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A number of heavy metal's finest have lent their talents to a new album paying homage to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson . Blabbermouth.net reports that the release, titled Thriller -- A Metal Tribute to Michael Jackson , will feature 13 hard-hitting covers of Jackson's greatest hits by members of Asking Alexandria , Guns N' Roses , Sevendust and Motörhead , among others.
Asking Alexandria frontman Danny Worsnop teams up with Mr. Big 's Billy Sheehan for "Man in the Mirror," while Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal covers "Beat It" with Diemonds frontwoman Priya Panda , andSevendust singer Lajon Witherspoon reinterprets "Black or White" with some help from ex- KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick and former The Firm bassist Tony Franklin . The collection also features Alien Ant Farm 's cover of "Smooth Criminal," which was a hit for the band back in 2001.
Thriller -- A Metal Tribute to Michael Jackson will arrive in stores on October 22. Here's the track list:
"Thriller" -- Chuck Billy (Testament)
"Man in the Mirror" -- Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria) & Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big)
"The Way You Make Me Feel" -- Angelo Moore (Fishbone), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), & Rudy Sarzo (Queensrÿche)
"Black or White" -- Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust), Bruce Kulick (ex-KISS), & Tony Franklin (The Firm)
"Beat It" -- Priya Panda (Diemonds) & Ron Bumblefoot Thal (Guns N' Roses)
"Billy Jean" -- Corey Glover (Living Colour) & Phil Campbell (Motörhead)
"Shake Your Body" (Down to the Group)" -- Elias Soriano (Nonpoint)
"Rock with You" -- Doug Pinnick (King's X)
"Dirty Diana" -- Chris Jericho (Fozzy)
"Bad" -- Paul Di'Anno (ex-Iron Maiden) & Craig Goldy (Dio)
"They Don't Care About Us" -- Icarus Witch
"Never Can Say Goodbye" -- Lonnie Jordan (War)
"Smooth Criminal" -- Alien Ant Farm
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Spiritual Warfare
Bowing to the Dragon?
America's Perilous Partnership with China
By Berit Kjos - September 10, 2011
Part 1: The Unseen Foe Behind Rising Evil
Part 2: America's Perilous Partnership with China (Open)
Part 3: Hating Truth and Primed for Deception!
Part 4: Post-Christian Culture Welcomes Witchcraft!
Part 5: Behind the Peaceful Scenes of Christmas
Part 6: The Misguided Aims of the Counterfeit Church
Part 7:Good or Evil - Who Wins?
Part 8: Rising Persecution in the "Land of the Free"
Part 9: Transforming the World through Violence, War, Deception & ChaosA Devious Plot for a Blinded Nation
Fascism or a
blend of all?
" U.S. missiles infected with Chinese fakes...'84,000 suspect electronic parts installed
"China is buying up bits and pieces of the country and announcing plans
to create little Chinese settlements....'A Chinese group known as 'Sino-Michigan
Properties LLC' has bought up 200 acres of land near the town of Milan,
Michigan. Their plan is to construct a 'China City' with artificial lakes,
a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens.
Essentially, it would be a little slice of communist China dropped right
into the heartland of America.'... A few other targets are:
"China and the United States are actively cooperating on a wide range of security, economic, social, energy, and environmental issues..."[1] President Hu ends state visit to US
"I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time....Communism makes a profound appeal to the human mind....Its promise was whispered... [by the serpent in the garden]: 'Ye shall be as gods.' It is the great alternative faith of mankind..."[2] Former Communist Whittaker Chambers
"...at least three operatives of the...[Muslim] Brotherhood – whose credo is 'Jihad is our way and death in the cause of Allah is our dream' – have penetrated the Obama administration."[4]White House threats
Year 2011 may win the prize for rapid change and global threats. Our collapsing economy, the planned "Day [or months] of Rage," our porous borders, the fast-spreading sway of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ominous shadow of Sharia Law -- all seem designed to weaken America and crush the faith that brought us freedom.
We shouldn't be surprised. Through the ages, God has warned His people about times such as these. Whenever ancient Israel traded God-given Truth for popular deceptions, He pulled back His hand of protection and allowed the powers of darkness to fill the gap.[5]
Those oppressive forces are often most visible through rulers and planners who have yielded to them. Karl Marx, his fellow revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, and Saul Alinsky illustrate it well. Their words expose their hearts:
"I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above," wrote Marx.[6]
"In this revolution we will have to awaken the devil in the people, to stir up the basest passions," saidBakunin.[6]
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical...who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer," wrote Alinsky in Rules for Radicals.[7]
All three were familiar with spiritual warfare. They named our unseen foe and followed his evil plans. Do you wonder what forces our nation will follow in the times ahead?
Trusting China?
Communist China may seem less intimidating than Stalin's bullies, the Muslim Brotherhood or Mexico's murderous Zetas. But don't be deceived by the friendly images of President Hu. China's torturous persecutions, fake "trials," brutal re-learning camps, and enduring hatred for Biblical Christianity should sound the alarm. As America's main moneylender, it is fast gaining footholds across our nation.
Remember what God told us long ago. It's so simple and true: "The borrower is servant to the lender." Prov 22:7
A recent article by Phyllis Schlafly titled, "Candidates Should Be Talking About China," has raised some red flags that the media tends to ignore. The following concessions reflect the sweeping global agenda of China -- with support from America:
"The only cut Barack Obama is willing to make in federal spending is in our military power, which means he will be ceding our military superiority to China....
"While Obama is shutting down our U.S. space program, China is going full-speed ahead to achieve space dominance...
"China is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers...
"China is a killer of U.S. jobs...
"China has already built seven U.S. schools....
"In Idaho, China is using a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals and special tax exemptions to foreign firms that move to the U.S...
"Targets of Chinese investment in New York include the New York subway system...and the World Trade Center.
"After General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, closed all G.E.'s U.S. Edison light bulb plants and opened a light bulb plant in China, Barack Obama named Immelt his Jobs Czar....
"The new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial...was sculpted in China by a Chinese sculptor [whose specialty is Mao statutes] out of Chinese granite and assembled in the U.S. by imported Chinese workers." [His specialties are sculptures of Mao and symbolic images for the Chinese Communist Party.]
"More than 80 percent of the active ingredients for prescription drugs sold in the United States are made in other countries, mostly in China or India, where the manufacturers and facilities are rarely or never inspected."[8]
Why would America trust deceptive China for medications? How dare we believe its promises? Why would we open our schools to China's oppressive anti-family, anti-Christian ideology?
And why would we "rely on China" for critical ingredients needed for our defense? Ponder the bizarre implications in these two articles:
"...the United States is choosing to rely on China for the rare earth metals that are critical for the production of America's strategic defense weapons, giving the communist nation a chokehold on the ability of the U.S. to defend itself."[9]
"China gains chokehold over U.S. defense"
"China is reportedly the source of many of the hacking efforts directed at U.S. military and security computer networks.... A growing concern is that China can exploit its position as one of the world's largest producers of computer chips, motherboards, and other physical parts of the Internet to affect American and allied infrastructure."[10] "China and Cybersecurity"
Yet, our current government honors this partnership! It may well lead to a second American revolution -- one that will reverse every freedom gained three centuries ago.
