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Bad Translations
Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:31 AM
Posted 20 August 2014 - 06:06 AM
Original text:
"I still don't get the Freedom Planet craze."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"But it is not free."
Commentary, BT? Really?
Interestingly, "craze" can be translated as "folly", "mad" or "boom".
"I still don't get the Freedom Planet craze."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"The anger of the world."
And here's the path:
6 translations we get the particular gem, "I still have to get freedom from planet crazy", which likely describes Xiron's addiction to
Freedom Planet Crazy.
But since "I still have freedom from the crazy world", I'm not doing Freedom Planet.
Bad Translator doesn't handle Hamlet very well.
Original text:
" I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"King of conscience and กอื่นๆ and later versions."
But the path is far more interesting
About twenty translations down we are admonished to "View little league games as a nation and the conscience of the King, and here's why."
Well, most parents of little leaguers view the teams as if they were nations, and probably care more about the outcome of the game than anyone's conscience, so the advice seems about redundant.
We also "Well, the article was one big game in Great Britain."
But the path there claims that "Yes, it is more important than this United Kingdom games article."
I must investigate further into this article.
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 06:27 PM
Original Text:
"I like how the moon is cheesey and i like eating all the waffles on the face of the planet, yummy"
...8 translations later, Bing gives us:
"I was like, I love to eat on the planet, cheesey delicious waffles"
Cheesey Delicious Waffles.
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 10:00 AM
Original text:
"It's been a while since my last post here, let's see what we can do."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"It was here, in the United Kingdom post office know what to do."
It seems that in the UK post office the employees have a certain experience and ability at finding lost stuff. By the way, "post" in the result has the same meaning as in the original text, just noticed in the path.
Original text:
"I completely finished Ratchet and Clank, the first game, yesterday! The last skill point was pretty difficult to get though."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"The seventh game of the best of today's technology, it is difficult to achieve."
Let's take a look at the path:
"A seventh game is today the best technology, hard to reach." This means that game producers like Insomniac Games, to make their seventh game had to spend time and money on a new technology?
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 07:58 PM
Original text:
"Ultimate Skill Points is going to be another form of point, as well as Mad Pain Points."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"This crisis has also hurt."
Hmm, so the crisis ITSELF brought on more Mad Pain Points.
We are also privileged to see "The endpoints is pain."
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 08:40 PM
Original Text:
"I ate all the ice cream at chubby land, only for forkmaster G to bring pain to my soul. Fuzzy giant cabbages to you, my good man."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Creamy flavour with Tim Young (g). The flow of sea cows."
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 06:31 AM
Let's see how Bad Translator handles Robert Burns:
"Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty Wi bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murdering pattle."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"The morning seems to be pure siganedaehan sliki, Brest Turkey Monster snacks! To avoid fights and seven children Altamira first. ERP automatically Patel died."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"This fish Oscar Brest picture means to control animal body est development at l, radio Wawa said at the Brattle, and then, when the world began to die at Lynn Patel WiFi."
Nuff said.
Original text:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Khan, his voice deep songklam found with a hole."
Bad Translator does not do poetry well. The odd thing is that result sounds vaguely poetic, just horribly, horribly wrong.
Here is the bizarre path
Oddly, Haitian Creole, is not to blame, but rather Chinese.
"-Bathtub King Khan would never be forced to view two sons, the sound guy to the West is a large hole in the deeper water."
Pure poetry.
Original text:
" He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. "
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Construction and curve. Countries worldwide clignote or wrinkles, Monte, white, and blue, the sea."
Victorian poetry becomes modern poetry. Hmmm.
Also we get this line: "This creates a curved Tower; The Sun from the Earth only in the world of the Blues is increasing. With respect to the limits of the White Sea, the Flash and the look at the fall, wrinkles."
"Curved"? "Increasing"? "Limits"?!?
What are you trying to do, Bad Translator, give me flashbacks of Calc class?
Also we get this "Also avoid blue, Land for sale and weapons. Find players p. 2 plates"
Not surprisingly, for that translation, Haitian Creole came early.
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Results tagged "Margot Mifflin"
Tattoo above by Roxx of 2Spirit Tattoo.
In my Women's Ink post last week, I gave y'all a heads up that Margot Mifflin and I will be moderating the panel discussion "Women's Ink: Tattooing in the New Millennium" at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, from 7-9 PM.
Today, I wanted to just spotlight the work of the inspiring artists who will be on the panel: Roxx of 2Spirit Tattoo in San Francisco, and NYC's own Virginia Elwood and Stephanie Tamez of Saved Tattoo. In addition to discussing the particular issues of being women artists in the tattoo industry, there will also be a show-n-tell about certain select pieces from their portfolios. Towards the end of the talk, we're opening up the floor where those in attendance can ask questions and share their experiences.
And if you don't have it yet, Margot will be signing her must-have book, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo.
For more on Women's Ink: Tattooing in the New Millennium, check our Q&A with Cool Hunting, and Margot's talk with Inked.
Tattoo above by Stephanie Tamez.
Tattoo above by Virginia Elwood.
A couple weeks ago, while at a bar chatting with a friend, I felt a tug on my arm and then, without warning or even a word, my arm was being twisted and turned for inspection by guy who, not only felt it was his right to grab a stranger, but who was rather shocked when I took my arm back and told him that what he was doing wasn't cool. He became indignant that I wasn't flattered by his attention, saying, "What's wrong? I like your tattoos," as if his artistic approval of my work gave him a right to touch. I then took his arm, twisted it as he did to me, and asked him if he liked it. Then, completely accidentally, his own fist wound up in his own eye.
My non-tattooed friends were pretty shocked that some random stranger would grab me to look at my tattoos. I wasn't shocked at all. In fact, most of you reading this won't be shocked. It's something we talk about a lot -- how our skin becomes an interactive museum exhibit. This is particularly a common experience for tattooed women.
This discussion of our bodies as some kind of public space, as well as other issues experienced by tattooed women (and men as well), will be shared on March 6, 2014, on the panel discussion "Women's Ink: Tattooing in the New Millennium" at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn. I'm honored to be moderating the panel with Margot Mifflin author of one of my most favorite tattoo books, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo.
The panel is inspired by the third edition of "Bodies of Subversion," released by powerHouse Books a year ago. [I interviewed Margot at that time about the new edition.] The book was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was originally released in 1997, exploring the stories of tattooed women from as far back as the nineteenth-century. So many years later, it remains the only book to chronicle the history of both tattooed women and women tattooists.
The experiences of women tattooists are particularly fascinating, and there are so many questions that arise: Do women tattooers still feel any form of discrimination from colleagues and clients? How do they feel about their representation in the media? How do they see their role as business women as well as artists? ...
These questions, among many others, will be addressed by a phenomenal group of artists: Roxx of 2Spirit Tattoo in San Francisco, and NYC's own Virginia Elwood and Stephanie Tamez of Saved Tattoo
We'll also open up the discussion to all. The panel, which will take place from 7-9 PM, is the day before the NYC Tattoo Convention -- it'll be a fun way to kick off the tattoo weekend celebration. I really hope to see you there.
More details on the event via the Facebook invite.
Yesterday, the Miss America pageant crowned its first beauty queen of Indian descent, which led to an onslaught of racist tweets by those who take beauty pageants seriously. "America's Choice," as decided by an online vote, was not the winner, but instead, a pretty blonde from Kansas who represented "American Values": she's a sergeant in the National Guard, she's a hunter who can skin a deer herself, and she's tattooed.
Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail strutted across the stage with a large-scale rib tattoo of the serenity prayer, which she says she used to recite when bullied as a child. Her tattoos were a big part of her platform, which centered around "empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break barriers." She told ABC News:
"What I really want is just to inspire people by showing my tattoos," she said. "That's a bold move! And it's risky, it could very well cost me the crown. And if it does, I just want people to see that you can step outside of the box, you can be yourself. And I can only hope that it inspires them to do the same."She didn't win the crown, but she won a lot media attention for being the first Miss America contestant to openly display her tattoos. Or at least that what the headlines touted.
But Teresa Vail was not the first tattooed beauty queen. It was Betty Broadbent, shown above on the cover of the first edition of Margo Mifflin's "Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women & Tattoo" (a must-have book). This cover photo captures the iconic circus attraction as she made history competing in the first televised beauty pageant at the 1937 World's Fair. As Margot Mifflin notes, "She knew that as a tattooed contestant she didn't stand a chance of winning, but she gladly reaped the free publicity." The same could be said for Miss Kansas.
I'm not a fan of beauty contests. Despite the fact that Miss Kansas has a degree in chemistry and speaks Chinese, she still had to put on stilettos and a bikini to put forth her "empowerment" platform. But I am a fan of those working in some way to stir a little trouble, to change up beauty ideals. So good on Miss Kansas for following in Betty Broadbent's high heels.
Betty Broadbent
Bodies of Subversion
Margot Mifflin
Miss America
Miss Kansas
This Saturday, April 13, at 2pm, Margot Mifflin and I will be at the Brooklyn Museum presenting "Art, Sex, and Power: Tattooed Women Today" in the Forum of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (4th floor). The event is free with museum admission -- and it is an incredible museum -- so it's worth the trip all around.
Our talk and visual presentation center around how women's tattooing relates to sexuality, fashion, fine art, and feminism. These themes are wonderfully explored in Margot's absolute must-have book, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. [For more info, check my review of the book's latest edition and interview with Margot in this post.] These themes have also been explored on this blog, particularly in the context of sex and beauty. On Saturday, we'll spend an hour chatting about everything from the reclamation of one's body, tattooed women stereotypes, the rise of the tattoo model as career choice, women tattooers of yesterday & today, and much more.
And we really want to hear your opinions as well, so all those attending are encouraged to participate in the discussion. I also encourage everyone to share your thoughts on women and tattoo culture in the link to this post in our FB group page, or Tweet at me.
And would love to see you Saturday!
There has been some exciting buzz surrounding tattooed women, and it hasn't been in the form of the latest celebrity regret or the alt-model home wrecker. It has been about our tattoo godmothers, the women who bore full colorful body suits and traveled beyond their kitchens. The ones who first picked up a machine and had men lining up at the door to pay them for art and nothing more. The original riot grrls of the early 20th century whose impact could be seen on the skins on feminist punk rockers in the eighties to the tattooed lawyers of today.
That media buzz has come from the recently released third edition of Margot Mifflin's Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo.
Tattooed women, clothed or not, are a sexy subject. The New Yorker's feature on the book and its accompanying slideshow has been posted on Facebook over 20,000 times. The link to Flavorwire's article and slideshow has been messaged to me from all over the world. Even my mom, who logs onto the Internet only when reruns of Murder She Wrote are preempted, sent me this The NY Times link from yesterday. [Mom: "Oh look, a book on tattooed women. You should look into it." Me: "Um, mom, I'm in it."]
Being in this book is important to me on many levels. Margot released the first version of Bodies of Subversion in 1997. At that point, I only had two small tattoos and was hungry for any information I could find on the art. I searched tirelessly for tattoo tomes. There were plenty of references for indigenous tattooing and books that told the stories of the men who brought back tattoo souvenirs from tribes, and also Japanese masters, to America and Europe. At the local bookstore, there were records of oral histories from gritty tattooers who worked on sailors streaming into port. There were no records on the women who did the same, at least not exclusively on the subject. The information could be found in the Women's Studies section of university libraries but was conspicuously absent outside of academia.
Margot brought the discussion of tattooed women into popular discourse -- from sideshow attractions to Victorian society women to women tattooers who struggled in the 70s and 80s to change tattoo culture, such that young tattooers today can say that being a woman is a help not a hinderance to their profession.
The new edition of Bodies of Subversion includes most of the wonderful information she provided in the first edition. It also talks about how today's explosive popularity of tattooing has changed perceptions of tattooed women--but also how a lot has stayed the same. During the course of her research for this edition, Margot and I chatted a lot on this. Upon completion of the book, I wanted to know how she felt about all the new material she had acquired and written about.
Our Q&A is as follows:
What is the highlight of Bodies of Subversion for you personally?
The highlight is the new chapter on the new millennium--especially the section on the artists themselves. The general quality of tattooing has improved so vastly since my first edition was published in 1997 that the sheer volume of good work was a pleasure to see. My task was happily impossible: there was no way I could have included all the women worthy of coverage; I had to pick a few dozen to spotlight in order to illustrate certain developments or trends or techniques.
Any particular aha(!) moments? Did you learn anything in your research that surprised you?
I was surprised at the number of lesbians artists working now. Virtually no one I interviewed for the first edition identified as a lesbian. This time, five or six women talked about it and I was surprised to hear that even in this historically male dominated and even historically macho profession, lesbians are not getting a lot of attitude from other tattooists or customers--even outside of New York and San Francisco.
What was the most difficult part to get info on?
The appalling dearth of black women artists--even 30 years after Jacci Gresham became a household name in the tattoo world. It's not like there aren't tons of tattooed black women--half my black students are tattooed. There are just so few women doing it, and it was difficult to nail down the reasons without having access to artists who could talk about their experiences. Jacci Greshman helped me, and a couple of artists in particular I found, Kimberly Williams in New York and Alex Smith (from Chicago),were very thoughtful and articulate on the subject, and ultimately helped me theorize it.
Tell us about the greatest change between this edition & the first volume.
Kat Von D. If you had told me in 1997 that within 10 years a woman would be the single most famous tattooist in the world, I would have laughed. Back then, women artists were just struggling to make a living and happy to get some media coverage and respect.
The draw to tattoo culture -- what was it for you?
It grew out of my interest in visual art. I don't see how you can be engaged with fine art or design and not have some interest in tattooing--especially as it's evolved in the past decade and because of the fact that you can't avoid seeing it every day. In my opinion, this is a huge cultural blind spot for most visually literate people I know. Tattooing is a fascinating and technically difficult art that's layered with sociological and anthropological meaning. Sure, most of what you see is awful (which some would argue is also true for contemporary art), but you have to consider what's happened to it in the hands of the people who are bringing a more sophisticated design sensibility to it and propelling it beyond the fixed iconography of its folk legacy--there's something very interesting and radical happening there.
I can write a thousand more words on this exceptional book, but you must read it for yourself. You can purchase Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo for just $15 on Amazon.com.
Photo from Amelia Klem Osterud's "The Tattooed Lady: A History"
Inspired by the Ladies, Ladies Art Show, today's holiday gift guide post features books that celebrate tattooed ladies through history. These titles have all been mentioned here before but worth repeating for those who haven't scooped them up yet.
* The Tattooed Lady: A History by Amelia Klem Osterud is a beautiful hardcover that explores the lives of tattoo's godmothers, complete with fascinating narratives and photos dating back to the 1880s. We wrote about its release last November, and it still sits close to my desk for reference. For more info, check out Amelia's blog.
* Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin remains a classic. From sideshow ladies to prominent female tattoo artists, the book looks at how tattoo culture has changed & the roles women have played in it. It features great stories and images as well. Margot's latest, The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, is also an interesting read.
* The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women by tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak is a scholarly book on the role of women as tattooists in many indigenous cultures, with over 250 photos & illustrations. Lars has a new book out called Kalinga Tattoo, which is so gorgeous it warrants its own post. That's coming up.
* Madame Chinchilla's Electric Tattooing by Women 1900-2003 is a yearbook of women tattoo artists over a century. It's not a fancy book but it is a Who's Who of Tattoo up until 2003 with quotes from each artist.
