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To my beautiful friend Francine!
Today is a day to celebrate love: with your lover (or lovers), with your family, and very importantly with your friends. Its a time to show appreciation to all those people in your life who support you, who always know how to put a smile on your face, and who are there to cry with you when you need them to. So today, I want to dedicate my post to thanking you for being my friend, for starting this wonderful blog journey together, and for always being there to talk endlessly about food and everything else. You are a wonderful person, and I am so happy you are my friend.
… Cheese is over, I promise! You can put the tissues away…
So, it took a lot of thought and guts to make something that would steer cupid my way following your cupcakes! (especially since they were served on a heart patterned table cloth!!) I had been browsing 101cookbooks a while ago, and had come across this wonderfully simple recipe for bittersweet chocolate tart, which I decided could provide a great starting point. So putting all seductive and luring powers to work… I think I found the potion in a pie! All it took was 2 or 3 extra things, a sprinkle of magic and I an extra dosage of patience for very detailed work.)
TADA : Strawberry Dark Chocolate Tart (Recipe pulled from: 101 cookbooks – Bittersweet Chocolate Tart , minus strawberry part)
Tart Shell (9 inch tart pan):
- 1/2 cup + 1 T / 130g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup / 75g natural cane sugar, muscovado, or brown sugar, sifted
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 3/4 cup / 225g whole wheat flour
Use an electric mixer to cream the butter, sugar and salt until well combined. Add the egg and mix until smooth. Use a spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl a couple times along the way. Add the flour and pulse the mixer on and off, low speed, until the dough comes together and has a moist appearance. Divide the dough into two equal pieces, shape each into a ball, press into 1/2-inch thick disks, and wrap in large piece of plastic. Chill for at least an hour.
Preheat the oven to 350F / 180C. Place a rack in the middle of the oven.
Unwrap plastic, straightening it out, placing ball of dough in the middle. Lightly flour top of dough ball, and rolling pin. Roll out until the dough is large enough to line your tart pan. (Should be about 1/6 – 1/8 inch thick.) The reason for rolling out on plastic wrap, is that it is much easier to transfer to pan and you need a lot less extra flour. Carefully lift the plastic with the rolled-out dough in it, and transfer to pan turning it over. Work quickly to ease the dough into place, taking care not to stretch the dough. Press it along the bottom of the pan, out to the walls, and against the sides (again plastic helps your hands to not stick to the top of the dough). Remove plastic, peeling it off very carefully. Trim any excess dough. Chill in the refrigerator for 10 minutes or so.
Take pie shell out of the refrigerator, poke it with a fork, making small holes along the bottom of the shell. Line the shell with parchment paper/or foil and fill to the rim with pie weights or dried beans, bake for 10 minutes. Carefully remove the pie weights and finish baking for another 6 – 8 minutes, or until the crust is dry and just barely starting to brown. Remove from oven and let cool completely. (I bolded the above part, because I skipped this part and had to use the other 1/2 batch of pie crust, because I totally ruined the first one when I placed lentils directly on top of the dough, as pie weighs)
- 1 cup / 225 ml heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 7 ounces / 200g 70% bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 tsp instant coffee
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 7-8 strawberries
In a sauce pan, simmer the cream and milk over medium heat. Remove from heat, add the chocolate and instant coffee, and stir until the chocolate is melted and the mixture smooth. Let cool for 5 minutes, add the egg, and whisk in until completely blended. (If the chocolate is too hot, you're going to scramble the egg, be careful.)
Pour the filling into the cooled tart shell and bake for about 15 minutes, give or take a couple minutes. The filling should be set around the edges a bit darker than the center in color. The center will be a touch jiggly, that's o.k. Let the tart cool completely, preferably in the pan on a cooling rack.
When cooled completely, it's time to decorate! Either using your mandolin or a knife, thinly slice 7-8 strawberries. Taking the slices arrange them in ring formations, slightly overlapping them, as you can see in the photo. Working from the outer ring and moving inward, keep making rings of strawberries until you reach the middle.
I recommend serving chilled, as it is easier to slice and the chocolate has the richest texture.


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Building a Geocoding Web Service
In the previous installment of this four-part series regarding creating spatially enabled Web applications, you learned how to create a local datasource mapping mailing addresses to latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates using the Geo::Coder::US Perl package and the U.S Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data. In this final installment, you'll learn how to make this data available to the world through a Perl-based Web service. To demonstrate the service's capabilities, a PHP-driven client will pass a mailing address to the Web service, retrieve the spatial data made available through this Web service, and finally feed it to the Google Maps API to produce a map marking the location of the mailing address.
Building the Perl Web Service
Before you can create a TIGER/Line-based Web service, you need to install the Geo::Coder::US package, and import the appropriate sections of the spatial data. This process was explained in the previous installment; therefore, if you haven't had the opportunity, be sure to take care of these tasks before proceeding. You'll also need to configure your Web server to handle Perl-driven scripts, commonly done via the mod_cgi or mod_perl modules. Although this process isn't discussed in this article, there are countless tutorials available on the Web that explain how to do so.
To create the Perl-driven Web service, you'll take advantage of the CPAN package Soap::Lite. Use the following command to install this package on the server:
%>cpan -MCPAN -e shell "install 'Soap::Lite'"
Next, create the module that will provide the functionality made available by the Perl web service (geocode.pm):
package geocode; sub geocode { # Designate the location of the geocoding database $geocodes = "C:/Perl/site/lib/Geo/Coder/geocoder.db"; # Retrieve the address value passed into the function my ($class,$address) = @_; # Point to the geocoding database Geo::Coder::US->set_db($geocodes); # Retrieve coordinates from geocoding database my ($coords) = Geo::Coder::US->geocode($address); # Return the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates return $coords->{lat},$coords->{long}; } return 1;
Be sure to place this package within a path found in the @INC array. This array contains a list of directories that Perl will refer to when searching for a module referenced within a script.
Next, you'll create the (geocodews.pl) script that will make geocode.pm accessible through the Web service:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use Geo::Coder::US; use SOAP::Transport::HTTP; require("geocode.pm"); SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI ->dispatch_to('geocode') ->handle;
Remember that, for any client to take advantage of a Web service through Apache, the service must be placed within the Web server's document root. It's also possible to run an independent SOAP::Lite web service without the aid of a Web service, although this approach isn't discussed in this article.
You can test out the Web service from the command line (or through a Web browser if by making a few minor script modifications that aren't covered in this article) using the following Perl-based SOAP client (geocodeclient.pl):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use SOAP::Lite; $soap = SOAP::Lite -> uri('http://localhost/geocode') -> proxy('http://localhost/perl/geocodews.pl'); $address = "411 Woody Hayes Dr, Columbus, OH"; my $result = $soap->call('geocode', $address); my $latitude = $result->result; my $longitude = $result->paramsout; print "Latitude: ".$latitude."n"; print "Longitude: ".$longitude."n";
Latitude: 40.004761 Longitude: -83.019945
However, your ultimate goal is to retrieve these coordinates and use them to produce a Google map. While this could, of course, be done with Perl, it's more interesting to use another language because it truly illustrates the power of Web services interoperability. That said, you can create a PHP-based client to access the Web service. Of course, you can use any Web services-capable language: Java, C#, or Python, for instance.