Have we forgotten how God blessed America? Today, as in the days of Jesus, most people who heard His message "walked with Him no more." (John 6:66) While supposedly "christian" churches are conforming to the world's cultural standards, much of the Bible is dismissed as offensive obstacles to the new collective "freedom."
Those who resist spiritual compromise no longer fit. [See Dialectic Process and Brainwashing] So don't be surprised if He withdraws His loving protection and lets both spiritual and physical foes bring the judgments we deserve.
"The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. ...because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God." Deut 28:43-45
Friendly Communism?
Our government's choices make little sense these days! That is, unless our leaders are following a century-old agenda that is rarely discussed openly: the fulfillment of international goals formalized during the founding of the United Nations back in 1945. Led by communist Alger Hiss (functioning as the first Secretary-General), the world's global-minded leaders gathered in San Francisco to plan the steps toward a worldwide union.
At that initial UN meeting, communism was not considered a problem. Many, if not most, participants were left-leaning socialists if not outright communists. Their first elected Secretary General was Trygve Lie, the far-left leader of the Norwegian Workers Party.
The communist vision never faded; its visionaries merely revised their tactics. By the 1950s, many realized that the violent revolutions linked to Lenin, Stalin and Mao would never bring popular assent. So tenacious communists like the British Fabians, Italian leader Antonio Gramsci and community organizer Saul Alinksky conjured up more effective plans. [Both Obama and Hillary Clinton studied Alinsky's methods]
They succeeded! Hiding behind the more "compassionate" face of socialism, communism spread its lethal roots underground -- gradually changing the cultures it invaded. Its enticing branches grew fast -- fed by the mind-dulling liberal news media, our NEA-led schools, and the dark, addictive entertainment media that revolutionized values, weakened the conscience, and mocked our God.
As planned by human (and inspired by spiritual) forces, it distorted the gospel, corrupted churches, and taught the lie that God's moral guidelines were now obsolete.
As resistance eroded, socialism would freely spread its utopian visions of global peace and economic equality in our schools and universities. Ignorant of the actual realities behind human history and Communist tyranny, the masses embraced the lies. Why not welcome the "social justice" of this paternal new form of governance?
Of course, no government can afford it for long! Look at Europe today! But the promising illusions served a purpose: They destroyed the old Christian obstacles. They undermined the work ethic, personal initiative, independence, moral character and Christian faith. Eventually, they stirred the kind of discontent and rage that serves revolutionary leaders well.
If the West follows China's ways, the labor force will soon face unthinkable changes. As Phyllis Schlafly points out:[8]
"Despite California's 10 percent unemployment, China will soon finish rebuilding the great San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge damaged in the 1989 earthquake. A Chinese company built the construction machinery and the 12 bridge segments in China and is installing them in California, using 3,000 imported Chinese workers (steel-cutters, welders, engineers, etc.), paid $12 a day, working 7 a.m. till 11 p.m., seven days a week, and sleeping in a company dorm."
Something new is rising, and it will not be the America we have known! The coming realignment of expectations and values will challenge all who truly love God to stand firm no matter what the cost.
Who will warn our children and grandchildren? Not our schools! It's no secret that Christian students are fast losing their constitutional right to discuss their faith openly on school grounds from kindergarten through university. If parents and grandparents don't teach them about God -- His Word, His armor and His ultimate victory -- few will know the peace, hope and strength we have through Jesus Christ our Lord.
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the DEVIL prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, firm in your faith." 1 Peter 5:8-9
The Cycle of Change?
Remember this chart of history's cycles. Ancient Israel passed through these phases again and again. America has not even circled it once, but we're nearing the bottom.
Before crossing the Jordan into their promised land, God's people were prepared with warning as well as promises for the future. Moses told them,
"IF you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God....the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth....The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated....The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow..." Deut 28:1, 7, 12
By God's grace, that promise became a reality for America. And countless Christians have thanked Him for it! But here comes the downward slide:
"...IF you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God....the Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed... because ... you have forsaken Me....The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust..."
"Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy...for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve your enemies.... The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar.... And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land. ...the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues...." Deut 28:15, 20, 24, 47-59
This warning to Israel illustrates God's unchanging ways. Through the ages, He has shown us both His blessings and His justice -- His peace and His disciplines. This balance applies to us today, for our sovereign God never changes. And the following message to His people in New Testament days was designed for our times as well:
"...do not become idolaters as were some of them. ...Nor let us commit sexual immorality....nor complain....Now all these things happened to them [in Old Testament times] as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come." 1 Cor 10:7-12
It's not too late to turn back to our Lord. He has shown us the path into the shelter of His love:
"...be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age....Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day..." Eph 6:10-13
"...my eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; in You I take refuge." Psalm 141:8
See also What the Bible tells us about persecution |Brainwashing & "Education Reform"
Real Conspiracies -- Past and Present | Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
The Congressional Testimony of Richard Wurmbrand
Was Marx a Satanist? by Richard Wurmbrand
1. President Hu ends state visit to US, China Daily, January 22, 2011.
2. Whittaker Chambers J.R. Nyquist, "Communism Today: Dead or Alive? A Communist Conspiracy?" Forcing Change, Volume 4, Issue 11, January 4, 2011. Quoting former communist, Whittaker Chambers.
3. Brad MacDonald, "Why Race Riots Are Inevitable," September 8, 2011, www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8631.7364.0.0
4. Underpublicized threat deep in White House, WorldNetDaily, September 2, 2011.
5. Isaiah 1:19-20
6. Richard Wurmbrand, Was Marx a Satanist? (Diane Books, 1976); p.7 and p.22.
7. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (Vintage Books, New York, 1989), Introductory tribute to Lucifer at the start of the book.
8. Phyllis Schlafly, "Candidates Should Be Talking About China," http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/sept11/11-09-02.html
9. "China gains chokehold over U.S. defense" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=262061
10. "China and Cybersecurity: Trojan Chips and U.S.–Chinese Relations," May 5, 2011, www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/china-and-cyber-security-trojan-chips-and-us-chinese-relations


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Far West Nordic Ski Education Association in conjunction with Northstar California presents the 7th annual Tahoe Rim Tour & Race, a point to point 26 kilometer race from North Tahoe High School in Tahoe City to the Cross Country Center at Northstar California Resort. This is a fundraiser for the Far West Nordic Ski Education Association's Junior Ski Programs.
Join us for this very special event that interconnects some of the most scenic parts of Tahoe XC and Northstar's trails. We'll have on-going festivities at the Northstar Cross-Country, Telemark & Snowshoe Center as racers come in. Enjoy an end of race chili lunch followed by an awards ceremony.