* On the fiction front, check out Tattoo Artist: A Novel by Jill Ciment -- a story about a New York artist who is marooned in the South Pacific and eventually becomes a revered tattooist among the Tu'un'uu people at the turn of the century. It then flashes forward, 30 years later, when she returns as a heavily tattooed woman to New York. A fun read.
If you have your own favorites, feel free to share them in the comments.
Considering one of my favorite tattoo texts is Bodies of Subversion by Margot Mifflin, I'm excited to pick up Margot's latest book: The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
... so much so that I'm trying to rush my To Do list before I leave for Greece Wednesday in hopes I can catch her reading tomorrow night at the Book Court in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn at 7PM.
Once I get my hands on it, I'll do a review; meanwhile, here's a taste from the description:
"In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures.
The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an instant celebrity, but the price of fame was high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.
Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois--including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society--to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas.
Oatman's blue tattoo was a cultural symbol that evoked both the imprint of her Mohave past and the lingering scars of westward expansion. It also served as a reminder of her deepest secret, fully explored here for the first time: she never wanted to go home."
Pick up your own copy at Amazon.com here.
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Of the nine possible positions, five are contested and four are unopposed. Running for the positions of President and Vice-President, respectively, are Thomas Rusert '06 and Rachel Erickson '06, and as late-entry write-in candidates, Dan Marx '06 and Salah Mohamed '07. Alissa Sauer '06 and Khider Elnimeiry '07 are both running for Volunteer Network Coodinator; Jennifer Ho '06 and Irene Mineoi '07 are competing for the position of Diversity Celebrations Committee (DCC) Coordinator, Anuwat Sisaleumsak '08 and Maggie Snetting '06 for Student Organizations Committee (SOC) Coordinator and Ellen Krahn '06 and Chase Donaldson '07 for Political Awareness Committee (PAC) Coordinator.
Nicole Callies '06 is running uncontested for Student Alumni Association (SAA) Coordinator, Robin Karkowski-Schelar '06 for Board of Regents Student Committee (BORSC) Coordinator and Nicole Strenglis '07 for Student Activities Committee (SAC) coordinator. Melissa Kuisle '07 and Dave Mahnken '07 will take over as Pause Co-Coordinators.
At the candidate forum on Monday, the candidates had a chance to present their platforms to a large audience and to participate in a short question and answer period.
Marx and Mohamed opened the forum. They stated that if elected, they hoped to improve students relationship with Senate, to serve as a "channel for students" to SGA and also promised to focus on being more accessible to students.
A few specific proposals from Mohamed and Marx included a possible KSTO SGA show, a weekly article in the Manitou Messenger reporting on the activities of SGA and bi-monthly dinners open to all students where they could ask question on the current directives of SGA.
Rusert and Erickson focused their platform on improved campus safety, rolling over extra Cage dollars from semester to semester and continual investigation of a one-card system.
Rusert and Erickson also suggested a monthly article in the Manitou Messenger about Senate happenings, as well as increased communication with other MIAC colleges student governments. Timely work for senators, financial transparency and a commitment to staying within the prescribed budget are among other goals stated by Rusert and Erickson.
John Hensel '05, Election Coordinator for 2005, and Janine Wetzel 05, current VP of SGA, described some of the qualities that make an effective student government leader. Wetzel said that although helpful, "Experience in SGA is not necessary. The most important skills are effective time management, organization, and dedication."
Wetzel explained that SGA positions are jobs, and that students need to look at them like that. She described her time in SGA as a "time consuming effort, and stressed the importance of communication. "A good SGA leader must be able to communicate with other committees."


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... 'last virgin soil'. Jiuduansha Wetland Nature Reserve covers 42,000 hectares, 12km directly offshore from Pudong International Airport. Pudong New District plans to build the centre in the culture and tourism zone at Sanjiagang port, adjacent to the airport. It will provide visitor information and facilities for researchers studying the region. Local authorities did not say when ...http://www.scmp.com/article/669470/shanghai-plans-wetland-centre
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We were barred from listening to him speak, but we're told that GOP pollster Frank Luntz this morning – in a lecture on messaging — urged Georgia delegates to the Republican National Convention to avoid the word "capitalism" in their arguments.
It's a term that Karl Marx favored, and sounds leftist. When attempting to persuade independents, it's better to use the phrase "free markets," he said. We presume that sounds more Adam Smithish.
Possibly, "free markets" would test even better if spoken with a soft Kirkcaldy lilt.
According to several Georgia delegates, Luntz also said that Republicans had lost control of the phrase "middle class." But the GOP wins when the phrase "hard-working taxpayers" is employed, he said.
The latter point isn't too far from what we've already heard Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich hammer on here. "It's not going to work when half of the people aren't paying income tax, and half of the people are," Bachmann said at a Sunday rally of tea partyers.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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August 27th, 2012
3:17 pm
Instead of "capitalist," try saying "greedy hate mongerer" and instead of "middle class" use the phrase "the help."
August 27th, 2012
3:30 pm
that should fit right in with their strategy not to tell the whole truth about anything they want to do.
August 27th, 2012
3:33 pm
It is hard to believe this guy still gets paid for hustling this snake oil. Instead of being good at your job, just get a job as an analyst on Fox News and the business will just roll in I guess.
His "analysis" and focus groups during the 2008 election were comically bad.
August 27th, 2012
3:43 pm
And Democratic pollsters do not tell their surrogates how to phrase things. What a freaking joke.
Jim must have a spy within the ranks of the Georgia delegation. More then likely one of those 4 Ron Paul supporters.
August 27th, 2012
3:47 pm
Perhaps if "half of the people aren't paying income tax" either had jobs or made a living wage they would be able to make a contribution. That is why it is called INCOME tax – you have to have an income to pay an income tax. But now I get it. The rich also do not pay income tax because they have no income….instead they have capital gains. So the rest of us "hard-working taxpayers" will continue to support both the rich and poor.
August 27th, 2012
3:53 pm
Proof they just want to trick and confuse, nothing to see in their bag.
August 27th, 2012
3:55 pm
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
August 27th, 2012
3:47 pm
"Perhaps if "half of the people aren't paying income tax" either had jobs or made a living wage they would be able to make a contribution."
Wonder how many of those 50% are in single parent households? Wonder what their tax burden would be if there was a 2 parent household and say both make $10 per hour?
"So the rest of us "hard-working taxpayers" will continue to support both the rich and poor"
Bogus statement when the top 10% of wage earners pays 70% of all income taxes.
August 27th, 2012
3:57 pm
Ten years ago an elderly Russian said to me: "We learned that everything our Soviet leaders told us about communism was a lie. Now we've realized that everything that they told us about capitalism is true."
I suppose that the eminent Mrs. Bachmann was referring to those "people" like Halliburton who paid -$1.1 Billion and Boeing that paid -$.5 Billion in federal income tax last year. I can afford to help out some of the working poor with a transfer payment through the tax system, but these kind of transfer payments favored by the "corporations are people too" crowd will require a few millennium, which I don't expect to have.
August 27th, 2012
3:59 pm
'Free markets', 'hard working' and 'middle class', three concepts about which GA republicans know nothing!
August 27th, 2012
4:01 pm
Village Idiot,
I think you stated the facts much more accurately.
August 27th, 2012
4:04 pm
I have met many of the GA delegates and aside from the rare Ron Paul delegate, none of them have any idea what capitalism or free market capitalism actually mean anyhow. What they think this country has is capitalism, but what both the GOP and the Democratic party favor and what this country is FASCISM/corporatism or merchantilism as it used to be known.