The PHP Web Services Client
One component remains to be completed to finish the communications chain from data source to end user: the Web services client. Remember that a Web service provides a standard interface for communicating with an Internet-enabled application, meaning that any language capable of adhering to the rules involved in the the request-response process can be used.
The following Web services client (geocodeclient.php) uses PHP 5's native SOAP extension; however, all is not lost for PHP 4 users. This example could be transformed in just a few steps thanks to the NuSOAP extension; therefore, please consult the NuSOAP Web site for more information if you haven't yet had the occasion to upgrade to PHP 5.
"http://localhost/perl/geocodews.pl", 'uri' => "http://localhost/geocode")); # What address shall we look up? $address = "411 Woody Hayes Dr, Columbus, OH"; # Execute the remote call $result = $client->geocode($address); # Remove the latitudinal value from the returned array $latitude = array_shift($result); # Remove the longitudinal value from the returned array $longitude = array_shift($result); # Output the coordinates echo "latitude: $latitude
longitude: $longitude"; ?>
Execute this script from a PHP-enabled Web server and you'll see the following results:
latitude: 40.004761 longitude: -83.019945
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
This will all be over soon enough
But now, when we see The Manager insert him into a tie game in the ninth inning, and continue to run him out to the mound until he coughed up that motherfucker up, we irrationally find ourselves thinking kindly on the sweet solace of the season's end. It's going to be a long winter without baseball, but at the very least, we'll be able to warm ourselves with the thought that The Manager will never again have the opportunity to call on the Hipster Oaf with the 6.28 ERA and the 1.58 WHIP to enter the game in a high leverage (or medium leverage, or low leverage, or no leverage) situation and toss a brand of brutally useless junk up there that would make Frank Tanana blush.
And it's not as though the Jays are completely bereft of arms at this point of the season. It's September, for goodness sake, and they call haul whoever the hell they want from their system tomorrow if they need an extra arm. You're trying to tell me that Zach Jackson can't be at least as effective as Tallet? Or that they couldn't have called up Jeremy Accardo to give them some extra latitude at this point in the year?
(Speaking of which: Whatever sin Accardo committed and is now being punished for must be a doozy for the Jays to pay him a million dollars to go cool his heels in Vegas and not darken this side of the border with his presence. Feel free to fill in the blanks for yourself to decide what it was that Accardo did to deserve this exile.)
There are only 17 games left in the season, and we're probably going to cry like a baby when it's done. But we won't shed a single tear for this version of The Manager, nor for his pet lanky lefty.
21 comments:
- Peter DeMarco said...
I too thought Tallet would be much better this year, not great, but good enough to be an acceptable 5th starter or long reliever.
Considering he's most likely gone soon it's not worth the energy getting upset over his usage/performance at the end of a 4th place season.
- September 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- The Ack said...
It's another layer to the maddening inconsistency that is Cito logic:
Refuse to give Arencibia a meaningful look out of respect for pennant races and fielding the best team and whichever other bullshit excuse is available.....but essentially concede defeat by running Tallet out there last night until the game's (logical) conclusion.
... and yeah, I get that the Orioles aren't involved in said pennant race...so then where was JPA?
- September 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- MJK said...
one of the worst things Cito has done is make me dislike otherwise likeable players as a result of his "managerial" decisions.
Tallet is example number one. If he was a mop-up man only then we'd all love Billy.
Cito is poison.
- September 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
And if you're going to go with Tallet for as many innings as it takes for him to shite the place up, why use Molina over JPA after you (rather smartly) pinch ran for Buck?
- September 14, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Peter DeMarco said...
It's an interesting argument, do you give arencibia more playing time which would be at the expense of John Buck who deserves to be rewarded for his play this year?
Do you play the young guys everyday to see what you have, or is it enough to get a sense of what you have and further development if they are just with the big league club?
Do you play Snider everyday if he is not listening to coaches or making adjustments? (That play where he tagged up and got thrown out at home a few days ago must have been maddening for the coaches).
I'm not sure I can say one way or another what is the right thing to do. However I can understand as a fan that I'd rather see the young guys play.
- September 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM
I've never been so angry over poor managerial decisions, but I can't take the retardation that fills the mind of Cito's any longer. Tallet should never have been pitching in the 9th inning, let alone the 10th and final 11th. How many times can a manager play with fire, especially with the worst relief pitcher on the team? Apparently 3 times.
September is supposed to be a time (at least for teams out of contention) where you see the players of the future. One's who deserve a shot to play in the big leagues after having a good season in the minors. Instead, we see JPA on the bench, and Roenicke sat down so Tallet can keep plugging away. It doesn't make any logical sense, and I will continue to countdown the days til this managers demise.
- September 14, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- Ian Hunter said...
It's funny because ordinarily I'd be pissed at Tallet for giving up the winning run, but this one is all on the manager for leaving his mop up guy out there for three innings.
And the Cito Gaston Farewell Tour continues. Thank you Baltimore, you've been great!
- September 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM
agreed. i actually felt bad for Tally last night (most nights i curse him). there is no logic to clarence edwin's decisions (i refuse to call him the manager .... as he seemingly refuses to manage).
- September 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM
I find it funny that we traded off Hillenbrand to SF because he was "bad presence" and that the guy we acquired in that deal (Accardo) has now become the same thing. I still agree with the trade, lest we not forget Accardo's 30 save season. It's just ironic is all.
- September 14, 2010 at 2:04 PM
It's not even that difficult to find time for both Arencibia and Buck. You just stop giving Lewis and Wise starts (especially Wise), and then you either cut time to Overbay or EE. Neither of whom have a real future here.
If Overbay sits you have Lind at first (where he should be anyways if he's going to play there next year...but that's another story...), and have Buck/Arencibia split the DH/C spots. At worst, Arencibia gets 60% of the time to catch and ideally you give him 4/5 starts.
If EE sits you can do Lind-Wells-Snider in the OF (I can live with the horrible defense if it gives Arencibia some AB's), Bautista at third and Overbay at first. Once again do Buck/Arencibia at DH/catcher.
I don't understand why Buck and Arencibia can't be in the same game when we have 3 catchers. If someone gets injured you still have Molina on the bench, where he should be. It shouldn't be a situation where only one of the two can play.
- September 14, 2010 at 2:08 PM
The word on Accardo is that he is an asshole who is/was dating Rogers VP Phil Lind's daughter...me thinks he is wasting away in Vegas because they hate him and his supplicant ways.