Start Time: 9:00 a.m. for Classic Ski Division, 9:30 a.m. for Skate Ski Division
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Promotion in faculty rank is given by the Medical School and University of Michigan only after a lengthy process of evaluation involving your academic department, external evaluators, committees within the Medical School, the Dean, and for higher levels of the faculty ladder, the EVPMA, the Provost, and the President. (Senior level promotions in the Instructional Track require further approval by the Board of Regents.) It is important to note that academic promotion is generally not a reward for services rendered, but the reward for scholarly work that adds significantly to your field, as well as for important contributions in clinical activities, teaching, and administration. At the highest levels of our faculty ladder (professor, clinical professor, research scientist, and research professor) the University expects our faculty to be the academic leaders in their fields.
Once you are familiar with the faculty structure and have defined your expectations, discuss your career path and timelines for promotion with your chair or the chair's delegate. Promotion is at the discretion of the chair. Usually, departmental committees meet in the spring for the next year's promotion cycle and review your promotion file.
Your CV should be up to date and conform to the Medical School guidelines. Collect all your teaching evaluations from students, residents, fellows or other groups, since your appointment or last promotion. These will be used to craft the educator's portfolio, which describes your teaching responsibilities and highlights one or two major educational accomplishments. During this process the Faculty Affairs Office is available to answer any questions.
To proceed with promotion your chair will need the following items for your file.
Your chair will select a minimum of five reviewers for an appraisal of you and your work. From promotion to associate or full professor 5 external, unbiased reviewers are necessary. For junior level promotions 3 to 5 internal or external reviewers are necessary. You can discuss this with the chair and offer some recommendations (pro and con) regarding evaluators.
Once all paperwork is assembled the promotion package is submitted to the Office of Faculty Affairs by October 1. The Medical School promotion committees (jury of your peers) will discuss your work in detail, trying to reconcile your aspirations and productivity to the academic standards of the Medical School and University. If the promotion committees agree that promotion is justified, the Medical School Executive Committee undertakes a similar deliberation. The Dean and the EVPMA must then concur.
Your promotion file, including a final letter from the Dean, is then sent to the Office of the Provost by mid-February. The Provost reviews each package and may obtain broad consultation. Senior level promotions in the Instructional Track require further approval by the Board of Regents usually at their May meeting. If all goes well, promotions will be effective on September 1, at the beginning of an academic year.


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when I feel alright. I feel like I deserve to feel shitty all the time.
Every morning I awake and am immediately upset. Discouraged by the fact that I didn't just slip away in my sleep or manage to permanently stay in dream land. It isn't that my dreams are always happy and carefree—they aren't. I have dreams in which I am attacked, dreams that start with me in a jail cell, sometimes I am naked in the Arctic, sometimes I am being chased, the scenarios go on and on. There is a difference in my dreams though. In my dreams I may see someone chasing after me and think, "well, I really should try to get away from this person," and my own running will then commence. What I didn't feel was that intense fear of what this person was going to do to me and what that would mean for me and my life carrying on. In a dream I am able to just live. In reality I have to focus on living in society. And that 'in society' part is the part that kills me, that wants me to stay in dream land. Maybe I just want to live on my animal instincts and run whenever it seems appropriate, eat whenever I'm hungry even if doing so means that I have to go out and slaughter an animal myself for nourishment or simply pick my own orange off of a tree, and sleep whenever I am tired despite the fact that it means I might be sleeping during some important meeting because there would be no important meeting. I know why society has been created: each step towards "progress" that has been made has been made in an effort of trying to create more ease in living. I mean slaughtering a bull yourself every time you want some steak isn't the easiest of things to do. And has anyone ever picked their own bananas? The scariest, deadliest spiders use the center of the bushels for their homes AND bananas grow at the tops of very tall trees so getting up there is a challenge in itself. Thus, I can see the problems that having a society has worked to absolve, but I am not convinced that the benefits outweigh the detriments. I guess for now I am just going to stay in bed, aspiring to keep dreaming. Aspiring to live outside of the societal open and closed doors. But I can't actually do that, because society is here. So instead I am going to wish that I could stay in bed, could keep dreaming, just to be stuck living in society. There is no escaping society.
It's a struggle to live when one's only true desire is to die.
Tick tock, Tick tock
I can only stare at the clock.
With nothing to do,
but tie my shoe.
There is still nowhere to go,
so I wait while analyzing my toe.
A head full of wonder,
so much so I blunder.
Is there really something out there for me,
do I have a destiny?
I am not a productive member,
so useless people will not remember.
what, these days, is life,
but an endless sife.
Is there anymore meaning,
or is there just room for fiending?
I dont want to think,
I simply want to blink,
and have nothing stand behind,
the blinking eye that looks so kind.
Because now I'm a wreck,
so anxious soon will be heard the snap of my neck.
For now the pressure is too much,
I need something to clutch.
Or maybe to find my niche,
to dig myself out of this ditch.
I made mistakes and that I know,
Many people do and then they grow.
But my mishaps seem to have gotten the best of me,
in this world where living comes with a fee.
I have nothing to offer but the words in my heart,
and others things that fall under the category of art.
How I will survive I do not know,
Its time to shrug and recall it worked for people like Poe.
But who am I but another in a sea of dreams,
while everything is falling apart at the seams.
This is not a time to aspire,
as much as a time to think of how I can later retire.
The jitters make me want to cry,
as I babble on and suck the world dry.
Tick tock, Tick tock,
I can only stare at the clock.
Creativity cannot stay captive inside the body,
Art is an interesting thing.
It tears at you and pulls at you until you finally let it free.
And then what?
You spent your whole life thinking of that one brilliant thing,
that one thing that you knew was amazing,
and others, they knew that it was amazing too.
But in the end you have no money,
You have no fame,
You have nothing.
So you are left to shrivel with your creative spirit,
until depression gets the best of you and you are gone.
For what is life if you cannot do what you love,
and what is life without money.
Its all about who you know,
but when you're an average person like me,
you know nobody and you are left to suffer.
To live a life where you feel captive,
unable to express the beauty inside your mind.
To help the world; to save everyone.
Because no one knows who you are,
and those that know don't listen.
So you are stuck writing stupid little tidbits on a blog that no one reads.
that one day someone will discover you,
so that you can bloom.
But until then,
until that day that will likely never come,
you sit alone,
depressed with a knife in hand,
wondering if today is the day you are finally going to off yourself.
let the world be filled with people that will offer more than just beauty,
for people that will offer substance.
Creative people have so much to give,
but nothing of actual value.
We are useless.
This girl was stuck,
She seemed to be shit out of luck.
She had plenty to consider a friend,
Mary, Molly, and even Lucy in the end.
They all had fun together but it wasn't enough,
So Roxy came and tried to help her with stuff.
It didn't work and she was still shit out of luck,
So she thought maybe she needed a good fuck.
But a fuck cannot compare to the friends she had,
so in the end she just stayed feeling bad.
There is a funny thing when it comes to satisfaction,
No one believes it can be their action.
But when you look back and see whats been done,
You realize a lot of fun has been won.
Won as in achieved and left to be,
When all you truly have is the person you call me.