For those of us who actually know what capitalism and the free market really are, it disgusts us whenever republicans throw these words around in gross ignorance of the truth. Romney certainly doesn't support capitalism. What he supports is corporatism. As does Obama, and as certainly did George W Bush (and virtually every president at least since the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913. In fact the GOP was founded on the "American System" which was crony capitalism at its best and its chief champion after Clay, was Lincoln.
August 27th, 2012
4:09 pm
And for those of you who actually think what we have is free market capitalism, I would offer up the following list of agencies/laws/taxes/policies that have nothing to do with the free market. And this is just the short list.
The Federal Reserve and fiat money/fractional reserve banking
The IRS and the income tax
The EPA, the DEA, the ICC, the DOE, the DOLabor, the DOEnergy, the FAA, the FCC, the DHS, the TSA, the inheritance tax, the minimum wage, Obamacare, Medicare, Social Security, the Medicare Drug benefit, the Taft-Hartley Act, legal tender laws, the USDA, the FDA, the DHHS, virtually everything in the Federal Register that is not listed in the constitution.
August 27th, 2012
4:13 pm
Alert Secret Service Agents have wrestled Frank Luntz's hair to the ground.
More on this as the story develops.
August 27th, 2012
4:22 pm
There's the truth, lies and damn lies. The GOP practices damn lies all too often. Romney was "like a bishop" in LDS Church according the piece that ran this weekend. He was the leader of the congregation or parishioner. His own words. Now he easily and freely tell lies what a man of God, I mean Joseph Smith?
August 27th, 2012
4:37 pm
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August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
He was a bishop. And a stake president. And he yelled at a woman in the hospital about to receive an abortion to save her life. This was in excess of Lds church policy which allows exception for rape, incest, or murder. And the Lds church did nothing.
Probably because he is cousins with members of the elite of the church. Did you think it was coincidence that them choose him to salvage the slc Olympic?
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
And to prove that our concern is for you, the "hard-working taxpayer", we're going to nominate a man who hasn't held a job in six years and claims to have paid tax at half the rate that you did on his income that was astronomically greater than yours. Not the most convincing argument that I've heard recently.
August 27th, 2012
4:43 pm
Yeah,and GE paying all those taxes.The coop.can't pay taxes,they wouldn't have any left to pay CEO's millions plus stock options.Unless your job requires it,how can you say you work hard and stay on the computer 16 hrs.day?
August 27th, 2012
4:51 pm
Luntz gives pretty practical advice and most Republicans seem to exhibit a lot of discipline in adhering to talking points. Also, in totally avoiding certain topics like Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts who authored Romneycare, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, etc. We'll see if the American people are dumb enough to not see through this; Luntz and his clients obviously think they are that dumb.
August 27th, 2012
4:54 pm
Some of the speakers at the Rapubliclan National Convention:
August 27th, 2012
5:16 pm
Buckhead Boy
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
"claims to have paid tax at half the rate that you did on his income that was astronomically greater than yours."
Another bold face lie. Your actual Federal income tax rate paid to the Federal government was not 26% of your gross salary. If I was a betting man then I would say you paid less then Romney.
August 27th, 2012
6:37 pm
these bigtime consultants get paid millions by the party for coming up with these "suggestions." What a country!!!
August 27th, 2012
7:49 pm
td, I think that the term is "bald-faced lie"; and my humor was not intended to relate to me personally, but rather an immagined argument made by Republicans to the general public. Sorry that went over your head. But, its good that you don't bet.
August 28th, 2012
1:21 am
I made just over $9 mil last year and paid about 23% in taxes. Which is fine. Unlike you I understand.that my lifestyle is entirely dependent upon infrastructure.that I alone can not build.
What you obviously do not understand is that those who earn $15mil a year in capital gains get a huge tax break. Now, I can not say that I work for most of my money… I don't. It accumulates.with work on my behalf. There is something to be said for that though. The harder you work for your savings perhaps the less you should be taxed.
I did not even pay a dime in federal taxes when I inherited $17mil of my father's estate! In case you haven't noticed, I like to rub my wealth in the faces of the…well, the right-wing.
Personally, I like keeping my money and making you pay for my share of government services. As a citizen of the US I find it apalling.


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With unemployment still in double digits in metro Atlanta, are you more likely to go after a temporary holiday job now?
Toys R Us says it will hire about 45,000 employees to help with the holiday season, doubling its U.S. work force, Associated Press reported.
The company said it is hiring more workers than in the past three holiday seasons because of an additional 600 smaller stores located in malls and shopping centers, AP wrote. Those "pop-up" stores are called Toys R Us Express.
In metro Atlanta, Toys R Us has already added a dozen stores in malls and outlet centers, with more on the way. Other retailers and distributors also pump up hiring during the holidays.
Given how tough it is to find a job these days, will you consider temporary employment? Or will you hold out for a permanent position?
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September 29th, 2010
7:58 am
Why should I settle for a job paying less than $12 an hour, when I can make $300/week tax free and qualify for all the entitlements(food stamps, free lunch 4 kiddos,section 8, and medicaid, all while sitting in the comfort of my own home, doing nothing? Perhaps if I feel a little ambitious, I might get a "side job" and make a little $$ under the table. Don't want to mess up my free ride. Besides a holiday job might mess up with my winter partying schedule. Lots of parties to host. Thank god for the food stamps. I could not afford the expensive cheese and wine working a normal job. At a normal job I would have nothing left after taxes, gas, and child care (atleast that's my excuse).
September 29th, 2010
8:19 am
The above statement is the reason America is in the SHAPE IT IS NOW!!!!!!!!
September 29th, 2010
12:15 pm
Let God will be done thru this blog http://lightoftheearth.blogspot.com/
September 29th, 2010
2:46 pm
I'm still on unemployment, hopefully for another year. The market's so bad, why work at some crummy mall job when I can make more money from unemployment doing what I want!!!
October 4th, 2010
12:08 pm
Unemployment I think you are a disgrace to society. You should be ashame and willing to take care of yourself and not wait on someone else to do it. Remember all good things do come to an end!!!!
October 4th, 2010
12:47 pm
Ohhhh you darn rights I would accept a temp or part-time! Sitting on one's butt and crying 'oh woe is me' does not cut it. A dollar earned is better than no dollar at all.


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On Wednesday, Sept. 9, the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District will open its doors for the 2009-2010 school year. In a statement from the school district they said: "We look forward to working together with the whole community to create a successful school year.
"Our schools continue to demonstrate a great deal of academic growth and improvement. For many years the district has achieved a high percentage rate of Regents diplomas and excellent passing scores in Regent exams. In addition, the district's English Language Arts scores and mathematics scores in grades three through eight improved again in 2008-2009. On all levels our emphasis has been on increasing passing rates but also in improving the number of students achieving mastery on all exams."
The Plainview Water District's Board of Water Commissioners recently announced that a public budget hearing will be held on Sept. 3 at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, which is located at 999 Old Country Road in Plainview, at 8 p.m.
The Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, located at 999 Old Country Road in Plainview, will be closed for renovations from Monday, September 14 to Friday, September 18.
Seniors Helping Seniors, a licensed organization that offers in-home services on Long Island providing care to seniors of all income levels, recently held their annual picnic at the Plainview/Old Bethpage Community Park.
While a local assemblyman's proposed legislation to reduce jet noise at Republic Airport in Farmingdale is moving through the New York State legislature, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is studying new airplane routes for the region that could possibly lower the height requirements for jet aircraft and possibly produce more jet noise in Republic's surrounding neighborhoods including Farmingdale.
Michael Rainer, a resident of Plainview, rescued a man during a riptide on Aug. 2 at Nickerson Beach.
According to Rainer, he was jumping the waves in rough water. While he was out there, he saw three people much further out splashing around. He knew something was not right, so he swam over to them and asked if everything was all right - all three of them said no.
