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In Dutch, there is a pair of similar expressions: "to make someone happy with a dead sparrow" and "to be happy with a dead sparrow." The first one translates approximately as "to get someone's hopes up," in the sense that you tell them that they're getting something cool and they get all excited and then it just turns out to have been nothing but a dead sparrow. The second one doesn't quite have an English equivalent, but it's the same idea without an antagonist, i.e. when someone gets all excited about something and everybody else who's watching kind of shakes their head because they can tell that the thing the person is excited about is really just a dead sparrow.
I've been trying to come up with instances where these expressions fit, mostly because it's hilarious to me to use directly-translated weird Dutch expressions (I mean, there's pretty much nothing funnier than a bunch of people overhearing someone saying something pedantic, pointing at the offending individual, and saying: "antfucker!!!"). And the best one I can come up with is U.S. Democrats. The Americans who thought Barack Obama was going to be their saviour in the darkness, see, they were "being happy with a dead sparrow," and the Democrats who promised them the moon, they were "making the country happy with a dead sparrow." Except the saddest part is that the dead sparrow isn't Obama himself and his administration, but the whole country, and the system they're stuck with, and the backwoods culture/thinking of far too many of their compatriots.
I mean, right now the U.S. has a Democratic president, and a Democratic Congress. But even so, the closest they can come to fixing their travesty of a health care system is a piece of legislation that seems tied together with bits of string and twigs. Even if they manage to pass it (by no means a sure thing, at this writing, but even if), what they will have is a piece of legislation that keeps the "insurance" system as it is, but expands it to about 15 million Americans. And it does this by forcing people to buy health insurance from currently-existing private insurance companies and compromising on things like abortion rights for people who buy that private insurance with their own money. Um, yay?
Even with a brilliant, charismatic Democratic president and a Congress that's as firmly behind him as any Congress is ever going to be behind a Democratic president, they've still got a country where a mild-mannered Canadian writer can be pulled over by border guards, injured by them in several different ways, and then arrested, tried, and found guilty, all for the crime of looking suspicious around jumpy people. They've still got a country in which even a minority Republican Congressional contingent holds up every piece of legislation that doesn't suit them with the threat of a filibuster. They've still got a country that has decided a corporation has equal rights with human beings--because for all practical purposes, it is a human being. They've still got to grow old in a country where health care is considered "insurance", as if human beings were vehicles, and administered by private companies that can take it away. They've still got a country where sex education programmes called "Abstinence Plus" get torpedoed because they're not "Abstinence Only." They've still got a country that holds prisoners without rights on foreign soil. And come on, if you can't see that that's a freaking dead sparrow, you've got blinders on the size of Texas.
When people here in Canada find out that I was originally American, a lot of them assume that I left the U.S. in the Bush years. I didn't--I left during the Clinton years. And yes, a lot of that had to do with the timing of my job search, but what got me wanting to leave in the first place was the bleakness that comes with having the Democrats in charge. At least when the Republicans are in charge, lefty Americans can delude themselves by thinking that everything would be okay if only the Democrats had the reins. But whenever the Democrats do grab the brass ring, the thinking American public is always eventually forced to admit that things can never really get any better there than a dead sparrow.
P.S. Before you guys get all "she's back! she's back!" in the comments, I have to tell you that still not really up to talking about Canadian politics. But I had to get this one off my chest, anyway.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Dead sparrows
In Dutch, there is a pair of similar expressions: "to make someone happy with a dead sparrow" and "to be happy with a dead sparrow." The first one translates approximately as "to get someone's hopes up," in the sense that you tell them that they're getting something cool and they get all excited and then it just turns out to have been nothing but a dead sparrow. The second one doesn't quite have an English equivalent, but it's the same idea without an antagonist, i.e. when someone gets all excited about something and everybody else who's watching kind of shakes their head because they can tell that the thing the person is excited about is really just a dead sparrow.
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12 comments:
- West End Bob said...
Well, even though you may not be "back," IP, thanks for expressing what "drf" and I feel about today's health care "reform" vote.
What a sham, but it's exactly what we predicted would happen months ago. They'll approve the debacle, call it a "victory" and move on. Never mind that the real "victory" will probably be the insurance company's stock prices tomorrow once this crap passes the House.
dems and repugs: Not a dime's worth of difference between the two of 'em, but the sheeple haven't figured it out yet . . . .
- Jae/Jennie said...
Yeah, after it passes (because I do think it will pass), I sure hope there is some more critical analysis of what this new health care legislation will really mean. There aren't nearly enough people who have thought about it.
And I don't blame Obama. I actually like Obama, as U.S. presidents go. It's the whole freaking country that's hopeless.
- West End Bob said...
It's the whole freaking country that's hopeless.
Unfortunately, that statement is very accurate.
Hope you're doing well in your part of Canuckistan as we are in ours . . . .
- fern hill said...
As another recovering American, I had such great hopes for healthcare reform. But as soon as abortion entered the 'debate' (sarcasm quotes), I knew it was toast. Merkins are quite literally insane over abortion.
You really nailed it about the bleakness of Democrats in charge. It's just depressing.
- Unknown said...
I've pretty much written the US off, I just keep blogging occasionally from habit and some loyalty to my regulars.
This health care bill... well, as I said elsewhere, folks are going to get what they asked for, good and hard.
Idiots. Gutless idiots.
Thanks for writing again, IP! I've been wondering whether you would be back before Harper come up for renewal.
The situation in the States has been going on for a long time, perhaps since their Revolutionary War. What is happening now, with the Internet, is that people are finding out just how different the American reality actually is from the American propaganda, in near-realtime. "We're #1!!!" Apparently it doesn't matter what they are number one at. #1 in the world for highest healthcare costs per person! #1 in citizens of other countries killed! These things do not make me proud to be a US citizen. Canada is a much more sensible country.
- West End Bob said...
As I thought: The insurance companies are not too worried 'bout the "reform" passed yesterday.
Cigna's stock up 1% and Aetna's up .78%.
Shakin' in their boots, eh ? ? ? ?
- Tyrone said...
Private companies can't "take it away" any longer. That will be illegal under this bill. Prescription drug coverage is now a mandatory part of near-universal coverage. Meanwhile, 15 percent of Canadians lack drug coverage, and the issue barely mentions in the media.
But more importantly, you're looking at the current *state* of things, not in the direction things are moving. The US has poor social programs, but is starting to strengthen them. Canada used to have strong social programs, but has been weakening them and will probably continue to weaken them. Eventually the two will cross.
- Jae/Jennie said...
This post isn't about Canada, and it's nonsensical to try to twist this discussion to make it about comparing the two countries. This post is about the situation in the U.S.
First of all, I'm not at all convinced that things are improving in the U.S. with respect to the social situation. I had a great, open, and honest sex ed course in school; my friends kids are lucky to have much of anything at all. The "corporation is a person" decision is new, and will only start to show its devastating effects in the future. And as for the health care bill, requiring people to purchase private insurance that they may or may not be able to afford or else face a fine doesn't sound like a step up to me. But all right, I'll pretend for a moment that I do think the health care bill, at least, is a small step forward.