Because who are we to anyone but strangers,
Hoping those other people can be hangers,
People to hang your problems on,
Hang the things you would rather not pawn.
People to keep you being you,
because in the end there is only one in your crew.
There is no one you can trust enough,
In this world that is just so tough.
There once was a girl named Kilamoods,
She could hang longer than any of the dudes.
She would pop her pills,
show her skills,
and still be able to know her true.
but she didnt only know a few,
she knew her and all the rest of the crew,
because nothing went past Kilamoods,
information to her was like eatings foods.
she would smoke her mary,
pop the dust of the fairy.
burn the devil crop,
drink what should be absorbed by a mop.
let anything enter her mouth that will make her feel good,
even though nothing really could.
then one day she died a silent death
saying only one thing with her last breath.
"I wish I found what I wanted in this little life of mine,
Instead of wasting it searching through all the time I could have been fine."
We live amongst an ignorant and arrogant species that believes it is the best on the wide scale. The species dwells in a system labeled society, modeled after the colonizing designs of Ancient Greek minds from Athens. The vision of thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Diogenes. We don't live freely, frolicking in meadows, valleys, or any other part of nature our animal instinct attracts us to. Instead we view our inhibition as an entity, separating us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Now, I don't know how true the separation is, all living things have personality alike, interspecies communication simply has a difficulty factor exceeding human ability at this time. Where a person frowns, a flower wilts, a dog whimpers, a piece of grass dies, but a monkey—a monkey frowns like a person just the same. People that have not ruined the sensitive ecosystem we live in for personal gain. So, forgetting about the separation, inhibition as an entity I can agree with: the soul. The soul does not die until it is ready. The body—that dies, but think of that as a mere vessel, one among many available, used to allow the soul's expression. There are beautiful souls out there, but with beauty comes ugly because it is impossible to know one without the other. What do these beautiful souls do in the face of those that are vile within the system we have created? How does a good vessel react to an evil vessel? In what way does the soul manifest in humans? It is happening right now within each of us, we cannot fully communicate with the souls that temporarily found a different type of living vessel, so we must work to understand this one. Beauty and good are constructive; ugly and evil are deconstructive. Who are these productive members of society?
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The economic costs of alcohol abuse in New Mexico topped $2.5 billion in 2006 — not to mention the nearly 1,000 lives lost to alcohol-related diseases, auto crashes, and other consequences – according to the New Mexico Department of Health.
Epidemiologist Jim Roeber said the toll from drinking is far greater than most people believe.
"Alcohol abuse is a major contributing factor in many motor vehicle fatalities, but that is not the only place where it can cause injuries and death," he said. "Alcohol abuse can play a role in fires, falls, drug overdose, and drowning, and can contribute to violence such as child abuse, homicide, suicide and personal assault."
Alcohol-related chronic liver disease is the leading cause of alcohol-related death in New Mexico, Roeber added.
The full report is available online at the New Mexico Department of Health website (PDF).


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Just curious for those who have done provera to bring AF, how long after stopping it did AF arrive for you? I am starting it in the morning and I am so ready to get this show on the road!
I just finished a course of 10 days at 10mg. I got AF 5 days after taking my last pill. GL!
I have taken it almost every month since August and it's always been 14days after the first pill. So with the 5day it was 10days after I stopped taking them and with the 10day I started 3-4 days after the first pill.
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Aversion therapy is a form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort. This conditioning is intended to cause the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations in order to stop the specific behavior.
Aversion therapies can take many forms, for example: placing unpleasant-tasting substances on the fingernails to discourage nail-chewing; pairing the use of an emetic with the experience of alcohol; or pairing behavior with electric shocks of various intensities.
In addictions[edit]
The major use of aversion therapy is currently for the treatment of addiction to alcohol and other drugs. This form of treatment has been in continuous operation since 1932. The treatment is discussed in the Principles of Addiction Medicine, Chapter 8, published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2003.
Aversion therapy works on changing positive emotional associations with the sight, smell and taste of alcohol or other drugs. Follow up studies done at 6 and 12 months on populations matched on 17 baseline variables shows that aversion therapy resulted in significantly better abstinence rates.[citation needed] There was no increase in leaving the hospital against medical advice in patients seeking aversion therapy compared to patients in non-aversion programs.[citation needed]
Aversion therapy is also used in the self-help community to treat minor behavioral issues with the aid of an elastic band, the user or patient would snap the elastic band on his/her wrist while an undesirable thought/behavior presents itself.
The results of Antabuse combined with behavioral marital therapy for treating alcoholism has growing research support.[1][2]
Traditional aversion therapy, which employed either chemical aversion[3] or electrical aversion [4] has now, since 1967, typically been replaced by aversion in the imagination, a technique which is known as covert sensitization.[5]
Covert sensitization is a powerful and effective form of treatment and it has been used successfully in the treatment of alcoholism, compulsive gambling and juvenile delinquency. This treatment approach can also be used in the treatment of cigarette smokers, and there are favorable results here especially when being compared to other techniques.
Kraft & Kraft assessed the value of covert sensitization in six case studies—a fingernail biter, a cannabis smoker, an obese lady, a cigarette smoker, an individual with a chocolate addiction and an alcoholic. The study showed that covert sensitization was a rapid and cost-effective form of treatment. All the individuals in the study eliminated their maladaptive behavior pattern, and this was maintained at the follow-up.[citation needed][6]
However, Okulitch and Marlatt found that alcoholics subjected to aversive therapy via electric shock did worse than an untreated control group at the 15 month follow up period.[7][8]
In homosexuality[edit]
Aversion therapy was previously considered as a treatment for homosexuality, but since 1994, the American Psychological Association (APA) has declared that it is a dangerous practice that does not work.[citation needed] Since 2006, the use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality has been in violation of the codes of conduct and professional guidelines of the APA and American Psychiatric Association. The use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality is illegal in some countries. The standard in psychotherapy in America and Europe is currently gay affirmative psychotherapy. Guidelines for gay affirmative psychotherapy can be found at APA.[9]
Psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman[10]:156 reported that using aversion therapy to try to change homosexual men's sexual orientation to heterosexual was controversial. In some instances, notably a series of 1966 experiments, the process was initially judged to have worked surprisingly well, with up to 50% of men subjected to such therapy not acting on their homosexual urges. These results produced what Seligman described[10]:156 as "a great burst of enthusiasm about changing homosexuality [that] swept over the therapeutic community" after the results were reported in 1966. However, Seligman notes[11]:157 that the findings were later shown to be flawed: most of the men treated with aversion therapy who stopped homosexual behavior were actually bisexual; among men with an exclusive or near-exclusive homosexual orientation, aversion therapy was far less successful.