- September 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- MJK said...
top 3 areas in need of improvement in no particular order:
1. team OBP
2. defense at the catching position
3. keeping inherited runners from scoring
what else?
- September 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Accardo is married to Phil Lind's daughter.
He also hasn't pitched well when called upon. And his low K rate in Vegas doesn't instill me with much confidence.
I don't see the same pitcher as his 30 save season. I'm guessing the Jays don't either.
- September 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Peter DeMarco said...
Accardo was dating Phil Lind's niece (not daughter) and the wedding which was scheduled for last November was postponed. Not sure if they ever did get married, there were rumours that he was asked to sign a pre-nuptial agreement, he was cheating on her, etc. Who knows what really happened?
- September 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Darren Priest said...
While we're hating Cito (racist!), let's save some hate for Beeston, who just had to give him a spot in the office for next year. Just get them the fuck out of there forever.
Godfrey then Beeston. Really? That's the best they can do?
Suddenly, the Interbrew Days don't seem so bad...naw, they were bad.
If only Jim Balsillie loved baseball.
- September 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Yes, niece Carly and they had a child last month.
- September 14, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- Parker said...
Gaston makes me sick.
I think I'm done watching Jays games this year; it's just too frustrating. Not that it matters either way since fucking Rogers decided to quit broadcasting games on any channels to which I can actually subscribe.
- September 15, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- Gil Fisher said...
Is it possible that the only reason Cito is playing Snider everyday is that AA has recently suggested to him that he has to? Is it possible that Cito said ok and went back to the dugout to nail JPA's ass to the bench as some sort of grudge mechanism for being told how to make a lineup? Is it possible that grassy knoll theories like this are actually playing out?
Is it possible this isn't what has happened?
- September 15, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Parker said...
If AA had the clout to tell his manager to get his fucking head out of his ass and quit letting Snider rot on the bench, you would think he'd be able make the same demand regarding Arencibia. Or the million or so young bullpen arms who get to watch Brian Tallet's quest for rock bottom.
I think AA's been told to just let Gaston do whatever he wants this year "out of respect for his winning ways." The REAL building process starts next year - hopefully under a manager who isn't a dinosaur, a hypocrite, or a retard.
- September 15, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Roberto said...
I really hope you're right, and that this really is Clarence's last season as manager.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I have a sneaking feeling that if the offseason managerial search doesn't go well, there will be a movement afoot to bring Clarence back, and take another look at the manager question after 2011.
"Look at Bautista! Look at how well the team did under Cito, when everyone thought they'd be lucky to win 70 games! Look how they played the year he took over from Gibbons!"
Those are the sort of things we'll be hearing.
- September 15, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Mr Priest stfu. Dooshebag. Cito stay's forever. I can't wait for the statue.
Accardo threw his hat in the garbage. Dave Perkins ratted him out and the organization is hanging the kid out to dry to as an example to others. Probably Cito's idea. He is a genius after all. Dave Stieb never threw his hat in the garbage.
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I just did some tinkering with offline sound and it turns out you can embed an audio clip in an HTML file, and play it without using Flash. I could have demo'd this in a raw HTML file, but it was just as easy to stick it in a Tiddlywiki file. So I made a TiddlyWiki called JinglyWiki. Click on the button and it will play a sound. If you grab the file (safest using a tool like Curl or wget, as the browser will sometimes Save As something different), you can run it offline and it will still play the sound.
JinglyWiki started after an office conversation yesterday. We had a flaky wifi connection and were pleased to be able to play a beat on http://instantrimshot.com to signify a re-connection. This got us thinking about playing beats in Tiddlywiki. Jeremy mentioned the possibility of data: URIs, and I thought back to Reinier's great effort in playing sound without Flash. I wondered if it would work with data: URIs and to my pleasant surprise, it did. At least in FF3, which is all I've tested so far. I also forgot how tiny the code is to play audio without Flash – you just add an element to the page.
The point of JinglyWiki is you can stick a 300K file on your local file system or a USB stick and play gratuitous sounds without being online. Your iPod cost you several hundred bucks, whereas JinglyWiki is entirely free. Free as in you can spend your money on beer instead. JinglyWiki may well be the best portable music player you never paid a penny for. Groovy.
It would be so much more useful with some code to dynamically generate WAVs, but that's a project for another day.
As for the name, it's a play on the much more important project Phil Hawksworth has initiated to build a JQuery based Tiddlywiki framework: JigglyWiki. I think this nascent effort is going to produce some wonderful plugins for the JQuery community and be an important enough project to derive novelty joke names out of :), so I'm setting the trend here.
The data itself is 15KB for about a second of voice content.
Here's the plugin code. Trivial or wot?!!!
- config.macros.jingle = {}
- config.macros.jingle.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
- button = document.createElement("button");
- button.style.fontSize = "4em";
- button.innerHTML = "Play Me! Play Me!"
- button.onclick = function(ev) {
- startWav(SOUND_URL);
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- place.appendChild(button);
- // cancel dbl-click so we can follow our natural urge to click on the button incessantly
- story.getTiddler(tiddler.title).ondblclick = function() {}
- }
- // non-flash sound handling adapted from http://www.zwitserloot.com/files/soundkit/soundcheck.html
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"<" zero or more spaces "username" zero or more spaces "/" zero or more spaces ">"
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Whether they're coming in from a long day outside or getting ready for the day, campers will satisfy their appetites in the Fireplace Dining Room. Food Service Director Chris O'Brien and his staff go above and beyond to produce a choice driven, healthy, hearty meal while creating a sense of community here at Wolf Ridge. Most of our produce is from the Wolf Ridge Organic Farm while meats and other products are sourced as locally as possible. From-scratch vegan, vegetarian, and meat options are offered at each and every meal.
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After a week full of friendship, fun, and teamwork, on Friday night Wolf Ridge will hold a community celebration dinner and campfire. Campers will gather in the Fireplace Dining Room to enjoy a family-style meal served by the camp directors while celebrating the accomplishments and achievements of their community members.
"It's about quality. It's about passion. It's about good food done well." – Chris O'Brien
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Sam Worthington doesn't exactly look the part of a big-shot movie star.
The 35-year-old Aussie shuffles into a Trump Tower hotel room wearing a dark hoodie, baggy jeans and a generous five o'clock shadow as if he'd just spent the last couple of days hanging out in a skate park instead of jetsetting across the country for a publicity tour.
But don't take that as evidence that the burly actor most famous for CGI-laden, big budget flicks like "Avatar" and "Clash of the Titans" doesn't care about his craft. The opposite, in fact, seems to be true.
He went beyond the extra mile when filming "Man on a Ledge," a crime-thriller-meets-heist flick opening Friday. Worthington plays an ex-cop-turned-thief who threatens to jump to his grisly death on Madison Avenue if the NYPD doesn't investigate his side of a mystery that implicated him.