In that case, though, I would like to see your evidence that this current healthcare reform is a basis for further progressive changes. What I see is the terribly unusual situation of a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress. This has happened only rarely throughout history, and judging from polling numbers, is very unlikely to happen again in the midterm election. Exactly when are the further changes going to happen? If THIS bill could barely pass a Congress that's in the terribly unusual situation of having way more Democrats than Republicans in it, how is a MORE progressive bill ever supposed to pass a future Congress that is likely to have MORE Republicans in it? I simply don't see any logic in that. This Congress, this President, this health care bill--they're as good as things get in the U.S., not a small step toward future glory.
- Tyrone said...
You did mention leaving the US for Canada, so that's why I mentioned that. But even leaving that out, the basis of my optimism is simply the fact that the US elected this president and this Congress in the first place. As you said, that's rare.
And the last two times this happened (1992 and 1976) the president and Congress failed to pass anything even remotely consequential as this bill. In 1976, they didn't even make a serious attempt. And bills on climate change and immigration reform may yet be in the cards.
I am not claiming this bill gives the US a health care system the equal of Canada or even Switzerland. But at least the US political system pulled itself together and passed a bill that has eluded the Democratic president/congresses of 1992, 1976, 1960, 1948, 1932, and 1916. If it could pass this, it may yet pass others before the elections. And even if the Democrats' majority is lost, the Republicans won't be able to undo what they have accomplished.
I know of no other developed country that is expanding its social programs. The talk everywhere for 30 years has been how much to cut, and where.
You are probably right on the sex ed and campaign finance issues, but can I point out the issue of race? America has a black president. Immigrants, at least legal ones, are welcomed and treated as equals. Every other Western country regards nonwhites as at best a problem to be fixed, at worst an enemy within to be avoided or expelled. I cannot imagine anyone except the USA electing a nonwhite head of government.
- Jae/Jennie said...
A few points:
1. Your claim that the U.S. is "expanding its social programs" in general on the basis of the creation of one social program is really farfetched, and the claim that the U.S. is the only democracy to be doing so is even more so. If I can point out that the current Dutch government created a new social programme to fight poverty in 40 problem areas, does that mean that country is generally increasing its social programmes? (It certainly doesn't mean that nobody else in the democratic world is doing it, because we now have two examples in a single comment thread...)
2. If it were simply a matter of this new legislation being "not good enough," I might actually be more sympathetic to it. But when it's still all about private insurance, the new difference being that people are now forced to buy it, my characterization has to be "not good" rather than "not good enough." I remain to be convinced that this legislation will help more people than it will hurt. And I can't praise the current government for an "accomplishment" that "eluded" other administrations when that's the case.
3. So very much beside the point, but: saying "but, but...he's not white!" really smacks of looking very hard for reasons to praise the U.S. based on something that happens to be relevant to you. As a queer woman, I suppose I could do the same: I could praise Germany for having a government that's led by a woman and a gay man, and point out that other countries aren't as far along. But doing that would seem silly to me when their policies are pretty darn regressive!
4. I am not saying that the Democrats aren't doing anything good. If they do pass sensible climate change and immigration bills, more power to them. The point of this post is not to say that Democrats are crap, it's to say that the U.S. is crap, because every shred of evidence history has presented to us suggests that what we see there right now is almost certainly the very pinnacle of how good it's ever going to be. And sure, if it floats your boat, you can pat the Democrts on the back about their government being momentarily on the good side of worldwide trends, but a) that's hardly surprising, if things are the best there that they're ever going to be, and b) that's hardly the point, when there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of getting beyond "better than they were a couple of years ago" and actually reaching "good."
- West End Bob said...
Bottom Line:
Corporations - 1
US electorate - 0
Game over . . . .


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Director Nick Stoller, who throws many ragers in the new comedy Bad Neighbours, gave his behind-the-camera hosting duties a lot of thought.
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In Bad Neighbours, which opens here on May 8, the Delta Psi Beta fraternity moves into the house next door to new parents Mac and Kelly (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne). Former partiers confronting their own waning coolness, the couple at first try to get along with preening frat president Teddy (Zac Efron) and his fraternity brothers (Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
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abacavir + didanosine + lopinavir/ritonavir (WHO recommended second line)
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Drug: emtricitabine/tenofovir + darunavir + ritonavir (Second line strategy under evaluation)
Emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir 300 mg 1 tablet/day with food + darunavir 400 mg 2 tablets + ritonavir 100 mg 1 capsule, in a single dose with food
- Number of Patients With Plasma HIV RNA < 50 Copies/mL [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Number of Patients With WHO Stage 3 and 4 HIV Related Events [ Time Frame: between baseline and 48 weeks ]patients having a diagnosis of HIV related event classified as stage 3 or 4
- Patients With Plasma HIV RNA < 200 Copies/ml [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]number of patients with plasma HIV RNA below 200 copies/ml
- Gain in CD4 Cells Between Baseline and W48 [ Time Frame: between baseline and 48 weeks ]median gain in circulating CD4 cells between baseline and W48
- Number of Patients Discontinuing Study Treatment [ Time Frame: between baseline and W48 ]number of patients discounting treatment because of adverse events
- Tolerance: Gastrointestinal Complains [ Time Frame: between baseline and 48 weeks ]Gastrointestinal complaints (grade 1 to 4) between baseline and W48.