Dr. Robert Card conducted shock aversion therapy and published papers advocating therapy to eliminate homosexuality from a patient's personality, including "The Empirical Characteristics and Clinical Utility of the Monarch Adolescent Audio Visual PPG Stimulus Materials"[12] and "What is 'Deviant?' An Examination of Three Distinct Groups' Penile Plethysmograph Responses."[13] In one treatment method, gay volunteers had electrodes attached to their genitals and were then shown homosexual pornography. As the pornography played, the patients were injected with emetic drugs and administered electric shocks.[14] The shocks and emetics would then cease and the homosexual imagery would be replaced by heterosexual pornography, during which time the patient would not be abused.
Aversion therapy took place at a number of research universities during the 1970s.[15] Mental illness and suicide have been attributed to be caused by shock aversion therapy by those who have undergone it and their family members.[16]
Aversion therapy and "sexually deviant" youth[edit]
Aversion therapy is still sometimes forced on children and teenagers who violate sex laws, and especially on individuals believed to have deviant sexual feelings. These youths have been forced to smell ammonia, describe humiliating scenarios, or engage in other uncomfortable acts, while looking at nude pictures, listening to audio tapes describing sexual situations, or describing their own fantasies. In order to measure sexual response, devices such as penile plethysmographs and vaginal photoplethysmographs are sometimes used, despite the controversies surrounding them.[citation needed]
In 1992, the Arizona Civil Liberties Union challenged the Phoenix Memorial Hospital for its use of these methods on children as young as 10. They were defended by the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Since then, policies have usually discouraged the use of forced aversion therapy on children under 14.[17][18]
In popular culture[edit]
- In A Clockwork Orange and its film adaptation, the main character Alex is subjected to a form of experimental aversion therapy aiming to stop his violent behavior.
- In American Horror Story: Asylum, Sarah Paulson's character, Lana Winters, is subjected to a barbaric form of aversion therapy in order to "cure" her lesbianism.
- In Masters of Sex, Barton Scully seeks out aversion therapy to "cure" his homosexuality.
See also[edit]
- ^ O'Farrell, T.J.; Cutter, H.S.G.; Choquette, K.A.; Floyd, F.J. & Bayog, R.D. (1992). Behavior marital therapy for male alcoholics: Marital and drinking adjustment during the two years after treatment. Behavior Therapy, 23, 529–49.
- ^ O'Farrell, T.J.; Cutter, H.G. & Floyd, F.J. (1985). Evaluating behavioral marital therapy for male alcoholics. Behavior Therapy, 16, 147–67.
- ^ Watson, J.B. & Reyner, R. (1920). Conditioned emotional reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3: 1–14
- ^ Maguire, R.J. & Vallance, M. (1964). Aversion therapy by electric shock: a simple technique. British Medical Journal, 1: 151–153.
- ^ Cautela, J.R. (1967). Covert Sensitization. Psychological Reports 20: 259–468.
- ^ Kraft T. & Kraft D. (2005). Covert Sensitization Revisited: Six Case Studies' Contemporary Hypnosis, 22(4): 202–209.
- ^ Bowen, S.; Chawla, N.; Marlatt, G.A. (2011) Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: a clinician's guide
- ^ Okulitch PV & Marlatt GA. (1972). Effects of varied extinction conditions with alcoholics and social drinkers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 79(2):205-11.
- ^ http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/guidelines.htm APA:l
- ^ a b Seligman, Martin E.P. What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Self Improvement. Knopf, 1993; ISBN 0-679-41024-4
- ^ Seligman
- ^ "The Empirical Characteristics and Clinical Utility of the Monarch Adolescent Audio Visual PPG Stimulus Materials." A paper by Peter M. Byrne, M.S. & Robert D. Card, PhD, presented at the 18th Annual Research & Treatment Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Orlando, Florida, October 1999.
- ^ "What is 'Deviant?' An Examination of Three Distinct Groups' Penile Plethysmograph Responses." A paper by Peter M. Byrne, M.S. & Robert D. Card, PhD, presented at the 18th Annual Research & Treatment Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Orlando, Florida, October 1999.
- ^ YouTube – A gay mormon describes aversion therapy at BYU Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- ^ [1]
- ^ Sin and Death in Mormon Country
- ^ http://www.ethicaltreatment.org/arizonarepublic.htm
- ^ http://www.ethicaltreatment.org/yankowski.htm
- "The Aversion Project: Human rights abuses of gays and lesbians in the SADF by health workers during the apartheid era" by Mikki van Zyl, Jeanelle de Gruchy, Sheila Lapinsky, Simon Lewin, and Graeme Reid, Simply Said and Done, Cape Town, October 1999.
- Houser, Ward. Aversion Therapy. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.), Garland Publishing, 1990. p. 101.


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OK, you've just bought that new or used car and the pressure is off, right? Wrong. The next step for the car dealer is to get you into the "box." You won't hear this word mentioned. It's inside car dealer slang for the F&I office or the business office. This is the place where you sign all of those papers making the sale legal and final. But in addition to that, it's also a very important profit center for car dealers. In many car dealerships it's the most profitable department. It's not uncommon for car dealers to make an additional $1,000 profit or more in "the box" on each car they sell.
Here's how that profit is generated. First and usually foremost is making money on the interest they charge you. Essentially, they make money on "the spread" just like banks make money when they loan it.
For example, a car dealer will borrow money from Bank of America for 2.9 percent and loan it to you for 5.9 percent, or whatever interest rate they can convince you to accept.
The second way they earn that big profit in "the box" is by selling you "products," which are added to the price of the car you just bought. There are many products and some of the most common are extended service warranties, maintenance plans, road hazard insurance, GAP insurance, window etch and LoJack.
The way you should protect yourself on the interest rate is to have already shopped your own bank or credit union and two other banks for the best interest rate you can qualify for. Never go into "the box" without knowing what the best rate other banks or credit unions will allow you.
The best way to protect yourself against the products they will try to sell you is to completely understand each product. Do you want or need an extended warranty on your new car? If this product costs $1,900 for example, how long are you going to keep the car and how long are you likely to be driving it when it's out of the manufacturer's warranty?
Ask the same questions of each product they try to sell you. If you are unclear on the merits of a product, do not commit. You can always go home and think about and seek advice from friends and advisors.
Another important tactic that I recommend is to never go into "the box" alone. If it's just you and the F&I manager (often called business manager), and there is a dispute over what was said, it's just your word against his.
Also, having a friend or advisor present will usually be a deterrent to any attempted deception.
These are some of the kinds of deceptions you should be on the lookout for.
Tying the sale of a product such as an extended service contract to the interest rate or eligibility to have the bank finance your car is illegal. But this practice happens all too often behind the closed doors of the "the box." The F&I manger may tell you that the bank "requires" you to buy the extended warranty, GAP insurance, another product in order to protect the bank's collateral. This is simply a lie and it's illegal for banks or car dealers to do this.
Another common form of deception is to simply not disclose the products or interest rate and have you sign the contract without reading it. There are a large number of documents to be signed after you buy a car. Buyers are often in a state of euphoria now that they have bought their dream car and are in too much of a hurry to sign everything and drive their new car home. The car dealer is required by law to give you a signed copy of the installment sales contract. Be sure you carefully read it and be sure have a copy. If you don't get a copy, you may find that you signed a different contract than the one you read.