Even before she left, Reimer was preparing for her trip. She spent a great deal of time receiving inoculations for yellow fever, typhoid, malaria, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B, studying the Ewe language, and learning about the culture and customs of the people of Ghana, before flying to Ghana as a volunteer.
In 2001, then-Governor George Pataki signed into law a measure that required all New York State schools to install new safety devices on all moving partition walls used in school gymnasiums and auditoriums. The legislation was designed to prevent accidental deaths and serious physical injuries.
In conjunction with National Stop on Red Week (Aug. 2–8), Nassau County this week launched Phase I of its red light camera program. In April, Governor David Paterson signed the state legislature's red light camera bill into law and authorized the installation of up to 50 cameras at various intersections. On Aug. 6 at 12:01 a.m. the first of three were activated.
United States Post Service (USPS) employees have always had to guard themselves against the threat of a dog bite, something very common in their profession. Although the USPS asks dog owners to be responsible and help protect their workers as well as others, accidents do happen.
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Series Preview (July 23-25, 2010): Cardinals @ Lifeless Cubs
The Redbirds return to Wrigley Field this weekend, their 2nd trip to Wrigley this year, to drive the final nails in the coffin of the Cubs 2010 season. Despite being 1-hit yesterday at the hands of a filthy Cole Hamels, the Cards have been red hot, and go into play 11 games ahead of the hometown nine in the standings. An optimist would look at the situation and say, "Well if we get a horseshoe up our ass and sweep them and are then only 8 out...", but I think we're all smarter than that. For me, the last good chance to turn the season around came when we had the then-first place Reds in town for 4 games the 4th of July weekend and dropped 3 or 4. That was it for me. I expect the Cubs to at best win 2 of 3 this weekend, but likely only 1, and then the firesale starts. That's the only thing we fans truly have to look forward to: What young prospects will we get for veterans like Ted Lilly and Derrek Lee, and perhaps guys like Ryan Theriot and Xavier Nady. Let's take a look at the weekend's pitching matchups..
Friday @ 1:20: Jeff Suppan (0-3, 4.20) vs. Randy Wells (4-7, 4.33) - I'm excited that the Cubs get to face Suppan, mostly because I know he's awful. He's a 5 inning pitcher at this point - a slug that can maybe if he's lucky keep the Cardinals in the game, but isn't going to shut anyone down. He's been very average since the Cardinals picked him up - and average is twice as good as he was with the Brewers. If the wind is blowing out today - Soup could be in trouble. Wells has been pretty average this year, but he's seemed to solve his early-season bouts of awfulness in the first inning. He's got a 1.66 ERA in his 3 starts this month, including last time out versus the Phightin Phils where he threw 7 shutout innings. Having grown up a Cardinals fan near St. Louis, I wonder if Wells remembers his last start @ Wrigley vs. the Cards.. a gem on May 28th where he didnt get one out before being pulled. I'm hoping that won't be the case today.
Saturday @ 12:05: Blake Hawksworth (4-5, 4.85) vs. Tom Gorzellany (5-5, 3.12) - Hawksworth is a guy who seemed to be a perpetual prospect who never got his chance with the big club until late last year when he was added to the scuffling Cardinals bullpen and he thrived, allowing 29 hits in 40 relief innings. This year has been the opposite. His ERA doesnt tell the story of how many baserunners he's allowed. In 59 1/3 innings, he's allowed 80 hits, 8 HR, and 25 walks. That's a lot of runners reaching base. His last time out he got the win against Philly despite allowing 13 batters to reach in 6 innings. Opposing him will be the magnificent Gorzo, who has proven himself to be quite steady since being re-inserted into the Cubs rotation. In those three starts, he's allowed just 6 ER in 17 2/3 innings. He's had off and on problems with wildness though, so that's something to watch.
Sunday @ 7:05: Chris Carpenter (11-3, 3.05) vs. Ryan Dempster (8-7, 3.70) - This was supposed to be Carlos Silva's start, but he was pushed back another day by Lou Piniella. Something's amiss with that guy, and I'm starting to think maybe a 15-day DL stint wouldnt be the worst idea. He's been struggling of late leading up to last Monday's start against the Astros when, to borrow a phrase from my buddy Brad, Silva got his tits lit on fire. So taking his place is Ryan Dempster, who scuffled himself against HOU. But he stuck it out for 5 innings and saved an overworked bullpen in a game the Cubs ended up winnning 14-7. He's been our steadiest starting pitcher, in my opinion. Carp will be starting for the Cards, obviously the best pitcher they'll throw this series. He's death on the Cubs, and under the lights on national TV, there's no reason to expect anything different this time. This should be the best pitched game of the series.
Cubs/Cardinals @ Wrigley on what should be a gorgeous summer weekend. Should be a good time, regardless of how bad the Cubs are struggling. Go Cubs!
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Suppan and Hawksworth seem
Suppan and Hawksworth seem pretty hittable. I think I'd rather be swept, to ensure the initiation of the fire sale, but honestly we have a pretty good chance at winning this series.
A "fire sale" as you term
A "fire sale" as you term it is unlikely. The Cubs will probably trade Ted Lilly and might deal Xavier Nady and/or Derrek Lee. That's it.
Sorry if this upsets people but the Cubs do not the pieces for a fire sale. I think they only trade Lilly and probably Nady. I don't expect anyone else to get traded.
No offense man, but if the
No offense man, but if the front office has more than a half a brain - they'll be moving a lot more than Lilly and Nady. There's more here that has value and needs to be moved along to open spots for young talented guys in AAA.
The Cubs will probably trade
The Cubs will probably trade Lilly, maybe trade Theriot, possibly trade Fukudome, but probably not Derrek Lee. Could be all four; could be none of 'em. But if they can find takers, getting $10mil off the books will be nice.


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Interview Wendy Day
She made groundbreaking record deals for hip-hop. She advised Eminem, 2Pac and the whole rap Who's Who from New York to New Orleans. A relentless activist for artists' empowerment, Wendy Day tells her impressive story.
09/06/2011 | Interview by JB | Version française
Abcdr Du Son: What is your very first rap memory?
Wendy Day: My very first rap memory was probably listening to the radio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1980, very very late at night. Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five. "Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge…" My actua l first memory was going to a concert at University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1980 and actually seeing Grand Master Flash perform live. The show was a mismatch of all different styles of music – and thank God for universities, because they're great at this. They had Psychedelic Furs, Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five, and Clarence Clemons & The E Street Band, which was the backup band for Bruce Springteen at the time. It was a lovely mashup of music and cultures and people. I fell in love with the energy and passion of rap music. It was real and authentic. It made me seek out the music further from all of the underground shops and DJ's in Philadelphia so that I could get the hottest shit coming out of New York, where Hip Hop was from.
A: Is it true that you chose to move to New York right after hearing the Mr Magic Rap Attack show?
W: It was around 1987. At that time, I had only been able to listen to rap on vinyl and cassette. I don't know why it never crossed my mind to go where the cassettes were from! I went to New York for a week-end with a girlfriend. We went to Long Island to take care of her uncle, who was sick. When we got to New York, we put on one of the radio stations. It was very late at night and we got to hear Mr Magic and Marley Marl's radio show. I listened to the show for 45 minutes. I thought it was amazing. I went home that Monday, walked into my boss and said "I'm giving my two-week notice." I went home, started to pack. I didn't even have a job or a place to live, I just knew I was moving to New York. I didn't give a fuck.
A: Where were you working at the time?
W: I was selling local advertising in Time and Newsweek for a company called Media Networks. At the time, selling ads in major publications was kind of a prestigious job so it was pretty easy for me to find another job when I moved to New York. I started selling advertising for a legal magazine after I moved. I hated it, but the money was good.
A: How did it feel, being immersed in the New York rap scene?