- Tolerance: Neuropathies (Grade 1 to 4) [ Time Frame: between baseline and W48 ]any symptom of peripheral neuropathy
- Tolerance: Equal or Superior to a 25% Reduction in eGFR (Glomerular Filtration Rate) [ Time Frame: between baseline and W48 ]evaluation of estimated glomerular filtration rate and number of participant with a decrease equal or superior to 25% of the baseline value
- Adherence [ Time Frame: between baseline and W48 ]number of patients in different categories of adherence as measured by questionnaire
- Number of Patients With Resistance Mutations [ Time Frame: between W12 and W48 ]number of patients with resistance mutations after second line treatment failure (HIV RNA> 1000 copies/ml)
- Development of Metabolic Syndrome [ Time Frame: from baseline to week 48 ]number of patients developing metabolic syndrome over a period of 48 weeks
- Number of Patients With HIV Plasma Viral Load < 50 Copies/ml [ Time Frame: Week 24 ]Snapshot of patients with HIV viral load less then 50 copies/ml at week 24
- Number of Patients With HIV Plasma Viral Load < 200 Copies/ml [ Time Frame: Week 24 ]number of patients having a plasma viral load below 200 copies/ml at week 24
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient over the age of 18 years at pre-inclusion and monitored under outpatient conditions
- Documented HIV-1 infection regardless of clinical stage and CD4 lymphocyte count
- Patient with treatment failure after first-line antiretroviral treatment with a combination including a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, failure being defined as 2 measurements (at 1 month interval) of plasma HIV RNA levels > 1000 copies/ml after at least 6 months of uninterrupted treatment
- Adherence (> 80%) to first- line antiretroviral treatment (questionnaire) at pre inclusion
- Patient agrees not to take any concomitant medication during the trial without informing the investigator
- Informed consent signed no later than D-15
- For women in childbearing age: negative pregnancy test at inclusion, with no plan of pregnancy in the coming 12 months and agreeing to use mechanical contraception (with or without hormonal contraception) during the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Infection with HIV-2 or HIV-1 groups O or N or HIV1+2
- Deficiency of the patient, making it difficult, if not impossible, for him/her to take part in the trial or understand the information provided to him/her
- Participation in any other clinical trial
- Presence of an uncontrolled, ongoing opportunistic infection or of any severe or progressive disease
- First-line treatment with a protease inhibitor, abacavir, tenofovir or ddI
- Ongoing treatment with rifampicin
- Severe hepatic insufficiency (TP < 50%)
- ALAT > 3 x ULN
- Creatinine clearance calculated by Cockcroft formula < 50 ml/min
- Hb ≤ 8 g/dl
- Platelets < 50,000 cells/mm3
- Neutrophiles < 500 cells/ mm3
- Use of drugs prohibited in the context of this trial (drugs contraindicated by the SCP of the trial drugs) - in the event of tuberculosis or malaria during the trial, a list of authorized medicines and, if necessary, a dose adjustment of the antiretroviral medication will be provided
- Pregnancy or lactation
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00928187
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|Day Hospital, CHU Sanou Souro
|Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
|Day Hospital, Central Hospital
|Yaounde, Cameroon
|Clinical Research and Training Center, Fann Hospital
|Dakar, Senegal
|Principal Investigator:
|Sinata Koulla Shiro, PhD
|Infectious diseases department, Central Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon
|Principal Investigator:
|Papa Salif Sow, PhD
|Infectious Diseases Department, Fann Hospital, Dakar, Senegal
|Principal Investigator:
|Adrien Sawadogo, MD
|Day Hospital, CHU Sanou Souro, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
|Responsible Party:
|French National Institute for Health and Medical Research-French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (Inserm-ANRS)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 25, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|November 8, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|February 27, 2017
|Last Verified:
|January 2017
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WHO recommendations
Treatment strategies
treatment experienced
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
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Antiviral Agents
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Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
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Drawn from all over this green and pleasant land, Shady Bard settled in Birmingham amidst tall buildings and city woodlands. From here came scruffily atmospheric, string-laden alt.folk songs, bursting occasionally into catastrophic guitar scuzz.
They have released a sold-out EP on Static Caravan and played on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and 6music. The band played the Green Man Festival in August and current single 'Penguins came out in October.
Things people have said:
"Sublime in the way it literally destroys you this EP is quietly magnificent, sensitive, mellow, melodically perfecthurting and lost in a maddening world of quick firing three minute fumbles in the sack of pop"
Losing Today
"Unsurpassable beauty...Shady Bard simply radiate mellow warmth."
The Fly
"One of our Faces of 2006, ambition and beauty resonate from every note of an EP that's both beautifully tender while rocking like Lost's polar bears. Hard not to say how gorgeous this is without being pretentious."
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The Euro Breaks Long-Term Support: Watch Out for Short Covering
May 16, 2010 1 comment
The Euro just broke four year lows over continuing fear over the Greece Sovereign debt crises and the related risks of contagion to Portugal, Spain, Ireland and the rest of the Euro zone.
While the situation is certainly bleak, a large majority of traders are currently short the Euro and you don't want to sell lows. You can see from the chart below that we just hit a medium term short target and although its definitely possible that we could just keep going in an extension, it's also very possible that we could see a near-term retracement to 1.26's as shorts take profit in a crowded trade.
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Policy from President Barack Obama's administration is hitting the Hamilton County Board of Education's pocketbook in multiple ways this year.
School officials are bracing for increases in health insurance costs as the specifics of the Affordable Care Act continue to trickle down. And the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is hurting the school nutrition department's balance sheet as fewer students opt in for the healthier meals. Hamilton County Board of Education members heard of both concerns at a budget workshop Thursday evening.
In an attempt to curb rising childhood obesity rates, the new school lunch law limits how much and what kind of grains can be served, increases the daily servings of fruits and vegetables and puts strict limits on calories, salt, fats and sugars in all school lunch programs regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture.
The first major reforms were implemented this school year with more changes planned to roll out through 2022. Locally, the reforms have cost the district cash as fewer students buy school lunches. Director of School Nutrition Carolyn Childs said the program will take about $100,000 from its own reserve funds to fill in the gap of lost revenue this year.
School nutrition maintains its own budget separate from the school system's general fund. And the department's budget next year is projected to shrink from this year's $20.2 million to about $19.8 million. The department budgeted nearly $4 million in lunch payments this year, though next year that figure is projected closer to $2.8 million.
Childs said the department has cut or reallocated staff and is working to better manage inventories of food to keep costs down.
"We're doing everything we possibly can to stop that bleeding," she said.
In a move to balance the weight of increased costs, the school system likely will increase employee health care costs for dependent coverage next year. Administrators are recommending that employees pay an additional $75 per month, or $34.62 per paycheck. Premiums on the district's two health plans, an HMO and a PPO, currently range from $100 a month for an individual to $358 for a family. With its extensive coverage, administrators said the plan is one of the most generous around.
"It's not a good plan. It's a great plan," said board member Jonathan Welch, whose family is covered under the plan because of his wife's employment with the district.
The school system, which employs about 6,000 people, spends about $50 million annually on health insurance costs, officials said. Including dependents, about 10,000 people are covered by one of the system's self-insured plans.
"It's a Rolls-Royce plan," said Leon Rash, director of purchasing.
Superintendent Rick Smith said administrators will continue to review the effects of health care reform and search for ways to find savings over the next year. Board member Rhonda Thurman said she wants to see teachers pick up more of the costs of the extensive coverage and health care reform.
"If this is what they want, they're going to have to pay for it," she said. "We're going to have to get serious about it."
Contact staff writer Kevin Hardy at khardy@timesfree press.com or 423-757-6249.
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This versatile Compact AC/DC Charger from Watson charges any Samsung IA-BP210E and IA-BP420 type batteries via the included dedicated battery plate. The charger runs on 100-240VAC power, allowing for worldwide use. It features a fold-out 2-prong US plug and is supplied with a European plug adapter as well as a 12VDC car charger that plugs into a cigarette lighter. This makes the charger ideal for use both at home and on the road.
The Compact AC/DC Charger features a USB power output that allows you to charge and power MP3 players, phones, digital cameras, and other devices with a USB power input--even while charging your camera or camcorder batteries. With its easily interchangeable plate, the charger can also be used for other battery models via the purchase of an additional battery adapter plate.
|Power Input
|100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 100 mA (max), 12/24 VDC
|Power Output
|4.2-8.4 VDC, 800 mA (max)
|Additional Output
|USB 2.0, 5 VDC, 1 A (max), for charging USB devices
|Charging Time
|2-6 hours
|Operating Temperature
|32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
|Storage Temperature
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|2 x 1.3 x 3.5" (5.1 x 3.3 x 9 cm)
|3.1 oz (88 g)
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Benefit Cosmetics has launched a new blush palette called Cheek Parade and it's a showstopper!
Benefit Watt's Up!