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I get a lot of calls from victims of "the box" and the one thing they all have in common is that they let themselves be rushed into signing the documents so that they could drive their dream car home that same day.
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Also, MNerd said that SHSH blobs might be different when using OTA but I don't understand that part.
If I were you, I'd stay w/ the OTA update and wait for the jailbreak to come out. Then, see if you have any problems w/ the jailbreak and report them to the Devs. I'm considering downgrading back to 6.0.2 before the signing window closes and then doing an OTA update instead. The worst that could happen is that I'd have to do a full restore if I had issues after the jalibreak.
In your case, you're already talking about doing a full restore so you might as well wait and see how the jailbreak reacts to your OTA update!
The main problem with an OTA update for A5+ devices is explained here: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
In summary, the APtickets you get would not qualify the device for a clean restore outside of Apple's signing window. (That might still be the case on 6.1, but you have a better chance with clever folks like MuscleNerd working on this.) Depending on the state of the file system, you may be able to jailbreak an OTA update, but if something went awry later (once Apple had stopped signing 6.1) and you wanted to do a clean restore, the OTA update tickets would guarantee you wouldn't be able to.
The safest option is to do a full restore through iTunes and then save your shsh blobs.
In any case, like you suggested, I'll just wait 'til the JB is released and if I have problems I'll do the restore.
I hope Cydia is optimized for the iPhone 5 screen!
Typically the OTA does not cause problems during the initial JB. The problems arise when apple releases another update and you do a restore to a firmware they are not signing. So if you wait, and then have an issue later, you bay once again be without a JB.
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At the Class AAAAAA state volleyball semifinals Wednesday night at Chattahoochee, the favorites advanced to the finals as two-time defending champion Walton swept North Cobb 3-0 and Harrison beat Johns Creek 3-1. Kelly Scott had 34 assists and Kodi Smith had 14 kills and 12 digs for the second-seeded Hoyas. The Raiders were led by Jessica Sloan's 11 kills and Celeste Ferguson's 27 assists. As a team, Walton had 10 service aces.
The two highest-seeded teams in Class AAAAA also advanced as Area 4 rivals McIntosh and Whitewater will meet for the fourth time this season in the final. The Wildcats won the previous three meetings. Aggressive serving was key for the host Chiefs in their semifinal sweep over Starr's Mill as coach Wendy Weaver's squad combined for 12 aces, led by Kassandra Robert's five. For Whitewater, Annika Van Gunst had 16 kills while sister Teegan had 14 in the 3-0 win over Lakeside-DeKalb. Abby Baker contributed 16 digs for coach Valerie Jones' Wildcats.
The seedings also held true in Class AAAA as Sandy Creek and Columbus will meet in Saturday's final at Marietta. The Blue Devils swept host Marist behind eight kills from Natalie Twyford. The War Eagles saw Alex Nagle and Bailey Weiland combine for 12 kills. Coach Paul Collins' Patriots swept Southeast Whitfield on the strength of 17 kills by Allie Davenport and 30 assists by freshman Alexis Broadwater.
St. Pius upset second-seeded Woodward Academy in the fourth meeting this season between the two squads. Despite having to replace injured setter Amanda Stitt midweek, the No. 3 seed Golden Lions swept the host War Eagles behind 14 digs by Bianca Borough, 16 kills by Emily Morrison and 11 kills by Leah Hardeman. Coach John Frederick's squad will face Blessed Trinity in the Class AAA final, which beat Oconee County in straight sets. Molly McAlvany had 16 kills and a .636 hitting percentage while Maggie Rick had 32 assists for the Titans.
In Class AA, No. 2 seed Westminster beat Greater Atlanta Christian in four sets as Carolina Welsh had 22 digs, Mason Maroney had 18 assists and 14 digs, Ellie Hartman had 29 digs and 14 assists and Caroline Beadles had 17 digs for the Wildcats. Lovett edged host Wesleyan 3-2 in the other Class AA semifinal.
The top two seeds in Class A will clash in Saturday's final at Marietta as Landmark Christian and Walker each advanced. Tiffany Creamer had 14 kills and nine digs for the War Eagles, while Jenny Luckie had 13 digs at Pinecrest Academy. Walker benefited from Anna Chocallo's 23 digs and seven aces while Brooke Warner had 22 assists and sister Paige had 15 kills. The Wolverines totaled 16 aces.
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Nice anytime Wesleyan loses. thanks Lovett.
November 1st, 2012
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Have Walton's Tori Ferguson and Celeste Fitzgerald now been merged into one person?!
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November 2nd, 2012
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Haha, The Walton setter is still setting high outside and high rightside. Middles get to hit every blue moon. The Hoyas will rock them Monday night. Look for a swept as the Walton team fails under the relentless Hoya pressure from all angles.


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What makes difference between low-income people (or people living in poverty) and the others (or people who do not live in poverty)?
What can we do to end the world poverty? If you are not living in poverty, think what brought you to where you are. Why poor people have become poor? Is it because your parents were not poor? Is it because the ways you think are different? I think here lies some answers to how to end the world poverty.
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Jang hunSep 7 2011: I think it's not their(poor people) fault.
There are many causes to their poor condition.
Like nation, ethnicity,their parents, their education level, or etc.
Of causely, there are their inadequacy.
If one man has been failed in business, there's many causes.
So that's not entirely his fault.
Likewise, Steve Jobs is great entrepreneur,
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Consequently, I think there is some important factor, coincidence.
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43 U.S. Code § 423a - Construction charges on permanently unproductive lands already paid; disposition
The construction charges prior to May 25, 1926, paid on permanently unproductive lands excluded from the project shall be applied as a credit on charges due or to become due on any remaining irrigable land covered by the same water-right contract or land taken in exchange as provided in section 423c of this title. If the charges so paid exceed the amount of all water-right charges due and unpaid, plus the construction charges not yet due, the balance shall be paid in cash to the holder of the water-right contract covering the land so excluded or to the irrigation district affected; which in turn shall be charged with the responsibility of making suitable adjustment with the landowners involved. Should all the irrigable lands of a water-right applicant be excluded from the project as permanently unproductive, and no exchange be made as provided in said section, the total construction charges paid before May 25, 1926, less any accrued charges on account of operation and maintenance, shall be refunded in cash, the water-right contract shall be canceled, and all liens on account of water-right charges shall be released.
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Updated at 1:35 p.m.: Nearly 1.9 million votes have already been cast in Tuesday's general election in Georgia — 35 percent of all those registered, according to figures released this morning by Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
But if you calculate a 70 percent turnout rate by 7 p.m. Tuesday, the number of early votes would tally more than half. (Turnout was 75 percent in 2008.)
Early voting in Georgia concluded on Friday. The most surprising number: Without an overt campaign in this state on behalf of President Barack Obama, African-American turnout for early voting matched the 2008 rate, at 34 percent of all advanced ballots cast.
In Georgia, that won't change the outcome of the presidential race. Republican Mitt Romney will carry the day – but the number is sure to encourage Democrats as they cast their eyes toward 2014 and beyond.