Worthington insisted on doing all of his own stunts, even if it meant spending countless hours perched precariously on a 14-inch wide ledge of concrete 255 feet high on the side of New York City's Roosevelt hotel.
"Afraid of heights? Yeah, I was petrified out there at first. I had a safety harness, but after a while you kind of forget you're wearing it," said Worthington, who also suggested that the filmmakers record his very first time on the ledge to add to the realism.
"In the script, my character was desperate from the very beginning and he's going out on the ledge for the first time, and it's a very nervous thing," he said. "So I just thought, 'Let's actually put the camera on me the first time I step out there and see what happens.' Fear can be a hard emotion to get across to an audience convincingly."
Worthington says he's committed to being convincing to moviegoers as more than a hunky, muscle-bound prop. He expressed disappointment in the tunic-on-tunic mess of "Titans," including his own performance, and wants desperately to inject more acting into his future roles. The goal, he says, is to create memorable action roles like Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" or Mel Gibson in "Lethal Weapon."
"It's weird because the character isn't normally there in the roles I'm given. He's not the driving force of the plot. So I'm working on improving the characters in these things and trying to act a bit instead of just being a conduit for yourself and having fun," Worthington said. "I don't think Perseus existed in the ["Clash of the Titans"]; he was just a generic action hero who was just me running around with a shaved head. I don't think that's fair on an audience."
Creating iconic roles is an ambitious goal for an actor who just five years ago was struggling to make ends meet. He literally was sleeping in his car before James Cameron plucked him out of obscurity to play the lead in "Avatar." After his starmaking turn in Cameron's blockbuster sci-fi epic and "Terminator: Salvation," pundits began branding Worthington Hollywood's "It Guy" in 2009.
Instead of resting on the laurels of his new-found fame, Worthington works even harder.
"I know I'm in a lucky position, but it also means my work has to improve, because my job only exists because of an audience, and my job is to give an audience their 16 bucks worth on a Friday night, and that's it," Worthington said. "If I stop doing that, I won't have a job. You can't shy away from it, but there's no point in indulging in it, you just embrace it."
Embracing the work also means that unlike some of his peers who aim for Oscar-bait type of films, Worthington isn't embarrassed about making what he calls "popcorn movies."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with making movies where it's just pure entertainment. I like making them and audiences demand them so there's a place for them along side all your awards movies," he said. "It's weird because a lot of actors won't admit that, but I don't mind saying it."
Worthington does draw the line, however, at making another movie that involves hanging on for dear life. So don't look for "Man on an Even Higher Ledge" in the future.
"'Man on a Curb' maybe? I'd do that," he said. "'Man on a Couch,' definitely."
Man in a video game commercial
The makers of the "Call of Duty" video game series didn't have much trouble convincing Sam Worthington to co-star with Jonah Hill in commercials promoting "Modern Warfare 3."
"I'm like 'Are you kidding me? I get to run around and play real "Call of Duty" and look super cool doing it?'" Worthington said. "Yes, that's super fantastic."
Beyond playing the cool-as-a-cucumber "The Vet" to Hill's bumbling "The Noob" in the ads, the Aussie was excited to tell RedEye about all of his other "Call of Duty" experiences.
What was it like to voice Alex Mason in "Black Ops?"
It was great fun, because I had absolute freedom with it. The script was written already but I said, "How mad can Mason be?" I wanted Mason to be an off-the-charts lunatic. My mates were in there the two days I did the voicework, and they were laughing because they'd never seen me play a character like this. It was the kind of thing that can give you more confidence for other jobs.
Do you actually play "Call of Duty" at all?
I played all of them, so it wasn't like it was something new to me. So I said I'd be involved because I'm a fan. I mean if Rockstar said they wanted me in the "Grand Theft Auto" series, of course I'll do that for zero money!
Are you good at the multiplayer?
No, I'm [bleep]. I try to get some points but my mates say, it doesn't improve your game just because you do the [bleeping] voice.
Some have criticized your "Call of Duty" commercials saying they glamorize war. What's your response?
It's not a reflection of what actual soldiers go through, it's not what they're aiming for. To me, their aiming for a reflection of a game, that's it.


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On Friday, June 21, TEA organized members and leaders to attend the State Board of Education meeting. The board's agenda included several proposals that would have been harmful to our members and the profession, including changes to the state minimum salary schedule and tying licensure to student growth.
TEA anticipated mobilizing and recruiting between 75-80 educators, but 150 members and leaders attended the state board meeting. The turnout was due to a number of reasons, but was enhanced greatly because of the organizing work of TEA and NEA staff in advance. For example, several of the leaders and local associations who participated in the meeting also attended a 2-day Issue Organizing training led by TEA and NEA staff. The training included the development of an organizing plan for each participating local to engage and mobilize members to apply pressure to individual members of the board as well as Governor Haslam.
In addition, NEA staff also assisted with training participants who had been selected for TEA's Minority Leadership Training program. Many of those new and emerging leaders also went back to organize others to attend the meeting on Friday. Utilizing an idea we started during the short-term campaign, TEA was able to borrow laptops from the Alabama Education Association, so that members could send messages to board members and the governor, as well as sign an online petition that NEA Organizational Specialist Cory Wofford helped them set-up via change.org. At Friday's meeting, TEA Vice President Barbara Gray was able to present a petition that included more than 6,000 signatures. NEA staff was also able to work with UniServ Directors and local presidents to set-up robocalls to members in locals in the surrounding counties of Nashville.
What was expected to be a 9-0 vote, became a 6-3 vote and required the Board to add a preamble indicating the state board's intention to see salaries increased and to revisit the SMSS if that is not the result over time. This statement would not have occurred had teachers not rallied to defend the state salary schedule. The base salary on the new minimum state salary schedule has been increased by 1.5 percent. The increments have likewise been increased by that amount. This is significant because it was not a part of the proposal Huffman presented to the State Board at the previous meeting.
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Super-Quick UpdateMonday, October 12th, 2009
I've been spending more time updating the photo gallery (now caught up through late July!) and less time on the blog. In part, because there's not much new to report, but at the same time there lots of new stuff to report.
He's up the same old tricks, but doing more of them. He's actively saying more words by a factor of two or three. He understands more speech by at least that much. He's more active, and in more creative ways. He's eating more foods, and is more capable of eating on his own.
The list goes on and on. And of course, he's still interested in cameras, perhaps even more than ever.
In sad news, Max bid farewell to Kendra, his nanny of a year.
She got a second part-time job in the field she's been working toward for a long time, so this is a happy time for her.
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Scots pay price for defensive lapses v NZ
Scotland were competitive for the bulk of an enthralling rugby union tussle at Murrayfield on Sunday, but paid the price for defensive lapses at crucial moments in a 51-22 loss to New Zealand.
Tim Visser marked his home-turf Test debut with a try-double and showed why he is a hot bet to be part of the Lions' plans next year.