I finally found the time to spend a giftcard that was burning a hole in my wallet since January… I took this highlighter / luminizer home: the Watt's Up by Benefit! This "champagne" hued cream-to-powder highlighter stick has quickly become one of my favorite make up products. Why? Let me show you!
The Balm: The Manizer Sisters + Meet Matt(e) Hughes
Today I'm showing you my Christmas gifts, this cute little Luminizing Palette by the balm and a red liquid lipstick from their Meet Matt(e) Hughes line. I was already a big fan of the Balm since I bought the Mary-Lou manizer last year. However I dropped it on the floor a few weeks ago, so I was happy to be reunited with my favorite highlighter and to be adding this palette and lipstick to my collection.
Have a look at my review and swatches!
Mary-Lou Manizer By The Balm Review // Coco x Beauty
If you love watching Youtube Beauty Guru's like I do, you probably already heard about this highlighter by the Balm. I watched Desi Perkines and Nikki Tutorials rave about the amazing glow that it brings in so many of their videos, I felt I just had to try it myself. Curious?
Coco x Beauty // H&M Blusher & Highlighter Palette
I paid a little visit to my local H&M last week and somehow ended up buying this cute little Blusher & Highlighter Palette. You know when you just need tights and a new bra, but leave with a new skirt, make up and socks? I've been wearing this palette every day since, so today I'm sharing you my thoughts on this budget beauty!


text: The Greendale Seven are about to be schooled by Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) when he joins the cast of Community this fall. McDowell is set to star in two episodes as a history professor (I hope they find a way to work A Clockwork Orange in). THR reports that his character will be named Professor Cornwallis. McDowell is the latest addition to the faculty, as British comedian Matt Lucas (Bridesmaids) recently joined as well. Look for Community's return to NBC in its new time slot, Friday nights at 8:30pm starting October 19th.


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Today I participated in the final part of a training course I've been attending on Core Skills for Children's Work.
This is the point where you say: wait. I didn't know you work with children? Well, I don't, strictly speaking, but we do host a 14+ youth group (Andy leads, I help). Much of the course skills are transferable and, aware there were a few of us working with teens, the leader has been very adaptable and keen to apply the course materials to us as well. It's been great on so many levels- and I hope to post further reflections on this at some point.
But, a more personal reflection for today. We arrived at the church early so Andy could help with setting up. I went into his office and started digging around the theological and biblical tomes to follow up some thoughts I'd had – enjoying the opportunity for a bit of study in a 'studious' atmosphere! I then joined in with the main session. It was an interesting morning. But barely an hour into the session and I felt my energy start dropping. There wasn't a great deal I could do about it, so I struggled on. At lunch time I got a cup of coffee and took a brief rest on the senior minister's sofa (knowing she wouldn't mind!).
But I'd started feeling frustrated. Sometimes when the tiredness hits I take it in its present form, simply applying it to the here and now. Today, it became an everything about me and It moment. I started on the 'why' questions. I don't entertain them often, but today I couldn't help it. Why can't I do things? Why can't my energy last? Why do I have such passion and enthusiasm and no energy to use them?
And, most of all, the question blaring through my mind was: why can't I be myself? I feel like the tiredness squashes who I am and who I was made to be. I feel like I have to be someone I'm not just in order to cope. Becoming withdrawn, not contributing, not able to build relationships with others or dig more deeply into life because I'm simply focusing on maintaining my own strength.
Today, it was driving me mad.
It also made me well up. I hate the way I cry. As soon as my tear ducts tickle even slightly my nose says: wahey! I'll join in! And then in no time at all I cannot breathe and I'm streaming. My face thinks: what the heck! And I turn bright pink and blotchy. I don't need to wail to look like I've been wailing. And my nose blow is like a trumpet.
So, a quick weep on the side was not an option.
I struggled through the afternoon holding back those infernal tears, and then started thinking about all the other things I couldn't manage doing (bad move).
When I got home, I took myself into the garden, sat on the step, and finally allowed the tears to spill out of me.
This helped somewhat. I realised that it wasn't frustration that I was feeling, not really. It was disappointment. Un-distilled, jagged disappointment. Disappointment really hurts.
After a while, a little suggestion popped in to mind about how to deal with the 'other things' I'd been agonising over. I kicked and punched a bit before caving and admitting – yes, that's a sensible idea. Then peace started trickling in, relieving and restoring.
But I had to go through the whole process of expression and release first.
Sometimes, telling myself 'don't let it get to you' doesn't work. In the end, I have to do it – let it get to me. Then, after the sobs and the prayers and the clenched fist offerings, a still small voice is detectable, right on the edge of consciousness.
I need to de-clutter sometimes, simply in order to hear it.
Image: Lesley wrote a post on Chronic Fatigue today, which I found soothing. I've used the same picture.


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Oil, Gas and Mining
Money from oil, gas and mining can help lift entire countries out of poverty in much of the developing world. Properly managed, it can build schools, hospitals and roads, and reduce dependency on international aid. But all too often, the revenue goes missing because deals are done behind closed doors, allowing small, corrupt elites to profit at the expense of ordinary citizens.
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US Conflict Minerals Law
In 2010, US Congress passed a landmark law - section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Act - requiring companies to determine if their products contain one or more of four minerals sourced from Congo or its neighbours.
Press Release / Aug. 31, 2011
Oil transparency must underpin negotiations over Libya's future – Global Witness
Transparency of Libya's oil wealth must be a key priority of Thursday's negotiations over the country's future, said Global Witness today. The meeting, which is to be co-chaired by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and France's President, Nicholas Sarkozy, could mark a crucial step along the path to future peace and prosperity in Libya. With the UN in the process of 'unfreezing' $1.5bn of Libyan funds to the NTC, and with companies queuing up to do business in Libya, how the NTC and their partners manage Libya's finances will set a precedent for decades to come.
Press Release / May 26, 2011
HSBC and Goldman Sachs held $335m of Libyan state oil money
Update: Global Witness publishes the Libyan Investment Authority financial position as of September 2010 Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston's analysis of this story Listen to Global Witness discuss this investigation on the BBC World Service
Report / April 13, 2012
A blueprint for reform: lessons from past mismanagement and murky practice in Libya's oil sector
Global Witness has obtained Gaddafi-era documents that detail the mismanagement of millions of dollars of Libyan oil revenues and highlight murky practices by Libya's state-owned National Oil Company (NOC). These documents provide a blueprint for the current and future Libyan Government of how best to implement the reforms necessary to prevent mismanagement and shoddy dealings in Libya's oil sector in the future.
Press Release / April 13, 2012
Leaked Gaddafi-era documents expose the need for urgent oil reforms
Global Witness has obtained Gaddafi-era documents that detail the mismanagement of millions of dollars of Libyan oil revenues and highlight murky practices by Libya's state-owned National Oil Company (NOC). The revelations, contained in a report published in its entirety today by Global Witness titled "An Annual Report by the Control Board for 2010" (the "Report"), and in a series of letters written by NOC employees, outline complaints against the NOC that include:
March 9, 2012
£10m house in expensive London suburb recovered by Libya
Global Witness welcomes today's successful recovery by Libya of a £10 million London house, previously belonging to Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saadi Gaddafi. The High Court in London ruled that the property, in the up-market London suburb of Hampstead, rightfully belongs to the Libyan state as it had been purchased with diverted Libyan state funds.