W: It was awesome. I was immersed as a fan. Remember, I wasn't doing this for a living yet. I was seeing Run DMC, Public Enemy, Cold Crush, and Newcleus perform live. I was really getting to live the lifestyle of rap back then, which was very much a party scene. It was wonderful. I would go to the clubs every night. After the clubs there would be the after hours clubs: at 3AM, you'd go to the after hours club til 7:30 in the morning, then go have breakfast, and then shower and go right to work. I'd come home from work, sleep, and then get up and go to the clubs. That became my lifestyle for years.
A: At what moment did you feel like you wanted to work for hip-hop?
W: That didn't happen until 1992. In the late 80's, I dated a French Canadian guy who couldn't come to the US because of an immigration problem. So I moved to Montreal. The city sort of changed my listening habits a little bit. There was more of a punk scene and it also gave me access to some of the French Canadian artists like Michel Rivard and Celine Dion (back when she couldnt speak English yet). I was away from the rap scene. I was able to stay a little bit in touch but my history of rap has this gaping hole of about three years from 1988 to 1991.
A: A chunk that is considered the golden era of rap…
W: It is a golden era for a lot of people but because I didn't live it, it wasn't for me. I went from early De La Soul right into the Rap-A-Lot Scarface era. From sort of one extreme to the other [Laughs]. Here's what Montreal gave me that was so valuable in my growth: aside from the fact that I got to become bilingual – and I'm not anymore, that's why I'm talking to you in English instead of en français – I had the opportunity to see life from a more European sensibility. During the Desert Storm war, I got to see the news from a Canadian perspective and it showed how different America was, and how sensational and skewed American news is. It started me mentally questioning everything. The other thing that impacted me was that I helped set up a liquor company there. The owner was an engineer by trade, he didn't really have the time or the energy to set it up and run it so he allowed me to do it. He just funded it and said "Here, make it happen." And I did that. I redesigned the bottles, I reduced the sugar and alcohol content right as people were becoming more health conscious – and made the company successful. What it taught me was I could start a company, run it and be successful. That was probably the most important lesson of my life. When I came back to New York in June 1991, I didn't know what I wanted to do next, but I knew that I didn't want to work for somebody else. Plus, whatever I was going to do next, it would probably be in the non-profit sector because I really wanted to make a difference in the world. I really wanted to help people.
A : At at that time, you attended Bert Padell's music business class [Ed.'s note: veteran accountant whose clients included Madonna, Run DMC and Pink Floyd]. Was he a mentor for you?
W: I wouldn't say he was a mentor. He was a teacher. A mentor is somebody you build a relationship with and I didn't have a relationship with Bert. We weren't close, but he was somebody who saw value in me and knew that at some point in time I would be a force to be reckoned with in the music business. When I took Bert's class, I had an undergraduate degree in graphic design, a master's degree in African-American studies with an Afrocentric focus, and an MBA in marketing. My three lanes of study were very different but I knew I wanted to combine at least the marketing aspect and the black studies aspect. My thinking was to start a not for profit organization that would help young black people start their own companies. In Bert's class, I was listening to him talk about how black artists were so badly taken advantages of. I went to him after class and I said "How come nobody's helping these guys? Everybody seems to take their percentage when the money is there but when the money stops coming, it just seems that nobody cares anymore." He told me "Wendy, this is a business, and there's no money in altruism." What he said is very, very true, but back then it really pissed me off.
It made me angry enough to go home and write a business plan to start Rap Coalition. I designed the logo which was very Afrocentric – it sort of was what was happening in 1992 in rap as well. I was gonna start the company with a little less than half a million dollars, which was all the money that I had. Bert tried to talk me into giving him the money to invest for me rather than me starting Rap Coalition, but I was determined. At that point, I didn't know any rappers, any lawyers, I just knew that this was what I was gonna do [Laughs]. I pressed up some flyers and took them to all the clubs where the rappers were hanging out. I ended up meeting a group called Dasez Tempo that was signed to Def Jam. Russell [Simmons] wasn't doing anything with them. I went to Bert, who represented Russell. He introduced me to an attorney named Tim Mandelbaum, who got Dasez Tempo released from Def Jam for free. That was my first taste of pulling someone out of a bad deal.
A: What was a bad deal?
W: A bad deal, in my eyes, was when an artist was signed and the record was never put out. A bad deal might also mean somebody woke up and said "OK, I'm a record producer, sign your life away to me" but they didn't have the money or the connections to pull it off. Sadly, that still exists today. I was on Twitter yesterday making a joke about that. I said to my followers "Today, I'm a heart surgeon! If somebody can wake up and say they own a record label, then I could wake up and say I'm heart surgeon. So, today I'm a heart surgeon!" The funny thing about a contract is that it's not just what's in there that can hurt you, sometimes it's what's missing that can hurt you. So I learned to put things in contracts, like, if the artist doesn't sell X amount of records, they get to leave with their masters. Or if the artist isn't released into the record stores by a certain date – whatever date we decide is fair, they get to leave. I've seen labels sign twenty artists at once but obviously they can't put out all of them out, so the artists are just sitting there signed to the label, which is like in a giant parking lot. They can't leave, they can't work, they can't do anything. I made sure that in my deals, there was a guaranteed release date. I did that shit for a lot of artists, from 2Pac to David Banner…
A: Was this your only activity?
W : I was also doing a lot of educational work such as panel discussions once a month in New York first at NYU and then at the ASCAP building when we ran out of room. Additionally, almost every convention in the music industry had me doing at least one or two panels on urban music, if not coordinating all of the panels. This lasted until very recently. My approach was two-fold: we came from the proactive educational aspect to teach people not to sign bad contracts and then, we came at it from a reactionary point of view: if they did sign bad contracts, we would break the bad contracts for free. In 1995, it got to the point where I started negotiating people into good deals because having seen so many things in contracts that were bad, I sort of knew what shouldn't be in there. I learned from all the bad contracts I saw, what a great contract would be and was able to go on and do some really great deals!
A: Was it hard for you to get the trust of the artists?
W: Sure, it was very hard. I was a suburban white girl and in rap, at the time, and even still today, it was very difficult being white, and very difficult being female. So it was very hard for me to gain the trust. There were two rappers that were superstars back then who really embraced me. One was Vinnie, from Naughty By Nature, the other was Tupac. They used to come to my events and support me – not financially but emotionally, where it counted. Vinnie would teach artists how to not get jerked. His best example was when they put out their biggest album, the one that had "OPP" on it [Ed.'s Note: the eponymous Naughty By Nature in 1991 ]. They made so little money on that album, not because the industry was shady but because they took the 118th Street Posse everywhere they went, and some of the knuckleheads used to do shit in the clubs like start fights, grab women, break things... Naughty By Nature got sued so much that it was difficult for them to profit from that album. Vinnie's lesson to the 200 or 300 people who used to come to the monthly panels was "Be careful who's around you, because they don't have as much to lose as you do." It was one thing for me to say that, but it was something very different to hear from Vinnie from Naughty By Nature, which was one of the biggest rap groups in the world at the time. On the personal side, Chuck D was also very supportive of me. Public Enemy was one of my favorite rap groups when I was coming up, so I was honored and humbled. This is about three or five years after I started. Once I had these co-signs, it made things much easier.


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7PM Tonight, Anita's Theatre, Thirroul. Tix are 15 bucks at the door, we also have a standard and platinum stoke pack, so bring those greenbacks if you want to splash out on a little extra stoke!
7PM Tonight, Anita's Theatre, Thirroul. Tix are 15 bucks at the door, we also have a standard and platinum stoke pack, so bring those greenbacks if you want to splash out on a little extra stoke!
The Viking still yet to nail his newskeg.