This was noted by Gov. Nathan Deal on Saturday during an address to the Cobb County GOP. Said the governor, according to Jon Gillooly and the Marietta Daily Journal:
"If the vote in 2012 shows a dramatic increase in Democrat turnout and Democrat votes versus Republicans even though we may still have a majority of the vote and even though our electoral votes in the Electoral College may still and hopefully will go to Gov. Romney, those differences in the vote totals of one side versus the other will be the primary indicator of whether or not we will see a significant effort of resurgence in the Democratic Party."
Heavy African-American turnout could bode ill for the statewide vote on Amendment One, the charter school measure.
Note that the top two counties that produced the most votes — 17 percent of all early votes cast — are considered Democratic territory:
– DeKalb: 160,820;
– Fulton: 153,122;
– Cobb: 124,025;
– Gwinnett: 107,788;
– Henry: 62,723.
Just in case things get tight on Tuesday night, the secretary of state's office reports that 201,132 mail-in ballots have been received, and 73,168 remain outstanding.
Here's a further breakdown:
Total early votes cast: 1,882,558
Black female: 406,784
Black male: 228,286
Total black: 635,070 (34 percent)
White female: 606,884
White male: 504,476
Total white: 1,111,360 (59 percent)
Asian-Pacific female: 6,874
Asian-Pacific male: 5,285
Total Asian-Pacific: 12,159 (.6 percent)
Hispanic-Latino female: 9,007
Hispanic-Latino male: 6,559
Total Hispanic-Latino: 15,566 (.8 percent)
Native American female: 212
Native American male: 196
Total Native American: 408 (.02 percent)
Other: 104,101 (5.5 percent)
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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November 5th, 2012
9:26 am
We all knew that the African American community would come out in force to vote for their messiah and chief. The real question is what are the under 30 early vote totals and what is the over 65 totals.
November 5th, 2012
9:31 am
good for them ??
November 5th, 2012
9:33 am
I'd like to know which counties see the highest and lowest percentages of early voters.
November 5th, 2012
9:36 am
Headline – Whites cast nearly 60% of early vote. Enough of these racial headlines! Of course, Jim Galloway is a white southerner who cannot get past his upbringing.
November 5th, 2012
9:54 am
So much for the "enthusiasm gap" the GOP claims to enjoy. The public polls the conservatives have been attacking as unfair or misleading, just may be correct after all.
November 5th, 2012
9:57 am
I realize you rarely comment on your own blog, Ji, but I'm curious as to what your thoughts are about the Dems giving up so easily on Georgia for the presidential race.
November 5th, 2012
9:58 am
Sorry about the typo, Jim.
November 5th, 2012
9:58 am
Democrats, turn out the vote in large numbers for President Obama tomorrow. You not only can effect Georgia's future for the better, but you can also effect the popular vote for Obama nationally. I heard an analyst on TV over the weekend say that even though Georgia is presently a Red State, there are many Georgians who are Blue in their beliefs and values, and this analyst said that Georgia will be in play as a Purple state, in the future.
Keep national eyes on Georgia, and keep Democrats running for office in Georgia for Georgia's Legislature. Vote in large numbers for President Obama tomorrow.
November 5th, 2012
10:07 am
How does he know this? Who stands around and records the ethnicity of the early voter? What if someone looks hispanic but is really Egyptian? What if someone looks white but is Hispanic? What if someone's name is Jones but his mother is Gonzalez? Jim Galloway, a true racist, just loves to paint other whites as racist. I guess this help him conquer his personal guilt pangs. Pretty much everything that comes out of his keyboard is nonsense.
November 5th, 2012
10:11 am
B. Thenet
November 5th, 2012
9:54 am
So much for the "enthusiasm gap" the GOP claims to enjoy. The public polls the conservatives have been attacking as unfair or misleading, just may be correct after all.
And who ever said African Americans were not going to turn out for Obama? It is the youth, the over 65 and the white suburban married woman with children and the single white women that are going to be the difference.
Last election the under 30 age group made up 17% of all voters and the over 65 made up 17% of all voters. What will those %'s be this time is the question? It has nothing to do with African American turnout.
November 5th, 2012
10:20 am
Keep whistling.
I believe by the end of the day tomorrow (after the President has been handily re-elected) there will be reason for the OnePartyState to re-evaluate it's 'do nothing but take revenge on Democrats' strategy.
November 5th, 2012
10:28 am
And the walking round money is up to thirty dollars this year.
November 5th, 2012
10:49 am
Good for the black folks. They are voting in large numbers despite the GOP's efforts to suppress their votes. The GOP will live to regret their racist policies in the future as more and more minorities become eligible to vote.
November 5th, 2012
11:10 am
If African-American turnout is heavy in Georgia, imagine what it will be in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Voter ID backlash!
November 5th, 2012
11:13 am
If you can't make your case, use race
November 5th, 2012
11:24 am
No one is trying to suppress anyone's vote, unless the black panthers are at it again. I wonder what percentage of black voters casted more than one vote? That would be an interesting fact to learn!
My prediction for the presidential race is Romney, 55%, Hussein 45%. This election isn't even going to be close! I'm sure Obama will claim that his loss was all George Bush's fault. After all, he has accepted responsibility for absolutely nothing in the past nearly four years.
Suck it up, losers. Your messiah is going down in inglorious defeat.
November 5th, 2012
11:43 am
"Like Ohio, maybe."
The dims will lose Ohio, too.
November 5th, 2012
11:49 am
MITT THE MESSIAH will lose big tomorrow..lol
November 5th, 2012
11:50 am
Believe it or not the President can win Georgia once the Romney supporters realize Kolob is on the table.
November 5th, 2012
12:33 pm
I voted early in an unavailing effort to make this election go away. I'll be so glad when Wednesday rolls around. Thank heavens we don't live in a "battleground state" – I understand those poor souls are being inundated with over 100 messages (across all media) a day.
November 5th, 2012
1:28 pm
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the Democrats had money to burn like the Republicans and had invested meaningful resources into Georgia. My own view is that the key long term demographic to watch is Hispanic voting. Over the long haul, the Republicans have painted themselves into a difficult corner.
November 5th, 2012
2:36 pm
It really saddens me that everything boils down to race in MY state and that there is so much negativity towards one another because of race. "CC" why do assume that blacks voted more than once. History says this has been done more by whites than anyone else. And why is everyone assuming that of the 1.1M white voters that everyone of them voted for Mitt Romney? I know MANY white Democrats…they actually out number blacks in GA.
God is not pleased with the way we treat one another, the assumptions we make about one another and the utter disregard we have for the well-being of one another. Regardless of what anyone feels about the POTUS' policies no one can argue that he has not tried in every way to do what the believes is in the best interest of this country…not for personal gain as many of our president's have.