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Earlier this week, we reported that writer-director Terrence Malick had two new films (both starring Christian Bale) in the pipeline, which was surprising considering the huge time gap between Malick's previous movies. But neither of the Bale movies are the follow-up to The Tree of Life. Malick's next movie is an untitled romantic drama (previously titled The Burial) he shot last year, and 24 Frames has some new details on the plot. To begin, it's Malick's first movie set in the present day, and he's currently at work editing the picture, which he expects to be finished by next year (although that doesn't mean a distributor will release it in 2012). So what's this mystery flick about? Philandering! Europeans! Oklahoma!
Hit the jump for more details. The film stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper, and Jessica Chastain.
Per 24 Frames, here's the synopsis:
Basically, it concerns a philanderer (Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot-and-heavy affair with a European woman (Kurylenko). Said Lothario returns home to Oklahoma, where he marries the European woman (in part for visa reasons). When the relationship flounders, he rekindles a romance with a hometown girl (McAdams) with whom he's had a long history.
The movie reportedly features Malick's trademark gorgeous cinematography, but unlike his other films, there's a slightly happier ending (or at least one that's less ambiguous). Also, reading the synopsis, it sounds like this may seem like a more mainstream movie, but you can't discount Malick's spin on the material. That it is to say that if I told you this was the plot for a Woody Allen movie, you would probably believe me, but I doubt there's going to be some fun clarinet music and a neurotic protagonist.
Malick has taken years and sometimes decades between his movies, so it will be interesting to see if his approach or style changes based on having three movies in various stages of development. Of course, there's no guarantee that one of the movies won't keep him in the editing room (editing on Days of Heaven took over two years).


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In the hospitality and recreation industry, keeping high traffic common areas neat, clean and safe is paramount.
This includes driveways, parking lots, entrances, lobbies, hallways, sidewalks and recreation facilities like pools, tennis courts and golf courses … not to mention equipment and supplies related thereto.
Then there is the building itself.
All told, such maintenance can be far easier said than done.
What To Clean
Beyond the sheer size and scale of this endeavor, keeping floor spaces clean and safe is even more challenging amid the myriad of construction and design materials — Quartz, Granite, Marble, Slate, Terrazzo, Travertine, coral rock, brick, wood, carpet and rugs, just to name a few.
Walkways and decks aside, some structural areas and features on a building are also more challenging to clean than others — particularly on the exterior where the elements, insects, animals and even mold can wreak havoc — but are equally mission critical.
Rest assured if a location has subtle stains or degradation on the ground surfaces, or on the structure's interior or exterior walls or rooftops, it will be noticed by the guest if even subconsciously.
This poor impression will have has negative implications for this guest who may cut their stay short and never return as well as the lost referral business revenue opportunity.
Procuring Power
With this in mind, facilities are increasingly procuring their own professional pressure washing equipment for its multitude of uses and benefits that deliver rapid return on investment.
Consider these key ways a professional power washer can greatly benefit a hospitality or recreation operation:
- Aesthetics: You only get one chance to make a first impression and nothing degrades a visitor's opinion of a location quicker than soiled, unkempt spaces.
- Safety: Slips and falls on algae covered sidewalks happen all too often, and the liabilities can be significant. Sidewalks or common areas that don't receive much sunlight are prone to moss and other life forms growing on them and the slippery surfaces are potential hazards.
- Structural integrity: Over time, lichen, moss, algae and other natural elements can degrade even the hardest of surfaces, so keeping them clear and clean can maintain their longevity.
- Property value: Cobwebs, dirt, leaves and pollen, not to mention wood rot and rust around gutters and grimy tile, can make a property look old, worn, dingy and appraise for less than it's actually worth.
Additional Uses
Even beyond keeping ground surface areas, walls and rooftops in tidy, tip-top shape, here's a list of additional issues where a professional power washer can greatly benefit a hospitality or recreation facility:
Clogged drains: There's no need to call a plumber and pay to have a drain line cleared. A pressure washer can accomplish the same task. A special "sewer jetter" nozzle attachment will safely and efficiently unclog and clean a drain.
Grime-covered grout and tile: A rotary brush attachment on a power washer is useful for safely cleaning floor tile and grout without damage. Use hot water to clean areas where grease and oil stains need to be cleared out, such as a food space or where cars are commonly parked.
Dirty windows: While dirty windows reflect negatively on a hospitality facility, squeegee attachments make window cleaning quick and easy. You can use them with soap and water or glass cleaner; either way you will have a sparkling clean window in half the time it would take with a cloth.
Dusty central air ducts: Calling on a professional to clean central air conditioning ducts, or purchasing an air duct cleaning system, can be expensive and unnecessary. A pressure washer outfitted with a special attachment can get the job done and provide cost savings.
Kitchen exhaust duct and food safety: Duct cleaning in restaurants is very important for many reasons with fire prevention at the top of the list. Many flammable contaminants, including oil, grease and dust, find their way into the exhaust ducts. Even a small spark, flame or just heat buildup could be enough to start a catastrophic fire. Clogged ducts can affect temperatures of the cooking surfaces, making them irregular and causing some foods to be undercooked. Heat could also build up in the kitchen, bringing chilled food ingredients up to dangerous temperatures where they could be susceptible to mold, fungus, and bacteria.
Cluttered gutters: Unclogged and functional gutters are imperative to prevent water overflow. Clogged gutters can detach, and worse, promote rot and rust to the surrounding structure. While a standard garden hose won't get the job done, a pressure washer with a special gutter nozzle will clear the dirt, leaves and debris in short order.
Regular equipment maintenance: Golf course and tennis court equipment represents a unique cleaning challenge that power washers readily solve. There is a veritable cornucopia of detritus attributable to the inordinate amount of foot traffic of these spaces, including grease, oil, grime, dust, dirt, mud and the random items left by stray dogs, birds and critters. Visitors to these locals can be a finicky lot and expect not only the course to be impeccable, but they also expect the equipment to be clean.
Water and muck removal: In regions where rain and snow create a buildup of water and muck, or when pooled water needs to be drained indoors perhaps from an overfilled planter, flood or plumbing repair, a special attachment provides high-volume water removal. This rapid response can prevent costly moisture-related damage.
Quick dry: After pressure cleaning or moisture removal from an area, it can be quickly dried. Also, after better preparing a surface for foot traffic and keeping it safe from slips and falls, an air blower attachment will help you quickly dry out the space.
A pressure washer is an extremely versatile and easy-to-use tool that can make hospitality and recreation facility safety, cleaning and maintenance a breeze.


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Yield Engineering Systems (YES) designs process control equipment used for precise surface modification, nanolithography imprinting, surface cleaning and thin film coating and many other fields.
In the navigation bar, we've listed some typical applications for our equipment. But if you've got something else in mind, just let us know. It's pretty standard for customer requirements to drive our new product development. Meeting the needs of innovative process engineers is our passion, and our business model, for more than 30 years.