At The Movies, David Stratton was so impressed James Cayley's performance in the Viking, he turned down a private screening of Gracias El Gato to wait for the big screen. Keep an eye out for the VIP booth folks!
Perth pop sensation Selwyn will be back in town folks, proving he ain't no one hit wonder!
Celebrity cafe owner, Martin from the Beanstalk has reluctantly agreed to a photo and appearance at this weekend's event in return for a bottle of whisky.
Straight from a medical trial and into the party of the year, Buzy T aka Toby Player will be prescribing an excessive dose of stoke with his celebrity DJ set. Watch out!
Immortalized by Hey Hey It's Saturday in the mid 90's, comedian and the Viking's very favourite, Elliot Goblet has RSPV'd yes to this weekends event.
Thirroul's very own Ray Collins, fresh out of a 12 hour shift in the mines and off facebook for one night, ladies and gentlemen he will be in the crowd.
Best known for his performances on Network Ten's Neighbours, Jarrod "Toadfish" Rebecchi maintained his career demand by many paid nightclub appearances. It gives us great pleasure to announce the man will be attending, however not in guise as we sadly fell short of budget…
Finners, miming his way through bail town, Lanzarote.
Actual mountain, and below, Man-mountain Genesis Reyes extending forth some local hostility.
There's no better souvenir to impress your mates with than a solid base coat, courtesy of Lanzarote's Club La Santa, a resort that has serviced the whitest of German skin tones since the early 70's. Here the fellas are a shade or two deep, the Viking himself (far left) giving a warm 'Gracias El gato' all the way from sunny Lanzarote.
James Kates flies through a very squishy invert
James Koot Cayley and some behind the scenes pouncing….
The Viking World Premiere early this year, as recounted through the eyes and not so sturdy hands on Wollongong nurse Riccardo Quirke. Some pre Viking II: Gracias El Gato premiere hype…
Elliot Morales Santana jumping
Ale Barbosa, deep in an early morning vortex of stoke
Ruyman Rey Rodriguez, Bird Island shralper and possibly the nicest man in bodyboarding since Jason Finlay.
Ruben Redondo
Gran Canaria's biggest local and future world champ, six year old Spanish, wave-wrangling kid catches wave while his dad smokes dart and casts a line.
Jase Finlay and man-mountain Yeray Martinez


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Linux Command Directory
This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition.
Click on any of the 687 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Bookshelf.
Buy it now, or read it online on Safari Bookshelf.
reboot [options]
System administration command. Close out filesystems, shut down the system, then reboot. Because this command immediately stops all processes, it should be run only in single-user mode. If the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, reboot calls shutdown -r.
Suppress writing to /var/log/wtmp.
Call reboot even when shutdown would normally be called.
Shut down network interfaces before reboot.
Suppress normal call to sync.
Suppress normal execution; simply write to /var/log/wtmp.


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Mercury Rising
After seeing Estée Lauder creative makeup director Tom Pecheux's Modern Mercury collection in action backstage at Derek Lam in February, there were a few items we immediately jotted down as a reminder for a later date. In ballpoint scribble we were ultimately able to decipher the words "Black Chrome" and "Modern Mercury," referring to the Pure Color Eyeshadow Duo shades Pecheux dusted across models' lids for a graphic look. The pigments, which are just hitting shelves, are in fact as amazing as we remember them being five months later, although with the whole metallic-hued range now on view, we have a few new favorites to report. The limited-edition Pure Color Liquid Eyeliners that Pecheux has whipped up for the season are not to be missed, coming in three ultra-shiny shades including Graphite, a sparkling slate gray, Black Quartz, a deep onyx with iridescent shimmer flecks, and the real winner, Silver Zinc, which packs a gilded khaki punch. The easy-to-maneuver pens make scrawling a thin stroke across the upper lash line a fairly simple endeavor, and best of all, they stay put so that a molten cat-eye is totally acceptable fare even in the midst of summer's excessive humidity.


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Nice one, sounds like you're making good progress.
So, here are a few things I learned when I tried making this.
1. Grounding. You need to be careful with how you ground the guitar signal, and also whether you need to connect the guitar ground to the arduino digital ground, and also the enclosure... Common sense would dictate that you should probably keep the arduino and the guitar grounds separate, and connect the enclosure to the guitar signal ground, however I found that I had a lot of noise that way, and so ended up grounding everything together.
2. Power supply decoupling. You should probably decouple the power supply at each relay with a 100nF capacitor to ground, and anywhere else that's likely to introduce switching noise to the power supply/ground.
3. Ground loops - avoid them, make sure you use a star grounding scheme for your guitar signals.
4. Preset storage. The arduino has non-voltatile eeprom memory, however this has a limited number of read-write cycles. My plan was to use an SD card, and to save the presets as a text file that the arduino would read. Then, if I wanted to do some massive editing of all the presets I could just stick the SD card in a computer and open up a text editor. I didn't get round to implementing it, but shouldn't be too tricky.
5. Enclosure - it's always a good idea to plan your enclosure from the start, rather than an afterthought. That way you can build your prototype into it, rather than have everything on breadboard and then have to move it all, potentially causing lots of problems when things get disconnected!
6. The guitar relay boards. My plan was to make a modular relay board as a PCB. I did actually design a PCB, you're welcome to the kicad files if you want, although my relay boards are a little unconventional - one has two jacks and two SPDT relays, and the other a single stereo jack and one DPDT relay. I probably ought to make a double jack and DPDT version. These PCBs could be made at osh park or similar quite inexpensively, saving lots of time and making it accessible for others to try this out.


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Network Traffic Management - Policies and Practices
Digicel Network Traffic Management - Policies and Practices
Digicel is committed to ensuring the best possible online experience for its customers. To meet this goal, Digicel uses reasonable network management practices that are consistent with industry standards. Please refer to Digicel Network Traffic Management Frequently Asked Questions below:
1. Why does Digicel manage traffic on its network?
Digicel is committed to ensuring the best possible online experience for its customers. Like other providers in the Cayman Islands and around the world, Digicel manages its network in such a way that no customer, service or application consumes excessive bandwidth which may impede the use and enjoyment of other customers. To meet this goal, Digicel uses reasonable network management practices that are consistent with industry standards. Digicel tries to use tools and technologies that are minimally intrusive. Just as the Internet continues to change and evolve, so too, will our network management practices to address the challenges and threats on the Internet. These practices ensure a high level of service for time-sensitive tasks such as sending email, requesting web pages, video conferencing and voice services, while at the same time limiting spam, viruses and other security threats to Digicel's network and customers.
2. How does Digicel manage its network?
Digicel uses packet inspection to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing traffic which is less time sensitive than other real-time sensitive applications, such as web browsing or video streaming. Because P2P file sharing applications are less time sensitive, they can be slowed when Internet traffic becomes congested without interrupting use of the service. When Digicel uses packet inspection as part of its traffic management measures, we do not examine the actual content of traffic and we only collect for a limited time your IP address. For example, we do not know the content of your communications nor your search activities. However, for traffic management to work properly, we use packet inspection technology to assess traffic data along with each IP address to determine what type of traffic it is so that we can treat it accordingly (e.g. if it is P2P file sharing traffic, we may slow it down to support other activities like web browsing and video streaming). Once the traffic has been sorted by type for traffic management purposes, it is not retained as part of the usage pattern of any IP address.
3. Who does this affect and what traffic is subject to traffic management?
These traffic management measures impact only those Digicel residential internet customers who are using common P2P file sharing applications. Customers using P2P file sharing applications may experiencean increase in duration time to download and upload files. Traffic management will not impact customers using other Internet applications or services.