But the visitors were in a different league when it came to turning chances into points as they preserved their 107-year and 29-Test unbeaten record against the Scots.
All Blacks star Dan Carter showed them how to do it with a 22-point haul and a sublime all-round showing.
"We're very happy. We wanted to get this tour off to a good start and we were obviously up against a Scottish side who were full of energy," Carter told the BBC, adding, "there are still a few areas to work on."
The Scots looked up for the challenge as they marched forward to answer the challenge of the Haka before three quickfire tries before the break helped sink them.
The anticipation level rose further as home-city Olympics hero Chris Hoy delivered the match-ball to the centre spot.
But Scotland were under pressure from the start and an infringement at the opening ruck handed Dan Carter an instant pot at goal and the playmaker calmly chipped over from 40 metres for the of his 22-point haul.
Carter was back in the spotlight for negative reasons as his floated pass was snatched by Matt Scott, who scuttled into enemy territory.
With the New Zealand markers committed upfield, he popped the ball to winger Visser, who was left with a cruise to the line from 20 metres out - leaving the stage clear for Greig Laidlaw to slot the angled conversion.
Carter made amends by helping to pave the way for full-back Israel Dagg to sprint through for the first Kiwi score, Carter adding the extras.
The Scots then lost flanker Ross Rennie with a shoulder problem, Dave Denton coming on.
Scotland quickly levelled the issue via the boot of Laidlaw from close range.
Then it was the turn of the All Blacks to lose a man, Dagg in agony after a mid-air clash with Sean Lamont.
Carter restored his team's advantage after Scott held on to a rival too long in the tackle inside his own danger zone.
That was the cue for New Zealand to crank up the pace as a marvellous flowing sequence created the time and space for winger Julian Savea to collect try number two.
Carter's conversion was from the widest possible angle - but he made it look easy.
The destiny of the match was effectively sealed less than two minutes later as Cory Jane skidded over in the corner - Carter again finding the target.
There was controversy four minutes after the restart as visiting flanker Adam Thomson was lucky to dodge a red card for a clear stamp on the head of Al Strokosch.
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A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old Northern Virginia man to 25 years in prison for trying to join an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia and making threats to the creators of TV's "South Park" show over their depiction of the prophet Muhammad.
Zachary Adam Chesser of Oakton pleaded guilty in October to charges of providing material support to terrorists, communicating threats and soliciting crimes of violence in his case, which is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The government had asked for the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. As part of his plea, Chesser agreed to request no less than 20 years.
During an hourlong hearing, Chesser – who wore a beard and a green prison jumpsuit – told Alexandria U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady he was remorseful. "Your honor, I accept full responsibility," he said.
But O'Grady called Chesser an "extraordinarily energized traitor to your country." (Darn straight.)
The defense had asked for some leniency in sentencing, suggesting that Chesser was a teenager when he committed his offenses. O'Grady, however, told Chesser "it's amazing how quickly you became a danger. If anyone had been harmed, we'd be talking about a life sentence." (He should count his blessing that he wasn't convicted of treason.)
The sentencing bookends the tale of a suburban Washington man friends described as "freakishly intelligent" and who became known to the FBI as a prolific Internet propagandist for al-Qaeda.
He was arrested in July, days after he and his wife drove with their infant son to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. He was stopped there after he tried to board a flight to Uganda before heading to Somalia, where he planned to join al-Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist group trying to oust Somalia's government.
Chesser also admitted to making threats from April to July over the Internet to "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, saying they would "wind up like Theo Van Gogh." The reference was to a Dutch filmmaker gunned down in 2004 after he attacked the treatment of women in Islamic society.
Chesser said his targets included a Florida man known as "JG," a teenager in Mississippi and a young man from Texas who participated in an "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" group on Facebook.
Chesser also confessed to posting a link to 200 books on jihad and warfare, and to encouraging "fake operations" – such as placing bags that appear to be suspicious packages in public places – to desensitize federal agents to actual attacks.
How Chesser changed is something he and his family still seem to be grappling with, according to court filings. His father, stepmother and Chesser wrote letters to the judge in an attempt to influence his sentencing and explain his change in behavior.
As a kid, Chesser drifted from "one obsession to another," according to court papers. At one time he was a vocal antiwar pacifist who grew his hair long and listened to heavy metal music. His interests varied, as he later studied Japanese and Buddhism. He joined a largely ethnic Korean breakdancing team.
In a Feb. 11 letter to the court, Chesser's father, David, an economist and contractor for the U.S. Transportation Department, described him as an "intellectual, athletic and artistic" person who was "impulsive, impractical, naive and obstinately single-minded." (Ok, it sounds to me like he was making a case against his son, not for him. People with no self control who are out of touch with reality are not the type of people we can trust.)
At Oakton High School in Fairfax County, Chesser joined the freshman basketball and football teams and was involved in crew. In his spare time, his stepmother said he liked to play Xbox games and watch TV, including "South Park."
In 2008, Chesser became a Muslim and, as a student at George Mason University, isolated himself from anyone who wasn't Muslim at the college. He spent hours each day studying Islam, according to court papers. Chesser grew a beard, donned a traditional robe and later married the daughter of a Ugandan diplomat who had been raised as a Roman Catholic but converted to Islam three days after he met her through a local mosque. In November 2009, the couple had a son. (Well that answers some of my questions. I really feel for her parents.)
From his small apartment in Northern Virginia, Chesser – who became known online as "Abu Talhah" – spent hours on the computer, posting on radical Islamic Web sites, forums and blogs. He wrote about "Destroying the West" with a list of ideas that included filling tanker trucks with Ricin.
His blog, titled "themujahidblog.com," was "dedicated to those who give their blood for [Islam] and "primarily devoted to spreading knowledge regarding Jihad and the Mujahideen," according to court documents.
In a Dec. 10 letter to the court in which he takes responsibility for the allegations, Chesser describes himself as someone who felt like he had to "do everything to the fullest extent, whether it was how I dressed, who I spoke to, or how I prayed." He goes on to say that after "about three months of being a practicing Muslim," he was given a copy of lectures by the U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi. (So that excuses him, how exactly?)
The cleric has been linked to last year's massacre at Fort Hood and an attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. Chesser said in his letter to the court that the "element of radicalism" in the papers "served as a gateway for me to other more extreme beliefs." According to the FBI, Chesser exchanged e-mails with Aulaqi.
But Chesser said he's since had a change of heart. In the Dec. 10 letter, he wrote that the jihad ideology he was drawn into "was contrary to everything I had grown up thinking and believing." He noted that he was for a while, "both a practicing Muslim and a vegetarian." (Convenient to have a change of heard AFTER he was busted. Just sayin'.)
He reconciled his beliefs, he wrote, "by convincing myself that if I went to fight jihad, I would be saving more lives even if it meant that others died. I understand now how preposterous that sounds, and I completely reject the idea that killing can be justified in the name of Islam or any religion."