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- "Jesus test drives all the new bitches."
- — Jesus's bodyguard
Jesus Trunchez is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Jesus and his brothers, Javier and Jose Trunchez took control of The Triangle Club after Dwayne Forge was incarcerated. However, in the mission Undress to Kill, Forge sends Niko Bellic to kill the three brothers. According to one of his bodyguards, Jesus personally "test drives" all the new strippers and is in a private booth receiving a lap dance when Niko arrives to kill him and his brothers.
Mission Appearances
- Undress to Kill (Killed)
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One of the films to premiere footage at this year's New York Comic-Con was director Kimberly Peirce's (Boys Don't Cry) remake of Carrie. Based on the book by Stephen King, Screen Gems says Carrie is "a reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom." While many were nervous about the remake, Matt was very impressed with the footage. Read his recap here and here's the first trailer.
Shortly before the Comic-Con panel, I did an exclusive interview with Chloë Moretz. We talked about her experiences with comic-con, why she prefers the PS3 to the XBox 360, video games, how she got the role in Carrie and the audition process, the challenges Hit-Girl faces in the Kick-Ass sequel, whether Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) will make an appearance, what she has planned next, and more. Hit the jump to watch.
- 0:21 – Having starred in Kick-Ass, what's her experience of attending comic conventions.
- 1:16 – How she's not much of a collection, but she is a gamer, why she prefers PlayStation 3 to Xbox 360, and her other thoughts on gaming.
- 3:39 – Thoughts about signing on to Carrie, and how she got the part.
- 8:41 – Talking about Kick-Ass 2, and the challenges Hit-Girl faces in the sequel.
- 10:06 – Will Big Daddy make an appearance?
- 10:25 – What she has planned next.


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I loved the colour of how this dish turned out, it's so vibrant and pretty... makes the dish looked appetising. I've used eryngii mushrooms, carrots and yellow capsicum (bell pepper). If I've added some red and green capsicum, my dish would have looked lovelier!
Very very simple, just heat a little oil and add in some chopped or thinly sliced garlic. Once fragrant, stir in sliced carrots. Pour in a little water to soften the carrots, omit this if you like your carrots to be crunchy. Cook for a couple of minutes. Next mix in the mushrooms and capsicum. Seasoned with salt and black pepper. Dish up and serve with steamed rice.


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Get your beer bacon milkshake here: Texas track unveils NASCAR delicacy
There's nothing NASCAR fans enjoy more than beer.
Unless maybe bacon.
Or unless it's something that includes both beer and bacon.
Like a milkshake.
How's it made? Take a look:
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Texas Motor Speedway has created just such a concoction for fans at the Nov. 3 AAA Texas 500.
Levy Restaurants Executive Chef Joel Pena has created the Shake 'n Bacon Brew beer milkshake — a bacon-infused, alcoholic drink.
The Shake 'n Bacon Brew features six ounces of Rahr & Sons Ugly Pug Black Lager, six ounces of Blue Bell homemade vanilla ice cream and two ounces of bacon-infused maple syrup mixed in a blender. A "Shirley Temple" version with root beer will be available for fans under 21.
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The Shake 'n Bacon Brew will be available for $10 in a souvenir cup.
The heart-clogging delicacy is not the first bacon-infused concession the speedway offers. It joins such menu items as: "Hawg Heaven" bacon cotton candy; the Bacon Martini; "Smokin' Hubcaps (brisket on a glazed donut); and the mac 'n cheese hot dog.


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The Internet as we know it changes rapidly. The web even gets more social and the users are more in control then they used to be. Therefore, I've decided to write a non scientific article about an older phenomenon of the web. It was quite a popular website element back in the days when the only choice you had was browsing with Netscape or Internet Explorer, next to a dialup or ISDN connection: webrings.
What is a Webring?
First off for the less experienced Internet users (read: young folks), a webring was basically a group of websites linked together in a circular structure, all about a certain topic or theme. Webrings were widespread mostly among amateur websites, and were quite popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. To be a part of a webring, each site had a common navigation bar; it contained links to the previous and next website. By clicking next (or previous) repeatedly, you would eventually reach the site you'd started at; this is the origin of the term webring. Most of the time a "random" button led to a random website in the webring ("I'm feeling lucky" anyone?). Although webrings had moderators (your website had to be approved by the moderator), the click-through rate would presumably drop if one of the websites within the ring were broken, unavailable, or offline. A webring absolutely added extra value for a visitor. I remember when I started surfing the Web (around 1998) I used webrings a lot. Back then it was my source for new Commodore Colt and (starting) Console Emulator scene websites. Without webrings, I would have never known these websites existed. Of course, the main reason was the absence of good search engines.
Webrings & SEO
Websites usually joined a webring in order to receive more traffic from related sites. Back in those days, webrings could be considered a search engine optimization technique. And it probably was since search engines had quite different ranking factors back then. If you look at it now with the current ranking factors, webrings seem quite useless for SEO as they would lack authority. Although there is physical linking to other websites, the links show up randomly and the website owner doesn't control the "next" or "previous" link in the ring. Of course a webring looks like a "link wheel." The strength is much lower when webring expanded. Imagine having 100 websites within a webring; there won't be any link value passed all the way back to the "original" website. But mostly the randomness and the embedded script/HTML of the link placement takes the value out of webrings for your SEO campaign (though you might find some potential sites to seek links from).
Webring 2.0
Want to reinvent the webring? It can be done, and we are doing it!. You can make a small webring act like a "link wheel." Every "next" link will link to the next site in line to pass link value. If you link every site to the main ring the link wheel is completed. If you use the "random" button the link wheel is still completed ...


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Written by Naomi Sugar on Tuesday, 06 March 2012. Posted in Tips And Tricks
After reading this article we realized two things: 1. Using an ice cream maker is not as hard as we thought, 2. We badly want/need an ice cream maker! It is now on our Purim/Pesach wish list... - CookKosher
Naomi Sugar is the author of 365scoops.com, a blog dedicated to making and sharing her ice cream creations. At 365scoops we believe in good, old fashioned ice cream free of preservatives (and ingredients that you cannot pronounce!) We mix only the best organic milks, creams, sugar and eggs, with a variety of flavors to create artisanal, custom-made flavors. Visit 365scoops.com to order some today. When she's not creating ice cream, Naomi works for Project Sunshine and holds a master's degree in public health from Columbia University.
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This tutorial will discuss both the encryption and decryption algorithms for RSA. Overall, RSA is a very simple encryption algorithm. The mathematical formulas are extremely basic. The security comes from generating sufficiently large numbers, and generating sufficiently large primes to factor them. It hardly takes any time to add three random digits to the end of a number, but it takes significantly longer to factor the new number.
RSA relies on both public and private keys. The public key is used in the encryption schema, and the private key is used to decrypt the ciphertext. These keys are generated using basic modular arithmetic and the Euclidean algorithm.
The first step in the RSA process is to choose two distinct primes (p and q) of comparable size in terms of bit length for key generation. They are then multiplied together to get n = pq, which is the modulus for the encryption and decryption congruences.
