear power over 40 years and opposes the TPP but supports other free trade pacts.


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After Fox aired its three-part series of 60-second TV spots for X-Men Origins: Wolverine earlier this week, my excitement level got pushed even higher than it already was for this movie. These three trailers, titled "Outcasts," "Brothers" and "Legends" showed us many scenes from Wolverine's past as well as a pile of characters and action sequences.
I was so happy to see Gambit tossing around charged up cards and was really growing on the idea of Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth. I had even completely moved on in the idea of separating Fox's X-Men films from the continuity of the Marvel Comics and cartoons.
That excitement all came crashing down today as Screen Rant writer Carl Lee came upon the following images of the Deadpool action figures from the Hasbro toy line for the movie.
And Giant Killer Squid has a clearer image of the toy above.
What is with the blades coming out of his arms? Are those taped on or are they some Weapon X modification similar to Wolverine's? How much did they really screw up this character or is there a chance his costume will still be in the film at some point? I can't really see how going from awesome weapon-covered red and black suit is replaced by topless scarred dude wearing purple pants.
When I saw Deadpool looking like he was scarred in the trailer, I thought that's probably just one scene in the movie where he wasn't wearing his trademark costume... Perhaps it was before he even got the costume. In my mind, there was no possible way they could not have his amazing looking costume in this movie. I mean, it's already there for them in the comics and in thousands of images online. It's muted, with it's red and black color scheme so it's not some outfit that would look outlandish in a live action film.
All they have to do is buy the materials and have the costume designers put it together. Even I could do that with a fraction of the budget they probably get to produce the outfits.
Here's a screen capture of Deadpool from the trailer and it's this design they chose to feature as the toy of the character – This likely means that Ryan Reynolds will not be sporting the infamous Deadpool red and black outfit.
So, my question is why? Does this design look better? No. Maybe the toy will sell better than one that actually looks like the character? Nope, that can't be it either.
This potential colossal failure on the part of those making this film has me very worried for how badly they may ruin my personal favorite, Gambit. We already know they ignored his unique eye color but from the trailers they did add the glowing effect to items that he charges (notably his staff and cards). But, what they've not shown us is a single scene of Taylor Kitsch actually talking as Gambit.
My worries are that they may have completely dropped the trademark Cajun accent which to me is absolutely essential for doing this character justice. In The X-Movies, they completely ruined the Colossus character by not making him Russian and they also screwed up Pyro the same way.
Why are they bothering to include these characters if they are intentionally distancing them from what made them so popular in the first place? The reasons fans wanted them in this movie are being shattered and now it's really starting to bother me.
What do you think of the new Deadpool and do these changes bother you?X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens May 1, 2009.
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text: Choosing a Doctor Finding the medical provider who's just right for you and your family begins with gathering information. On our Find a Provider page you can search for a Legacy provider by name, specialty, location, and even gender. When you click on a provider's name, the personal profile will show his or her education and certification, any special clinical interests, additional languages spoken, and the number to call for an appointment. If you have further questions, please feel free to call Legacy Referral Service: 503-335-3500 (Oregon) 360-487-3500 (Washington) 8:30 am-4:00 pm, M - F Starting your search Of course, the best time to find a medical provider is before you really need one. Here's a good search process: Decide what type of provider you need. Common specialties are General Practice, Family Practice (children and adults), Internal Medicine (generally adults), Pediatrics (infants, children and adolescents), and Geriatrics (older adults). Ask friends and family members who they recommend. Call your health insurance plan to ask for a recommendation and whether the provider you're considering is a preferred provider. You're welcome to call the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners in Portland (503-229-5770) to check a physician's credentials. All doctors in Oregon are licensed to practice medicine by this Board. At your first appointment Your new provider will want to know as much as possible about your past and present medical condition. Before your first visit make a list of any prior medical treatment, as well as the names and dosage of your medications. Arrange to have your medical records forwarded to your new provider's office. Tell your provider about your lifestyle, habits and past medical history. Be honest; help your provider to help you. Ask which hospitals and specialists the provider typically uses, especially if you have a specific medical condition. Ask how emergencies are handled and where you go for service. Find out how payment is handled and whether the office staff files insurance claims. If you currently have a medical problem, let your provider know how you're feeling in as much detail as possible. Be clear about your expectations for treatment. Ask direct questions. Listen carefully and paraphrase what your provider tells you to make sure you understand. Take your time. Don't end the visit until you are sure you understand your provider's directions and what additional treatment (if any) you can expect.


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Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Sue Paterno tells Katie Couric: Joe wasn't aware Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile
Sue Paterno and her husband were not aware that Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile, the widow of the former Penn State head football coach told Katie Couric in an interview televised Monday.