He said he was "ashamed and bewildered" by the allegations and described his 18 months of following a radical version of Islam as "a missing puzzle piece in my life."
"I know that I will spend many years trying to understand why I followed the path that has led me here," he wrote. "I only hope that through my actions now and in the future I can make up for what I have done."
Seriously, I hope his change of heart is sincere. Only time will answer that question.


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I am currently working at Soundtrack Studios for the month of July! I have had an incredible month meeting artists and have always loved the energy in New York City!!!
Right before an important audition, here I was with Robert Burke, whom I have admired for many years, who kindly congratulated me and gave me the right boost to "go get 'em"!!!


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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The overstuffed bags filling Fernando Mello's luggage cart wobbled precariously as the gym owner made his way home one morning through Rio's international airport. Navigating the terminal, Mello was part of a horde of other Brazilian travelers returning with loot found in the strip malls and discount outlets of southern Florida.
Mello's girlfriend's freshly purchased Michael Kors handbag in gold lame sat atop four bulging suitcases like a shining crown — a testament to the newfound consumer power of Brazilian travelers, who now spend more per capita than any other visitors to the U.S.
In fact, Brazilians are spending so much that flights with Brazil's top airline TAM originating in the U.S. have had to carry more fuel to accommodate the dramatically overweight baggage.
"We left with nothing, just a piece of hand luggage," said the 30-year-old Mello. "We go to the U.S. once a year, stay in great hotels, have a fantastic holiday and shop till we drop and it's still cheaper than shopping in Brazil. It's a no-brainer."
According to the latest statistics, Brazilians spent $5.9 billion in the U.S. in 2010 in a tsunami of cash that's shifting American immigration practices and boosting economies in hard-hit parts of the U.S. that remain in the doldrums.
President Barack Obama recently ordered the State Department to speed up the visa application process for tourists coming from Brazil, China and other nations with newly flush consumers.
After suffering decades of hyperinflation, Brazil has ridden high commodity prices along with some of the world's biggest offshore oil discoveries to expand its economy, lift millions out of poverty and multiply the ranks of the country's deep-pocketed elite.
The buying binge also shows off the muscle of the country's mushrooming middle class, which has expanded by 40 million people since 2003. That's been bolstered by the growing use of credit cards, bank loans and other forms of consumer credit.
But it's not just the easy money that has transformed Brazilians into world-class shoppers.
Stiff tariffs on all imports push the prices of foreign-made goods into the stratosphere at home. And though domestic products are not known for their quality, their prices have risen in recent years as demand is higher than production, making it cheaper to buy nearly everything in the U.S., from clothes to toys and kitchen gear and even soaps and shampoos.
As a result, Brazilians spend more in the U.S. than visitors from any other nation — around $5,400 per person in 2010, with experts estimating the number growing last year. Japanese tourists followed, spending $4,300 each.
Unniverson Liborio, a 60-year-old chef based in New York, disembarked at Rio's airport with bags stuffed with hot buys for his grandchildren — baby onesies, a pink plastic Barbie mansion and 700 disposable diapers.
"I got this all for maybe $300, total," said the Brazilian-born Liborio, who has lived in the U.S. for decades. "Here I couldn't have bought even half the diapers for the same price, and forget about everything else."
Price discrepancies are particularly pronounced when it comes to luxury goods.
With the number of millionaire households here forecast to more than triple by 2020, Brazil is widely regarded as the new El Dorado of luxury, and top-tier labels such as Italy's Prada and Bottega Veneta are scrambling to get a foothold.
Because of the staggering import taxes, however, the high-end handbags, shoes, garments and electronics can end up retailing for several times more here than in Europe or the U.S. The iPhone 4S with 16 gigabytes of memory costs $1,515 without a contract on Apple's Brazilian website. The same phone retails without a contract for $649 on Apple's U.S. website.
And so it is that hordes of Brazilians swarm Miami's Apple Store while the Girls from Ipanema snap up designer purses on New York's Fifth Avenue.
Brazilian shoppers are easy to spot — they're the ones at malls with huge suitcases on rollers, spending from store to store until their baggage won't hold any more.
Aristoteles Guimaraes, a 36-year-old from Sao Paulo, was busy recently at Miami's Sawgrass Mill mall while on a special four-day shopping mission with a budget of $4,000.
"I came exclusively to buy things for my baby," said Guimaraes, whose wife is seven months pregnant and remained back home. "I came to buy everything. Things here cost on average one-third of what they would in Brazil."
His big find: an Italian baby stroller that would have run him $1,300 in Sao Paulo but was $350 in the U.S.
Guimaraes had visited before, with his first trip in 2005, and said he was treated better this time at his hotel and at the shops.
It should come as no surprise: Still struggling merchants have rejoiced at the business.
"They spend a lot," said Giovana Ennen, a saleswoman at a luggage store in Miami. "I've sold 16 suitcases to a family of six people."
Ennen added that she sees some Brazilian clients every six weeks or so and that they leave each time with bags full of merchandise.
Brazilians' heavy spending has in part helped pave the way for a geopolitical shift in relations between the Latin American giant and the U.S.
During a recent visit to Disney World, a perennial favorite among Brazilians, Obama unveiled measures aimed at making it faster and easier to obtain tourist visas for citizens of developing countries such as China and Brazil with "rapidly growing economies, large populations and emerging middle classes."
"More and more of their people can now afford to visit America who couldn't come before," Obama said.
He said the State Department has been instructed to process 40 percent more visa applications for Brazilian and Chinese nationals this year.
That expected increase comes on top of the already skyrocketing numbers of U.S. visas granted to Brazilians in recent years, which more than doubled over the past decade to 546,866 in 2010. Official figures for 2011 have not yet been released, but the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia estimates at least 1 million visas were granted last year.
The U.S. consulate in Sao Paulo last year received more visa applications than any other in the world — around 3,000 a day, according to the U.S. Embassy.
Business at the three other U.S. consulates in Brazil has been so brisk that Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman has said staff there are working double shifts and plans are being examined to send reinforcements.
Liborio, the New York-based chef, said he's amazed how the tables have turned since the days people flocked to Brazil for cheap clothing and other buys.
"I used to do my shopping here in Brazil, where you could buy four pairs of jeans for the price of one in the U.S.," he said amid a group of sated shoppers at the airport. "Now I come here with tons of luggage and leave with nothing."
Associated Press writer Jenny Barchfield reported this story in Rio de Janeiro and Gisela Salomon reported in Miami. AP writers Marco Sibaja in Brasilia and Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.


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Billy Taylor, a jazz pianist and composer who became one of the music form's most ardent promoters through radio, television and the landmark Jazzmobile arts venture, has died in Manhattan. He was 89.
Taylor's wife, Theodora Taylor, says the cause of death was a heart attack. He died Tuesday night.