From here, it is necessary to calculate phi(n), which is Euler's totient function. This function returns a value representing how many numbers less than n are coprime to n. It is calculated by factoring n into its prime factors, which may have exponents greater than 1. For a prime p, phi(p) = (p-1). For a composite number pn, phi(pn) = (p-1)(p)n-1. If there are multiple factors for n, they are simply multiplied together. So for RSA, phi(n) = phi(pq) = (p-1)(q-1).
The encryption schema relies on a public key. This is generated by choosing some number a that is between 1 and phi(n) exclusive, and is relatively prime to phi(n). It is also important that the message is less than n, the modulus. The congruence for encryption is as follows: c = messagea (mod n).
The decryption schema is also pretty basic. It is as follows: message = cb (mod n), where b is the private key. This is also where the security comes in, as b = a-1 (mod phi(n)). The larger the value of n, the harder it is to factor and evaluate the totient function. Therefore, it is significantly easier to expand the key while making it quickly intractable for even the most powerful computer to crack the private key.
Let's work through an example, to encrypt the message 255. The first step is to choose two primes p and q, which have the same bit length. Let p = 17 and q = 19, leaving n = 323 and phi(n) = 16(18) = 288.
The next step is to choose a number between 1 and 288 that is relatively prime to 288, which will be the public key. Since 257 is a prime number, and thus relatively prime to every other number, it satisfies the conditions and can be chosen. At this point, there is enough information to perform the encryption. So c = 255257 (mod 323), or 221 (mod 323).
Now in order to decrypt the ciphertext, the private key is needed. In order to find the private key, it is necessary to solve the congruence b = 257-1 (mod 288). Using the Euclidean algorithm, the solution is b = 65 (mod 288).
Now the original message can be recovered using the decryption congruence message = cb (mod n), or in this case message = 22165 (mod 323). Of course, message = 255, which was the original message to encrypt.
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Here's a basic RSA implementation (in Java) that follows the theory laid out here.
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From NBC's Mark Murray
National Journal magazine is reporting that Obama was the most liberal senator of 2007, according to the vote ratings it does every year for members of Congress. Clinton, meanwhile, ranks as the 16th most-liberal senator.
But a bit of context here: National Journal used 99 Senate votes in 2007 as the basis for its rankings, and because he was on the presidential campaign trail, Obama missed a third of those votes. (According to the magazine, Obama voted the liberal way 65 out of 66 votes. Clinton, meanwhile, voted the liberal way in 77 out of her 82 votes).
National Journal's vote ratings became an issue in the 2004 general election, when Republicans used the magazine's ranking of John Kerry as the most liberal senator of 2003 to label the then-Democratic nominee as the "most liberal senator" -- even though that was his rating for just that one year, when (like Obama did) he missed quite a few Senate votes due to being on the presidential campaign trail.
As National Journal's editor wrote back then, "[O]ur magazine -- or, more precisely, our annual congressional vote ratings edition -- has become a Republican talking point in the 2004 presidential campaign. And that's been a fascinating, and disconcerting, experience. Fascinating because we're more used to being cited in congressional hearings than on the Today show. Disconcerting because the shorthand used to describe our ratings of Kerry and Edwards is sometimes misleading -- or just plain wrong."
Indeed, while Obama ranks as the magazine's most liberal senator of 2007, his ranking was 16th in 2005 and 10th in 2006.
Another question that might come up is why the magazine released its voting ratings now -- just days before Super Tuesday. In fact, the magazine says it full congressional ratings won't come out until March. But, according to the editor in a Q&A published in the magazine: "Back in December, we decided that we would publish the ratings of the presidential candidates as soon as they became available, rather than wait until our annual Vote Ratings issue on March 8. We thought it would be irresponsible to keep those scores under wraps during the height of the presidential primary season."
As for McCain, the magazine says that he didn't vote frequently enough in 2007 to get an overall rating. Per National Journal, "He missed more than half of the votes in both the economic and foreign-policy categories. On social issues, which include immigration, McCain received a conservative score of 59."
And like with Obama's overall liberal score, rivals and critics could possibly seize on McCain's social rating....
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inFamous 2 Releasing June 7, Hero Edition Confirmed
The blog also confirmed rumors of the "Hero Edition." The bonuses leaked by Amazon were spot-on, and as predicted the super voucher extras are being split among retailers as pre-order goodies. Amazon gets the 24K Gold Amp, Best Buy gets the Kessler Skin, GameStop gets the Lightning Hook, Wal-Mart gets the Electrocution Grenade, and "participating retailers" get the digital soundtrack.
In addition to all of that, the Hero Edition includes a Cole statue, a replica of his sling pack, and a mini-comic. Finally, the blog confirms the Hero Edition price is $99.99, so you'll be paying a pretty penny for all your extra powers and swag.
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The Dalai Lama speaks on education
14 June 2013
With his customary red robes enfolding him, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spoke with great humour to a group of about 800 students at the Seymour Centre on Thursday 13 June, about the purpose of education in creating meaningful lives.
He said the purpose of education was to not only develop knowledge but also to recognise the importance of human emotion and its interrelationship with the mind. Emotions such as fear and jealousy, His Holiness said, biased the mind against reality.
And yet when education and emotional understanding are brought together, it allows us to go to a deeper level, and to penetrate reality, enabling us to reduce the gap between reality and appearances, which is education's true purpose.
This unique student event was hosted by the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) at the University of Sydney. It included in the audience about 180 high school students from the University's Compass program.
After an introduction by Professor John Keane from the IDHR, His Holiness urged that it is the responsibility of the next generation to build a happier world. The 20th century was marred by violence and war, he said, naming the Sino-Japanese war, the Second World War and the sorrow of Hiroshima, the Korean War and the Cold War.
Claiming the world is facing a moral crisis, His Holiness said that while a large proportion of the world's 7 billion claimed to be religious, many had no moral conviction when living outside their temples and churches.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was awarded the Templeton Prize in May 2012, which was awarded for his commitment to interfaith relations and in 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.
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Spike Lee Premieres 'Red Hook Summer,' Loses Cool at Sundance Festival
Spike Lee recently premiered his Christian-themed "Red Hook Summer" at the Sundance Film Festival, where he lost his temper and received negative reviews from critics.
Lee, 54, funded the project himself. The coming-of-age story is about a boy from Atlanta spending a summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn (a borough of NYC) with his preacher grandfather and adapting to life in another part of the country.
Comedian Chris Rock attended the question and answer session for the film, and posed a question that got Lee riled up.
"You did it, you spent your own money, right?" Rock asked. "What would you have done differently if you'd actually gotten a bunch of studio money… What else would've happened?"
Lee responded by expressing his frustration with Hollywood studios.
"We never went to the studios with this film. I told you… I bought a camera and said we're gonna do this [expletive] film ourselves," Lee told the crowd at the festival after the premiere. "I didn't need a [expletive] studio telling me something about Red Hook! They know nothing about black people! Nothing!"
Lee elaborated further on why he funded his own project.
"We had to do it OURSELVES! So I went to my trusted friends," Lee said. "James McBride, who wrote 'Red Hook' – the irony is the church we shot the film in is the church his parents built!"