November 5th, 2012
4:10 pm
Watch cc and td disappear after tomorrow. LOL
November 5th, 2012
4:37 pm
@ LaKeisha
re: 10:28
Over the years, Cynthia Tucker would occasionally mention in some of her columns that a little "walking around money" would be passed out on election day. I didn't half believe it because…if it's so obvious that a newspaper columnist knew about it…then surely election officials could catch it going on. (Is it legal to pay people to go and vote?)
But sure enough…this past Friday morning…my neighbor asked me if I wanted to go, and told me that her church bus would be coming by soon to take everybody to the polling station. I told her that I had already voted, and she couldn't believe I was so stupid. Apparently if I had waited and caught the bus, I could have voted (without having to fight the traffic) and gotten twenty dollars for me trouble, as well. (Don't know where you have to go to get thirty.)
Live and learn, I guess…
November 5th, 2012
5:35 pm
How can the last choice of the republican party be the first choice of america? The math just isnt there. Mitt will not win because southern whites distrust him even more (quiet as its kept) than Barack Obama. He isnt convincing and hasnt been this election cycle. Georgia Republicans are mad as hell that they are wasting votes on a loser…….
November 5th, 2012
6:46 pm
Alot of us White Dems and liberals have just kept our mouths shut in Georgia around the ignorant white Republicans. We keep to our selves and laugh at you. We talk to our black and hispanic friends about what ignorant raciests you are.
Georgia is alot more Purple than you think. It was Blue 10 years ago!. Roy Barnes still pulled in 40+% in the last election. How many of you wish you had elected him rather than corrupt, give a buddy or mistress a job Deal.
Obama is going to surprize some people and take Georgia. After all "Honey Boo Boo" told Jimmy Kimmel she was for Obama.
November 5th, 2012
7:29 pm
No guilt here. If its racist to want everyone who is fit and able to have the opportunity to provide for themselves, well then, pass the white hood.
November 6th, 2012
2:39 am
it'll all be over bout 10 pm tommorow,then it'll be interesting to see how the gop trys to reinvent themselves
November 6th, 2012
8:15 am
No surprise! The only reason half of them are voting is because of the race card.


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Colonial period, c. 1492c. 1820 > European influence, c. 1500c. 1820 > Rococo
The heavy Ultrabaroque style quickly gave way in Latin America to the Rococo style, which was then popular in Europe. Characterized by lightness, elegance, and an abundance of curvilinear, natural forms, the Rococo was in many ways a reaction against the grandiose, rigidly symmetrical Baroque.
The Viceroyalty of New Spain accumulated considerable wealth during the 18th century, especially from mining in north-central Mexico, which allowed a building boom. There, in the next generation, the Spanish commissioned retables in the Rococo style. These retables began to have more-delicate columns, which sometimes were replaced by niche-pilasters, such as those on retables (1758) by Balbás's son Isidoro Vincente in Santa Prisca y San Sebastián, Taxco, and in the portal (1768) attributed to the Mexican sculptor Pedro Huizar on the Santos José y Miguel de Aguayo mission church near San Antonio (now in Texas, U.S.). Huizar's quatrefoil baptistery window on the side of the church has asymmetrical framing with vegetative themes that bear a more than superficial resemblance to the frames on French Rococo mirrors. In such examples Latin American Rococo retable designs, though lighter than the Mexican Ultrabaroque style, tended to overwhelm the paintings and sculptures that in theory they framed or supported.
Less commonly, Latin American interiors from this period reflected an intimacy and delicacy more typical of the European Rococo style. For example, the interior of Santa Rosa de Viterbo in Querétaro, Mexico, finished in 1752, has gilded wood oval frames that contain painted busts of saints on the great choir screen. On a side retable the simulated drapery, appearing to be pulled back by putti, makes a canopy over angled glass cases holding statues of saints. In spite of the considerable height of the vaulted interior, these details make its scale seem small, unlike the often dizzying height of Ultrabaroque retables.
Latin American artists also extended the Rococo spirit to freestanding sculpture. In Santafé de Bogotá, which in 1717 became the capital of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada, polychrome wooden sculpture was executed by its most dynamic creator, Pedro Laborio. The dramatic sway he gave his figures makes them appear to be in a dance; in St. Joseph and the Child Virgin Mary (1746), for example, he depicted a charming twisting interplay between St. Joseph and the child Virgin Mary that unites these two independent sculptures. Another freestanding Virgin MaryThe Virgin Mary of the Red Stockings (undated) by Bernardo de Legardawas carved as a nude and given a lifelike lacquer shine. The figure was intended to be dressed, but it was not a mere mannequin like most such dressed figures at the time, which had only their heads and hands naturalistically rendered.
The Rococo doll-like sculpture that was standard in Europe in the 18th century was best executed in Latin America by the Quito school. For example, Manuel Chil, an Indian artist whose nickname, Caspicara, referred to his pockmarked face, sculpted an infant Christ child covered with the soft pink-toned encarnación that epitomizes the Rococo; the work looks like a three-dimensional detail out of a painting by the French Rococo master François Boucher. Guatemala filled a parallel role to Quito as the sculptural centre for the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Sculptors of all backgrounds produced fine late Baroque and Rococo work in Guatemala during this period, although it has not yet been documented.
In addition to sculpture, the paintings of the Quito school displayed Rococo intimacy. Manuel Samaniego portrayed the Virgin as a good shepherdess in peasant costume and Joseph as a worker with his clothes unbuttoned and loose. These aspects are both found in his painting of a full scene (late 18th century) depicting Joseph's workshop, in which Joseph practices carpentry while Mary spins with the help of their young son, Jesus, who rolls the yarn; common people would instantly recognize and identify with these daily activities. Samaniego achieved small scale through the figures' slightly childlike proportions and also through their small size in relation to a building within a limited landscape.
The living presence of the Inca culture could be found in 18th-century Cuzco in painted wooden beakers, folk weavings, and portraits of indigenous dignitaries. (Indeed, the Túpac Amaru rebellion of 1780 reveals the continuing power of the Inca aristocracy.) Despite such strong Inca traditions, 18th-century Cuzco painting embodied many of the stylistic features of the European Rococo: small scale, soft colours, doll-like features, and a tender, intimate overall expression. However, the Inca preference for flattened design reasserts itself in the gold leaf stenciled on the surface, which does not follow the drapery's contours and thereby forces the viewer to see it as a surface pattern on the canvas. In these works the Virgin Mary is often dressed in Spanish peasant costume, further reinforcing the informal touch typical of the Rococo.
The School of Ouro Preto, in the rich mining district of central Brazil, created 18th-century churches with wooden ceilings that were flat at the top, and painters such as Antonio Rodrigues Belo and Manuel da Costa Ataíde transformed these ceilings into illusionistic skies. Reminiscent of the ceiling paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo in Italy and Bavaria at that time, their delicate figures and light colours are clearly Rococo.
·Colonial period, c. 1492c. 1820
·Indigenous art at the time of conquest
·European influence, c. 1500c. 1820
·Latin American art on the eve of independence
·Postindependence, c. 1820the present
·Nation building, c. 1820c. 1900
·The 20th and 21st centuries
·From c. 1900 to c. 1950
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