Though he had a noteworthy career as a musician – having performed with such luminaries as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald -- Billy Taylor was probably best known as a jazz advocate.
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He was the first black to lead a television studio orchestra in the 1950s. He founded Jazzmobile in the 1960s to bring free music to the urban masses. He was host of a popular jazz show on National Public Radio. And he profiled musicians for CBS' Sunday Morning show.
The Kennedy Center for the performing arts in Washington D.C., where Taylor served as artistic director for jazz since 1994, called him Tuesday "a great statesman and ambassador for jazz throughout the world."
"We are grateful for Dr. Taylor's devotion, friendship and his influence on jazz," Darrell Ayers, vice-president of education and jazz at the Kennedy Center, told Reuters in a statement.
The wire service reported Taylor was a 1992 recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Arts, had been named an "Arts Jazz Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts and held more than 20 honorary degrees.
William Taylor was born July 24, 1921, in Greenville, N.C.


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Meeting new friends through the world of massively multiplayer games is all well and good, but Sony seems to think MMO players need a little bit of help interacting with each other in the real world. They're so concerned about it, in fact, that they've patented a method for "coordinating real-world gatherings to promote online community."
The patent, filed back in 2010 and approved last week, posits that "anonymity and the lack of real-world connection" makes it hard to forge deep, meaningful connections with strangers met online. To that end, it outlines a method for providing in-game rewards and incentives to players that manage to disconnect from the computer long enough to attend local meet-ups with other players. You won't even have to worry about awkwardly identifying these strangers by their real names, thanks to a handy mobile device that "promotes familiarity" by sharing each attendee's online handle.
It seems like a pretty obvious idea to us, and we wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort of prior art that makes the concept unpatentable. Still, it's a decent bit of evidence that Sony is looking into some innovative ways of expanding its online communities out from the purely virtual world.


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One of the worst things about owning a Mercedes SLK is that if you don't have a convertible you're forced to stare at the car's ceiling after sucking back a line of coke from the dash. Mercedes now appears to have a solution. According to these spy photos from World Car Fans, Mercedes is testing out a glass roof for their SLK. The world just got a little sweeter for the club-going, date-raping fellas that make up America's proud real estate investment banking industry. [World Car Fans]
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Greetings good Forest people,
here is next weeks Events programme, full of different sounds and interesting performers:
Monday 15th March
9pm Film night
Wednesday 17th March
7 -8pm Gramophone Hour
78's from 7 to 8
9-close Screen Kids
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Thursday 18th March
7-8.30pm African Roots
Unique acoustic act with traditional African instruments
Friday 19th March
8pm-close Turning plates
A range from harsh to soft while keeping passion and atmosphere in the sound
Check out myspace.com/turningplates
Saturday 20th March
7-8.30 pm Kontakt Night
Soundscape music by Kamil Kowalczyk and guest. Visuals by Disposable Cutlery
Check out myspace.com/machinethoughts
9pm-close A night in…
5 acts of acoustic, burlesque, blues and folk
Check out myspace.com/eydan1234
Sunday 21st March
5-6.30pm Accordion Songs
A one-man-band show of harmony and sound
7-close 'Namaste' springs into the Equinox
Warmheart presents an ensemble of music grooves and loveliness
Check out warmheart.org.uk
All workshops are FREE and open to everybody. Share skills – create a workshop. Contact: email@example.com
Mon, 11-12am: Chi Kung lesson (Hall)
Mon, 12am - 1pm: Self Defense (beginners) (Hall)
Tue, 7-9pm: Forest Choir (Roxy Art House)
Tue, 7.30pm: Forest Drama Group (Hall)
Wed, 2-4pm: Gaelic for beginners (Crafty Room)
Wed, 7-8pm: Creative Writings (Crafty Room)
Thu, 11-11.35am: Chi Kung for beginners (Hall)
Thu, 11-12am: Chi Kung lesson (Hall)
Fri, 5-6pm: Self Defense for beginners (Hall)
Sun, 10am-7pm: New eyes for Seeing (Hall)
Sun, 7.30pm: Forest Drama Group (Hall)
Sun, 1-4pm: A Scrappage Salvage (Hall)
Installation by Heather Tweed.
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Forum Post: Police Chief's Custom Spam Filter Blocks Occupy Protestors, Brutality Complaints And (Oops) Federal Monitors
Posted 7 years ago on Nov. 13, 2012, 6:18 a.m. EST by richardkentgates
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from the citizens-of-oakland:-prepare-to-meet-the-princes-of-Nigeria dept We all enjoyed a loud, incredulous laugh when Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary, went on record as being proudly computer illiterate. "Never use email," she said as part of statement delivered by teletype. Perhaps Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan should have chosen the Luddite Way, thus avoiding his current problems. Instead, he chose to perform the digital equivalent of plugging his ears and shouting nonsensical syllables at the top of his lungs in order to actively ignore news he didn't want to hear (found via the essential Police Misconduct Reporting Project).
People who've e-mailed Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan over the past year about Occupy Oakland probably didn't get much of a response.
That's because he used a spam filter to dismiss messages sent to him with "Occupy Oakland" in the subject line, according to a federal court filing Monday. Same goes for the phrases "stop the excessive police force," "respect the press pass" or "police brutality." Instead of landing in his in-box, those messages went straight into his junk mail folder, which he apparently never looked at.
It's tough work being Chief. A steady stream of complaints about the police force under your "control" is sure to be disheartening. But, if you can't take the heat, reroute it out the nearest opening, am I right? And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that meddling federal court monitor.
Because of those filters, Jordan missed e-mails from other city officials and a federal court monitor, who oversees the department's compliance with court-ordered reforms stemming from a police abuse scandal.
Robert Warshaw, the monitor, had sent Jordan an e-mail with the subject line "Disciplinary Actions-Occupy Oakland." Jordan told the court on Oct. 18 that he never saw those e-mails, infuriating Thelton Henderson, the federal judge in San Francisco who appointed Warshaw.
Oops. Ignoring the persistent chatter of unhappy citizens is one thing. Ignoring a federal judge is quite another. While you can safely ignore some of the people all of the time, you can't really ignore all of the people all of the time. You can attempt it, but then you end up in "unprecedented" territory, which is never a good place to be if you value your career.
Henderson will hear arguments in December about whether to place the Police Department into the hands of a federal receiver, which Oakland officials believe is unprecedented.
When you've mismanaged your post so badly that the police department ends up in receivership via a court order, you've probably done more than filter out anything resembling bad news. A year of unread email certainly didn't improve the ongoing compliance issue. The handling of "Occupy Oakland" didn't instill any confidence in the public that their law enforcement officials were there to serve and protect. Henderson's willful rerouting of email pertaining to allegations of excessive force and brutality shows a very ugly contempt for the citizens under his protection. Of course, now that the truth has come out, he has a few excuses.
He had been inundated with anonymous messages, he said in a declaration to the court.