"Let me ask you this, Katie — Jerry adopted children, the experts vetted him. He had foster children, the experts vetted him. The executive director of Second Mile is a child psychologist," Sue Paterno said, as she began to respond to Couric's question if her husband should have done more to stop Sandusky.
"If the experts don't know, how can we know?"
The interview aired on ABC's "Katie" Monday afternoon and featured a more emotional side to the Paterno family's campaign to undo what their lawyer's analysis termed a "rush to injustice" by former FBI director Louis Freeh. The interview followed the release Sunday of the analysis, which blasted the Freeh report by calling it a "profound failure" that made too many assumptions without interviewing crucial witnesses.
Couric did not grill Sue Paterno during the interview. Instead, Couric was gentle yet firm and asked tough questions.
Sue Paterno told Couric that Joe Paterno did as much as he could in 2001, when he received a report from then-grad assistant Mike McQueary that Sandusky was in a shower with a young boy. Paterno reported it to his boss, athletic director Tim Curley, who reported it to senior administrator Gary Schultz and university president Graham Spanier.
"If he knew in 2001 what he then learned in 2011, yes. He would have done more," Sue Paterno said, answering another question from Couric about whether her husband could have done more to stop Sandusky. "Anyone would. But we didn't have that benefit because we didn't know anything."
Sue Paterno did not think her husband knew about an incident in 1998 when Sandusky showered with a young boy, she told Couric. That incident was reported to police by the young boy's mother, but despite a sting in which Sandusky admitted showering with the boy to the mother, the incident was never prosecuted.
On the set of Couric's show, Sue Paterno was joined by three of her children, Mary Kay Hort, Diana Giegerich and Jay Paterno. They spoke of the memories they have of their father, such as his clocks being set five minutes ahead or the family man that he was.
Mary Kay Hort said the family's efforts over the past few days are not about restoring the Hall of Fame coach's wins the NCAA took away as part of a series of harsh sanctions, or returning the statue that had been outside Beaver Stadium.
Instead, she said, it is the "right thing to do."
"My dad was all about honestly, integrity, commitment and hard work," Hort said.
Sue Paterno said she became physically ill in November 2011 after reading the grand jury's presentment that outlined the allegations of abuse against Sandusky.
"Our lives are about children and making them better, not hurting them," she said. "It's vile."
Sue Paterno said she does not know the names of the young men who were abused by Sandusky. When Couric asked what Sue Paterno would say to them if she had the chance, Sue Paterno responded: "I'm praying for you every day, many times during the day."
Former Nittany Lion Greg Buttle, a linebacker who played in the 1970s and went onto a career in the NFL, said the guilty party is not Paterno, but is Sandusky. He defended Paterno and blamed Penn State's trustees for scapegoating the head coach.
"The Joe I know, the Joe my fellow players know, the Joe that we former players know, if he ever knew that Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile, there would have been an issue with it, and he would have taken care of it," Buttle said.


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Friday, July 1, 2011
Things I Know
Happy Friday! Welcome to the Things I Know linkup. If you want to join in write a Things I Know on your blog including a link back to this post an then add your link below-easy!
Here is what I know this week-
-parents find lots of positive words to describe their quirky kids. I'm choosing to call Harper "creative"
-the flu can go suck it. What a waste of a week.
-my kids are emotionally involved in the outcome of Masterchef
-turning on the computer ensures that there will be a fight, injury, empty belly or wet pants within five minutes.
-everyone loves a great op-shop find
-the noise guinea pigs make at you when they are hungry is 2 parts "aww how cute" and 1 part "shut-up! I'm coming!"
-Looking at all of the gorgeous Waldorf inspired classrooms on Pinterest makes me want to throw out every plastic toy we own
-You can Flog Yo Blog over with Glowless as Where's My Glow? She totally knows stuff this week.
15 comments:
- Glowless @ Where's My Glow said...
Yes but did you see what I know???
Wish I could do one of these every week, would be very cool.
Thanks for letting me barge in on your turf for the day x
- July 1, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Kestrel said...
Emotionally involved in the outcome of Masterchef!!! Brilliant! Your kids crack me up!
- July 1, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Marita said...
Ah yes those little phrases we come up with to describe our challenging kids. :D I like 'creative', also 'determined' and 'focused' ROFL
- July 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Grace said...
Yeah, the flu can totally suck it !
Dealing with two grumpy sickies over here...
Happy Friday, though :-)
- July 1, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Moodi Mumma said...
Totally relate to the turning on the computer!! Loved this post :o)
- July 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- Kathy said...
Ooooo, +++ on the computer-as-bringer-of-doom ;-) I basically daren't put mine on until toddler is napping and big kids are out at school, then it's off until the big kids commandeer it for their maths games & so on after school.
- July 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- tiff(threeringcircus) said...