At the festival, McBride spoke about how his own faith was impacted by the making of "Red Hook Summer."
"I still believe in God. I still believe in Jesus," he said. "In fact, this film has helped me believe in Jesus and believe in God even more."
Although Lee apologized to the audience for his outburst, some critics seemed unforgiving in their assessment of the film.
Robert Levin of Atlantic magazine said the film was more of a tirade than a movie.
"Dreams of vintage Lee's return go sadly unfulfilled, however, as the film is a long-winded, rambling mess," Levin wrote. "Far from a personal, character-driven production, the movie offers Lee's grandiose take on what it means to be African American in the 21st century (with an assist from co-writer James McBride). But this is a 135-minute harangue, not a movie."
Despite the large amount of negative criticism, the spiritual themes in the movie seemed to hit home for some.
Andrew O'Hehir, a Salon film critic, tweeted about how special he thought the movie was.
"Spike Lee's 'RED HOOK SUMMER' is a passionate, painful love letter to Brooklyn, NYC, black America and the black church," O'Hehir wrote. "Very special movie."


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I'm loving the new Dagobah Landing Luke despite the lack of weathering. I didn't realize how dramatic a color difference there was between it and the Snowspeeder version. I glad they went that route though as it lends itself well to making a more accurate Snowspeeder flightsuit with the mis-match color of the pants and jacket.
I figured I'd start with the AOTC style Clone resculpt... It's pretty impressive, however I don't think you need to toss your old "SA" (which "Super articulated" is now sort of funny by comparison), but I think they'll blend well enough.
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Both Us Weekly and People are reporting that Kanye West and Kim Kardshian will tie the knot on May 24 in Paris.
In contrast to West's over-the-top proposal, Kardashian has repeatedly described her wedding plans as "small" and "intimate."
"As we go along, we're realizing we want it to be smaller and more intimate than people are imagining and thinking," she told Ryan Seacrest last month.
A source told People that the couple have invited about 150 guests.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The roar begins to build as soon as Gregg Popovich points over to the bench, usually midway through the first quarter.
Manu Ginobili rises and so does the excitement level inside the AT&T Center. Of course, the anticipation is ambiguous because no one knows what the San Antonio Spurs' veteran guard will do once he gets on the court.
He could miss a wild 3-point attempt, the way he did in the second overtime against Golden State in this season's playoffs. Or he could do something big in the clutch, such as hitting a 3-pointer a short time later to win that same game.
"It's what you live with with Manu," Spurs forward Tim Duncan said. "Does it amaze me? Everything he does amazes me — his good stuff, his bad stuff. It's what you learn to live with with him.
"He's someone that gives us so much of a different face. People can't plan for what he does. We're well-coached when we execute well, but you can't prepare for what Manu does, and that's one thing that makes us a better team."
Ginobili and the Spurs are gearing up for the franchise's fifth appearance in the NBA Finals, where they will meet the defending champion Heat starting Thursday in Miami.
Not since Hall of Famer George Gervin finger-rolled his way into the hearts of San Antonio fans during an 11-year career have the Spurs had a player as popular as Ginobili. Duncan, Tony Parker, David Robinson and Sean Elliott all hold a special place in fans' hearts, but Ginobili has become one of the city's own.
"I don't know how we connected at first," the Argentine said. "I just know that they kind of adopted me from the first minute I got here. Maybe it's my Latin roots, Spanish speaking, or maybe it's my type of game. I guess it was a little bit of everything.
"But it really helped me, especially early in my career. Now I'm a developed player, I've been everywhere and now I'm more used to it. But at the beginning, when I had so many doubts, I was the new guy in the NBA, the uncertainties and all that, having 18,000 people supporting me and cheering you up was a big help."
The 6-foot-6 guard has given Spurs fans plenty to cheer about — and groan over.
He averaged 20.8 points and 5.8 rebounds during the postseason in guiding San Antonio to the 2005 NBA championship. During Game 7 of the 2006 Western Conference finals against the Dallas Mavericks, Ginobili scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half to rally the Spurs to a three-point lead with 32 seconds left. He broke their hearts seconds later by haphazardly fouling Dirk Nowitzki on a dunk, leading to a three-point play and an eventual Mavericks win in overtime.
Ginobili is averaging a respectable 11.5 points, 5.4 assists and 4.5 rebounds during this postseason, but the Spurs know there is another level to his game and they are eager to see it in the Finals.
"I still feel like Manu is saving his best for last," Parker said. "I can feel a big final for him. That would be nice; we are definitely going to need it."
Duncan agreed: "I told him he's saving himself."
Truthfully, Ginobili has never saved himself on the court since his earliest days playing basketball in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
"He's just hell-bent for leather, absolutely all-out," Popovich said. "He plays with a ferocity at both ends of the court that's very unique. Coaches love that stuff."
At age 35, Ginobili no longer has the long, flowing hair that whipped violently each time he tumbled to the court — opponents would say flopped — but the fierce drives are still there in his 11th season.
"He's one of those guys, who, at age 50, won't be able to walk," former NBA coach Nate McMillan has said.
Ginobili already has difficulty staying upright, missing 22 games this season after missing 32 in the lockout-shortened 2012 season. After missing much of the final month of the regular season with a strained hamstring, Ginobili said he feels as healthy as he did entering training camp.
"It's great to have had this opportunity to keep playing," Ginobili said. "I feel better. If we had lost in the first round, I wasn't even back. After three weeks sitting, then four games, five games and the season's over, you go back home with a really bad feeling about the season. But since the way things have turned out, to tell you the truth, I even forgot what happened during the season. I'm feeling good now. We're in the Finals, so who cares? No one is going to remember I missed 20 games during the regular season."
While Parker and Duncan receive a lion's share of credit for the team's successful 16-year run, they know they need a healthy Ginobili to thrive.
"Manu is one of the ultimate competitors in our league, and has been for a long time," Popovich said. "He has been a big factor in us winning games (and) winning championships. He's very important to what we do."
It's not just his willingness to take a charge or fearlessness in taking a last-second shot that makes Ginobili critical to the team. He is a vocal leader and the team's resident cut-up, chastising the younger players when he isn't playfully bullying them.
Ginobli said he has no plans to retire, but he is cherishing this trip to the Finals more than his three previous appearances.
"I completely love what I do, and I think people can tell," Ginobili said. "Even though I can start to see the end of the road, it's hard to really imagine being a retired player because I still really love what I do. I enjoy the locker room before a game. I even enjoy it after a loss; just the camaraderie, the stay together, going to dinner to talk about what we've done wrong.
"I feel like you've got somebody that supports you and you support somebody else. Trying to get over humps all together is great. It's a great feeling that you are probably never going to have ever again once you retire.
"Sometimes you are tired, you are older; it's harder to come back from injures, but at the same time, you enjoy what you do."
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Written by Cook Kosher on Tuesday, 15 February 2011. Posted in Tips And Tricks
If you've ever wondered how Pennette differs from Penne or what Gemelli is, this inforgraphic by Charming Italy will help you identify the various kinds of pasta.
Great chart and very informative. I really learned a lot about pasta. Keep all these wonderful blogs coming. Thanks!
Nice chart!
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