Well, of course. Anonymity is a key ingredient in any protest. Being inundated with messages you don't like doesn't grant you the permission to revise the incoming narrative by dumping anything negative into the trash. The excuse continues:
But he forgot the e-mail filter was still in effect.
It's an easy thing to forget if you find painting a self-portrait on rose-tinted glass preferable to actually dealing with problems in the community and, indeed, within the ranks of your own force. The brain has many wonderful tricks its willing to play on you to provide you with the short term memory and justification needed to "forget" your determined pruning of incoming messages.
"It was never my intention to ignore the monitor," Jordan said in his declaration.
No. I'm sure it wasn't. You had no desire to piss off a federal judge. But it was your intention to ignore the general public, a fact that goes unacknowledged by this pitiful statement attempting to pass itself off as some sort of an apology. Turning your incoming mail into a "yes-man" approximation is just plain sad.


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Dove's The Real Truth About Beauty survey and a marketing campaign accompanying it (Beauty Sketches) has long become legendary. It's one of the most profound international studies on women's self-esteem that exist today. Unfortunately, its results are quite depressing as less than 20% of women have confidence in their bodies and almost 80% feel pressured to look beautiful.
They say that 'beauty lies in the eye of the beholder', but what one can say about this ephemeral concept when only scant 4% of women think themselves beautiful. This number indicates that a staggering number of people on the planet have low self-esteem.
This issue is much more devastating than people give it credit for. It can cause depression and literally ruin a person's life, forcing them to make detrimental life choices.
How Body Image and Self-Esteem Issues Affect One's Life
According to Dove, 9 in 10 women and 8 in 10 girls allow their negative perception of self guide their choices. In most cases, this results in women skipping out on various life activities. These include social meetings with friends and loved ones, interviews, etc.
This decision affects the girl's social life and can be extremely detrimental to her future career. One should never forget that leading an active social life is one of the prevention techniques for not only depression but also dementia.
This survey also states that 9 in 10 women and 7 in 10 young girls resort to body image 'correcting' techniques that endanger their health. Some women start fasting to the point where their bodies don't get enough essential nutrients to function properly. Others resort to more drastic measures, such as self-induced vomiting and taking questionable solutions.
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There definitely is a solution to this issue. According to Dove, about 80% of women and girls feel extremely pressured to 'look beautiful' by the media. The worst thing is that the promoted 'beauty etalon' is completely unrealistic and mostly comes from the paintbrush of a Photoshop artist.
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Andy Warhol's 1963 portrait of Elizabeth Taylor will be auctioned in May, when it could fetch as much as $30 million.
The painting was once owned by actor Hugh Grant, who bought it on a drunken whim and later flipped it for a $20-million profit.
"Liz #5" goes under the hammer May 12, according to auctioneers Phillips de Pury, who called the painting "a dazzling tribute to Elizabeth Taylor." The violet-eyed sex symbol was just 31 wen Warhol painted the portrait, one of 12 he painted of her. Taylor died on Wednesday aged 79.
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"Liz #5 is a pristine gem," said Michael McGinnis, head of contemporary art at Phillips de Pury. "It is Warhol at his very best with a perfect screen, glowing colors, and impeccable provenance. She is classic yet every bit as cutting edge as she was when Warhol painted her nearly 50 years ago."
The art company said the portrait showed Warhol at his best, saying it "embodies the most important themes of Warhol's oeuvre including celebrity, wealth, scandal, sex, death and Hollywood."
Grant was hailed as an art connoisseur for buying the painting for $3.6 million from a Sotheby's auction in 2001, but later told the Daily Mail he was just on a two-day drinking spree when he saw the painting and he decided to have his assistant bid on it.
"And to my horror, she did, and even worse, got it," Grant said.
Grant sold the painting in 2007, six years later, for $23.7 million.
The adventure started with a drunken dinner with his father, Grant said, after which the two decided on a whim to jet over to New York on a Concorde flight to visit Grant's brother, Jamie, in New York.
"I'd been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, "We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde's amazing," Grant said. "'And he said, "I hear it is.'' So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer."
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Annual Muste Lecture to Discuss "Islam and the Practice of Non-violence" | Events
HOLLAND – Adam Ericksen, education director of The Raven Foundation, will present the address "Islam and the Practice of Non-violence" as the 2010 A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture at Hope College on Monday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The mission of The Raven Foundation is "making religion reasonable, violence unthinkable, and peace a possibility." The foundation was established in 2007 by Keith and Suzanne Ross to increase awareness of the ideas of Rene Girard, who is internationally renowned for his work on the nexus between violence and religion as well as his "mimetic theory," which explores how culture is shaped by the imitative nature of desire and by patterns of violence organized around scapegoating.
Ericksen graduated from Linfield College with a bachelor's degree in religious studies and a minor in history, and from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary with a master's in theological studies, focusing on theology and ethics. His master's thesis was titled "Love and Nonviolence in Christianity and Islam."
The Muste lecture series began in 1985 to commemorate the life and work of A.J. Muste, an alumnus of Hope College (1905) who became a tireless activist for the causes of peace and justice.
Jane Oolmans Robinson, Muste's biographer, presented the inaugural lecture. Subsequent lectures have been given by theologians, peace activists, labor organizers and prison reformers.
Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.


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It's that Time of Year… JAX WEEK!!! This is the time we celebrate the life and expressions of my braddah JAX, Jaxer, 10.1.24, Jax McKracken, Belly Savalas, Low Ceaser Ebenezer, The Dead Lefty and many more! HAAAAA! For those that don't know, Jax transitioned Nov. 4th(Election Day) 2008 while performing on stage. It was later found that the cause was hypertension and an enlarged heart. Loved by many, Jax was a pace setter in the Atl underexposed Hip-Hop. As Ceo and Co-founder of Binkis Recs(Records), Jax and Binkis presented a unique sound as well as stage show to compliment it which still remains a sight to witness. Till this date, Binkis has never performed the same show twice. Thus, every Binkis show has been different over the last 12 years. Jax has released 5albums under the Binkis Brand since 1999 and has worked with numerous Producers, Mcees and Djs from America to the Japan. With an extensive track record and recording time, Jax dubbed himself "Jax the Catalog". If you want more info on Jax, you can search around this blog or just google him to get more familiar.
This Saturday, we are celebrating my braddah Jax's Bornday(March 15th) with our annual BINKIS BBQ! Those who know… KNOW! Come out to rock with us and have a good time. We always set it out but this time we are asking people to bring a dish, meat, alcohol, lawn chairs, etc. Always good to have more. All info is on the flyer. READ PLEASE!!!! HAAAAAA! Jax Week baby, let's get it in. FOOOSHHHHHHHHHH!


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Will we really go to heaven but it's only until the new Earth comes as described in Revelation (when we're to return to Earth)?
Revelation 21:1-2 NIV
Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth,"[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.