LOL. I describe my Lily as 'free spirited' It seems to encompass all of her uniqueness nicely.
- July 1, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Daisy, Roo and Two said...
Haha love it! The op shop find is great! And I often call Roo "creative" or "inventive" and sometimes "unique".
- July 1, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- Mrs Woog said...
Am I doing this right? I am a technophobe x
- July 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Sarah @GettingfromHeretoThere said...
Hehe, I feel the same way about Monkey Boy when he's hungry as you do about the guinea pigs ;-)
- July 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- •´.¸¸.•¨¯`♥.Trish.♥´¯¨•.¸¸.´• said...
I love op shops finds and "creative" children.
Yes the flu can damn stay away from us.
You have come of age again 21 links today so far.
As soon as I turn on the computer here it is the same. *sigh*
- July 1, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Kellie said...
Yes, colds and flus be gone! We do not need you in the blogosphere or our homes.
I love your use of the word ``creative''. I may adopt that one!! hehe!! :)
- July 1, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- katepickle said...
oh love that swirling photo
- July 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- Being Me said...
Within FIVE minutes??? Then they're wasting at least 3, going by my daughter's count ;-P
I love this linky. Grouse idea! Sorry to hear you've been sick this week too. The curse of the karaoke! :o (for the record, I neither passed anything on nor got sick... touch wood.... yet)
- July 1, 2011 at 8:43 PM
- Deborah said...
Yay for op shop finds! And yay for twirly dancing photos! :)
- July 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM


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Becoming More Confident Color
If you want to be more confident and expert in creating better color schemes in your home, you definitely want to master the color language. The key to combining color with great success is to study the three characteristics of color-value, temperature, and intensity. I do not want you to be intimidated by the word hue, it's just another name for the color. Another skill that we will talk about is combining colors.
So first, let's learn about "value", which is only light or dark in color. Keep in mind that the value of light extends space, while dark values overpower it. You'd better use Robin's Egg Blue in a small room compared to the Navy Blue, for example. There are a number of infinite values in the world of color today, from the brightest light to the darkest darkness. So you are not limited in any way when it comes to color choices.
Becoming More Confident Color
Anyone can easily understand the term "temperature". It gives rise to warm or cold feeling. You will find, if you draw an imaginary line in the color wheel, the colors ranging from yellow to green to red-purple invite warm feelings. They are referred to as "advanced" because they appear closer. They really pull you into a room. While the color that is on the right of the color wheel, regarded as the color of "receding", appear further and create a calm, cool and spacious feel.
The third characteristic of color is the intensity, which describes the brightness of the color. There are 12 colors on the basic color wheel and are all fully powerful, or so-called "saturated". You will find that colors with lesser intensity are less noisy.
You can become more comfortable with this particular color difference by imagining two different versions of your favorite colors. If we use yellow-green color for example, Chalk will be much more powerful than something like Willow.
Use the same color intensity to unify your space. By choosing colors that have the same intensity, your room will look more unified than the room with mixed intensity colors.
You may experience problems, as some do, by determining the intensity or value of a color. If so, ask yourself first, if the colors you see are light, medium, or dark. That would be a value. Then proceed to distinguish whether it is light or dull. That will be the intensity.
Next, we will explain the color combination. The word "monochromatic" refers to the use of a single color in your room design. Remember that monotone can be set quickly in one color space, but if done well – and we find if mixed with lots of white, this can be done quite successfully.
The "analog" color scheme is achieved by taking adjacent colors on the color ring, such as yellow, yellow-orange and orange. Using a common color is the key to creating analog schemes and adding various textures. Patterns and finishing will help bring more variety to the look.
The "Free" color scheme will be a created shape using the opposite color on the wheel, like blue and orange, or yellow and purple. If you choose to use full strength color be sure to repeat it freely throughout the room. Certainly it would not hurt to wonder a bit into a close-up of compliments to subside on an occasionally strong display.
Our final color combo is a "complex" color scheme. This is created by choosing a color evenly around the wheel. You can use a three-color combo, or "triad", like yellow, blue, and red. You can also create four color schemes called tetrad.
Whichever look you're looking for, we hope you get a bit of insight into the use of colors. Choosing the right color scheme for your room is very important for your feelings in your new space and should be discussed and decided by the whole family. The truth is, different personality types should also be considered when choosing a color scheme because color has a way of making us feel calm or excited, so start with the sample and work from there. Good luck with your efforts.
Diane has been enjoying the decor since she was little. While he leans more towards the style of the french country, he finds beauty and interest in all styles of decor today. He has just developed a desire for the industry style and newly discovered industrial goods. He believes that it is important to embrace new ideas and creations and try to keep an open mind in terms of styles and trends. Becoming More Confident Color