4. Does Digicel look at any of the content that passes over its network?
Digicel does not look at content. Our traffic management is not used to identify content: it identifies only the type of traffic. Digicel's network assigns an IP address to each of our customers' modems so that it can properly route traffic to and from that customer. Our traffic management technology sorts P2P file sharing traffic from the other types of traffic associated with your IP address in real time. However, we do not record or retain any information about the types of traffic associated with your IP address.
5. When will this occur?
Customers may experience extended download and upload times when using P2P file sharing applications during the daily scheduled traffic management period which is currently scheduled from 6am to 11pm. The current upload/download rate speeds only for P2P file-sharing usage are decreased at the beginning of the peak to an average of 50kbps.


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Chron Rx Health Blog
health, medicine and wellness in the Bay Area and beyond
Monthly Archive for September, 2010
Bad economic news means bad health news
U.S. Census data released today shows the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest ever — and that's bad news for America's health. Not only are Americans losing their jobs or stringing together part-time work that typically doesn't offer health insurance, but this economic growing disparity breeds a widening disparity in health […] [Read More]
Refusing to play: Health insurers that won't offer child-only policies
San Francisco Chronicle Some of the country's largest insurers say they will stop selling new child-only health policies. The announcement this week by some of the country's largest insurers – UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Cigna, Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and its parent WellPoint – that they will stop selling new child-only health policies now that the […] [Read More]
Where to drop off your drugs
San Francisco Chronicle The government will collect potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs for destruction at sites nationwide on Saturday. The government wants your expired, your unwanted, your potentially danagerous masses of prescription drugs — those medications that have been stashed away in drawers or medicine cabinets, yearning to be thrown out. The […] [Read More]
Whooping cough and swine flu — vaccine time!
With this year's explosive whooping cough epidemic and residual worry over last year's flu pandemic, California public health officials aren't taking any chances — they're asking everyone to get vaccinated against both illnesses. Right now. Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Swine flu vaccine was in high demand in 2009. As of Wednesday, there had been 4,017 confirmed […] [Read More]
Sex ed for teens: birth control is still off-limits for some
Nearly every American teenager has had sex ed classes by the time he or she leaves high school — but only about two-thirds of teens are getting education about birth control, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Girls are more likely than boys to get birth control […] [Read More]
Kaiser workers begin choosing between SEIU and NUHW
Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle Cardiology tech Renee Santiago (left) representing the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) handing out the latest in health worker information to EKG tech Emmanuel Erfe (middle) in front of Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco last month. Ballots will be mailed today to more than 44,000 Kaiser Permanente workers who have to […] [Read More]
San Bruno blood drive response robust
Bay Area blood donation centers have been inundated today with donors who want to help victims of the San Bruno gas explosion and fire, and donors are now being asked to come back next week. Blood Centers of the Pacific, which supplies blood to hospitals that are treating those injured in San Bruno, has a […] [Read More]
Fruits and Vegetables: Even more neglected
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that Americans don't eat nearly enough fruits and vegetables. But according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our diets are actually getting worse. Five fruits and vegetables a day — is it really so hard? Not a single state in the country comes close to […] [Read More]
Faking cancer
Times Herald-Record After Jessica Vega falsely claimed to have terminal leukemia, strangers helped make her dream wedding possible through donations like this wedding gown. Few crimes seem as pathetic and twisted as those wretched souls who falsely claim to have cancer to elicit sympathy or score free stuff. These stories pop up now and then, […] [Read More]
Anthem Blue Cross and Health Net rate hikes move forward
Just as Anthem Blue Cross policyholders have started to receive notification about their new, higher rates, Health Net customers should brace for their own round of health insurance premium hikes. The California Department of Insurance announced today that Health Net's bid to raise rates by as much as 24 percent cleared an important hurdle. Axene […] [Read More]


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YUMA, AZ- A Yuma man accused of breaking into a home over weekend was back in court Wednesday.
Manuel Jaramillo was charged with second degree burglary and criminal damage.
Yuma police say the 25 year old forced his way into a home on the 100 block of South 19th Avenue in Yuma Sunday.
They say he stole several items, including a laptop, video game and jewelry, all property was later recovered by officers when Jaramillo was arrested.
He remains behind bars on $30,000.
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I just wanted to send out a mass THANK YOU to everyone who's made submissions, liked, reblogged, followed, and sent in positive messages today. It honestly means so much that you read the blog (not too seriously, I hope) and let it brighten up your day a little.
I'm reading all the messages you're sending in and I'll do my best to respond to them this century. (Unfortunately I think I'm done for the day though… casually have like 50 pages to read for this research paper… it's whatever… I'll be fine… collegeproblems etc.)
But thanks again. And what the hell, hugs for everyone!


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Placebo V4: a new re-designed outline and rocker-line based on the solid background of the previous Placebo boards. Slightly more curved outlines to increase the turning potential and start planing earlier. Slightly deeper concave bottom and a more pinched-in tip design to increase the release potential when fully powered up. The boards are easier, more accessible and more fun to ride than ever. Another great milestone in the RRD line!
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TECHNOLOGY: Laminar woodcore/ABS sidewalls snowboard technology with Crystal polished clear deck and bottom.
Size: 137×39 cm, 138×40 cm, 139×41 cm, 140×42 cm, 141×43 cm, 143×45 cm
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BUTLER, Pennsylvania - Workers have stopped the flow of drilling fluids from a natural gas well in rural northern Pennsylvania. The leak of chemical-laced water in Bradford County prompted Chesapeake Energy to temporarily suspend a drilling technique known as fracking,
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which a fluid is injected at high pressure into oil or methane gas deposits to fracture the rock above and release the liquid or gas below. On the heels of the Bradford spill, the debate continues over the safety of the horizontal drilling process.
It's hard to over-look the economic benefits of drilling for natural gas. Lou Hancherich is a land-owner in Butler County and he's part of group called Marcellus Outreach Butler. Hancherich started investigating what was going on with Marcellus gas drilling and says he will not let anyone drill on his property.
Sarah Scholl is also against horizontal drilling in Pennsylvania. "Right now, we're finding that we can't do it safely. That the regulations aren't there, that this wastewater that's contaminated with deadly and toxic chemicals are being, or has been being, dumped into our rivers and streams and in fact legally so," Scholl said.
On Friday Hancherich and Scholl joined dozens of people at Slippery Rock University for a forum on fracking. Dr. John Stolz, from the Department of Biological Sciences at Duquesne University, discussed environmental issues associated with the production of Marcellus Shale. "We're dealing with the human factor. Things happen, there are a lot of wells that have been completed successfully without any problems, but when there are problems, they can be significant, Stolz said.
Other experts took to the stage to talk about public health issues that could arise. When rigs roll into town, one of the biggest concerns deals with flow-back water that comes up after a well has been hydraulically fractured. "Once those fluids go in the ground, it's not only what's in those fluids, it's also what's being picked up from the shale layer itself which has anything from heavy metals, to radionuclides, to a lot of different kinds of salts. And the disposal of that fluid is of great concern to us," said Dr. Charles Christen, University of Pittsburgh, Public Health.
The drilling industry maintains it is a safe industry with strict standards in place to protect the public. Multiple studies are underway to evaluate long-term health and environmental impacts of horizontal drilling.


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challenging for you since being diagnosed with this disease?? My thoughts are: learning to read food labels and understanding what they mean. It gets to be a challenge anymore to find some really good food. My other challenge is explaining it to other people who don't have a clue. And I want to wring their necks when I am done talking to them. Am I alone or is this normal??
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Labels are definately a problem. Finding food that is gluten free and tastes good is a problem too. I am trying desperately to eat better though. I was eating tons of junk food when I was first diagnosed and I put on 7 pounds. I am now trying to use this as an advantage to be very healthy. No more junk!!! I think that my biggest problem is my Dr. I haven't heard from him since I was diagnosed. I am switching gastro's and hoping for better luck.
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